Tjalling C. Koopmans Memorial Lectures
The Cowles Foundation is honored to present the Tjalling C. Koopmans Memorial Lecture Series. These lectures were made possible by a special, generous gift from Truus W. Koopmans to Cowles to honor Professor Koopmans’s memory. We use these lectures to bring to Yale leading scholars who are working at the frontiers of areas in which Koopmans, who represented to many the quintessence of the Cowles Foundation, was interested.
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April 14-15, 2020 Lecture 1: “Econometrics for Decision Making: Building Foundations Sketched by Haavelmo and Wald” Lecture 2: “Patient Care under Uncertainty” |
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April 24-25, 2018 Lecture 1: “Medical decision making and physician performance” |
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November 3–4, 2015 Pierre-André Chiappori, Columbia University Lecture 1: “Matching with Transfers: Theory” [Slides] SOM, Evans Hall, Rm. 2420 Lecture 2: “Matching with Transfers: Applications” [Slides] (Cowles Lunch) Rosenfeld Hall, Rm. 109, 109 Grove St. |
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December 4–5, 2012 Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics Lecture 1: “Information, Tranching and Liquidity” (with Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard) Lecture 2: “Bonus Culture” (with Roland Bénabou, Princeton) |
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November 2–3, 2010 Kenneth I. Wolpin, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Lecture 1: “Ex Ante Policy Evaluation” Lecture 2: “The Limits of Inference without Theory” (Cowles Lunch) Book based on lectures: The Limits of Inference without Theory, MIT Press, 2013 |
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September 23–24, 2008 Lars Hansen, Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Lecture 1: “Long-Term Components of Risk Prices” Lecture 2: “Fragile Beliefs and Pricing” (Cowles Lunch) |
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September 26–27, 2006 James Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, University of Chicago, Econometric Policy Evaluation Lecture 1: “Cowles Commission Structural Models, Causal Effects and Treatment Effects: A Synthesis” Lecture 2: “Instrumental Variables: Then and Now” (Cowles Lunch) |
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February 24–25, 2004 Paul Milgrom, Shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely Professor School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University Lecture 1: “Ascending Auctions with Package Bidding” Lecture 2: “Auctions, Matching and the Law of Aggregate Demand” |
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March 1, 1996 Peter A. Diamond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Privatization of Social Security” |
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October 25, 1994 Alain Monfort, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique at INSEE “A Reappraisal of Misspecified Econometric Models” |
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April 15, 1993 Thomas C. Schelling, University of Maryland “Cash or Kind Revisited” |
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November 8, 1991 Janos Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Harvard University “Mathematical Planning Revisited” |
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November 8, 1989 Menahem E. Yaari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem “A Humean Theory of Cooperation” |
