Quick-Glance Schedule: Conference Schedule

The 18th Annual SAET Conference was held June 11-13, 2018 at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

The conference chairs are Kamhon Kan, Ping Wang, and Nicholas Yannelis.

Academia Sinica Site: https://www.econ.sinica.edu.tw/SAET2018/

Registration Information

Presenters/
Participants
Students
Early-Bird Rate (through April 3) $300 USD
$70 USD
April 4 – May 31 $375 USD
$100 USD
June 1 – June 11
$450 USD
$150 USD

Presidential Address

Eric Maskin (Harvard University, USA): Elections and Strategic Voting: Condorcet and Borda


Invited Speakers

MacKenzie Lecture: Arkolakis, Costas (Yale University, USA): Economics and Space: Unified at Last

Cass Lecture: Hörner, Johannes (Yale University, USA) Keeping Your Story Straight: Truthtelling and Liespotting

Hicks Lecture: Kojima, Fuhito (Stanford University, USA): Fair matching under constraints

Bassetto, Marco (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, USA and University College London, UK): Is Inflation Default? The Role of Information in Debt Crises


Program Committee

Allen, Beth (University of Minnesota)

Arkolakis, Costas (Yale University, USA)

Aoyagi, Masaki (Oaska University, Japan)

Araujo, Aloisio (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)

Chang, Pao-Li (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Chen, Beenlon (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Chen, Yili (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA)

Chernozhukov, Victor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Chun, Youngsub (Seoul National University, South Korea)

Galichon, Alfred (New York University, USA)

Hörner, Johannes (Yale University, USA)

Hsu, Wentai (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Hu, Taiwei (University of Bristol, UK)

Kan, Kamhon (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) — Co-Chair

Kaneko, Mamoru (Waseda University, Japan)

Kehoe, Timothy J. (University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, USA)

Kojima, Fuhito (Stanford University, USA)

Kovenock, Dan (Chapman University, USA)

Li, Yiting (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Machina, Mark (University of California at San Diego, USA)

Moulin, Hervé (University of Glasgow, Scotland)

Nishimura, Kazuo (Kobe University and Kyoto University)

Polemarchakis, Herakles (University of Warwick, UK)

Prescott, Edward C. (Australian National University, Australia, and Arizona State University, USA)

Qin, Cheng-Zhong (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Spear, Stephen E. (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Squintani, Francesco (University of Warwick, UK)

Sun, Yeneng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Tian, Guoqiang (Texas A&M University, USA)

Trockel, Walter (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Wang, Ping (Washington University-St. Louis, USA) — Co-Chair

Wang, Tao-yi (Joseph) (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Wooders, Myrna Vanderbilt University, USA)

Yannelis, Nicholas (University of Iowa, USA) — Co-Chair

Zame, William (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)


Local Organizing Committee

Juin Jen Chang (Acadmia Sinica, Taiwan)

Yi-Ting Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Kamhon Kan (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)


Session Organizers

Allouch, Nizar (University of Kent, UK) and Herings, Jean-Jacques (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Networks I
Allouch, Nizar (University of Kent, United Kingdom) and Herings, Jean-Jacques (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Networks II
Amir, Rabah (University of Iowa, USA), Topics in Theoretical Applied Microeconomics
Aoyagi, Masaki (ISER, Osaka University, Japan), Strategic Interactions: Theory and Experiment
Arkolakis, Costas (Yale University, USA), Production Fragmentation, Multinationals, and Offshoring
Arkolakis, Costas (Yale University, USA) and Lee, Eunhee (University of Maryland, USA), Economic Geography and Spatial Economics
Arkolakis, Costas (Yale University, USA) and Lee, Eunhee (University of Maryland, USA), Firms in International Trade
Arkolakis, Costas (Yale University, USA) and Lee, Eunhee (University of Maryland, USA), Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade
Arkolakis, Costas (Yale University, USA) and Lee, Eunhee (University of Maryland, USA), Topics in International Trade
Boyarchenko, Svetlana (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Information and Learning
Carbajal, Juan Carlos (UNSW - Sydney, Australia), Behavioral Mechanism Design
Cerreia-Vioglio, Simone (Bocconi University, Italy), Developments in Decision Theory
Chang, Pao-Li (Singapore Management University, Singapore), Trade Pattern and Trade Policy
Chateauneuf, Alain (University of Paris1, France) and Cornet, Bernard (University of Kansas, USA), Finance & Decision
Chen, Yu-chin (University of Washington, USA), Open Economy Macro: Policy and Forecasting
Chen, Been-Lon (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) and Wang, Ping (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Financial Constraints and Wealth Distribution
Chen, Been-Lon (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Optimal Taxation and Social Capital
Chen, Yi-Chun (National University of Sinapore, Singapore) and Luo, Xiao (National University of Sinapore, Singapore), Topics in Game Theory I
Chen, Yi-Chun (National University of Sinapore, Singapore) and Luo, Xiao (National University of Sinapore, Singapore), Topics in Game Theory II
Chen, Yi-Chun (National University of Sinapore, Singapore) and Luo, Xiao (National University of Sinapore, Singapore), Topics in Game Theory III
Chien, YiLi (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA), Ramsey Taxation and Social Insurance
Chun, Youngsub (Seoul National University, South Korea), Social Choice and Cooperative Game Theory
Dávila, Julio (CORE - Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Population, Human Capital, and Bequests
Drugeon, Jean-Pierre (PSE - CNRS, France), Axiomatics of Temporal Preferences
Eraslan, Hulya (Rice University, United States), Political Economy
Fujiwara-Greve, Takako (Keio University, Japan), Dynamic Games
Funaki, Yukihiko (Waseda University, Japan), Cooperative Games and Its Applications
Guo, Jang-Ting (University of California, Riverside, United States), Topics in Macroeconomics II
Guo, Jang-Ting (University of California, Riverside, United States), Topics in Open Economy Macroeconomics
Hanaki, Nobuyuki (Universite Cote d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France), Complex Interaction: Theory and Experiment
He, Wei (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Mechanism Design and Applications
Hörner, Johannes (Yale University, USA), Topics in Economic Theory II
Hörner, Johannes (Yale University, USA), Topics in Economic Theory III
Hsu, Wen-Tai (Singapore Management University, Singapore), Trade and Geography
Hu, Tai-Wei (University of Bristol, UK), Monetary Economics
Imrohoroglu, Selo (USC Marshall School of Business, United States), Quantitative Macroeconomics
Ishikawa, Ryuichiro (Waseda University, Japan), Individual Learning in Games
Kesten, Onur (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Matching
Kim, Kyungmin (Teddy) (University of Miami, United States), Applied Game Theory I: Political Economy
Kim, Kyungmin (Teddy) (University of Miami, United States), Applied Game Theory II: Industrial Organization
Kline, Jeff (University of Queensland, Australia), Advances in Game Theory
Klose, Bettina (University of Technology Sydney, Australia), Contests III
Koh, Youngwoo (Hanyang University, South Korea), Topics in Market Design
Kojima, Fuhito (Stanford, United States), Matching and Market Design II
Konishi, Hideo (Boston College, United States), Electoral Competition and Contest
Kovenock, Dan (Chapman University, USA) and Roberson, Brian (Purdue University, USA), Contests II
Li, Yiting (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Money and Monetary Policy
Li, Duozhe (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR), Applied Game Theory III
Lippert, Steffen (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Information and Decisions
Livshits, Igor (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, United States), Consumer Finance
Livshits, Igor (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, United States), Macroeconomics and Finance
Miller, Alan (University of Haifa, Israel), Social Choice with Applications
Nachbar, John (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Advances in Mechanism Design
Nishimura, Kazuo (RIEB and Kobe University, Japan), Nonlinear Dynamics in the Intertermporal Equilibrium Models
Ogaki, Masao (Keio University, Japan), Behavioral Economics: Theory and Experiment
Prescott, Ned (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Unites States), Topics in Applied Theoretical Economics
Prokopovych, Pavlo (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine) and Yannelis, Nicholas (University of Iowa, USA), Topics in Economic Theory I
Qin, Cheng-Zhong (UCSB, United States), Applied Game Theory IV
Quintin, Erwan (University of Wisconsin -- Madison, USA), Models of Endogenous Default
Reffett, Kevin (Arizona State University, USA) and Wozny, Lukasz (Arizona State University, USA), Dynamic Equilibrium Theory
Roberson, Brian (Purdue University, USA) and Kovenock, Dan (Chapman University, USA), Contests I
Rommeswinkel, Hendrik (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Awareness and Beliefs
Roy, Santanu (Southern Methodist University, USA), Transparency and Incomplete Information
Shin, Yongseok (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Growth and Development
Skreta, Vasiliki (UT Austin and UCL, USA and UK), Competing through Information in Markets
Spear, Stephen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Overlapping Generations Models
Stauber, Ronald (Australian National University, Australia), Topics in Microeconomic Theory
Stecher, Jack (University of Alberta, Canada), Games and Decisions
Sugaya, Takuo (Stanford Graduate School of Business, United States), Recent Developments in Economic Theory
Sun, Yeneng (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Mathematical Economics I
Sun, Yeneng (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Mathematical Economics II
Tian, Guoqiang (Texas A&M University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, USA), Information Acquisition and Dynamic Optimal Contract
Tian, Guoqiang (Texas A&M University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, USA), Mechanism Design and Matching II
Tian, Guoqiang (Texas A&M University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, USA), Mechanism Design and Communication
Tian, Guoqiang (Texas A&M University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, USA), Mechanism Design and Matching I
Tian, Guoqiang (Texas A&M University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, USA), Mechanism Design and Continuous-Time Game
Toda, Alexis Akira (University of California, San Diego, USA), Power Laws in Economics and Finance
Turnovsky, Stephen (University of Washington, USA), Taxation, Growth, and Income Inequality
Unver, Utku (Boston College, USA), Matching and Market Design I
Venditti, Alain (AMSE-CNRS, France), Macroeconomic Dynamics
Villamil, Anne (University of Iowa, USA), Topics in Macroeconomics I
Wang, Joseph Tao-yi (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Wang, Ping (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Political Institutions, Productivity and Structural Transformation
Wang, Ping (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Mismatch, Market Distortions and Disparities
Wang, Ping (Ping Wang, Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Decisions
Wang, Ping (Ping Wang, Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Technology, Public Policy and Growth
Wang, Ping (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) and Chen, Been-Lon (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC), Trade, Structural Change, and Development
Yang, Chih-Chun (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Game Theory
Yeh, Chun-Hsien (Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Game Theory and its Application
Yip, Chong Kee (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Cycles, Time Allocation, and Macroeconomic Stability
Zapechelnyuk, Andy (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom), Communication and Persuasion

