DescriptionThe Perimeter Institute conference on economics is being organized in an effort to better evaluate the state of economics as a predictive and descriptive science in light of the current market crisis. We believe that this requires careful, dispassionate discussion, in an atmosphere governed by the modesty and open mindedness that characterizes the scientific community. To do this we aim to bring leading economists and theorists of finance together with physicists, mathematicians, biologists and computer scientists to evaluate current theories of markets, and identify key issues that can motivate new directions for research.
The conference will begin on May 1, 2009, with a day of invited talks by leading experts to a public audience of around 200 on the status of economic and financial theory in light of the crisis. We will then continue for three days of focused discussion and workshops with an invited group of around 30, aimed at defining research agendas that address that question and beginning work on them.
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Interpreting the Failure to Predict Financial Crises and Recession
Nouriel Roubini New York University (NYU)
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Panel Discussion
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Richard Freeman Harvard University
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Nouriel Roubini New York University (NYU)
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Nassim Taleb New York University (NYU)
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Scientists, Scienster, Anti-Scientists & Economists
Emanuel Derman Columbia University
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The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis and Financial Crisis
Andrew Lo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Panel Discussion
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Emanuel Derman Columbia University
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Zoe-Vonna Palmrose Particle Economics Research Institute
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Andrew Lo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Richard Alexander University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
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Physicists attempt to scale the ivory towers of finance (ten years later, looking forward)
J Doyne Farmer Santa Fe Institute
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Agent - Based Computationational Modeling and Macroeconomics
Leigh Tesfatsion Iowa State University
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