2nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences - Meeting Programme

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16TH

08:00 - 18:00	Arrival and Check-In
19:00 - 23:00	Get-together of all participants at Villa Alwind

THURSDAY, AUGUST 17TH

09:45 - 10:30	Opening of the Meeting with addresses by Federal President Prof. Dr. Köhler and Countess Sonja Bernadotte, President of the Council
10:35 - 12:00	Discussion	Panel Discussion Panel Discussion: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions and Macroeconomic Risks (Prof. Robert Engle, Prof. Sir Clive W.J. Granger, Prof. Finn E. Kydland, Prof. Reinhard Selten, Chair: Prof. Martin Hellwig)
12:00 - 14:00	Break
14:00 - 14:30	Lecture	Sir Clive Granger Building Econometric Models to Consider Policy for Deforestation in the Amazon Rain Forest
14:30 - 15:30	Lecture	Finn Kydland Monetary Policy, Taxes and the Business Cycle
14:30 - 15:30	Lecture	John Nash Jr. The Agencies Method and Cooperative Games
15:30 - 17:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Scientific discussions among Prizewinners Prof. Granger, Prof. Kydland, Dr. Nash and young researchers at "Freie Schule Lindau"
19:30 - 22:00	Dinner at various restaurants for Laureates and Participants

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18TH

09:00 - 09:45	Lecture	Robert Engle III Global Financial Volatility
09:00 - 09:45	Lecture	Douglass North Toward an Era of Longevity and Wealth
09:45 - 10:15	Lecture	Sir James Mirrlees Optimal commodity taxation
09:45 - 10:15	Lecture	Robert Mundell China's Macroeconomic Strategy and its Currency Relations with Asia and the International Monetary System
10:15 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 11:30	Lecture	Douglass North The Natural State or why effective economic reform is so difficult
11:30 - 12:00	Lecture	Reinhard Selten Experimental Investigation of Day-to-Day Route Choice Behavior
12:00 - 15:30	Break
15:30 - 17:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Scientific discussions among Prizewinners Prof. Engle, Prof. Mirrlees, Prof. North, Prof. Selten and young researchers at "Freie Schule Lindau".

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19TH

08:00 - 09:30	Departure by bus from Inselhalle Lindau to St. Gallen
09:30 - 10:15	Arrival at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)
10:15 - 13:00	Discussion	Panel Discussion Closing panel discussion at the University: Labour Market Performance and Structural Adjustment (Prof. jacque H. Drèze, Prof. Sir James A. Mirrlees, Prof. Robert A. Mundell and Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn; Chair: Prof. Martin Wolf)
13:00 - 14:30	Break
14:30 - 17:30	Transfer by bus to Rorschach and trip by boat to the Isle of Mainau
17:30 - 19:00	Farewell ceremony and conclusion of the Meeting by the President, Countess Sonja Bernadotte, at Mainau Palace. Visit to the park.
19:00 - 21:00	Departure by boat "M.S. Lindau" back to Lindau (for students and young researchers)