Current Trends in Economics : Theory and Applications

In 1990, the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) was founded with the main purpose to advance our knowledge in theoretical economics and to facilitate communication among researchers in economics, mathematics, game theory and any other field which is po­ tentially useful to economic theory.

To achieve these goals, SAET sponsors the research journal Economic Theory published by Springer-Verlag and holds international conferences every other year.

The first two conferences SAET took place in the island of Cephalonia, Greece, in the summers of of 1993 and 1995.

In the summer of 1997, the conference was held in Antalya, Turkey.

The twenty-nine papers in this volume are mostly by participants in the Antalya meeting of SAET and form a broad sample of the 150 papers pre­ sented there.

Topics covered include cooperative and noncooperative games, social choice and welfare, bargaining, matchings, auctions, mechanism de­ sign, general equilibrium, general equilibrium with finance, industrial or­ ganization, macroeconomics, and experimental economics.

We have chosen to present the papers according to the alphabetical order of first author names instead of grouping them by topic or theme.

We have appended a complete listing of the sessions in the conference together with a list of program committee members and of sponsors at the end of the volume.