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Plenary Sessions
Invited Symposia
Econometric Society Meetings
Fiscal Studies Policy Sessions
Details of invited sessions are given below. More information will be added as it becomes available.
Presidential Address
Tom Sargent "European and American unemployment"
Chair: Lars Hansen
Frisch Memorial Lecture
Dan McFadden "The science of pleasure: the measurement of consumer welfare"
Chair: James Heckman
Walras-Bowley Lecture
Tim Besley "Electoral strategy and economic policy"
Chair: Torsten Persson
JEEA Lecture
Jean Tirole "The industrial organisation and regulation of platform industries"
Chair: Richard Blundell
Fisher-Schultz Lecture
Ariel Pakes “Econometrics and theory in applied I.O.”
Chair: Jerry Hausman
Friday 19 August
Game theory
Philippe Jehiel and Benny Moldovanu “Allocative and Informational Externalities in Auction and Mechanism Design”
Larry Samuelson “The Economics of Relationships”
Chair: Ken Binmore
Discussant: David Levine
Labour economics
Costas Meghir “Dynamic Models and policy evaluation”
Jean-Marc Robin “Microeconometric search-matching models and matched employer-employee data”
Chair: Robert Moffitt
Discussant: Joe Altonji
Nonparametric structural models
Andrew Chesher, "Identification of Nonadditive Structural Functions"
Guido Imbens “Instrumental Variables and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity”
Chair: Charles Manski
Discussant: Ed Vytlacil
Saturday 20 August
Behavioural economics
Colin Camerer “Behavioral Economics”
Matt Rabin “Incentives and Self-control”
Chair: Jean Tirole
Discussant: Ariel Rubenstein
Empirical modelling of imperfect competition
Susan Athey and Phil Haile “Empirical Models of Auctions”
Steve Berry and Elie Tamer “Empirical Models of Oligopoly Entry, Pricing and Differentiation”
Chair: James Powell
Discussant: Aviv Nevo
Financial econometrics
Yacine Ait-Sahalia “The Econometrics of Ultra High Frequency Data and Market Microstructure Noise”
Neil Shephard "Measuring variation and jumps in asset prices using high frequency data"
Chair: Rob Engle
Monday 22 August
Economic design
Dirk Bergemann and Juuso Välimäki “Information in Mechanism Design”
Ilya Segal “Computational Issues in Economic Design”
Chair: Andrew Postlewaite
Discussant: Roger Myerson
Political economy
Daron Acemoglu “Modeling Inefficient Institutions”
Antonio Merlo “Whither Political Economy? Theories, Facts and Issues”
Chair: Torsten Persson
Discussant: Tim Besley
Modelling heterogeneity
Martin Browning ”Heterogeneity in applied microeconometrics”
Rosa Matzkin ”Heterogeneous Choice”
Chair: Daniel McFadden
Discussant: Arthur Lewbel
Tuesday 23 August
Industrial organisation
Mark Armstrong “Price Discrimination”
Glenn Ellison “Bounded Rationality in Industrial Organization”
Chair: Ariel Pakes
Discussant: Ken Hendricks
Macroeconomics
Narayana Kocherlakota “Advances in Dynamic Optimal Taxation”
Per Krusell and Tony Smith “Quantitative Macroeconomic Models with Heterogeneous Agents”
Chair: Ed Prescott
Discussant: Ellen R. McGratten
Nonlinear panel data
Manuel Arellano and Jin Hahn “Bias in Nonlinear Panel Models: Some Recent Developments”
Bo Honoré "Alternative approaches to estimation of dynamic nonlinear models"
Chair: Tony Lancaster
Discussant: Tiemen Woutersen
Wednesday 24 August
Organisations and decision-making
Matt Jackson “The Economics of Social Networks”
David Martimort “Multicontracting”
Chair: John Moore
Discussant: Thomas Palfrey
Development economics
Esther Duflo “Field experiments in development economics”
Chris Udry and Rohini Pande “Institutions and Development: A Perspective from Beneath”
Chair: Daron Acemoglu
Discussant: Orazio Attanasio
Weak instruments and empirical likelihood
Don Andrews, “Inference with Weak Instruments”
Yuichi Kitamura. “Empirical Likelihood Methods in Econometrics: Theory and Practice"
Chair: Joel Horowitz
Discussant: Richard Smith
Friday 19 August, 1pm: ES Standing Committee Meeting, Council Room
Tuesday 23 August, 1pm: ES Fellows' Meeting, Council Room
Sunday 21 August, 1.30pm: ES Council Meeting, Room 321, Drayton House
Friday 19 August, 1pm: James Heckman (University of Chicago), Education Policy
Saturday 20 August, 1pm: Jordi Galí (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Monetary Policy in Europe
Monday 22 August, 1pm: Alan Krueger (Princeton University), Well-being and policy evaluation
Wednesday 23 August, 1pm: Anthony Venables (Department for International Development), Development Policy
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