Econometric Society World Congress

Seattle, August 11 - 16, 2000

  Browsable program schedule by Jurgen Doornik and Marius Ooms  
  Created with OxEdit and Ox, hosted by PcGive.com and Nuffield College  
  With thanks to the World Congress organizers and Timberlake Consultants  

Friday 11 August 2000

8:30 - 6:00RegistrationHUB: East Ballroom
8:30 - 6:00ExhibitionHUB: East Ballroom
10:00-12:00Contributed session C-1  (C-1-1 to C-1-16 and C-1-18 to C-1-24 start at 10:30)Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
1:15 - 3:00Jean-Pierre Florens - "Inverse Problems in Structural Econometrics: the Example of Instrumental Variables"
Richard Blundell and Jim Powell* - "Endogeneity in Semi/Nonparametric Regression Models"
Discussant: Manuel Arellano
HUB: Auditorium
1:15 - 3:00Stephen Morris* and Hyun Shin - "Global Games: Theory and Applications"
Paul Klemperer - "Why Every Economist Should Learn Some Auction Theory"
Discussant: Susan Athey
HUB: West Ballroom
3:00 - 3:30breakMeany Lobby
3:30 - 4:45Seattle Lecture: Eric Maskin - "Auctions and Efficiency"Meany Theater
4:45 - 5:00Welcome Address by Frank RussellMeany Hall
5:00 - 6:30Welcome Reception sponsored by Frank Russell CompanyMeany Hall

Saturday 12 August 2000

8:30 - 6:00ExhibitionHUB: East Ballroom
8:30 - 10:30Contributed session C-2Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
10:30 -11:00breakHUB: East Ballroom
11:00 -12:30Contributed session C-3Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
11:00 -12:45Ken Wolpin - "Educational Attainment, Work Experience, Pre-Market Skills and Wages"
Raquel Fernandez - "Sorting, Education, and Inequality"
Discussant: Costas Meghir
HUB: West Ballroom
2:00 - 3:15 Walras-Bowley Lecture: Torsten Persson - "Do Political Institutions Shape Economic Policy Outcomes?"Meany Theater (1.25)
3:15 - 3:45 breakMeany Lobby
3:45 - 5:45Contributed session C-4Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
3:45 - 5:30John Geanakoplos - "Crises, Currencies, and Collateral"
Andy Lo* and Jiang Wang - "Trading Volume"
Discussant: Franklin Allen
HUB: West Ballroom

Sunday 13 August 2000

8:30 - 6:00ExhibitionHUB: East Ballroom
8:30 - 10:30Contributed session C-5Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
10:30 -11:00breakHUB: East Ballroom
11:00 -12:30Contributed session C-6Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
11:00 -12:45Ed Glaeser and Jose Scheinkman* - "Non-market Interactions"
Masahisa Fujita and Jacques-Francois Thisse* - "Agglomeration and Economic Theory: a synthesis"
Discussant: Steve Durlauf
HUB: West Ballroom
2:00 - 3:15 Fisher-Schultz lecture: James Heckman - "Structural Equations, Treatment Effects and Econometric Policy Evaluation"Meany Theater (1.25)
3:15 - 3:45 breakMeany Lobby
3:45 - 5:45Contributed session C-7Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
3:45 - 5:30Danny Quah - "Growth and Distribution"
Abhijit Banerjee - "Contracting Constraints and Development Economics"
Discussant: Phillipe Aghion
HUB: West Ballroom
evening Boeing reception (bus transfer starts at 5:45)Everett

Monday 14 August 2000

8:30 - 6:00ExhibitionHUB: East Ballroom
8:30 - 10:30Contributed session C-8Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
10:30 -11:00breakHUB: East Ballroom
11:00 -12:45Lucrezia Reichlin - "Extracting Business Cycle Indexes from Large Data Sets: Aggregation, Estimation, Identification"
Mark Watson - "Forecasting Macroeconomic Fluctuations"
Discussant: Frank Diebold
Meany Theater
11:00 -12:45Christopher Harris and David Laibson* - "Hyperbolic Discounting and Consumption"
Ernst Fehr* and Klaus M. Schmidt* - "The Economics of Fairness and Reciprocity"
Discussant: Glenn Ellison
HUB: West Ballroom
2:00 - 3:15 Frish Memorial lecture: Thomas Sargent - "Acknowledging Misspecification in Macroeconomic Theory"Meany Theater (1.25)
3:15 - 3:45 breakMeany Lobby
3:45 - 5:45Contributed session C-9Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
evening Microsoft reception (bus transfer starts at 5:45)Redmond

Tuesday 15 August 2000

8:30 - 6:00ExhibitionHUB: East Ballroom
8:30 - 10:30Contributed session C-10Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
10:30 -11:00breakHUB: East Ballroom
11:00 -12:45V. V. Chari - "Rethinking Monetary Business Cycles"
Jordi Gali - "New Perspectives on Monetary Policy, Inflation and the Business Cycle"
Discussant: Chris Sims
HUB: West Ballroom
11:00 -12:45Pierre-André Chiappori* and Bernard Salanié* - "Testing Contract Theory: A Survey of Some Recent Work"
Jean-Charles Rochet* and Lars Stole* - "The Economics of Multidimensional Screening"
Discussant: Patrick Legros
HUB: Auditorium
2:00 - 3:20 Frish Medal award (5min)
Presidential address: Elhanan Helpman - "Lobbying"
Meany Theater (1.25)
3:25 - 3:45 Member meetingMeany Theater (1.25)
3:30 - 4:00 breakMeany Lobby
4:00 - 6:00Contributed session C-11Savery Hall and Balmer Hall

Wednesday 16 August 2000

8:30 - 10:30Contributed session C-12Savery Hall and Balmer Hall
10:30 -11:00breakKane Hall lobby
11:00 -12:45Orazio Attanasio* and Victor Rios-Rull - "Consumption Smoothing and Extended Families"
Ken Judd*, Felix Kubler, and Karl Schmedders - "Computational Methods for Dynamic Equilibria with Heterogeneous Agents"
Discussant: John Heaton
Kane 220
11:00 -12:45Frank Wolak - "Identification and Estimation of Cost Functions Using Observed Bid Data: An Application to Electricity Generation"
Patrick Rey - "Towards a Theory of Competition Policy"
Discussant: Robert Wilson
Kane 120
2:00 - 4:00Contributed session C-13Savery Hall and Balmer Hall

Exhibitor List

Addison Wesley Longman
Aptech Systems, makers of GAUSS
Blackwell Publishers
Cambridge Univ. Press
Edward Elgar Publishing
Elsevier Science
Kluwer Publishers
MIT Univ. Press
Oxford Univ. Press
Princeton Univ. Press
Springer-Verlag
Taylor and Francis
Timberlake Consultants US
Timberlake Consultants UK
TSP International

Boeing
Frank Russell Company
Microsoft


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