The NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference Home Page

The next Decentralization conference will be held at University College Dublin on April 8, 9, and 10 of 2010 and is being organized by Jim Bergin of the University College Dublin and Tom Gresik of the University of Notre Dame. The conference will include milestone birthday celebrations of John Ledyard and Mark Satterthwaite, two long-term and prominent contributors to the series. The conference website is http://www.nd.edu/~tgresik/Decentralization.html.

A brief description of the history and coverage of the decentralization conference can be found at http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/history.htm

Congratulations to Leo Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics for their foundational work in the theories of mechanism design and implementation! Here is a short description of some of their contributions: nobelbackground-2007.pdf. (A much more extensive description written by the Prize Committee can be found at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2007/ecoadv07.pdf.)

Programs of past conferences can be found at http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/programs.htm

To receive information about forthcoming Decentralization Conferences, you can add your name to the e-mail list by registering. If you are already on the e-mail list you do not need to re-register, unless it is to update your email address due to a change. To do this you may simply send an email indicating your name and email address to Matthew O. Jackson at jacksonm@stanford.edu

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Last Modified: September 29, 2009.