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2007 NBER Conference on General Equilibrium
October 26-28, 2007

Organizer:
Nabil Al-Najjar

The 2007 NBER Conference on General Equilibrium will be hosted by the MEDS Department at Northwestern University between October 26 and 28. In addition to its distinguished tradition of promoting research in General Equilibrium and Mathematical Economics, submissions in all areas of economics, game theory and decision theory have been accepted.

Travel and lodging expenses of presenters will be covered by the conference. Subject to budgetary contstraints, the conference attempt to cover the expenses of other participants. Here are various directions to Northwestern, and below is a list of nearby Hotels located in Evanston.

Hotel Information:

Best Western University Plaza
1501 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Reservations: (847) 491-6400
The Hilton Garden Inn Evanston
1818 Maple Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Reservations: (847) 475-6400
The Homestead
1625 Hinman Avenue,
Evanston, IL 60201
Reservations:(847) 475-3300
Hotel Orrington
1718 Maple Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Reservations:(847) 866-8700
  The Magarita European Inn
1566 Oak Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Reservations: (847) 869-227


 
Preliminary Schedule
Friday, October 26 - Room G44 Jacobs Center
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Title Authors (presenters are in bold)
"Object-Based Unawareness" Oliver Board and Kim Sau Chung
"The Subjective State Space and Multiple Subjective Weights" R. Vijay Krishna and Kalyan Chatterjee
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
"On Behavioral Complementarity and its Implications" Federico Echenique, Christopher P. Chambers, and Eran Shmaya
"Comparative Statics, Informativeness, and the Interval Dominance Order" John Quah and Bruno Strulovici
6:30 - Cocktails / Dinner at Quince
Saturday, October 27th – Room 160 Jacobs Center
9:00 am – 10:30 am
"Ambiguity and partially-revealing rational expectations equilibria" Scott Condie and Jayant Ganguli
"Uncertain Temptations: Is it Costly or Impossible to Resist?" Eddie Dekel and Bart Lipman
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
"A Statistical Approach to General Equilibrium with Production" Michael Magill and Martine Quinzii
"Competitive Equilibria in Semi-Algebraic Economies" Karl Schmedders and Felix Kubler
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm – Lunch at the Allen Center
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
"Nash Implementation with Little Communication" Ilya Segal
"Stable Processes of Exchange" Stanley Reiter and Spiro Maroulis
4:00 pm – 6:15 pm
"The Dynamics of Efficient Asset Trading with Heterogeneous Beliefs" Pablo Beker and Emilio Espino
"Unawareness, Beliefs and Games" Burkhard C. Schipper, Aviad Heifetz, and Martin Meier 
"Aggregation of Information and Beliefs in Prediction Markets" Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sørensen
6:30 pm – Cocktails / Dinner at the Allen Center
Sunday, October 28th – Room 160 Jacobs Center
9:00 am – 10:30 am
"Living with Risk" Larry Epstein
"Optimal Income Taxation and Public-Goods Provision" Martin Hellwig
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
"Counterfeit Money" Lones Smith and Elena Quercioli
"Can Information Asymmetry Cause Agglomeration?" Marcus Berliant and Fan-chin Kung
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm – Lunch at the Allen Center
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