After throwing the afternoon press conference to Senior Brother Luo, Lu Zhou found that his time was unexpectedly free.

Just as he was sitting in the hotel, thinking about where to pass the time, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have an invitation there.

Recalling what Professor Kruberg said in the letter, Lu Zhou hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, and sighed and said.

"Forget it, idle is idle, just go anywhere."

It just so happened that he was curious if his Lu-Bewley model was really as awesome as the guy blew it.

Moreover, the venue of the conference seems to be a five-star hotel, and the invitation comes with a meal coupon for dinner and lunch. Even if you're not very interested in economics reports, it seems like a good idea to have a meal?

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou no longer hesitated, stood up and changed into casual clothes, and called Wang Peng by the way, asking him to drive the car from the garage to the door of the hotel and wait for him, and then went out and took the elevator downstairs.

"Xinrui Hotel...... It looks like a newly built five-star hotel, located a little closer to the suburbs. ”

Sitting in the back seat of the car, Lu Zhou flipped out the invitation letter and glanced at it, and reported the address on it to Wang Peng.

Reaching out to set up navigation on the car's touch screen, Wang Peng looked at the distance displayed on the map.

"New Frontier Hotel, is it? It doesn't seem to be very far, and you can get there within 30 minutes if you don't get stuck in traffic. ”

Lu Zhou, who had already begun to close his eyes and recuperate, said casually: "Don't worry, just drive over slowly." ”

"Are you going to a meeting this time?"

"Sort of, but it's mainly about having a meal."

"Okay......"

……

As Wang Peng estimated, the thirty-minute drive was no more or less, and it stopped right at the door of the Xinrui Hotel.

After seeing the car parked at the door of the hotel, the waiter waiting in front of the door immediately stepped forward, and after seeing the invitation letter in Lu Zhou's hand, he quickly walked into the hotel with the two of them.

As he walked through the hotel lobby, Lu Zhou looked around at the décor and the people shuttling back and forth in the lobby.

When he found that there were no tourists here, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It is worthy of studying how to spend money, and these economists talk about this pomp and circumstance at every meeting.

Not only was the venue of the conference a five-star hotel, but even a chartered venue.

Like their mathematicians hold meetings, small meetings are rented on two floors of conference rooms, lunch and dinner are issued separately, and such a grand thing as chartering is generally only done at top meetings such as IMO conferences, and when choosing a location, it is generally not such a prosperous place.

Lu Zhou still remembers the hotel selected by the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, although the environment is not bad, but compared with the general resort hotel, the environment of a five-star hotel is still incomparable.

And still in the suburbs.

It's no wonder that these "big dogs" are not well received in Princeton, and they make so much money with the mathematical tools they have researched, so it is strange that they can be treated well!

But then again, although these economists don't look like they are bad money, Lu Zhou speculates that the place where the conference can be held in such a grand way has something to do with the fact that the organizers of the conference have the names of several well-known domestic universities such as Aurora University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

To be able to attract such an internationally renowned academic conference to be held here, local governments and universities are still willing to bear part of the cost.

After all, isn't there a saying that says?

Anything that can be solved with money is not a problem.

If you put it on the back burner, it would be spending money and no one else would want to come over.

But now, the whole environment is very different from what it used to be.

With the rise of China's economy, more and more scholars and economists have begun to take an interest in China's model, and are willing to take an academic eye to study the existing or possible problems in China's economy, as well as the impact that this rising behemoth may have on the world economy......

From an objective point of view, it is certainly good to be able to attract international scholars to contribute their brain cells to China's economy.

After entering the venue, Lu Zhou didn't care about anything else, first went around the booth where souvenirs were distributed, and enthusiastically collected the manuscripts provided by several well-known investment banks, as well as the special fountain pens for the conference produced by some wealthy banks and well-known pen dealers.

These fountain pens are generally not available on the market, and few people will buy them, although it is not sure whether they can appreciate in value, but the collection is still quite significant.

In the past, Lu Zhou had the habit of collecting small gifts from academic conferences, and for him, this was also another form of academic resume in addition to the conjectures he proved.

It's just that in the past two years, he has attended a little less academic conferences, and this hobby has not been continued.

Now reliving this feeling, looking at the pen in his hand, Lu Zhou is also quite nostalgic.

Next to the table where small gifts are distributed is the poster exchange area.

It is not much different from an academic conference in the field of mathematics, no matter what high-level topics are about to be discussed in the conference hall, this kind of conference usually gives young scholars who are not qualified to apply for "talk" a chance to present their academic achievements.

This is also known as a "poster".

