Current Developments in the Interface: Economics, Econometrics, Mathematics

Welcoming address to the participants of the symposium.- The Econometric Institute: background and developments.- I. Economics of Academia.- Introductory remarks.- Research in econometrics and the economics of academia.- Questions and comments.- II. Micro economics.- Introductory remarks.- Decision criteria for business firms.- Questions and comments.- III. Autocorrelation.- Introductory remarks.- More than twenty-five years of testing for aseril correlation in least squares regression.- Questions and comments.- IV. Efficiency and optimization.- Introductory remarks.- Efficiency.- Quetions and comments.- V. Econometric policy models.- Introductory remarks.- Econometric models and economic planning and poliycy: some trends and problems.- Questions and comments.- VI. Equilibrium econometrics.- Introductory remarks.- An econometric approach to general equilibrium analysis.- Questions and comments.- VII. Foundations of identification.- Introductory remarks.- Identification from real data.- VIII. Planning.- Introductory remarks.- Planning, mathematics and economics.- Questions and comments.- IX. Control and economics.- Introductory remarks.- Stochastic control and uncertainty in dynamic economic systems.- Questions and comments.- X. Disequilibrium econometrics.- Introductory remarks.- An econometric model for macro-disequilibrium analysis.- Questions and comments.- XI. Identification of time series.- Introductory remarks.- Identification in control and econometrics.- Questions and comments.- XII. Mathematical programming.- Introductory remarks.- Algorithms for constrained and unconstrained optimization calculations.- Questions and comments.- XIII. Foundations of modeling.- Introductory remarks.- Scientific standards in econometric modeling.- Quesions and comments.- List of participants.