World Congress of the Econometric Society : 17th to 21st August 2015 in Montreal

11th World Congress of the Econometric Society : 17th to 21st August 2015
Montréal, Canada

There's lots of market design among the featured lectures so far:

Econometric Society: 
https://www.econometricsociety.org/
Paper submission (Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2015):
https://editorialexpress.com/

Scientific Program Committee

• Bo Honoré (Princeton University)
• Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
• Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University)
• Larry Samuelson (Yale University)

Local Organizing Committee:

• Jean-Marie Dufour, Chair (McGill University)
• Marine Carrasco (Université de Montréal)
• Rui Castro (Université de Montréal)
• Russell Davidson (McGill University)
• Georges Dionne (HEC Montréal)
• Prosper Dovonon (Concordia University)
• Alain Guay (Université du Québec Montréal)
• Lynda Khalaf (Carleton University and CIREQ)
• Ngo van Long (McGill University)
• Marc Henry (Pensylvania State University and Université de Montréal)

Named Lectures:

• Predidential : Robert Porter (Nothwestern University)
      "Empirical Analysis in Auction Design" (Chair: Robert Wilson)
• Cowles Lecture: Elie Tamer (Nothwestern University)
      "Sensitivity Analysis in Econometric Models"
      (Chair: Donald W. K. Andrews)
• Frisch Lecture: Alvin E. Roth (Stanford University)
      "Kidney Exchange: New Developments and Frontiers" (Chair: Robert Wilson)
• Walras/Bowley Lecture - Per Krusell (Stockhom University):
      "Climate Change Around the World"
• Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
      "The Design and Efficiency of Over-the-Counter Financial Markets" (Chair: John Geanakoplos)

Invited Talks:

• 1. Industrial Organization
Matthew Gentzkow (University of Chicago):
“Competition and Persuasion”
Michael D. Whinston (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
“Recent Advances in the Empirics of Vertical Contracting”

Discussant: John Asker (University of California, Los Angeles)


• 2. Macroeonometrics
Ulrich Mueller (Princeton University)
"Ultra Low-Frequency Econometrics"
Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago):
“Shocks and Sharpe Ratios: Recent Advances in Empirical Macroeconomics”

Discussant: Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania)


• 3. Agency problems
Johannes Horner (Yale University):
“Learning and Experimentation”
Igal Hendel (Northwestern University):
“Dynamic Contracting in Insurance”

Discussant: Bernard Salanié (Columbia University)


• 4. Big Data
Serena Ng (Columbia University)
"Opportunities and Challenges: lessons from analyzing terabytes of data"
Jesse Shapiro (University of Chicago)
"Social Science with Big Data"

Discussant: Christian Hansen (Chicago Booth)


• 5. Matching
Fuhito Kohjima (Stanford University):
“Recent Developments in Matching Theory and their Practical Applications”
Parag Pathak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
“Designing School Assignment Mechanisms”

Discussant: Federico Echenique (California Institute of Technology)


• 6. Partially Identified Models
Azeem Shaikh (University of Chicago)
"Practical and theoretical advances in inference for partially identified models"
Kate Ho (Columbia University)
"Partial Identification in Applied Research: Benefits and Challenges"

Discussant: Jack Porter (University of Wisconsin-Madison)