Quick-Glance Schedule: Conference Schedule

Session Details

Advances in Game Theory
Organizer: Jeff Kline
Chair: Jeff Kline

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 519

Presenter
Title
Sander Heinsalu (Australian National University, Australia)
Competitive pricing despite search costs when lower price signals quality
Shravan Luckraz (Nottingham University, China)
Pursuit-Evasion Games on Digraphs
Dmitry Kvasov (Waseda University, Japan)
John Hillas (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
On Backward Induction, Imperfect Recall and Non-linearity
Jeff Kline (University of Queensland, Australia)
Priscilla Mann (University of Queensland, Australia)
Normalizations for Games with Imperfect Recall


Advances in Mechanism Design
Organizer: John Nachbar

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Juan Carlos Carbajal (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Selling Mechanisms for Financially Constrained Buyers
Rahul Deb (University of Toronto, Canada)
Matt Mitchell (University of Toronto, Canada)
Mallesh Pai (Rice University, )
Compromising Quality to Stay Relevant
Mallesh Pai (Rice University, USA)
José Luis Montiel Olea (Columbia University, USA)
Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University, USA)
Andrea Prat (Columbia University, USA)
Competing Models
Maher Said (New York University, USA)
The Limits of Delegated Experimentation


Applied Game Theory I: Political Economy
Organizer: Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim
Chair: Ilwoo Hwang

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 525

Presenter
Title
Jinhee Jo (Kyung Hee University, South Korea)
Carl Heese (University of Bonn, Germany)
Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn, Germany)
H. Dharma Kwon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Youngsoo Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
George Georgiadis (Northwestern University, United States)
Ilwoo Hwang (University of Miami, United States)
Experimentation with Repeated Elections


Applied Game Theory II: Industrial Organization
Organizer: Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 904

Presenter
Title
Anovia Dai (Shanghai Jia Tong University, China)
Consumer Search and Optimal Pricing under Limited Commitment​
Teck Yong Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Pak Hung Au (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim (University of Miami, United States)
Marilyn Pease (Indiana University, USA)
Pitching the pitch: learning on your own vs from a biased sender


Applied Game Theory III
Organizer: Duozhe Li

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 525

Presenter
Title
Jihong Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
Changhyun Kwak (Yale University, USA)
Tax and Welfare in Dynamic Monopoly
Xiaojian Zhao (Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Soo Hong Chew (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Wei Huang (Wuhan University, China)
Motivated False Memory
Jun Xiao (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Nisvan Erkal (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Scarcity of Ideas and Optimal Awards in Innovation Contests
Duozhe Li (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Harold Houba (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Quan Wen (University of Washington, USA)
Characterizing the Extreme Equilibria in Bilateral Bargaining with Endogenous Protocols


Applied Game Theory IV
Organizer: Cheng-Zhong Qin
Chair: Jin Yeub Kim

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 904

Presenter
Title
Xintong Yang (Capital University of Economics and Business;, China)
On Sequential Arrow-Debreu Abstract Economies
Cheng-Zhong Qin (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
On the Anti-Collusive Effect of Cross-Holdings in Repeated Cournot Competition
Jin Yeub Kim (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Bargaining in Financial Over-the-Counter Markets


Awareness and Beliefs
Organizer: Hendrik Rommeswinkel

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Adam Dominiak (Virginia Tech, USA)
Gerelt Tserenjigmid (Virginia Tech, USA)
Ambiguity under Growing Awareness
Marie-Louise Vierø (Queen's University, Canada)
An intertemporal model of growing awareness
Simon Grant (Australian National University, Australia)
Idione Meneghel (Australian National University, Australia)
Rabee Tourky (Australian National University, Australia)
Learning under Unawareness
Hendrik Rommeswinkel (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Chun-ting Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Comparative Belief Equilibria


Axiomatics of Temporal Preferences
Organizer: Jean-Pierre Drugeon

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 519

Presenter
Title
Marcus Pivato (University of Cergy, Canada)
Intertemporal Choice with Continuity Constraints
Urmee Khan (University of California at Riverside, United States)
Martin Stinchcombe (University of Texas as Austin, United States)
Patience, Irreversibility and Sustainability
Thai Ha-Huy (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
Jean-Pierre Drugeon (PSE - CNRS, France)
On not so Myopic Temporal Biases Generators


Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Organizer: Joseph Tao-yi Wang

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Patrick DeJarnette (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Risky Choices over Goods
Yi-Shan Lee (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Roberto Weber (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Revealed Privacy Preference
Wei-Shiun Chang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Defining fairness in the ultimatum game
Yi-Yi Chen (Feng Chia University, Taiwan)
Jian-Da Zhu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Joseph Tao-yi Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Mutual Learning in Teamwork: A Field Experimental Study


Behavioral Economics: Theory and Experiment
Organizer: Masao Ogaki

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 525

Presenter
Title
Norio Takeoka (Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Takashi Ui (Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Imprecise Information and Second-Order Beliefs
Shinsuke Ikeda (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Takeshi Ojima (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Tempting goods, self-control fatigue, and time preference in consumer dynamics
Masao Ogaki (Keio University, Japan)
Alexander Mihailov (University of Reading, U.K.)
Persistent Divides in Beliefs, Conflict, and Innovation
Shunichiro Sasaki (Kindai University, Japan)
Toshiji Kawagoe (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
Grzegorz Mardyla (Kindai University, Japan)
Shoko Yamane (Kindai University, Japan)
Deception and Reciprocity: An Experimental Investigation


Behavioral Mechanism Design
Organizer: Juan Carlos Carbajal

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Heidi Thysen (LSE, UK)
Heiner Schumacher (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations
Pei-Cheng Yu (UNSW - Sydney, Australia)
Zhifeng Cai (Rutgers University, US)
Optimal Policies for Present-Biased Agents over the Life-Cycle
Igor Letina (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Shuo Liu (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Nick Netzer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Delegating Performance Evaluation
Debasis Mishra (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Kolagani Paramahamsa (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Selling to a Naive Agent with Two Rationales


Communication and Persuasion
Organizer: Andy Zapechelnyuk

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Ming Li (Concordia University, Canada)
Dorian Beauchêne (MAPP-Economics, France)
Jian Li (Tsinghua University, China)
Ambiguous Persuasion
Pak Hung Au (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Keiichi Kawai (UNSW, Australia)
Competitive Disclosure of Correlated Information
Kohei Kawamura (Waseda University, Japan)
Mark T. Le Quement (University of East Anglia, UK)
A Simple Theory of Media Reports
Andy Zapechelnyuk (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Anton Kolotilin (UNSW, Australia)
Persuasion Meets Delegation


Competing through Information in Markets
Organizer: Vasiliki Skreta
Chair: Jay Lu

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Jay Lu (UCLA, USA)
Simon Board (UCLA, USA)
Competitive Information Disclosure in Search Markets
Keiichi Kawai (UNSW Business School, Australia)
Toomas Hinnosaar (Colegio Carlo Alberto, Italy)
Robust Pricing with Refunds
Mark Whitmeyer (UT Austin, USA)
Persuading Perceval; Information Provision in a Sequential Search Setting
Yi-Cheng Kao (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan)
Wei-Cheng Chen (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Yi-Yi Chen (Feng Chia University, Taiwan)


Complex Interaction: Theory and Experiment
Organizer: Nobuyuki Hanaki

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 525

Presenter
Title
Yukio Koriyama (Ecole Ploytechnique, France)
Ali Ozkes (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France)
Inclusive Cognitive Hierarchy Model
Edoardo Gallo (Cambridge University, UK)
Yohanes E. Riyanto (Nangyang Technological University, Singapore)
Tat How Teh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Nilanjan Roy (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Strongly connected cooperative elites
Yohanes Riyanto (Nangyang Technological University, Singapore)
Mengling Li (Xiamen University, China)
Organ Donation Decisions under Different Allocation Rules: Theory and Experiment
Nobuyuki Hanaki (Univesite Cote d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France)
Ali I. Ozkes (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France)
The effects of strategic environment, communication, and cognitive skills on cooperation


Consumer Finance
Organizer: Igor Livshits

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 519

Presenter
Title
Igor Livshits (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA)
Florian Exler (University of Vienna, Austria)
James MacGee (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Consumer Credit with Over-Optimistic and Realistic Borrowers
Xuan Tam (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Habit Preferences and the Bankruptcy Decision
Eric Young (University of Virginia, USA)
Daniel Carroll (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, USA)
Nicholas Hoffman (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, USA)
Mobility
Gaetano Antinolfi (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Celso Brunetti (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, USA)
Jay Im (Duke University, USA)
Mortgage Rates and Credit Risk: Evidence from Mortgage Pools


Contests I
Organizers: Brian Roberson and Dan Kovenock
Chair: Brian Roberson

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 719

Presenter
Title
Qiang Fu (National University Singapore, Singapore)
Zenan Wu (Peking University, China)
Feedback and Favoritism in Sequential Elimination Contests
Christian Ewerhart (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Julia Grünseis (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Voluntary Disclosure in Unfair Contests
Jie Zheng (Tsinghua University, China)
Jamie W. Lien (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Hangcheng Zhao (Tsinghua University, China)
Perception Bias in Tullock Contests
Alberto Vesperoni (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria)
Anil Yildizparlak (Durham University, UK)
Contests with Draws: Axiomatization and Equilibrium


Contests II
Organizers: Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson
Chair: Dan Kovenock

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 525

Presenter
Title
Alexander V. Hirsch (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Ron Siegel (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Wojciech Olszewski (Northwestern University, USA)
Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions
Dawei Fang (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Thomas Noe (University of Oxford, UK)
Market Structure and the Speed of R&D
Zijun Luo (Sam Houston State University, USA)
Third Party Intervention and Endogenous Destruction: Peacekeeping, Active Combat, or Subsidy


Contests III
Organizer: Bettina Klose

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 719

Presenter
Title
Hanjoon Michael Jung (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Jie Zheng (Tsinghua University, China)
Jamie W. Lien (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Hanjoon M. Jung (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
All-pay Contest over Public Commodities with Two Bidders
Stefano Barbieri (Tulane University, USA)
Kai Konrad (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Germany)
David Malueg (UC Riverside, USA)
Preemption Contests Between Groups
Zhewei Wang (Shandong University, China)
Jingfeng Lu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Optimal Design of Multi-Dimensional Contests
Brian Roberson (Purdue University, USA)
Dan Kovenock (Chapman University, USA)
Roman Sheremeta (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks


Cooperative Games and Its Applications
Organizer: Yukihiko Funaki

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 702

Presenter
Title
Takayuki Oishi (Meisei University, Japan)
Gerard van der Laan (VU University, the Netherlands)
Rene van den Brink (VU University, the Netherlands)
Zheng Wang (Capital University of Economics and Business, China)
Yukihiko Funaki (Waseda University, Japan)
Taro Shinoda (Waseda University, Japan)
Unrestricted Bargaining Experiment on 3-person Cooperative Games


