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3rd Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences > Programme

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

10:00 - 13:00 Opening Ceremony Arrival and Check-in, Congress Venue Inselhalle
14:00 - 18:00 Opening Ceremony Check-in, Congress Venue Inselhalle
19:00 - 22:30 Opening Ceremony Get-together at the Inselhalle

Thursday, 21 August 2008

08:30 - 13:00 Break Check-in, Congress Venue Inselhalle
09:45 - 10:30 Opening Ceremony Opening of the Meeting by the designated President of the Council Countess Bettina Bernadotte
10:30 - 12:10 Discussion Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion I: “Systemic Risks in Financial Markets”, Profs. Scholes, Stiglitz, Yunus and McFadden, chaired by David Wessel (Wall Street Journal)
12:20 - 13:00 Lecture Muhammad Yunus
Social Business is the Solution
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:40 Lecture Myron Scholes
The Role of Liquidity and Risk Transfer Services in the Economy 14:00 - 14:40 Lecture Edmund Phelps
The Good Life Needs an Economy of Dynamism - Originality, Novelty, and Challenge - and these depend on Attitudes as much as Institutions 14:50 - 15:30 Lecture George Akerlof
Identity and Economics 14:50 - 15:30 Lecture Robert Aumann
Rule Rationality vs. Act Rationality
15:30 - 16:00 Break Break and Transfer
16:00 - 18:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Student Discussions: Prof. Yunus, Prof. Phelps, Prof. Scholes, Prof. Aumann, Prof. Akerlof, Prof. Fogel
19:30 - 22:00 Boat Trip Dinner at various restaurants for Laureates and Participants

Friday, 22 August 2008

08:30 - 13:00 Break Check-in, Congress Venue Inselhalle
09:00 - 09:40 Lecture Robert Fogel
Forecasting Changes in the Cost of Health Care: 2000-2040
09:00 - 09:40 Lecture Robert Mundell
The Exchange Rate Mess and the Challenge of International Monetary Reform
09:50 - 10:30 Lecture Daniel McFadden
The Human Side of Mechanism Design 09:50 - 10:30 Lecture Finn Kydland
From Dynamic Inconsistency to Models with People 10:40 - 11:20 Lecture Sir Clive Granger
Evaluation of Global Models 10:40 - 11:20 Lecture Reinhard Selten
Experimental Results on the Process of Goal Formation and Aspiration Adaptation
11:20 - 11:50 Break Break
11:50 - 12:30 Lecture Robert Solow
Low-wage Work in Europe and America 11:50 - 12:30 Lecture John Nash Jr.
Ideal Money and Asymptotically Ideal Money 12:40 - 13:20 Lecture Roger B. Myerson
Leadership, Trust, and Power: Dynamic Moral Hazard in High Office 12:40 - 13:20 Lecture Joseph Stiglitz
The Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for Policy and Implications for Economic Theory
13:20 - 14:45 Lunch Break Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:00 Break Check-in, Congress Venue Inselhalle
14:45 - 17:15 Discussion Panel Discussion
Student Discussions: Prof. McFadden, Prof. Granger, Prof. Kydland, Prof. Myerson, Dr. Nash, Prof. Selten, Prof. Stiglitz, Prof. Solow

Saturday, 23 August 2008

08:00 - 10:00 Boat Trip Departure by bus from Lindau
10:00 - 10:15 Boat Trip Arrival at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), St. Gallen
10:15 - 13:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Closing Panel Discussion at the University: Globalization, Technical Progress and Labor Markets—Causes and Consequences of the Bifurcation of Wages and Income, Profs. Solow, Akerlof, Kydland and Fogel, chaired by Prof. Martin Wolf (Financial Times)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break
14:30 - 17:00 Boat Trip Transfer by Bus to Rorschach and Trip by Boat to the Isle of Mainau
17:30 - 18:00 Farewell Farewell Ceremony and Conclusion of the Meeting at the Castle by the designated President of the Coucil, Countess Bettina Bernadotte
18:00 - 19:00 Boat Trip Tour of the Isle of Mainau and return to Lindau by boat (for Students). Dinner on board.