The Trygve Haavelmo Centennial Symposium

Program

Tuesday December 13

• 0900 – 0915:   Opening: Rector Ole Petter Ottersen, University of Oslo
• 0915 – 1100    Chair:  Nils-Henrik von der Fehr
  • Olav Bjerkholt: Trygve Haavelmo’s "econometric tour"
  • John Chipman: Haavelmo’s Contributions to Simultaneous-Equations Estimation
  • Aris Spanos: Revisiting Haavelmo’s Structural Econometrics: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Data
• 1115 – 1300    Chair:  Ragnar Nymoen
  • Rodrigo Pinto: Notes on Causality, Instrumental Variables and Essential Heterogeneity
  • M. Hashem Pesaran: Counterfactual Analysis in Econometrics
  • Duo Qin: Consolidation of the Haavelmo-Cowles Commission research programme
• 1300 – 1415: Lunch
• 1415 – 1610    Chair:  Olav Bjerkholt:
  • Theodore W. Anderson: Reminiscences about the Cowles Commission
  • John Aldrich: The Probability Approach – Continuity and Change
  • Kevin Hoover: On the Reception of Haavelmo’s Econometric Thought
• 1630 – 1740    Chair:  Jon Vislie:
  • Kalle Moene: Dissimilarities in Economic Evolution
  • Stergios Skaperdas: Guns, Lawyers and Money: Economic Consequences of Costly Conflict

Wednesday December 14

• 0930 – 1110    Chair:  Tore Schweder
  • Judea Pearl: Haavelmo and the Emergence of Causal Calculus
  • Marcel Boumans: Haavelmo’s Methodology of Empirical Science Outside the Laboratory
  • Philippe Le Gall (presented by Ariane Dupont): Economic Modeling as an Artistic Activity
• 1120 – 1300    Chair:  Harald Goldstein
  • Theodore W. Anderson: Admissible Significance Tests for Structural Equations
  • Erik Biørn: An econometric market model of capital and investment
  • Bernt P. Stigum: Unforeseen Consequences of Adopting Frisch and Haavelmo’s Vision of a Science in Economics
• 1300 – 1415: Lunch
• 1415 – 1610    Chair:  Steinar Holden
  • Katarina Juselius: VAR Modeling and Haavelmo’s Probability Approach to Econometrics
  • Christopher Sims: Rejuvenating Haavelmo's Research Program with a Bayesian Perspective on Inference
  • Ragnar Nymoen: Overdeterminacy and Endogenous Cycles: Trygve Haavelmo’s Business Cycle Model
• 1620 – 1800    Chair: Finn Førsund
  • Sheetal Chand: The Relevance of Haavelmo’s Macroeconomic Theorizing for Contemporary Macro Policy Making
  • Niels Kærgård: Haavelmo in Denmark
  • Michael Hoel: Haavelmo on the Climate Issue