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Advances in Economics and Econometrics

Advances in Economics and Econometrics

Advances in Economics and Econometrics

Theory and Applications, Ninth World Congress
Volume 1:
Richard Blundell, University College London
Whitney K. Newey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Torsten Persson, Stockholms Universitet
August 2006
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    This is the first of three volumes containing edited versions of papers and a commentary presented at invited symposium sessions of the Ninth World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in London in August 2005. The papers summarise and interpret key developments, and they discuss future directions for a wide variety of topics in economics and econometrics. The papers cover both theory and applications. Written by leading specialists in their fields, these volumes provide a unique survey of progress in the discipline.

    • The 30 most important summative statements of key topics in today's economics
    • Written by world-class, internationally known scholars based in NA, and Europe
    • The most rigorous focused analyses of these subjects available anywhere

    Product details

    August 2006
    Paperback
    9780521692083
    462 pages
    229 × 153 × 23 mm
    0.615kg
    9 tables
    Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC

    Table of Contents

    • 1. The economics of social networks
    • 2. Multi-contracting mechanism design
    • 3. Allocative and informational externalities in auctions and related mechanisms
    • 4. The economics of relationships
    • 5. Information in mechanism design
    • 6. Communication in economic mechanisms
    • 7. Advances in dynamic optimal taxation
    • 8. Quantitative macroeconomic models with heterogeneous agents
    • 9. Modeling inefficient institutions
    • 10. Whither political economy? Theories, facts, and issues
    • 11. Comments on Acemoglu and Merlo.
      Contributors
    • Matthew O. Jackson, David Martimort, Philippe Jehiel, Benny Moldovanu, Larry Samuelson, Dirk Bergemann, Juuso Valimaki, Ilya Segal, Narayana R. Kocherlakota, Per Krusell, Anthony Smith, Daron Acemoglu, Antonio Merlo, Timothy Besley

    • Editors
    • Richard Blundell , University College London

      Richard Blundell CBE FBA holds the David Ricardo Chair in Political Economy at University College London and is Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. He is also Director of the Economic and Social Research Council's Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. Professor Blundell serves as President of the Econometric Society for 2006.

    • Whitney K. Newey , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

      Whitney K. Newey is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A 2000-01 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, he is Associate Editor of Econometrica and the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, and formerly served as Associate Editor of Econometric Theory.

    • Torsten Persson , Stockholms Universitet

      Torsten Persson is Professor and Director of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University and Centennial Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and served as President of the European Economic Association in 2003.