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Workshop on Computability, Constructivity and Complexity in Economics.

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Workshop on
Computability, Constructivity and Complexity in Economics.

Funded jointly by

Metroeconomica

and the Research Project on

Computable Macroeconimics

Department of Economics
University of Trento

Further Information on the Workshop can be obtained from:

Laura Poggi Pollini
Email: laurapp@economia.unitn.it
Tel: (+39)-461-882203
Department of Economics
University of Trento, Italy
(or from Vela Velupillai at vela@economia.unitn.it - vela.velupillai@nuigalway.ie)

Provisional Schedule:

6th October 2002
8.30: Introduction to the Special Issue
Heinz Kurz (*)

8.45 - 9.30: Computability, Constructivity and Complexity in Economics: An Overview
Vela Velupillai

9.30 - 10.30: Constructive and Classical Models for Results in Economics and Game Theory
Kislaya Prasad

10.30 - 11.00: Coffee Break

11.00 - 11.45: Discussion of Prasad's Paper
(Main Discussant: Francesco Luna)

11.45 - 12.45: Rights and Decentralised Computations
Jerker Holm

13.00 - 14.00: Lunch Break

14.30 - 15.15: Discussion of Holm's Paper
(Main Discussant: John McCall)

15.15 - 16.15: Emergence and Universal Computation
Cassey Lee

16.15 - 16.45: Coffee Break

16.45 - 17.30: Discussion of Lee's paper
(Main Discussant: Jerker Holm)

17.30 - 18.30 The Computable Production Function
Francesco Luna

18.30 - 19.15: Discussion of Luna's paper
(Main Discussant: Corrado Pasquali)

20.00: Conference Dinner

(*) If Heinz Kurz is unable to attend Vela Vellupilai will substitute for him for the 'Introductory' talk.

7th October 2002
9.00 - 10.00: From Kolmogorv and Solomonoff to De Finetti and Back to Kolmogorov
John McCall

10.00 - 10.45: Discussion of McCall's Paper
(Main Discussant: Vela Velupillai)

10.45 - 11.15: Coffee Break

11.15 - 12.15: An Essay in Lambda-Calculus as a Foundation for Procedural Economics
Corrado Pasquali

12.15 - 13.00: Discussion of Pasquali's Paper
(Main Discussant: Stefano Zambelli)

13.00 - 14.00: Lunch Break

14.30 - 15.30: Production Function as Turing Machines
Stefano Zambelli

15.30 - 16.15: Discussion of Zambelli's paper
(Main Discussant: Kislaya Prasad)

16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break

16.30 - 17.00: Programming the Busy Beaver
Alessandro Perrone

17.00 - 17.30: Discussion of Perrone's Paper
(Main Discussant: Nicolas Garrido)

17.30 - 18.00 Complex Economic Dynamics, Dynamical Systems and Universal Computation
Vela Velupillai

18.00 - 18.30: Discussion of Velupillai's paper
(Main Discussant: Cassey Lee)

18.30 - 19.15: 'Roundtable' Discussion:
Chaired by Kislaya Prasad

20.00: 'Farewell' Dinner at Hotel Panorama

Contributors and their affiliations:

Nicolas Garrido
Department of Economics
University of Pisa, Italy

Jerker Holm
Department of Economics
University of Lund, Sweden

Heinz Kurz
University of Graz
Editor of Metroeconomica

Cassey Lee
Department of Economics
University of Malaya, Malaysia

Francesco Luna
IMF, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

John McCall
Department of Economics
UC Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

Corrado Pasquali
Department of Economics
University of Teramo, Italy

Alessandro Perrone
Department of Economics
University of Venice, Italy

Kislaya Prasad
Department of Economics
Florida State University, U.S.A.

Vela Velupillai
Department of Economics
University of Trento, Italy &
NUI Galway, Ireland

Stefano Zambelli
Department of Economics
Aalborg University, Denmark

Department of Economics via Inama, 5 I-38100 Trento tel. +39 461 282201