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"Fifty economists will meet for two weeks from 2 July at the Studienzentrum Gerzensee in Switzerland. The Symposium is organized by CEPR jointly with the Studienzentrum, a foundation of the Swiss National Bank. The focal points of the meeting are a small number of special workshops, which determine the broad themes of the meeting.
There will be two half-day workshops, one each week. The workshops in the first week will be on Competition and Antitrust Enforcement with Volker Nocke and Michael D. Whinston. In the second week the workshops will be on Theoretical Models of Political Economy with Antonio Merlo.
The Organizing Committee of ESSET 2007 consists of Philippe Bacchetta, Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Leonardo Felli (chair, co-ordinator second week), Matthew O. Jackson, Patrick Legros, Margaret Meyer, Andrea Prat, Patrick Rey, Xavier Vives and Lucy White (co-ordinator first week).
In addition to the workshops there will be a number of small seminars. Typically, when no workshop is scheduled for the
day, a 'compulsory' seminar in the morning and an 'optional' evening seminar will be held. Note that there are no
seminars over the middle weekend. This should give participants plenty of spare time to interact and collaborate with
one another, and to pursue their own research. Although most invitees have been selected on the basis of his/her
interest in or contribution to this year's themes, the smaller seminars need not fall under one of the four headings.
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