Cycles, Time Allocation, and Macroeconomic Stability
Organizer: Chong Kee Yip

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:34 PM

Room: 1st Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Shu-Hua Chen (National Taipei University, Taiwan)
International Bond Risk Premia, Currency of Denomination, and Macroeconomic (In)stability
Kang Shi (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Sihao Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Juanyi Xu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Real Business Cycles in Emerging Economies: The Role of Interest Rates and Exchange Rates
Jianpo Xue (Renmin University of China, China)
Kevin X.D. Huang (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Qinglai Meng (Oregon State University, USA)
Balanced-budget rules and aggregate instability: The role of endogenous capital utilization
Chong Kee Yip (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Leo Chak Hong Lam ((Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Jianpo Xue (Renmin University of China, China)
Marketization, Time-Use Allocation and Home Production


Developments in Decision Theory
Organizer: Simone Cerreia-Vioglio
Chair: Simone Cerreia-Vioglio

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: N. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Collin Raymond (Purdue University, USA)
David Dillenberger (UPenn, USA)
Additive Belief-Based Utility
Jingyi Xue (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Preferences with changing ambiguity aversion
Filippo Massari (UNSW, Australia)
Ambiguity, Learning, and Raiffa’s critique
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio (Bocconi University, Italy)
Efe Ok (NYU, USA)
The Rational Core of Preference Relations


Dynamic Equilibrium Theory
Organizers: Kevin Reffett and Lukasz Wozny

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: N. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Łukasz Balbus (University of Zielona Góra, Poland)
Existence of Nash equilibria in stochastic games of resource extraction with risk sensitive players
Jean-Pierre Drugeon (PSE-CNRS, France)
Thai Ha-Huy (Université d'Évry, France)
On Dynamic Programming with Optimal Rates of Discount
Lukasz Wozny (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
Pawel Dziewulski (University of Oxford, UK)
Supermodular Comparative Statics


Dynamic Games
Organizer: Takako Fujiwara-Greve

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 904

Presenter
Title
Maria Martin Rodríguez (Nagoya University, Japan)
Do you want to steal my songs? The importance of diffusion in the music industry
Steffen Lippert (University of Aukland, New Zealand)
Suzi Kerr (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, New Zealand)
Edmund Lou (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research)
Tadashi Sekiguchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Efficient Collusion with Entry and Cost Uncertainty
Takako Fujiwara-Greve (Keio University, Japan)
Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tolerance and Behavioral Diversity


Economic Geography and Spatial Economics
Organizers: Costas Arkolakis and Eunhee Lee

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 702

Presenter
Title
Jonathan Dingel (University of Chicago, USA)
The Spatial Structure of Endowments, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
Dan Liu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Liugang Sheng (Hong Kong Chinese University, Hong Kong)
Miaojie Yu (Peking University, China)
Highways and Exports: Evidence from China
Conor Walsh (Yale University, USA)
The Return to Big City Experience: Evidence from Danish Refugees
Michal Fabinger (University of Tokyo, Japan)
International Trade and Market Entry Decisions by Heterogeneous Firms Facing Increasing Marginal Production Cost and Economies of Scale in Shipping


Electoral Competition and Contest
Organizer: Hideo Konishi
Chair: Hideo Konishi

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: 1st Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Chen-Yu Pan (Wuhan University, PRC)
Hideo (Konishi, USA)
Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC Montreal, Canada)
Benoit Crutzen (Erasmus University, Netherland)
Kaoru Ueda (Nanzan University, Japan)
Shmuel Nitzan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Daiki Kishishita (University of Tokyu, Japan)
Atsushi Yamagishi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Do Supermajority Rules Really Deter Extremism?: The Role of Electoral Competition


Finance & Decision
Organizers: Alain Chateauneuf and Bernard Cornet

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: N. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Antoine Billot (University of Paris 2, France)
Vassili Vergopoulos (University of Paris I, France)
A Model of Decision-Making under Unawareness
Xiangyu QU (University of Paris I, France)
Antoine Billot (University of Paris 2, France)
Utilitarian Aggregation with Reasonably Heterogeneous Beliefs
Bernard Cornet (University of Kansas, USA)
Alain Chateauneuf (University of Paris 1, France)
Financial markets with hedging complements


Financial Constraints and Wealth Distribution
Organizers: Been-Lon Chen and Ping Wang
Chair: Kazuo Mino

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: 1st Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Shian-Yu Liao (Chung Yuan Christian Universit, Taiwan)
Been-Lon Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Credit Constraints, Housing and the Business Cycle
Shun-Fa Lee (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Been-Lon Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Fiscal Policy and Infrastructure in a financially constrained developing economy
Hoi Pan Wong (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Firm Heterogeneity and Wealth Distribution
Kazuo Mino (Kyoto University, Japan)
Ryo Arawatari (Nagoya University, Japan)
Fiscal Policy and Government Debt in a Growing Economy with Financial Frictions


Firms in International Trade
Organizers: Costas Arkolakis and Eunhee Lee

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 702

Presenter
Title
Jingting Fan (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Financing Multinationals
Guillermo Noguera (Yale University, USA)
Julia Cajal Grossi (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland)
Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics, UK)
International Buyers and Firm Performance
Cheng Chen (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Uncertainty, Imperfect Information and Learning in the International Market
Davin Chor (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Contracting Frictions in International Trade: Implications for Welfare


Game Theory
Organizer: Chih-Chun Yang
Chair: Chih-Chun Yang

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 702

Presenter
Title
Chia-Hui Chen (Kyoto University, Japan)
Junichiro Ishida (Osaka University, Japan)
Arijit Mukherjee (Nottingham University, UK)
An Entry Game with Learning and Market Competition
Hanjoon Michael Jung (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Chul-In Lee (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
Corruption and Economic Growth in Developing Counties
Meng-Yu Liang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Kim-Sau Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Melody Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
On the Information Contents of Indirect Citations
Chih-Chun Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Wei-Torng Juang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Kuo-Chih Yuan (Soochow University, Taiwan)
Rationality and Common Strong Belief of Rationality in Second-price Auction and English Auction


Game Theory and its Application
Organizer: Chun-Hsien Yeh
Chair: Biung-Ghi Ju

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 525

Presenter
Title
Toshiyuki Hirai (University of Toyama, Japan)
Farsighted Stability in a Patent Licensing Game: An Abstract Game Approach
Chiu Yu Ko (Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
A Welfare Economic Interpretation of FRAND
Soojeong Jung (Department of Economics, Seoul National University, South Korea)
Revenue Sharing on Hierarchies
William Thomson (University of Rochester, United States of America)
New properties of rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims


Games and Decisions
Organizer: Jack Stecher

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: N. Room 501

Presenter
Title
Joseph Tao-yi Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Meng-Jhang Fong (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Extreme (and non-extreme) punishments in sender-receiver games with judicial error: an experimental investigation
Patrick O'Callaghan (University of Queensland, Australia)
Timothy Shields (Chapman University, USA)
Mark Schneider (Chapman University, USA)
Motivations for cooperation in a one-shot prisoner's dilemma
Jack Stecher (University of Alberta, Canada)
Simon Grant (Australian National University, Australia)
Patricia Rich (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Ordinal utility theory is the key to decision making under ambiguity


Growth and Development
Organizer: Yongseok Shin

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 525

Presenter
Title
Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame, USA)
How Important are Indivisible Investments for Savings and Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee (Toulouse School of Economics, France)
Labor Market Allocation, Human Capital and Development: Evidence from Germany’s Reunification
Charles Gottlieb (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Charles Gottlieb: Irrigation and Agricultural Productivity
Zsofia Barany (Sciences Po, France)
Biased Technological Change and Employment Reallocation


Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Decisions
Organizer: Ping Wang

