Workshop in Economic Theory

这笔拨款将继续支持西北大学夏季研讨会系列。它支持1996年、1997年和1998年夏季在西北大学举行的会议。每个课程包括两个为期一周的讲习班，一个侧重于宏观经济学的理论问题，另一个侧重于微观经济学。这三年的主题将有所不同。1996年宏观经济学讲习班看来有希望的领域包括：生育率和人口增长、处理收入和就业风险的机构、研究具有异质因素的模型的理论和计算方法。在1996年微观经济学研讨会上，有希望的领域是：经济学和博弈论中的互动学习，重复和循环环境中的理性学习，有限理性主体的进化学习，以及学习模型在工业、拍卖等领域的应用。宏观经济学讲习班第二年和第三年以及微观经济学讲习班第二年的主题将在以后决定。在宏观方面，可能包括的领域有：获得性比较优势和国际贸易的动态、收入和财富的长期分配、技术变革和扩散、发展中经济体的货币和财政政策、人力资本积累和劳动力市场动态，以及动态模型的均衡计算。在微观方面，看起来有希望的领域是：信息在拍卖和资产定价中的作用，合同和公司的内部组织，以及产业组织模型的实证意义。政治经济讲习班计划于1998年举行。主题包括正式的政治理论和政治制度的形成。

9514981 Jones This grant renews support for the Northwestern Summer Workshop Series. It supports conferences at Northwestern University during the summers of 1996, 1997, and 1998. Each consists of two week-long workshops, one concentrating on theoretical issues in macroeconomics and the other on microeconomics. The topics for the three years will vary. Areas that look promising for the 1996 macroeconomics workshop include: fertility and population growth, institutions for dealing with income and employment risk, and theoretical and computational methods for studying models with heterogeneous agents. Areas that look promising for the 1996 microeconomics workshop are: interactive learning in economics and game theory, rational learning in repeated and recurring environments, evolutionary learning by boundedly rational agents, and the applications of learning models to industries, auctions, etc. The topics for the second and third years of the macroeconomics workshop and the second year of the microeconomics workshop will be decided at a later date. On the macro side, areas likely to be included are: acquired comparative advantage and the dynamics of international trade, the long-run distribution of income and wealth, technological change and diffusion, monetary and fiscal policy in growing economies, human capital accumulation and labor market dynamics, and the computation of equilibria for dynamic models. On the micro side, areas that look promising are: the role of information in auctions and asset pricing, contracts and the internal organization of firms, and the empirical implications of industrial organization models. The political economy workshop is planned for 1998. Topics include formal political theory and the formation of political institutions.