The International Economic Association is the association of national economic associations (http://www.iea-world.com/). Economists such as Paul Samuelson, Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, Robert Solow served as Presidents in the past. The current President is Masahiko Aoki (Stanford University/ Japan) and the President-Elect is Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University/USA). One of the major tasks of the IEA is to hold trennial World Congresses and the Sixteenth World Congress will be held in China for the first time at the invitation of the China Association of Comparative Economics Studies (CACES). The unified theme of the Congress is “Approaches to the Evolving World Economy.” The Congress will be devoted to invited lectures and invited sessions, as well as parallel sessions of contributed papers. For participation, please refer to the registration page.
Submissions of contributed papers are welcome in all areas of economics, including areas of particular interest to countries throughout the region.
Proposals for papers are to be submitted by the end of February 2011 through https://editorialexpress.com/conference/IEA2011.
A few pages summary proposals may be considered, although full papers are preferred. Final decision for acceptance/rejection will be notified by April 15, 2011.
Full papers for presentation are to be sent by June 15, 2011
Preliminary Program:
Presidential Address
Fitoussi Lecture by distinguished host country scholar (Jinglian Wu)
Plenary Panels (Organizers)
• Reforming The Global Financial Order (Joseph Stiglitz)
• Environmental Policy and the Economy (Dale Jorgenson)
• The Chinese Economy (Yingyi Qian/Chong-En Bai)
• Development Strategy and Finance (IEA)
Invited Lectures and Sessions (Organizers/speakers)
• Economic Performance of Civilization (Timur Kuran/Avner Greif)
• Institutions and the History of Economic Development (Timur Kuran/Avner Greif)
• Measure of Social Welfare: Beyond GNP (Jean-Paul Fitoussi)
• Complex Economic Dynamics: Agent-based and Analytical Models (Herbert Gintis)
• Social Norms (Ken Binmore)
• Experimental economics (Ernst Fehr)
• Game Theory and Mechanism Design (Michihiro Kandori/Eric Maskin)
• International Macro Theory and Policy: Interconnectivity and Global Externalities (Joseph Stiglitz)
• The Future of Corporate Taxation in a Globalized Economy (Roger Gordon)
• Financial Institutions and Behavior (Franklin Allen)
• Income and Wealth Inequality in the 21st Century Capitalism (Thomas Piketty)
• Comparative Institutional Analysis (Gerard Roland)
• Corporate Governance: Evolution, Diversity and Crisis (Simon Deakin)
• Organization and Performance of Firms in the World Economy (Jan Svejnar)
• Economic Development (Prenab Bardhan)
• Demographic Impacts on Economic Development (Organizer: Fang Cai)
• Labor in the World Economy (Richard Freeman)
• Social Security and Protections (Eytan Sheshinski)
• Semiparametric and Nonparametric Models of Unobserved Heterogeneity (Han Hong)
• Is The Asian Economic Community Feasible? (Takatoshi Ito)
• International Competitiveness, Burden-Sharing, and Efficiency in Climate Policy (Lawrence Goulder)