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: 2nd Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Helu Jiang (Ping Wang, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Cohabitation, Marriage, and Fertility
Pei-Ju Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC)
Minchung Hsu (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan)
Chang-Ching Lin (National Cherng-Kung University, Taiwan, ROC)
Revisiting Private Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving-a theoretical and empirical analysis
Yin-Chi Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Wung Lik Ng (National Cherng-Kung University, Taiwan, ROC)
National Health Insurance and Physician Allocation: The Case of Taiwan
Yao Yao (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
LiShiun Chen (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Smoking, Health Capital, and Longevity: Evaluation of Personalized Cessation Treatments in a Lifecycle Model with Heterogeneous Agents


Individual Learning in Games
Organizer: Ryuichiro Ishikawa
Chair: Ryuichiro Ishikawa

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 904

Presenter
Title
Liping Tang (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Ambiguity and Compositional Signaling
Hiroki Takahashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Ryuichiro Ishikawa (Waseda University, Japan)
Multiattribute utility in cased based decisions
Norihito Sakamoto (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Equity Criteria Based on Dominance Principle and Pareto Principle
Ryuichiro Ishikawa (Waseda University, Japan)
Dynamic belief change in subjective games


Information Acquisition and Dynamic Optimal Contract
Organizer: Guoqiang Tian
Chair: Quan Wen

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: N. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Quan Wen (University of Washington, USA)
Xu Tan (, )
Information Acquisition from Heterogenous Experts: Simultaneous vs Sequential
Silvana Krasteva (Texas A&M University, USA)
H. Yildirim (, )
Information Acquisition and Strategic Ignorance is Bilateral Trading: Is Ignorance Bliss?
Kang Rong (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
King King Li (, )
The Gambling Effect of Final-Offer Arbitration in Bargaining
Bingyong Zheng (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Relational Contracts with Multitask Jobs


Information and Decisions
Organizer: Steffen Lippert

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Anna Rubinchik (University of Haifa, Israel)
Flavia Aluisi (University of Haifa, Israel)
Genela Morris (University of Haifa, Israel)
James Taylor (Australian National University, Australia)
Jose A. Rodrigues-Neto (Australian National University, Australia)
Simona Fabrizi (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Steffen Lippert (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Addison Pan (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Robert Veszteg (Waseda Unviersity, Japan)
Wei Li (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Xu Tan (University of Washington, USA)
Behavioral patterns in social learning


Information and Learning
Organizer: Svetlana Boyarchenko

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Swagata Bhattacharjee (Ashoka University, India)
Contracting for Innovation under Ambiguity
Tatiana Mayskaya (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Marcelo Fernandez (Caltech, USA)
Implications of Overconfidence on Information Investmen
Ina Taneva (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Brian Rogers (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Reasoning about Rationality under Incomplete Information
Svetlana Boyarchenko (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Financing of innovations


Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade
Organizers: Costas Arkolakis and Eunhee Lee

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 702

Presenter
Title
Danial Lashkari (Yale University, USA)
Marti Mestieri (Northwestern University, USA)
How Substitutable Are the Products of Different Nations?
Konstantin Kucheryavyy (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Saroj Bhattarai (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
A Unified Model of International Business Cycles and Trade
John Romalis (University of Sydney, Australia)
Mary Amiti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA)
Mi Dai (Beijing Normal University, China)
Robert C. Feebstra (University of California, Davis, USA)
How Did China’s WTO Entry Affect U.S. Prices
Marta Aloi (University of Nottingham, UK)
Growth and the Geography of Knowledge


Macroeconomic Dynamics
Organizer: Alain Venditti

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 1101

Presenter
Title
Bertrand Wigniolle (Paris School of Economics, France)
Jean-Pierre Drugeon (Paris School of Economics, France)
A Ramsey model with Heterogeneous Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting Agents
Thomas Seegmuller (AMSE-AMU-CNRS, France)
Paolo Melindi-Ghidi (University of Nanterre, France)
The love for children hypothesis and the multiplicity of fertility rates
Karine Constant (University of Créteil, France)
Marion Davin (University of Montpellier, France)
Unequal vulnerability to climate change and the transmission of adverse effects through international trade
Alain Venditti (AMSE-AMU-CNRS, France)
Frédéric Dufourt (AMSE-AMU, France)
Kazuo Nishimura (Kobe University, Japan)
On sunspot fluctuations in infinite-horizon models: a general analysis


Macroeconomics and Finance
Organizer: Igor Livshits

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 519

Presenter
Title
Ludo Visschers (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (University of Essex, UK)
David Wiczer (Stony Brook University, USA)
Job loss, alternative employment, and occupational mobility over the cycle
Wenya Wang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Intermediate Goods and Misallocation in China's Manufacturing Sector
Ryan Michaels (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA)
Vacancy Chains


Matching
Organizer: Onur Kesten
Chair: Szilvia Papai

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: N. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Umut Dur (North Carolina State University, USA)
Robert Hammond (North Carolina State University, USA)
Onur Kesten (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Sequential School Choice: Theory and Evidence from the Field and Lab
Alexandru Nichifor (Melbourne, Australia)
Serial Dictatorship with Reservation Prices
Jinyong Jeong (Boston College, USA)
Housing Market with Contracts
Szilvia Papai (Concordia University, Canada)
Dilek Sayedahmed (Concordia University, Canada)
Targeted Priority Reserves


Matching and Market Design I
Organizer: Utku Unver
Chair: James Schummer

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 519

Presenter
Title
Tommy Andersson (Lund University, Sweden)
Lars Ehlers (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Alessandro Martinello (Lund University, Sweden)
Dynamic Refugee Matching
Bettina Klaus (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Haris Aziz (UNSW, Australia)
James Schummer (Northwestern University, USA)
Philip Marx (EdLabs, USA)
Utku Unver (Boston College, USA)
Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College, USA)
Bumin Yenmez (Boston College, USA)


Matching and Market Design II
Organizer: Fuhito Kojima
Chair: Fuhito Kojima

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 519

Presenter
Title
Peter Troyan (University of Virginia, USA)
Andrew Kloosterman (University of Virginia, USA)
Inácio Bó (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany)
Li Chen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Designing Heaven's Will: Assigning Civil Servants by Drawing Lots in Imperial China
Yusuke Iwase (Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Nick Arnosti (Columbia Business School, USA)
Peng Shi (USC Marshall School of Business, USA)
How (Not) to Allocate Affordable Housing


Mathematical Economics I
Organizer: Yeneng Sun
Chair: Yeneng Sun

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: 2nd Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Naoki Watanabe (Keio University, Japan)
Toshiyuki Hirai (University of Toyama, Japan)
von Neumann-Morgenstern stable sets of a patent licensing game: the existence proof
Kali Rath (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Haomiao Yu (Ryerson University, Canada)
The weak alpha-core of large games
Roberto Raimonto (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Yakar Kannai (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
The role of (quasi) analyticity in establishing completeness of financial markets equilibria
Yeneng Sun (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Foundation of idiosyncratic shocks


Mathematical Economics II
Organizer: Yeneng Sun
Chair: Xiang Sun, Wuhan University, China

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: 2nd Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Haomiao Yu (Ryerson University, Canada)
M. Ali Khan (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Zhixiang Zhang (Central University of Finance and Economics, China)
On the comparison of information structures, and the Hirshleifer effect in a competitive exchange economy
Bin Wu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
On large games with bio-social traits
Enxian Chen (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Xiang Sun (Wuhan University, China)
Yeneng Sun (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Some properties of perfect and proper equilibria
Xiang Sun (Wuhan University, China)
Qian Jiao (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
Bo Shen (Wuhan University, China)
Conflict networks with returns to scale technology


