October 31 to November 2, 2013 Mathematics for New Economic Thinking An INET Workshop at the Fields Institute Organizers: Matheus Grasselli (Fields), Marshall Auerback (INET)

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Thursday October 31, 2013
8:45- 9:00	Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:30	Didier Sornette Financial Bubbles with Finite-Singularity Models and their Calibration
9:45 - 10:15	Eric Tymoigne Modeling Financial Fragility: A Minskian Approach (slides)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 -11:30	Alex Coram Struggles over distribution with produced goods: a non-atomic game
11:45 - 12:15	Corrado Di Guilmi Macroeconomic Instability and Microeconomic Financial Fragility: a Stock-flow Consistent Approach with Heterogeneous Agents (slides)
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:30	Oliver Linton Talk Cancelled Evaluating the Effects of Market Fragmentation on Market Quality using Panel Data
2:45-3:15	Michael Dempster The True Cost of OTC Derivatives (slides)
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee Break
4:00 - 6:00	Panel: New Mathematical Techniques for Systemic Risk and Financial Fragility Rene Carmona Mean Field Games: Where do we Stand 7 years Later? Jean-Pierre Fouque Mean Field Games and Systemic Risk (slides) Raphael Douady A Non-cyclical Capital Adequacy Rule and the Aversion of Systemic Risk (slides)
Friday November 1, 2013
9:00 - 9:30	Perry Mehrling Beyond Monetary Walrasianism: Five Key Features of Modern Monetary Systems
9:45 - 10:15	Paul Jenkins Reflections of a Policy-Maker on the Design and Use of Macroeconomic Models
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 -11:30	Mario Seccareccia Banking Sector Viability and the Public Purse: Is There a Link between Public Sector Balances and Banking Sector Economic Performance? (slides)
11:45 - 12:15	Peter Skott Fiscal Policy in an Unstable Economy (slides)
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:30	Youngna Choi Financial Instability Contagion: quantitative definition and mechanism (slides)
2:45-3:15	Marc Lavoie Convergence Towards the Normal Rate of Capacity Utilization in Kaleckian Models: the Role of Autonomous Non-capacity Creating Autonomous Expenditures (slides)
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee Break
4:00 - 6:00	Panel: An Alternative Framework for Modeling Money Randall Wray The Nature of Money: A system of Credits and Debits (slides) Stephanie Kelton Fiscal Space and Financial Instability: A Differential Analysis (slides)
Saturday November 2, 2013
9:00 - 9:30	Pia Malaney From Neoclassical Mechanics to Economic Field Theory
9:45 - 10:15	Eric Weinstein Towards a Mathematics of New Economic Thinking for Reflexive Markets: A Natural Economic Connection on Preference Bundles over the Taste-Time Continuum
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 -11:30	Leigh Tesfatsion Situated Mathematics: Agent-Based Test Beds for Mathematics in Practice (slides)
11:45 - 12:15	Blake LeBaron Key Components in Agent-based Financial Markets
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:30	Andrew Lo Origin of Behavior
2:45-3:15	Lane Hughston Social Discounting and the Long Rate of Interest
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee Break
4:00 - 6:00	Panel: Revisting the Foundations Hans Follmer The Coin-Tossing View of Finance: Successes, Pitfalls, and Exercises in Mathematical Humility Alan Kirman The Crisis in Economic Theory: Have we Made a Journey Down the Wrong Road Dilip Madan Two-price Economies

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