Compared with "talk", the threshold of poster is much lower, just like the vegetable market next to the high-end mall, where most of the people who communicate and discuss are some doctoral or master's students, and even postdoctoral students can rarely see it. Because the threshold is not high, the form of communication here is also quite casual, just prepare an eye-catching poster and a loud enough voice.

Although poster communication is a low-grade communication method compared to other communication methods for academic leaders, it is still a very useful way to communicate.

Walking around in front of the dazzling poster booths, Lu Zhou found that most of the posters here were no different from the number of days to him, although he recognized every word and word, but he didn't know what it meant when they were connected.

Just as he was starting to feel the size of his head, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a few words written on one of the posters...... Familiar?

“…… The Lu-Bewley model? ”

Although the poster is quite frustrating and the title is not clear, only these words are written backwards quite seriously.

Hearing the muttering in Lu Zhou's mouth, the thin and tall man standing in front of the poster pushed down his glasses, raised his eyebrows, and said with interest.

"You're also studying this direction?"

Hearing what the young man said to him, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned, and then said with a smile.

"Sort of."

"That's a coincidence, it seems that we are peers," said the young man, who did not look very old, with a grin, holding out his right hand, "Wesel, Ph.D. candidate at Princeton, studying macroeconomics...... Specifically, it's figuring out how to mathematically build economic models that can be visualized in numbers, and the Lu-Bewley model is what I'm working on! ”

His poster has been standing here since the morning, and no one has been interested in his poster.

Now that I finally met someone who seemed to be interested in his poster, and who was also a young scholar who also studied the Lu-Bewley model, he certainly didn't want to let this person go easily.

However, Lu Zhou didn't plan to leave.

He had come to this conference out of curiosity as to whether the Lu-Bewley model was as exaggerated as Professor Krugman had described.

"The Lu-Bewley model is important?"

Although it may be a bit narcissistic to ask so bluntly, Lu Zhou still couldn't help but ask.

However, this Mr. Wisel seemed to be misunderstood, and mistakenly heard the embarrassment in Lu Zhou's tone into a skeptical tone, so he immediately raised his eyebrows, raised his voice and put on a debating posture.

"Of course! Needless to say, it is the most important economic model of the last few years! Since you are studying this direction, you should know the Bewley model! The Lu-Bewley model is equivalent to an enhanced version of it...... Speaking of which, are you really researching this direction? How I feel like you're a layman. ”

Looking at Wisser's eyes that gradually became suspicious, Lu Zhou did not hesitate to say something half-truthful.

"Of course, are you doubting me?"

"No, no," Wisel hurriedly waved his hand, "In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't know anything about it, this is a relatively cutting-edge research direction." But my suggestion is that if you're going to learn about the Lu-Bewley model, I recommend you go to Lecture Hall 1. ”

Lu Zhou: "Lecture Hall No. 1? ”

"That's right, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate. Even if you don't know anything about the Lu-Bewley model, you should have heard of his Dixitt-Stiglitz model, which is a leader in the field of asymmetric information economics and one of the few economists who has the same deep insight into mathematical theory. ”

For some reason, Wisel's tone suddenly took on a bit of envy, and he didn't know who he was envious of, "To be honest, if it weren't for the poster exchange to do, I really shouldn't have missed his lecture." ”

"Since you want to go, you can just go directly," Hearing the trace of regret in his tone, Lu Zhou glanced at the empty poster booth and said a little incomprehensibly, "Anyway, no one seems to come to you." ”

"How's that going to work!" Seeming to be very dissatisfied with Lu Zhou's statement, Wissell immediately retorted, "If no one looks at me here for a long time, my poster will be taken away, which is equivalent to automatically giving up the qualification for the Best Poster Creative Award!" ”

"IMHO...... Are you counting on winning the Best Poster Creative Award with this poster? Looking at this poster, which was no different from a child's graffiti, Lu Zhou opened his mouth a little dumbly.

Saying it was abstract art, he believed it.

But to say that this thing is an academic poster......

Seriously, he might as well just take a blank piece of paper and write down what he wants to discuss line by line.

Mr. Wisser, however, did not seem to be impressed by his sarcasm, and remained stubborn.

"What if? How do you know if you can win if you don't try? ”

Lu Zhou shook his head.

"Come on, then...... I'll go to lecture hall 1 and take a look around. ”

"Go, go, go, if you don't go, I'm afraid you'll have to sit in the hallway...... By the way, wait a minute, I haven't asked your name yet? Wissell tried to stop the departing Lu Zhou, but was blocked by the long table next to the poster.

Hearing Mr. Withel, who was calling him from behind, Lu Zhou didn't look back, just laughed and threw down a sentence.

"Lu Zhou."

Wisser: "......??? ”