Mechanism Design and Applications
Organizer: Wei He

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 519

Presenter
Title
Jiangtao Li (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Tilman Börgers (University of Michigan, USA)
STRATEGICALLY SIMPLE MECHANISMS
Yunan Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Mechanism Design with Financially Constrained Agents and Costly Verification
Qinggong Wu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Tangren Feng (University of Michigan, USA)
Getting information from the enemies
Wei He (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Information design in search markets


Mechanism Design and Communication
Organizer: Guoqiang Tian
Chair: Siyang Xiong

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S, Room 719

Presenter
Title
Bo Chen (Southern Methodist University, USA)
Simple Contracts under Observable and Hidden Actions
Dawen Meng (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Sequential Nonlinear Pricing of Experience Goods
Qianfeng Tang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Yongchao Zhang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Weak Stability and Pareto Efficiency in School Choice
Siyang Xiong (University of Bristol, UK)
Communication under Language Barriers


Mechanism Design and Continuous-Time Game
Organizer: Guoqiang Tian
Chair: Man-Wah Cheung

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 525

Presenter
Title
Ville Korpela (Turku School of Economics, Finland)
Optimal Bayesian Mechanisms without Monetary Transfers: A Solution to the 2 Person Implementation Problem
Man-Wah Cheung (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Jiabin Wu (University of Oregon, USA)
On the Probabilistic Transmission of Continuous Cultural Traits
Shraman Banerjee (O.P. Jindal Global University, India)
Treating Symmetric Buyers Asymmetrically


Mechanism Design and Matching I
Organizer: Guoqiang Tian

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: N. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Ning Yu (Nanjing Audit University, China)
Job Market with Floor Constraints
Jun Zhang (Nanjing Audit University, China)
Efficient and Fair Mechanism Is Strongly Group Manipulable
Yongchao Zhang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Kang Rong (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Qianfeng Tang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
On Stable and Efficient Mechanisms for Priority-based Allocation Problems
Guoqiang Tian (Texas A&M University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, USA)
Zhenhua Jiao (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
On Responsiveness of Two Competing Mechanisms to >Affirmative Action in School Choice


Mechanism Design and Matching II
Organizer: Guoqiang Tian
Chair: Rodrigo Velez

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 719

Presenter
Title
Ning Sun (Nanjing Audit University, China)
Matching with Commitment
Xiang Han (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Ex-ante Fair Random Allocation
Lei Qiao (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Darrell Duffie (Stanford University, USA)
Yeneng Sun (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Continuous Time Random Matching
Rodrigo Velez (Texas A&M University, USA)
Alex Brown (Texas A&M University, USA)
Empirical equilibrium


Mismatch, Market Distortions and Disparities
Organizer: Ping Wang
Chair: David Wiczer

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:34 PM

Room: 2nd Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Wan-Jung Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC)
Explaining Job Polarization: The Role of Heterogeneity in Capital Intensity
Rongsheng Tang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Education Mismatch and Earnings Inequality
Yang Tang (Nanyang Technology University, Singapore)
Yongheng Deng (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Jing Wu (Tsinghua University, China)
Spatial Misallocation in Chinese Housing and Land Markets
David Wiczer (SUNY-Stony Brook, USA)
Marcelo Arbex (University of Windsor, Canada)
Denis O’Dea (University of Washington, USA)
Network Search: Climbing the Job Ladder Faster


Models of Endogenous Default
Organizer: Erwan Quintin

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: N. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Kyle Dempsey (Ohio State University, USA)
P. Dean Corbae (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
Satyajit Chatterjee (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA)
A Theory of Credit Scoring and the Competitive Pricing of Default Risk
Tai-Wei Hu (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Gradual Bargaining in Decentralized Asset Markets
Juan-Carlos Hatchondo (Indiana University, USA)
Constrained efficient borrowing with sovereign default risk
Erwan Quintin (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
Optimal Exclusion


Monetary Economics
Organizer: Tai-Wei Hu
Chair: Tai-Wei Hu

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Yiting Li (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Tai-Wei Hu (U of Bristol, )
Optimal Banking Regulation with Endogenous Liquidity Provision
Mohammad Davoodalhosseini (Bank of Canada, Canada)
Jonathan Chu (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
Janet Jiang (Bank of Canada, USA)
Dealer Inventory and Market Liquidity
Chao He (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Financial Frictions, Liquidity Traps, and the Implementation of Monetary Policy
Tao Zhu (Hong Kong Univerity of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Open Market Operation, Inside Money, and the Real Bills Doctrine


Money and Monetary Policy
Organizer: Yiting Li

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 719

Presenter
Title
Pedro Gomis-Porqueras (Deakin University, Australia)
Han Han (Peking University, China)
Policy Analysis in a Model of Money, Banking and OTC Markets
Chien-Chiang Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Quantitative Easing, Financial Market Frictions, and the Liquidity Theory of Yield Curves
Timothy Kam (Australian National University, Australia)
Junsang Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)
Inflationary Redistribution vs. Trading Opportunities: Cost of Inflation in a Monetary Model with Non-degenerate Distributions
Jonathan Chiu (Bank of Canada, Canada)
Thorsten V. Koepplz (Queen's University, Canada)
The Economics of Cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin and Beyond


Networks I
Organizers: Nizar Allouch and Jean-Jacques Herings
Chair: Jean-Jacques Herings

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: N. Room 501

Presenter
Title
Renaud Bourles (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France)
Yann Bramoullé (Aix-Marseille University, France)
Eduardo Perez-Richet (Sciences Po Paris, France)
Altruism and Risk Sharing in Networks
Mert Kimya (Koc University, Turkey)
Nikolas Tsakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Phillipos Louis (UNSW, Australia)
Orestis Troumpounis (Lancaster University, UK)
Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Péter Bayer (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Ronald Peeters (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Frank Thuijsman (Maastricht University, Netherlands)


Networks II
Organizers: Nizar Allouch and Jean-Jacques Herings
Chair: Jean-Jacques Herings

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: N. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Banchongsan Charoensook (Keimyung University, South Korea)
Bi and Branching Strict Nash Networks in Two-way Flow Models: a Generalized Sufficient Condition
Dike Chukwudi Henry (University of Kent, UK)
Nizar Allouch (University of Kent, UK)
Alfred Duncan (University of Kent, UK)
Default and punishment with systemic risk
Yan Long (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Olivier Bochet (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Self-fulfilling Equilibrium in Social Contests: Expectation and Neighborhood Effects
Matthew Leister (Monash University, Australia)
Arthur Campbell (Monash University, Australia)
Yves Zenou (Monash University, Australia)
Word-of-Mouth Communication and Search


Nonlinear Dynamics in the Intertermporal Equilibrium Models
Organizer: Kazuo Nishimura
Chair: Kazuo Nishimura

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: N. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Takuma Kunieda (Kwansaei University, Japan)
Kazuo Nishimura (Kobe University, Japan)
Finance and Economic Growth in a Dynamic Game
Antoine Le Riche (University of Sichuan, China)
Daria Onori (University of Orléans and LEO UMR 7322, France)
Collaterals and (in)stability of monetary policy
Takaaki Aoki (Kyoto University, Japan)
Kazuo Nishimura (Kobe University, Japan)
Makoto Yano (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan)
Two-sided altruism and time inconsistency
Harutaka Takahashi (Meiji Gakuin University, Japan)
Kansho Piotr Otsubo (Meiji Gakuin University, Japan)
A new route to the rapid growth of the service sector: consumption externalities


