2nd Summer Workshop on Economic Theory (10/02/2008 Source: IMDEA)

SWET-Madrid is a debating forum with annual periodicity. Its purpose is to present and discuss frontier-of-knowledge research in Economic Theory. Each year a different issue of discussion is carefully chosen both to accommodate ongoing research at the organizing institutions (IMDEA Social Sciences, CEMFI and UCIII), and to attract internationally renowned scholars working on the same theme. The topic chosen for 2008 will be "New Approaches to Mechanism Design".

The importance of this issue, both in terms of conceptual relevance and practical applications, has been remarked in recent years. It is the theoretical and practical relevance of the topic that led the Swedish academy to award the 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics to Leo Hurwicz, Roger Myerson y Eric Maskin, for their significant contributions in this area. Professor Maskin, who will participate in the discussion sessions, will also give a public lecture on "Mechanism Design and Implementation".

Poster SWET

15th Annual Meeting of CLEF (10/02/2008. Source: IMDEA)

The Comparative Law and Economics Forum (CLEF)is a joint American-European-Asian forum aiming at developing a better comparative understanding of legal issues arising in various countries. It comprises a core group of 16 scholars: John Armour (Oxford), Robert Cooter (Berkeley), Bruno Frey (Zürich), Nuno Garoupa (IMDEA Social Sciences and University of Illinois), Andrew Guzman (Berkeley), Fernando Gomez-Pomar (Pompeu Fabra), Henry Hansman (Yale), Gerard Hertig (ETH-Zurich), Guy Horsmans (Louvain-la-Neuve), Lewis Kornhauser (NYU), Ugo Mattei (Torino), Katharina Pistor (Columbia), Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale), Daniel Rubinfeld (Berkeley), Alois Stutzer (Basel), Thomas Ulen (Illinois).

The group generally meets once a year, one of the represented institutions being the host. Sessions were held in Berkeley (1992), Brussels (1993), Geneva (1994), New York (1995), Chicago (1996), Trento (1997), New Haven (1998), Torino (1999), Brussels (2000), Berkeley (2003), Zurich (2004), Chicago (2005), Barcelona (2006) and New York (2007). The 2008 meeting will take place in Madrid, and it is planned to have the 2009 meeting in Singapore and the 2010 meeting in Sao Paulo.

CLEF activities are of pluri-disciplinary and multi-national nature. In particular, the purpose is to conduct joint-projects dealing with topics suited to such an approach. A first project dealt with "Trusts", a second with "Arbitration and Conflict-solving". In addition, CLEF facilitates exchanges among Law & Economics scholars, in particular by inviting promising scholars to present papers at its meetings.

Poster CLEF

IMDEA Social Sciences in the 8th Science Fair (12/04/2007. Fuente: IMDEA)

IMDEA Social Sciences has participated at the 8th Science Fair held in Madrid, April 12-16, an event specifically designed for the education community (from primary schools to the university). IMDEA Social Sciences and all the other divisions of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies ran their own stand in the central corridor of Pavilion 10 at IFEMA. We presented our Institute and examples of the type of research carried out at our institution.

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General view of IMDEA's stand	All the Institutes were present
Last adjustments before the opening

Commemorative Poster of IMDEA Social Sciences