Advances in Economics and Econometrics
Tenth World Congress

The first volume of edited papers from the Tenth World Congress of the Econometric Society 2010.

Daron Acemoglu (Edited by), Manuel Arellano (Edited by), Eddie Dekel (Edited by)

9781107016040, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 May 2013

512 pages, 14 b/w illus. 1 table
22.9 x 15 x 3.3 cm, 0.92 kg

This is the first of three volumes containing edited versions of papers and commentaries presented at invited symposium sessions of the Tenth World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in Shanghai in August 2010. The papers summarize and interpret key developments in economics and econometrics and they discuss future directions for a wide variety of topics, covering both theory and application. Written by the leading specialists in their fields, these volumes provide a unique, accessible survey of progress on the discipline. The first volume primarily addresses economic theory, with specific focuses on nonstandard markets, contracts, decision theory, communication and organizations, epistemics and calibration, and patents.

Part I. Nonstandard Markets: 1. Matching markets: theory and practice Atila Abdulkadiro?lu and Tayfun Sönmez
2. The economics of Internet markets Jonathan Levin
3. Discussion of 'matching markets: theory and practice' Yeon-Koo Che
Part II. Contracts: 4. Contracts: the theory of dynamic principal-agent relationships and the continuous-time approach Yuliy Sannikov
5. Dynamic financial contracting Bruno Biais, Thomas Mariotti and Jean Charles Rochet
6. Comments on contracts Johannes Hörner
Part III. Decision Theory: 7. Ambiguity and the Bayesian paradigm Itzhak Gilboa and Massimo Marinacci
8. Temptation Bart Lipman and Wolfgang Pesendorfer
9. Comments on 'behavioral' decision theory Ran Spiegler
Part IV. Communication/Organization: 10. Giving and receiving advice Joel Sobel
11. Organizational economics with cognitive costs Luis Garicano and Andrea Prat
Part V. Foundations Epistemics and Calibration: 12. Strategies and interactive beliefs in dynamic games Pierpaolo Battigalli, Alfredo Di Tillio and Dov Samet
13. Calibration: respice, adspice, prospice Dean Foster and Rakesh Vohra
14. Discussion of 'strategies and interactive beliefs in dynamic games' and of 'calibration: respice, adspice, prospice' Wojciech Olszewski
Part VI. Patents: Pros and Cons for Innovation and Efficiency: 15. Revisiting the relationship between competition, patenting, and innovation Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Susanne Prantl
16. Mechanisms for allocation and decentralization of patent rights Hugo Hopenhayn, Gerard Llobet and Matthew Mitchell.

Subject Areas: Finance [KFF], Political economy [KCP], Econometrics [KCH], Monetary economics [KCBM], Macroeconomics [KCB]