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Cowles Foundation for
Research in Economics
and The Department of Economics
Presents
CONFERENCE ON THEMESE IN ECONOMICS:
CELEBRATION OF IRVING FISHER ON THE OCCASION OF
THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH
May 8–9, 1998 |
| FRIDAY |
9:00 am |
SESSION 1. INDEX NUMBER THEORY USING
DIFFERENCES RATHER THAN RATIOS
Speaker: W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia
Discussants: Matt Shapiro, University of Michigan and Ariel Pakes, Yale
University |
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10:45 am |
SESSION 2. TAXING CONSUMPTION RATHER THAN
INCOME
Speakers: John Shoven, Stanford University and John Whalley, University
of Western Ontario
Discussants: Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and
Michael Graetz, Yale University |
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1:30 pm |
Tour of Fisher Collection in the Yale
Archives |
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1:45 pm |
SESSION 3. MONETARY INSTITUTIONS AND
POLICIES: Rules, Instruments, Goals
Speaker: Robert E. Hall, Stanford University
Discussants: James Tobin, Yale University and Martin Shubik, Yale
University |
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4:30 pm |
SESSION 4. "HOW TO COMPUTE EQUILIBRIA
IN 1892
Speakers: William C. Brainard, Yale University and Herbert E. Scarf,
Cowles Foundation
Discussants: Donald Brown, Yale University and Katepalli Sreenivasan,
Yale University |
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7:00 pm |
COCKTAILS, Graduate Club |
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7:30 pm |
DINNER, Irving Fisher of Yale —
William Barber, Editor of The Works |
| SATURDAY |
9:00 am |
SESSION 5. ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF FISHER'S
EQUATION
Speaker: Peter C.B. Phillips, Cowles Foundation
Discussants: John Rust, Yale University and Christopher Sims, Yale
University |
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10:45 am |
SESSION 6. THE RATE OF INTEREST, INCOMPLETE
MARKETS, INDEXED BONDS AND SOCIAL SECURITY
Speaker: John Geanakoplos, Cowles Foundation
Discussants: Robert Shiller, Cowles Foundation and Peter Diamond, MIT |
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1:45 pm |
SESSION 7. WEALTH AND HEALTH: The
Contribution of Improved Health Status to Living Standards
Speaker: William Nordhaus, Yale University
Discussants: Robert Dimand, Brock University and T.N. Srinivasan, Yale
University |
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3:30 pm |
SESSION 8. PROMOTING THE POPULATION'S
HEALTH: The Role of Government
Speaker: Victor Fuchs, Stanford University
Discussants: Alan Feinstein, Yale University and Richard Zeckhauser,
Harvard University, Kennedy School
of Government |
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