Conference in honor of Eytan Sheshinski
Jerusalem, June 15-16, 2006

Program

Thursday June 15, 2006 Beit Maiersdorf, Mount Scopus Campus
Opening 9:00-9:15	Peter  Diamond
Chair: Elhanan Helpman
9:15-10:30	Aleh Tsyvinski, Ivan Werning (joint with Mikhail Golosov) Discussant: James Mirrlees	New Dynamic Public Finance: A User's Guide
10:30-11:45	Raj Chetty Discussant: Roger Guesnerie	Why Do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations? Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity
Coffee break 11:45-12:00
Chair: Efraim Sadka
12:00-1:15	Amy Finkelstein  (joint with Jeffrey Brown) Discussant: Jacques Dreze	The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market
Lunch 1:15-2:30	Speaker: Stanley Fischer
Chair: David Levhari
2:30-3:45	Jan Svejnar, (joint with Klara Sabirianova and Katherine Terrell) Discussant: Efraim Sadka	Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching up to the World Standard?
3:45-5:00	Frank Wolak Discussant:  Franklin Fisher	"Using Restructured Electricity Supply Industries to Understand Oligopoly Industry Outcomes"

Coffee break (Senate building) 5:00-5:30
Round Table, Senate building
Opening remarks: Menachem Magidor Chair: Eytan Sheshinski
5:30-7:15	Kenneth Arrow, Avi Ben-Bassat, Peter  Diamond, Robert Solow, Nicholas Stern	Public Economics and Public Policy: Lessons from the Past and Thoughts for the Future
Friday June 16, 2006 Center for Rationality, Givat Ram Campus
Chair: Yoram Weiss
9:00-10:15	Roland Benabou (joint with Jean Tirole) Discussant: Jerry Green	Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
10:15-11:30	Botond Koszegi and Matthew Rabin Discussant: Avinash Dixit	Dynamic Reference-Dependent Preferences
Coffee break 11:30-11:45
Chair: Reuben Gronau
11:45-1:00	George Loewenstein (joint with Deborah Small and Jeff Strnad) Discussant: Menahem Yaari	The Role of Statistical, Identifiable and Iconic Victims in Law, Public Policy and Public Finance
1:00–1:45	Yisrael Robert Aumann	Rule Rationality and Act Rationality