6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences > Programme

Tuesday, 22 August 2017

10:00 - 20:00 Boat Trip Registration

18:00 - 21:30 Boat Trip Dinner

Wednesday, 23 August 2017

09:00 - 10:00 Lecture Opening Ceremony of the 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences
Keynote: Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank

09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Mario Draghi
Keynote Address of Mario Draghi

10:00 - 11:00 Boat Trip Welcome Break

11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Daniel L. McFadden
Foundations of Welfare Economics 11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Peter A. Diamond
Good Pension Design 12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Robert J. Aumann
Mechanism Design Design: Why Consciousness Evolved

12:30 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break

15:00 - 15:30 Lecture James A. Mirrlees
Bounded Rationality and Economic Policy 15:30 - 16:00 Lecture Roger B. Myerson
Local Agency Costs of Political Centralisation

16:00 - 16:30 Break Break

16:30 - 18:00 Discussion Seminars
Topics: Applied Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics

18:00 - 19:00 Boat Trip Transfer

19:00 - 23:00 Boat Trip Get-Together

Thursday, 24 August 2017

07:00 - 08:45 Discussion Science Breakfast: Addressing Economic Inequality in a Globalised World
Hosted by Mars, Incorporated 09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Lars Peter Hansen
Wrestling With Uncertainty in Climate Economic Models 09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Bengt Holmström
Debt and Money Markets

10:00 - 10:30 Break Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 Lecture Finn E. Kydland
Innovation, Capital Formation and Economic Policy 11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Edward C. Prescott
Fiat Value in the Theory of Value

11:30 - 12:00 Break Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Christopher A. Sims
The Myth of the Stand-Alone Central Bank 12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Christopher A. Pissarides
Work in the Age of Robots

13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break

15:00 - 16:30 Discussion Panel Discussion
Contracts, Incentives and Organisations; Panellists: Sarah Auster, Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmström, Jean Tirole; Moderator: Klaus M. Schmidt

16:30 - 17:00 Break Break

17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Seminars
Topics: Applied Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics

19:00 - 20:30 Boat Trip Dinner

Friday, 25 August 2017

07:00 - 08:45 Discussion Science Breakfast: Restarting Productivity Growth in Advanced Economies
Mc Kinsey & Company, Inc. 09:00 - 09:30 Lecture James J. Heckman
Unordered Monotonicity

09:30 - 10:30 Break Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 Lecture Myron S. Scholes
The Evolution of Investment Management 11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Oliver Hart
Should a Company Pursue Shareholder Value?

11:30 - 12:00 Break Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Jean Tirole
Moral Reasoning, Markets and Organisations 12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Eric S. Maskin
A Better Way to Choose Presidents

12:30 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break

15:00 - 16:30 Discussion Panel Discussion
New Conditions for Monetary and Fiscal Policy? Panellists: Peter A. Diamond, Chiara Perillo, Edward C. Prescott, Christopher A. Sims; Moderator: Martin F. Hellwig

16:30 - 17:00 Break Break

17:00 - 18:30 Discussion Seminars
Topics: Applied Microeconomics (2), Macroeconomics

18:30 - 19:00 Break Break

19:00 - 22:30 Boat Trip Bavarian Evening

Saturday, 26 August 2017

07:00 - 10:30 Boat Trip Boat Trip to Mainau Island

11:00 - 13:00 Discussion Closing Panel Discussion
What Could and Should We Do About Inequality? Panellists: Rong Hai, James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden, Christopher A. Pissarides; Moderator: Torsten Persson

13:00 - 15:15 Lunch Break Science Picnic

15:30 - 16:00 Lecture FAREWELL ADDRESSES #LINOECON
Participant bid farewell at the 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences

16:15 - 19:00 Boat Trip Boat Trip to Lindau