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Economic Theory Conference in Honor of Professor Tapan Mitra

July 19 - July 20, G01 Biotech Building. Conference Program
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Economic Theory Conference
in honor of Professor Tapan Mitra on his 60th birthday.

July 19-20, 2008
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

Sponsors: Center for Analytic Economics and the Department of Economics, Cornell University.

 

Venue: G01 Biotechnology Building (Racker Room).

 

Saturday, July 19

Morning Session: (9:30 am - 12:25 pm)

Chair: Mukul Majumdar (Cornell University)

9:30 - 9:40 - Mukul Majumdar: Opening remarks.

9:45-10:10 - Kazuo Nishimura (Kyoto University)
Local Indeterminacy in Continuous Time Models: The Role of Returns to Scale (joint w/Jean-Philippe Garnier & Alain Venditti)

10:15-10:40 - Debraj Ray (New York University)
Occupational Choice and Economic Inequality (joint w/Dilip Mookherjee)

10:40-11:00:   Coffee Break

11:00-11:25 - M. Ali Khan (Johns Hopkins University)
Capital Theory in the Style of Tapan Mitra

11:30-11:55 - Yaw Nyarko (New York University)
Economic Development as Problem Solving: A Model of Guns, Germs and Steel

12:00-12:25 - Fabio Privileggi (Universita del Piemonte Orientale)
Intellectual Property Rights, Knowledge Production, and Growth

12:25-2:30:    Break

Afternoon Session: (2:30 pm - 5:40 pm)

Chair: Karl Shell (Cornell University)

2:30-2:55 - Geir Asheim (University of Oslo)
Generalized Time-Invariant Overtaking (joint w/Claude d'Aspremont & Kuntal Banerjee)

3:00-3:25 - Gerhard Sorger (University of Vienna)
Some Notes on Discount Factor Restrictions for Dynamic Optimization

3:30-3:55 - Efe Ok (New York University)
Fixed Set Theorems of Krasnoselski Type

3:55-4:15:    Coffee Break

4:15-4:40 - Ronald Jones (University of Rochester)
Share Ribs Redux

4:45-5:10 - James Foster (Vanderbilt University & University of Oxford)
Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement (joint w/Sabina Alkire)

5:15-5:40 - Kuntal Banerjee (University of Exter)
Fixed Step Social Welfare Relation

 

Sunday, July 20

Morning Session: (9:30 am - 12:10 pm)

Chair: Swapan Dasgupta (Dalhousie University)

9:30-9:55 - David Easley (Cornell University)
The Market as a Learning Organism (joint w/Larry Blume)

10:00-10:25 - Christian Ghiglino (University of Essex)
Keeping Up with the Neighbors: Social Interaction in a Market Economy (joint w/Sanjeev Goyal)

10:30-10:55 - Prajit Dutta (Columbia University)
Foreign Aid and Global Climate Change (joint w/Roy Radner)

10:55-11:15:   Coffee Break

11:15-11:40 - Henry Wan (Cornell University)
A Socially Optimal Program for Restricted Entry: The Launching of a New Industry (joint w/Yunfang Hu)

11:45-12:20 - Santanu Roy (Southern Methodist University)
Dynamic Trading in Durable Goods Market with Asymmetric Information: Some Problems