The 2000 Congress

The 15th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association was held at the Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy

The meeting was held from 30 August to 2 September 2000 and was hosted by the Free University of Bozen - Bolzano which was founded in 1997 as a free, state-recognised, multilingual university.

Bozen - Bolzano is situated in the North of Italy in a landscape of vineyards and the mountain range of the Dolomites. With its almost 100.000 German-speaking and Italian-speaking inhabitants, Bozen - Bolzano is, today, a multilingual, international business centre.

Since the beginning of the 12th century, as a centre of commerce and business, Bozen - Bolzano has been a significant crossroads of two cultures. It was here that merchants from southern Germany and Italy not only traded their wares, but also enriched each other through their cultural exchanges. The commercial city of Bozen - Bolzano reached its highest peak at the beginning of the 17th century with the founding of the bilingual mercantile municipal authority by the Tyrolean Archduchess Claudia de' Medici. Right up to the present day the provincial capital has remained true to its economic and cultural function, acting as a bridge between the German- and the Italian-speaking areas. This characteristic of bridging boundaries has, in the course of European integration, been gaining increasing significance.

PROGRAMME:

SPECIAL LECTURES

• Presidential Address :
  Sir James Mirlees (University of Cambridge)
  "The Economics of Imperfectly Rational Agents"
  
• Alfred Marshall Lecture :
  Avinash Dixit (Princeton University, USA)
  "Games of Monetary and Fiscal Interations in the European Monetary Union"
  
• Joseph Schumpeter Lecture :
  Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University and Princeton University)
  "A Theorist's View of Experimental Economics"

EEA TRAVEL GRANT

The European Economic Association had a budget to cover travel expenses of some European doctoral students presenting a paper at the annual congress 2000.

YOUNG ECONOMIST AWARD 2000

The EEA grants an honorific award to the authors of outstanding papers singled out by the Programme Committee from among those submitted to the EEA 2000 Congress.

* Lutz G. Arnold (University of Dortmund)
The European Growth and Employment Problems: A Growth-Theoretic Perspective

* Pablo Beker (Cornell University)
Do Entrepreneurs Who Own Efficient Technologies Accumulate More Wealth?

* Michal Bresk (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Equilibrium Existence in Multi-Unit Auctions

* Giacomo Calzolari (University of Bologna)
Giovanni Immordino (University of Bologna)
Hormone Beefs, Chloridric Chicken and International Trade: Can Scientific Uncertainty Be an Informational Barrier to Trade?

*Pierre Dubois (INRA, ESR Toulouse and Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley)
Consumption Insurance with Heterogeneous Preferences: Can Sharecropping Help Complete Markets?

* Peter Eso (Harvard University)
Lucy White (Oxford University and Université de Toulouse)
Precautionary Bidding: First-price Auctions with Stochastic Private Values

* Fabio Ghironi (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Understanding Macroeconomic Interdependence

* Paolo Ramezzana (London School of Economics and Political Science)
A Model of Mass Consumption in Markets with Costly Search

* Soren Tang Sorensen (University of Aarhus)
Market Structure and Industrial Agglomeration

* Christine Zulehner (University of Vienna)
Testing Dynamic Oligopolistic Interaction: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Young Economist Award over the years