IGIER 20th Anniversary Conference

To celebrate its 20th birthday, IGIER will sponsor and organize this two-day conference in June 2011 (download the PDF of the complete program here):

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

INSIGHTS FROM THEORY
Eddie Dekel (Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University)
Jean-Charles Rochet (IDEI, Toulouse and University of Zurich)

FINANCIAL MARKETS
Franklin Allen (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania)
Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago)

MACROECONOMIC OUTLOOK: THE BIG PICTURE
Alberto Alesina (Harvard University)
Olivier Blanchard (MIT)   

Thursday, 9 June 2011

HUMAN CAPITAL AND LABOR MARKETS
Alan B. Krueger (Princeton University) 
Wolfgang Lutz (Vienna University, IIASA, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

ENGINES OF DEVELOPMENT
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)   
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University)

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH
Daron Acemoglu (MIT) 
Esther Duflo (MIT)