John H. Moore: Bernoulli Lecture 2007

The Bernoulli Lecture 2007 was held by John H. Moore from the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics. John Moore is one of the most influential microeconomists. Only in the last five years he has published 3 articles in the American Economic Review, 2 articles in Econometrica, 1 article in the Journal of Political Economy, 1 article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1 article in the International Economic Review, 1 article in the Journal of the European Economic Association, plus several other articles and book chapters.

The Bernoulli Center for Economics is very proud that John Moore presented in Basel.

Title: Contracts as Reference Points (with Oliver Hart)
Date: Monday, 3^rd of December 2007
Time: 17:30 pm
Venue: WWZ, Petersgraben 51, CH–4003 Basel, Room S2 (Schnitz)

Gossen Award for Georg Nöldeke

The co-founder of the Bernoulli Center for Economics, Georg Nöldeke, has been awarded with the Gossen Award of the Verein für Socialpolitik. The award is endowed with € 10.000 and is named for Hermann Heinrich Gossen. The election committee honored Georg Nöldeke for his outstanding research in game theory.

After the Money Workshop

From May 15th to May 20th 2007 the Bernoulli Center for Economics organized the “2007 Workshop on Optimal Monetary Policy and Central Bank Communication” together with the KOF Swiss Economic Institute.

This workshop was a great success for both organizations as many nice people participated and presented/discussed around 35 papers. Second, this was one of the first workshops to bring together monetary theorists and researchers in central bank communication which was fruitful for both research groups.

We want to thank all participants for having visited us in Switzerland.

For pictures and more informations please have a look at the workshop’s page.

Vincent Bignon

The economist Vincent Bignon from the University of Paris X was our guest at the Bernoulli Center for Economics from the 5^th of February 2007 to the 2^nd of March 2007.

Vincent’s research focuses on search models of money and economic history.

Elmar Wolfstetter

Elmar Wolfstetter from the Humboldt University in Berlin visited the Bernoulli Center from 17^th to 22^nd of January 2007.

Elmars research focuses on aution theory and industrial organization. He has published articles in Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Design, and many others, and is the author of the well-known graduate theory textbook Topics in Microeconomics.