The Conference proper will consist of some special lectures, a number of theme sessions and about 60 sessions for the presentation of submitted papers. Obviously, there will have to be many simultaneous sessions, and you will have to choose which to attend. The 'Symposium' will be held on the 4th of October, after the conference proper.
The theme sessions will be about:
the electricity market
the economics of wine
the supply and use of water
fiscal equalisation
the Japanese economy
international trade in services and
microeconomic reform.
Our invited Conference speakers will include economists from abroad:
David Card (University of California at Berkeley)
Ed Barbier (University of Wyoming)
Albert Breton (University of Toronto)
Bob Nobay (London School of Economics).
We are hoping to arrange for Frank Wolak (Stanford University) to participate by video hook-up in our theme session about the Regulation of the Electricity Market.
