The meeting was attended by 16 Nobel laureates in economics, namely Peter Diamond, Lars Peter Hansen, Oliver Hart, James Heckman, Bengt Holmström, Finn E. Kydland, Eric Maskin, Daniel McFadden, James Mirrlees, Roger Myerson, Christopher Pissarides, Edward Prescott, Brian Schmidt, Myron Scholes, Christopher Sims and Jean Tirole and approximately 360 young researchers in economics.