HOPE Conference 2016:
“Becoming Applied: The Transformation of Economics since 1970”
Friday, April 1: Forest Room, Washington Duke Inn
9:00-9:30 am
Roger Backhouse and Beatrice Cherrier, “Becoming Applied”: Introductory Remarks
:: Context
9:30-10:15 am
Jeff Biddle and Daniel Hammermesh, “Theory in applied economics: changing prestige? Changing publishing patterns?”
10:15-11:00 am
Marianne Johnson and Charles Ballard, “Computable General Equilibrium Models as Applied Economics: Some Number is Better than None”
11:00-11:30 am
Break
::Techniques for Applied Economics
11:30am-12:15pm
Roger Backhouse and Beatrice Cherrier, “‘It's computers, stupid!’ The spread of computers and the changing roles of theoretical and applied economics”
12:15-1:45 pm
Lunch
:: Techniques for Applied Economics (continued)
1:45-2:30 pm
Matt Panhans and John Singleton, “The Empirical Economist's Toolkit: From Models to Methods”
2:30-3:15 pm
Michele Alacevich, “Theory and Praxis: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Development Economics”
3:15-3:45 pm
Break
:: Applied Fields
3:45-4:30 pm
Verena Halsmayer, "'Applying theory' to data and policy-making? Model construction and circulation: a case study of Leif Johansen's mult-sector growth model"
7:00-9:00 pm
Dinner, Garden Room, Washington Duke Inn
Saturday, April 2: Forest Room, Washington Duke Inn
:: Applied Fields (continued)
9:00-9:15 am
Wrap up, Day 1
9:15-10:00 am
Spencer Banzhaf, “Contingent valuation and environmental economics”
10:15-11:00 am
Ariane DuPont-Kieffer, “Transportation models: at the crossroad of analyzing, forecasting and planning, 1965-1985”
11:00-11:30 am
Break
:: Policy Analysis
11:30 am-12:15 pm
Andrej Svorencik, “Learning How to Whisper into the Ears of Princes: the History of Early Applied Experimental Research”
12:15 pm-1:45 pm
Lunch
:: Policy Analysis (continued)
1:45-2:30
Elizabeth Berman, "Thinking Like an Economist: How Economics Became the Language of U.S. Public Policy"
2:30-2:45 pm
Break
2:45-3:45 pm
Roger Backhouse, Beatrice Cherrier and Discussants, Becoming Applied: closing session
6:00 pm
Dinner, Parizade, Durham, NC