Foreword to the Symposium in Honor of Mordecai Kurz -- The genuine savings criterion and the value of population -- Macro foundations of micro-economics -- Risk aversion in the Talmud -- Annuities and retirement -- Claims problems and weighted generalizations of the Talmud rule -- Speculative trading with rational beliefs and endogenous uncertainty -- Floating exchange rates versus a monetary union under rational beliefs: the role of endogenous uncertainty -- Endogenous uncertainty and the non-neutrality of money -- Inside and outside fiat money, gains to trade, and IS-LM -- The economic effects of restrictions on government budget deficits: imperfect private credit markets -- Speculative trade, asset prices and investment levels -- Indeterminacy of equilibrium in stochastic OLG models -- Existence and uniqueness of 'money' in general equilibrium: natural monopoly in the most liquid asset -- Is assortative matching efficient? -- On extensive form implementation of contracts in differential information economies -- Vickrey auctions with reserve pricing -- Incentives in market games with asymmetric information: the core -- The cheapest hedge -- The informational efficiency of finite price mechanisms -- Information at equilibrium -- Nash and Walras equilibrium via Brouwer -- The application of CVM for assessing the tele-health system: an analysis of the discrepancy between WTP and WTA based on survey data -- Similarity of endowments and the factor price equalization condition -- Domestic and international strategic interactions in environment policy formation -- Firm reputation with hidden information -- Structural breaks in the volatility of macroeconomic and financial data: The rule, not the exception -- Effect of credible quality investment with Bertrand and Cournot competition -- To each according to his needs: an axiomatic characterization -- Closed-loop equilibrium in a multi-stage innovation race -- Modelling exchange of probabilistic opinions -- Effects of asset market structure on welfare and trading volume -- Estimating the stationary distribution of a Markov chain -- Monte Carlo simulation of macroeconomic risk with a continuum of agents: the symmetric case -- A more reasonable model of insurance demand.