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 YunusPanel Discussion I: “Systemic Risks in Financial Markets”, Profs. Scholes, Stiglitz, Yunus and McFadden, chaired by David Wessel (Wall Street Journal)
Social Business is the Solution
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:40
Lecture
Myron ScholesThe 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
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 FogelForecasting 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 McFaddenThe Exchange Rate Mess and the Challenge of International Monetary Reform
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 SolowLow-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
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)
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.