Speaker


Plenary Lectures
Tuesday 17 August	Presidential Address	John Moore (Edinburgh & LSE)
Wednesday 18 August	Frisch Memorial Lecture	Elhanan Helpman (Harvard)
Thursday 19 August	Walras-Bowley Lecture	Orazio Attanasio (UCL)
Friday 20 August	Shanghai Lecture	Whitney Newey (MIT)
Saturday 21 August	Fisher-Schultz Lecture	Drew Fudenberg (Harvard)

Plenary Policy Panel Sessions
Wednesday 18 August Mirrlees Review: Reforming the tax system for the 21st century Richard Blundell, Stephen Bond, Roger Gordon, Guy Laroque, James Mirrlees (chair)
Thursday 19 August Perspectives on Chinese economic growth Justin Lin, Barry Naughton, Yingyi Qian, Shang-Jin Wei
Friday 20 August Patents: Pros and cons for innovation and efficiency Hugo Hopenhayn, David K. Levine, Scott Stern, John Vickers

Paired Invited Sessions
--------------------------- Tuesday 17 August --------------------------- Applied theory Tayfun Sonmez and Atila Abdulkadiroglu Jonathan Levin Discussant: Yeon-Koo Che Finance Monika Piazzesi Markus Brunnermeier Discussant: Peter DeMarzo I.O. econometrics Patrick Bajari and Han Hong Victor Aguirregabiria and Aviv Nevo Discussant: Martin Pesendorfer -------------------------------- Wednesday 18 August -------------------------------- Contracts Yuliy Sannikov Bruno Biais Discussant: Johannes Hörner Political economy James Robinson Andrea Prat and David Strömberg Discussant: Marco Battaglini Macroeconometrics Jesús Fernandez-Villaverde and Juan Rubio-Ramírez Frank Schorfheide Discussant: Harald Uhlig ---------------------------- Thursday 19 August ---------------------------- Decision theory Itzhak Gilboa and Massimo Marinacci Wolfgang Pesendorfer and Bart Lipman Discussant: Rani Spiegler Macroeconomics Robert Shimer Gianluca Violante Discussant: Steve Davis Econometric theory Victor Chernozhukov Susanne Shennach Discussant: Stéphane Bonhomme ------------------------ Friday 20 August ------------------------ Communication / Organizations Joel Sobel Luis Garicano Discussant: Navin Kartik Applied Economics John Van Reenen Josh Angrist Discussant: Enrico Moretti Trade and firm dynamics Marc Melitz Samuel Kortum Discussant: Stephen Redding ---------------------------- Saturday 21 August ---------------------------- Foundations Pierpaolo Battigalli and Dov Samet Dean Foster and Rakesh Vohra Discussant: Wojciech Olszewski Growth Fabrizio Zilibotti Chad Jones Discussant: Antonio Ciccone Time series and panels Jushan Bai Xiaohong Chen Discussant: Michael Jansson