XIII Urrutia Elejalde Summer School on Economics and Philosophy (2010)

XIII Urrutia Elejalde Summer School on Economics and Philosophy (2010)
"Learning from the Great Recession: Failures and New Directions in Economic Theory and Policy"
A summer school organized by the University of the Basque Country and the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation.
San Sebastián, July 14-16 (2009)
Director: Juan J. Dolado (UC3M & CEPR)
The 13th edition of the Urrutia Elejalde Summer School focuses on the debate about the main failures behind the current big recession, as well as on the lessons that could be drawn to design potential solutions which improve the working of market economies in the future. In particular, the school aims to discuss failures and new directions related to the working of financial markets, coordination, regulation, mechanism design, pay incentives, public policies, response of policy makers to the crisis, and the state of macroeconomics (with specific reference to equilibrium/disequilibrium, flexible/ rigid adjustment and individualistic/ holistic behaviour). The regular course is structured around central topics each one presented in one or two general talks, followed by specific research papers on subjects related to the topic and by a lively debate.
Preliminary list of speakers Michele Boldrin (University Washington in Saint Louis), Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (U. Pennsylvania), Alan Kirman (GREQAM, U. Marseille), Joseph M. Ostroy (UCLA), John Roemer (Yale University), Juan F. Rubio-Ramirez (Duke University), Gilles Saint-Paul (Toulouse), Rafael Repullo (CEMFI)
Registration and grants The organization offers a number of grants to cover registration fees and/or accommodation expenses. Applications should include a short C.V. and, in the case of graduate students, a letter of recommendation by at least one professor.
Further information: http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/SummerSchool/2010.html