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NBER: NBER Macreconomics Individual and Decision Making Conference, November 2, 2002
Subject: NBER Macreconomics Individual and Decision Making Conference, November 2, 2002
From: Lita Kimble (lkimble@nber.org)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 08:39:38 EDT
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: Potential Authors
FROM: George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
DATE: July 17, 2002
RE: Call for Papers, Macroeconomics and Individual Decision
Making Conference, November 2, 2002
We are soliciting papers for a conference on Macroeconomics and Individual
Decision Making Saturday, November 2, 2002 at the National Bureau of
Economic Research in Cambridge. This conference will be held in conjunction
with Greg Mankiw's Monetary Economics Program Meeting Friday, November 1.
Our meeting is made possible by the Russell Sage Foundation through a grant
to the National Bureau of Economic Research, and by the help of Richard
Thaler, co-administrator of the grant.
This conference is eighth in an annual series in Behavioral
Macroeconomics. The name of the series has been changed to "Macroeconomics
and Individual Decision Making" because some people apparently
misinterpreted the term "Behavioral Macroeconomics" as if it were a school
of thought, or as if the term conveyed a rejection of conventional
macroeconomics.
For our series of conferences, we are interested in macroeconomic
research that stresses elements of human psychology, but we also define our
interests more broadly than that. We are interested in any research that
recognizes the potential complexity of human behavior and the need to
incorporate observed behavioral patterns into economic analysis. This might
include research based on an optimizing framework, if the research gives
some emphasis to trying to capture better the (possibly shifting)
objectives, concerns, and communications patterns that economic agents
actually have. These conferences are for people who are interested broadly
in pushing the limits of macroeconomic theory in the direction of better
modeling of individual behavior.
Please send papers to both of us by mail or e-mail before August 25. Our
addresses are:
George Akerlof Robert Shiller
Department of Economics Cowles Foundation for Research in
Economics
549 Evans Hall #3880 Yale University
University of California Box 208281
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 30 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 23a
New Haven, CT 06520-8281
E-mail: akerlof@econ.berkeley.edu E-mail: robert.shiller@yale.edu
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