IEA 16th World Congress

President: Masahiko Aoki (Stanford University, USA/Japan)
Vice-President: Eytan Sheshinski (Hebrew University, Israel)
Treasurer: Lucas Papademos (ECB, Greece)
Secretary General: Luigi Paganetto (University of Rome, Italy)
President-elect: Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University, USA)


July 4- 8, 2011
Tsinghua University Beijing, China

The Unifying Theme:
Approaches to the Evolving World Economy

After the 2008-9 financial crisis, a refreshed search for a viable and sustainable order for the world economy has been earnestly explored in economics as well as in practice. In this search, it is increasingly recognized that the institutional form, developmental stage, and vigor of national economies are evolving in diversity, while the increasing global integration of economic activities, environmental and energy concerns, demographic dynamics, disparity of income and wealth and so on… pose common challenges. Economic inquiry into these issues and solutions may require various enriched approaches, not only traditional individualrationality models, but also re-examination of values, comparative institutional and historical analysis, experimental and empirical studies, interdisciplinary dialogues and so on. Dynamic China would be undoubtedly a most appropriate place for economists from all over the world to gather and discuss various theoretical, empirical and policy issues from global perspectives.

Lectures/Address
• Presidential Address
• Fitoussi Lecture by a distinguished host country scholar (Jinglian Wu)
• 3 Distinguished Lectures (TBA)

Plenary Panels (organizer)
• Reforming The Global Financial Order (Joseph Stiglitz)
• Energy, Environment and Economic Growth (Dale Jorgenson)
• Impacts of the Chinese Economy on the World Economy (Yingyi Qian/Bai-chon En)

Parallel Invited Sessions (organizers)
• Economic History (Timur Kuran/Avner Greif)
• Measurement of Social Welfare (Jean-Paul Fitoussi)
• Behavior and Experiments (Herbert Gintis)
• Social Norms (Ken Binmore)
• Game Theory and Mechanism Design (Michihiro Kandori/Eric Maskin)
• Macroeconomic Theory and Policy (Nobuhiro Kiyotaki)
• Global Macro-economic (Joseph Stiglitz)
• Public Finance (Roger Gordon)
• Financial Institutions and Behavior (Franklin Allen)
• Income and Wealth Distribution (Thomas Piketty)
• The Political Economy (Gerard Roland)
• Corporate Governance (Simon Deakin)
• Organizations and Performance of Firms (Jan Svejnar)
• Economic Development (Prenab Bardhan)
• Labor in the World Economy (Richard Freeman)
• Social Securities (Eytan Sheshinski)
• Applied Econometrics (Han Hong)
• The Asian Economic Community (Takatoshi Ito)
• Development Strategies (Chief economists of WB, EBDR, Asian and African DB)
• Environmental Economics (Lawrence Goulder)

Contributing Sessions
Calls for Contributed Papers and Parallel Sessions will be announced in the summer of 2010.

For further information: http://www.iea-world.com/