4th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences > Programme

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Wednesday, 24 August 2011

09:30 - 11:00 Opening Ceremony Opening Ceremony // Welcome Address of German Federal President Christian Wulff // Induction Honorary Senate // Plenary Panel Discussion "Sustainability in International Economics" with Laureates McFadden, Myerson, Stiglitz and Young Economists
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Peter Diamond
Search and Macro
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Christopher Pissarides
The Future of Work in Europe
14:30 - 14:30 Discussion Panel Discussion
Panel "Demographic Change, Economics and Politics": Peter A. Diamond, Sir James A. Mirrlees, Christopher A. Pissarides, Edward C. Prescott (Chair: Martin Wolf, Financial Times)

Thursday, 25 August 2011

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Myron Scholes
Quantitative Finance and the Intermediation Process
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture William Sharpe
Post-Retirement Economics
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Sir James Mirrlees
Poverty, Inequality, and Food
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture John Nash Jr.
Ideal Money and the Motivation of Savings and Thrift
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Edward Prescott
The Current State of Aggregate Economics
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Robert Aumann
Challenging Nash Equilibrium: Rational Expectation in Games
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Robert Mundell
Currency Wars, Euro-Mania and the Price of Gold
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion Behavioural Economics
George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Aumann, Eric S. Maskin, Daniel L. McFadden, Edmund S. Phelps, Reinhard Selten; Chair: Martin Wolf, Financial Times

Friday, 26 August 2011

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture George Akerlof
Identity Economics
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Eric S. Maskin
Elections and Strategic Voting: Condorcet and Borda
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Daniel McFadden
Sick Insurance: Adverse Selection and Regulation of Health Insurance Markets
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Roger B. Myerson
A Model of Moral-Hazard Credit Cycles
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Edmund Phelps
Corporatist Economies of the West and Those of North Africa
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Joseph Stiglitz
Imagining an Economics that Works: Crisis, Contagion and the Need for a New Paradigm
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture Reinhard Selten
Reaching Good Decisions without Utility and Probability Judgements - The Approach of Bounded Rationality
15:00 - 16:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
"On the Intellectual History of the 2010 Prize in Economic Sciences" with Laureate Diamond, Mortensen, Phelps and Prescott (Chair: Peter Englund, Secretary of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel/ Sweden)

Saturday, 27 August 2011

10:00 - 11:45 Discussion Panel Discussion
Panel "From Financial Crisis to Debt Crisis - Financial Markets, Monetary Policy and Public Debt": Robert A. Mundell, Roger B. Myerson, Myron S. Scholes, William F. Sharpe, William R. White (Chair: Martin Hellwig)
18:00 - 18:30 Farewell Farewell Ceremony