__XIII Urrutia Elejalde Summer School on Economics and Philosophy (2010)__

"Learning from the Great Recession: Failures and New Directions in 
Economic Theory and Policy"

A summer school organized by the University of the Basque Country and 
the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation.
San Sebastián, July 14-16 (2009)

Director: Juan J. Dolado (UC3M & CEPR)

The 13th edition of the Urrutia Elejalde Summer School focuses on the 
debate about the main failures behind the current big recession, as well 
as on the lessons that could be drawn to design potential solutions 
which improve the working of market economies in the future. In 
particular, the school aims to discuss failures and new directions 
related to the working of financial markets, coordination, regulation, 
mechanism design, pay incentives, public policies, response of policy 
makers to the crisis, and the state of macroeconomics (with specific 
reference to equilibrium/disequilibrium, flexible/ rigid adjustment and 
individualistic/ holistic behaviour). The regular course is structured 
around central topics each one presented in one or two general talks, 
followed by specific research papers on subjects related to the topic 
and by a lively debate.

Preliminary list of speakers

Michele Boldrin (University Washington in Saint Louis), Jesús 
Fernández-Villaverde (U. Pennsylvania), Alan Kirman (GREQAM, U. 
Marseille), Joseph M. Ostroy (UCLA), John Roemer (Yale University), Juan 
F. Rubio-Ramirez (Duke University), Gilles Saint-Paul (Toulouse), Rafael 
Repullo (CEMFI)

Registration and grants

The organization offers a number of grants to cover registration fees 
and/or accommodation expenses. Applications should include a short C.V. 
and, in the case of graduate students, a letter of recommendation by at 
least one professor.

Further information:

http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/SummerSchool/2010.html