The Department of Economics will host a conference in honor of Professor Shlomo Weber to recognize his contributions to economics research and to the lives of the many collaborators and colleagues he has worked with throughout his academic career. The one and a half day conference will begin at 1:30pm on Friday, April 29th and concluding at 5pm on Saturday, April 30th.
During the conference, the 2007 Nobel Laureate, Eric Stark Maskin from Harvard University will speak about “Elections and Strategic Voting: Condorcet and Borda.” Professor Maskin is an American economist recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.” Maskin’s lecture will be on Saturday, April 30 from 10:30-11:30 in Dedman Life Sciences Building, room 131.
In addition to Professor Maskin, the following is the list of distinguished invited speakers for the conference:
- Michael Alexeev (Indiana University)
- Alberto Bisin (New York University)
- Rajat Deb (Southern Methodist University)
- Klaus Desmet (Southern Methodist University)
- Paul Dower (Florida International University)
- Joan Esteban (Institut d’Analisi Economica (CSIC) and Barcelona GSE)
- Piero Gottardi (University of Venice and European University Institute)
- Hideo Konishi (Boston College), Eric Maskin (Harvard University)
- Michel Le Breton (Toulouse School of Economics)
- Juan D. Moreno-Ternero (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
- Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
- Hans Wiesmeth (Technische Universität Dresden)
- Eyal Winter (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Detailed information about this conference can be found on http://faculty.smu.edu/bochen/Conference.htm.