Summer Workshop in Economic Theory

自1984年以来，西北大学（Northwestern University）凯洛格管理研究生院（J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management）就选定的经济学和管理学主题举办了一系列夏季研讨会。主题每年都有所不同，包括：竞争战略模型、博弈论、产业组织、有限理性和复杂性、资本理论、货币经济学、宏观经济学的微观基础、学习和政治经济学。每个研讨会都相当狭窄地集中在当前重申的一个领域，汇集了直接在重点领域工作的研究人员。每个课程都围绕一个正式的研讨会计划进行组织，其时间表足够灵活，可以留出足够的时间进行非正式的讨论和互动。每个研讨会为期一周，因此参与者将出席整个会议。这项拨款为1999年夏季在西北大学举行的会议提供资金。每次会议包括两个为期一周的讲习班，一个集中于宏观经济学的理论问题，另一个集中于微观经济学。1999年宏观经济学研讨会有希望的领域包括：收缩摩擦的宏观经济后果；劳动力市场动态模型的搜索与匹配以及金融“脆弱性”模型。1999年微观经济学研讨会上有希望的领域包括：理性和社会学习、市场结构和信息传递、有限理性模型和企业理论的机制设计方法。

Since 1984, the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University has hosted a series of summer workshops on selected topics in economics and management. The topics have varied from year to year and have included: strategic models of competition, game theory, industrial organization, bounded rationality and complexity, capital theory, monetary economics, microfoundations of macroeconomics, learning, and political economy. Each of the workshops is fairly narrowly focused on an area of current reassert, bringing together researchers working directly in the fields of emphasis. Each is organized around a program of formal seminars with a schedule that is sufficiently flexible to leave ample time for informal discussion and interaction. Each workshop is a week long so that participants would be in attendance for the entire conference. This grant provides funding for conferences to be held at Northwestern University during the summers of 1999. Each conference consists of two week-long workshops, one concentrating on theoretical issues in macroeconomics and the other on microeconomics. Areas that look promising for the 1999 macroeconomics workshop include: macroeconomic consequences of contracting frictions; searching and matching models of labor market dynamics; and models of financial "fragility." Areas that look promising for the 1999 microeconomics workshop include: rational and social learning, market structure and information transmission, models of bounded rationality, and mechanism design approaches to the theory of the firm.