Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

Presents

THE TJALLING C.
KOOPMANS MEMORIAL
LECTURES

Tjalling C. Koopmans
Date Speaker, Title
Nov. 8, 1989 Menahem E. Yaari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "A Humean Theory of Cooperation"
Nov. 8, 1991 Janos Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Harvard University, "Mathematical Planning Revisited"
April15, 1993 Thomas C. Schelling, University of Maryland, "Cash or Kind Revisited"
Oct. 25, 1994 Alain Monfort, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique at INSEE, "A Reappraisal of Misspecified Econometric Models"
March 1, 1996 Peter A. Diamond, MIT, "Privatization of Social Security"
Feb. 24–25, 2004 Paul Milgrom, Stanford University — SCHEDULE
    Lecture 1: "Ascending Auctions with Package Bidding"
    Lecture 2: "Auctions, Matching and the Law of Aggregate Demand"
Sept. 26-27, 2006 James Heckman, University of Chicago, Econometric Policy Evaluation — SCHEDULE
    Lecture 1: "Cowles Commission Structural Models, Causal Effects and Treatment
                       Effects: A Synthesis"
   
Lecture 2: "Instrumental Variables: Then and Now"
Sept. 23-24, 2008 Lars Hansen, University of Chicago — SCHEDULE
    Lecture 1: "Long-Term Components of Risk Prices"
    Lecture 2: "Fragile Beliefs and Pricing"

Biographical Essay by Herbert Scarf