Open Economy Macro: Policy and Forecasting
Organizer: Yu-chin Chen

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: N. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Juanyi Xu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Sihao Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Kang Shi (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Local Currency Pricing and International Tax Policies
Mahama Samir Bandaogo (Wesleyan University, USA)
Fiscal and monetary policy in the presence of informality
Inhwan So (Bank of Korea, South Korea)
Jongrim Ha (World Bank, USA)
Which Monetary Shocks Matter in Small Open Economies? Evidence from SVARs
Seojin Lee (Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, China)
Yu-chin Chen (University of Washington, USA)
Chang-Jin Kim (University of Washington, USA)
Measuring Market Expectations in the Presence of Unobserved Fundamentals: A Predictive System for Exchange Rates


Optimal Taxation and Social Capital
Organizer: Been-Lon Chen
Chair: Jun-ichi Itaya

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: 1st Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Fei-Chi Liang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Been-Lon Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Optimal Mirrleesean Taxation and Human Capital Investment
Yunmin Chen (Shandong University, China)
C.C. Yang (Academia Snica, Taiwan)
Optimal linear labor tax over the business cycle: the role of uninsurable idiosyncratic productivity shocks
Chih-Fang Lai (Soochow University, Taiwan)
Been-Lon Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Yu-Shan Hsu (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Optimal Accumulation of Human and Physical Capital in A Model with Bequest Motives
Jun-ichi Itaya (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Chris Tsoukis (Keele University, UK)
Social Capital and the Status Externality


Overlapping Generations Models
Organizer: Stephen Spear
Chair: Cheng Wang

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: N. Room 501

Presenter
Title
Andres Bellofatto (University of Queensland, Australia)
Wealth Taxation and Life Expectancy
Jiayi Li (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Eungsik Kim (Carnegie Mellon, USA)
Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting, Cycle and Indeterminacy
Cheng Wang (Fudan University, PRC)
Yunan Li (Fudan University, PRC)
Endogenous Labor Market Cycles
Eungsik Kim (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Stephen Spear (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Singular Invariant Markov Equilibrium in Stochastic Overlapping Generations Models


Political Economy
Organizer: Hulya Eraslan
Chair: Ying Chen

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: N. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Melody Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Yuk-Shing Cheng (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Kim-Sau Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Jimmy Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Seher Gupta (NYU, USA)
Fei Ki (UNC Chapel Hill, USA)
Yun Wang (Xiamen University, China)
Ying Chen (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Atara Oliver (Rice University, USA)
Hulya Eraslan (Rice University, United States)
Adriana Piazza (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile)
Dynamics of Environmental Policy


Political Institutions, Productivity and Structural Transformation
Organizer: Ping Wang
Chair: Stephen Parente

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: 2nd Conference Room

Presenter
Title
T. Terry Cheung (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Schooling, Skill Demand and Differential Fertility in the Process of Structural Transformation
Wen-Chieh Lee (National Chengchi University, Taiwan, ROC)
Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago, USA)
Burak Uras (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Technique Up or Cost Down? Competition by Two IC Foundry Giants
Yong Wang (Peking University, China)
Justin Yifu Lin (Peking University, China)
Structural Change, Industrial Upgrading and Middle-Income Trap
Stephen Parente (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Felipe Saenz Munoz (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Anna Seim (Stockholm University, Swedem)
Towards a Unified Theory of Income and Democracy


Population, Human Capital, and Bequests
Organizer: Julio Dávila

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: N. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Grégory Ponthière (University Paris East, France)
Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness
Mausumi Das (Delhi School of Economics, India)
Shanka Chakraborty (University of Oregon, USA)
Julio Dávila (CORE - Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Optimal human capital bequeathing
Yung-Lin Wang (Durham University, UK)
Nigar Hashimzade (Durham University, UK)


Power Laws in Economics and Finance
Organizer: Alexis Akira Toda
Chair: Alexis Akira Toda

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: N. Room 501

Presenter
Title
Dan Cao (Georgetown University, USA)
Toshihiko Mukoyama (Georgetown University and University of Virginia, USA)
Erick Sager (Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA)
Firm Growth through New Establishments
Tomohiro Hirano (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Asset Bubbles and Macro-Prudential Policy
Gregory Phelan (Williams College, USA)
Thomas Eisenbach (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA)
Cournot Fire Sales​
Alexis Akira Toda (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Brendan Beare (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Geometrically Stopped Markovian Random Growth Processes and Pareto Tails


Production Fragmentation, Multinationals, and Offshoring
Organizer: Costas Arkolakis

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: 1st Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Edwin Lai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Han Steffan Qi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Fragmentation and Gravity
Eunhee Lee (University of Maryland, USA)
Kei-Mu Yi (University of Houston, USA)
Global Value Chains and Inequality with Endogenous Labor Supply
Vladimir Tyazhelnikov (University of Sydney, Australia)
Production Clusters and Offshoring
Liugang Sheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Dennis Yang (University of Virginia, USA)
Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China


Quantitative Macroeconomics
Organizer: Selo Imrohoroglu
Chair: Selo Imrohoroglu

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: 2nd Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Minchung Hsu (GRIPS, Japan)
Kwadwo Opoku (GRIPS, Japan)
Pension Expansion in Developing Countries: Incentive Scheme for Informal Workers
Svetlana Pashchenko (UGA, Terry College of Business, United States)
Ponpoje Porapakkarm (GRIPS, Japan)
Accounting for Social Security claiming behavior
Andrii Parkhomenko (USC Marshall School of Business, United States)
The Rise of Housing Regulation in the U.S.: Local Causes and Aggregate Consequences
Selahattin (Selo) Imrohoroglu (USC Marshall School of Business, United States)
Sagiri Kitao (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tomoaki Yamada (Meiji University, Japan)
Fiscal Sustainability in Japan: What to Tackle?


Ramsey Taxation and Social Insurance
Organizer: YiLi Chien

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: 1st Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Soojin Kim (Purdue University, USA)
Naoki Aizawa (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Serena Rhee (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
Labor Market Screening and Social Insurance Program Design for the Disabled
Hsin-Jung Yu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Yi-Chan Tsai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
C. C. Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Ramsey Taxation with Capital-Skill Complementarity and Investment-Specific Technological Change
Tomoyuki Nakajima (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Keiichiro Kobayashi (Keio University, Japan)
A theory of non-performing loans and debt restructuring
YiLi Chien (Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, USA)
Yi Wen (Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, USA)
Optimal Ramsey Capital Income Taxation—A Reappraisal


Recent Developments in Economic Theory
Organizer: Takuo Sugaya

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 904

Presenter
Title
Takuo Sugaya (Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA)
The folk theorem in repeated games with anonymous random matching
Jay Lu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Repeated Choice
Naoki Watanabe (Keio University, Japan)
A School Choice Experiment: Cognitive Ability and Information


Social Choice and Cooperative Game Theory
Organizer: Youngsub Chun
Chair: Huaxia Zeng

