This volume contains edited papers and commentaries presented at invited symposium sessions of the Tenth World Congress of the Econometric Society 2010.

Volume 1: Part I. Nonstandard Markets: 1. Matching markets: theory and practice; 2. The economics of Internet markets; 3. Discussion of 'Matching markets: theory and practice'; Part II. Contracts: 4. Contracts: the theory of dynamic principal-agent relationships and the continuous-time approach; 5. Dynamic financial contracting; 6. Comments on contracts; Part III. Decision Theory: 7. Ambiguity and the Bayesian paradigm; 8. Temptation; 9. Comments on 'behavioral' decision theory; Part IV. Communication/Organization: 10. Giving and receiving advice; 11. Organizational economics with cognitive costs; Part V. Foundations Epistemics and Calibration: 12. Strategies and interactive beliefs in dynamic games; 13. Calibration: respice, adspice, prospice; 14. Discussion of 'Strategies and interactive beliefs in dynamic games' and of 'Calibration: respice, adspice, prospice'; Part VI. Patents: Pros and Cons for Innovation and Efficiency: 15. Revisiting the relationship between competition, patenting, and innovation; 16. Mechanisms for allocation and decentralization of patent rights. Volume 2: Part I. Finance: 1. Macroeconomics with financial frictions: a survey; Part II. Political Economy; 2. Institutional comparative statics; 3. The political economy of mass media; 4. Comments on Prat and Strömberg, and Robinson and Torvik; 5. Job search, labor force participation, and wage rigidities; 6. From wages to welfare: decomposing gains and losses from rising inequality; Part III. Trade and Firm Dynamics: 7. Trade liberalization and firm dynamics; 8. International trade: linking micro and macro; Part IV. Growth: 9. Structural development accounting; 10. Misallocation, economic growth, and input-output economics; Part V. Frisch Lecture: 11. Trade and labor market outcomes; Part VI. Perspectives on Chinese Economic Growth: 12. The China miracle demystified; 13. Is precocious export sophistication a source of China's growth success? Computing the share of domestic value added in exports when processing trade is prevalent; 14. Perspectives on China's economic growth patent rights. Volume 3: Part I. Econometrics of Industrial Organization: 1. Game theory and econometrics: a survey of some recent research; 2. Recent developments in empirical IO: dynamic demand and dynamic games; 3. Estimation of (dynamic) games: a discussion; Part II. Macroeconometrics: 4. Macroeconomics and volatility: data, models, and estimation; 5. Estimation and evaluation of DSGE models: progress and challenges; 6. Discussion of Fernandez-Villaverde and Rubio-Ramírez as well as Schorfheide; Part III. Econometric Theory: 7. Estimation and inference methods for high-dimensional sparse econometric models; 8. Measurement error in nonlinear models - a review; 9. Penalized least square methods for latent variables models; Part IV. Empirical Microeconomics: 10. Productivity and management practices; 11. ExtrapoLATE-ing: external validity and overidentification in the LATE framework; Part V. Time Series and Panels: 12. Panel data models and factor analysis; 13. Penalized sieve estimation and inference of semi-nonparametric dynamic models: a selective review; Part VI. Mirrlees Review: Rethinking the Tax System for the Twenty-First Century: 14. Empirical evidence and tax design; 15. A review of the Mirrlees Review: labor tax reforms; 16. The Mirrlees Review and optimal labor income tax and transfer programs.