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Conference on Themes in
Economics
CELEBRATION OF IRVING FISHER
ON THE OCCASION OF
THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH
May 8–9, 1998
Sponsored by
The Economics Department & The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics |
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FRIDAY,
MAY 8th |
| 9:00 |
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 |
| 1:45 |
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 |
| 1:30 |
Tour of Fisher Collection in the Yale
Archives |
| 1:45 |
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 |
| 4:30 |
SESSION 4. "HOW TO COMPUTE
EQUILIBRIA IN1892 |
Speakers: William C. Brainard, Yale
University and Herbert E. Scarf, Cowles Foundation
Discussants: Donald Brown, Yale University and Katepalli Sreenivasan, Yale University |
| 7:00 |
COCKTAILS, Graduate Club |
| 7:30 |
DINNER, Irving Fisher of Yale —
William Barber, Editor of The Works |
SATURDAY,
MAY 9th |
| 9:00 |
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 |
| 10:45 |
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 |
| 1:45 |
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 |
| 3:30 |
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 |