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 904

Presenter
Title
Inkee Jang (Xiamen University, China)
Leadership through reciprocity and temptation
Michele Lombardi (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Takashi Hayashi (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Implementable piecemeal policies
Mengling Li (Xiamen University, China)
Jaehong Kim (Xiamen University, China)
Menghan Xu (Xiamen University, China)
Organ Donation with Vouchers
Huaxia Zeng (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Shurojit Chatterji (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Soumyarup Sadhukhan (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Arunava Sen (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Probabilistic generalized median voter schemes: A robust characterization


Social Choice with Applications
Organizer: Alan Miller
Chair: Hideo Konishi

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 719

Presenter
Title
Martyna Kobus (Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Frank Cowell (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)
Radosław Kurek (Vistula University, Poland)
Welfare and Inequality Measurement in a Discrete Setting
Andrei Gomberg (ITAM, Mexico)
Andrew Caplin (New York University, United States)
Joyce Sadka (ITAM, Mexico)
Consistency and Attention: Legal Evidence
Hideo Konishi (Boston College, USA)
Benoit Crutzen (Erasumus University in Rotterdamn, Netherlands)
Sabine Flamand (Rovira i Virgili University, Spain)
Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC Montreal, Canada)


Strategic Interactions: Theory and Experiment
Organizer: Masaki Aoyagi

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Masaki Aoyagi (ISER, Osaka University, Japan)
Designing a platform when preferences over trading partners are unknown
Eungik Lee (Seoul Nathional University, South Korea)
Irreversibility and Monitoring in Dynamic Games
Qian Neng (National University of Singapore, South Korea)
Too Good to be in the Team?
Takehito Masuda (ISER, Osaka University, Japan)
Testing Ambiguity Attitudes toward Strategic Decisions


Taxation, Growth, and Income Inequality
Organizer: Stephen Turnovsky
Chair: Ting-Wei Lai

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Siew Ling Yew (Monash University, Australia)
The Growth and Welfare Implications of Mandatory Working-time REductions in a lifecycle dynastic family model with endogenous groath and fertility
Yoichi Gokan (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington, USA)
Superneutrlaity, TRansition Path and Income Distribution in the Sidrauski Monetary Growth Model
Ting-Wei Lai (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Raymond Riezman (University of Iowa, USA)
Shin-Kun Peng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
China's Accession to the WTO and Dynamic Gains from Trade: The Role of Labor Skill Compositions and Factor-Biased Technological Change


Technology, Public Policy and Growth
Organizer: Ping Wang
Chair: Hung-Ju Chen

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: 2nd Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Wei-Cheng Chen (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan, ROC)
Technology Adoption and Innovation in Aging Population: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Analysis
Yu Zheng (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Roberto Piazza (IMF, USA)
Innovate to lead or innovate to prevail: when do monopolistic rents induce growth?
Manachaya Uruyos (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Yoshitaka Koda (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Manufactured Life Span and Economic Growth
Hung-Ju Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC)
Kai-Jie Wu (University of Rochester, USA)
Productivity Growth and Structural Transformations of Labor and Capital


Topics in Applied Theoretical Economics
Organizer: Ned Prescott

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 525

Presenter
Title
Ned Prescott (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, United States)
Douglas Davis (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
John Lightle (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Oleg Korenok (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Liquidity Requirements and the Interbank Loan Market: An Experimental Investigation
Kenichi Ueda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tail Risk Dumping
Ponpoje Porapakkarm (National Graduate Insitute of Policies Studies, Japan)
Mariacristina De Nardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, USA and University College London, UK)
The Lifetime Costs of Bad Health


Topics in Economic Theory I
Organizers: Pavlo Prokopovych and Nicholas Yannelis
Chair: Vina (Zhiwei) Liu

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Xiao Wei (Fudan University, China and University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Felix Kübler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Larry Selden (Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Dynamic OCE Choice: Time Consistency and the Separation of Time and Risk
Pavlo Prokopovych (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine)
Nicholas Yannelis (University of Iowa, USA)
On continuity-related properties of first-price auctions with incomplete information
Matías Fuentes (National University of San Martín, Argentina)
Sebastian Cea (PSE, France)
Essential Stability in Large Economies with Infintely Many Commodities
Vina (Zhiwei) Liu (Capital University of Economics and Business, China)
Xinxi Song (Capital University of Economics and Business, China)
Nicholas Yannelis (University of Iowa, USA)
Mixed Strategies Implementation via Maximin Equilibrium


Topics in Economic Theory II
Organizer: Johannes Hörner

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: 2nd Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Miaomiao Dong (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Manuel Mueller-Frank (IESE, Spain)
Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Allan Sly (IESE, Spain)
Omer Tamuz (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Arina Nikandrova (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
Delegation of Learning
Anna Sanktjohanser (TSE, France and Yale University, USA)
Optimally Stubborn


Topics in Economic Theory III
Organizer: Johannes Hörner

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 519

Presenter
Title
Peter Norman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Fei Li (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Alia Gizatulina (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland)
Ziv Hellman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Allen Vong (Yale University, USA)
Optimal Rating System
Daniel Quigley (University of Oxford, UK)
James Best (University of Oxford, UK)


Topics in Game Theory I
Organizers: Yi-Chun Chen and Xiao Luo

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 719

Presenter
Title
Geir B. Asheim (University of Oslo, Norway)
Behavioral welfare economics with time inconsistent preferences
Yongchuan Qiao (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Xiao Luo (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Yang Sun (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
A revelation principle for perfect correlated equilibrium
Xuewen Qian (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China)
On the equivalence of forward and backward induction reasoning under general preferences
Yang Sun (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Xiao Luo (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Xuewen Qian (University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China)
The algebraic geometry of perfect and sequential equilibrium: an extension


Topics in Game Theory II
Organizers: Yi-Chun Chen and Xiao Luo

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 702

Presenter
Title
Olivier Bochet (New York University-Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Norovsambuu Tumennasan (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Dominance of Truthtelling, Implementation and the Lattice Structure of Nash Equilibria
Ritesh Jain (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Rationalizable Implementation of Social Choice Correspondences
Yifei Sun (University of International Business and Economics, China)
Yi-Chun Chen (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Takashi Kunimoto (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Richard Holden (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Tom Wilkening (Univeristy of Melbourne, Australia)
Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work
Chun-Ting Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Correlation with Forwarding


Topics in Game Theory III
Organizers: Yi-Chun Chen and Xiao Luo

Date: 2018-06-11

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 719

Presenter
Title
Takashi Kunimoto (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Takuro Yamashita (Toulouse School of Economics, France)
Order on Types based on Monotone Comparative Statics
Huihui Ding (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Cécile Aubert (GREThA, University of Bordeaux, and Toulouse School of Economics, France)
Voter conformism and policy efficiency
Peng Wang (Nanjing Audit University, China)
Parimal Kanti Bag (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Tax Evasion: Tradeoff among Tax, Auditing Probability and Penalty
Yi-Chun Chen (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Gaoji Hu (Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Learning by Matching


Topics in International Trade
Organizers: Costas Arkolakis and Eunhee Lee

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: 1st Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Chong Xiang (Purdue University, USA)
The Production of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Human Capital in the Global Economy
Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregon, USA)
The Round Trip Effect: Endogenous Transport Costs and International Trade
Kevin Lim (University of Toronto, Canada)
Dan Trefler (University of Toronto, Canada)
Miaojie Yu (Peking University, China)
Trade and Innovation: the Role of Scale and Competition
Jae Wook Jung (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, South Korea)
The Dynamic Impact of International Trade Liberalization:Entry Timing of Exporters and Financial Development


Topics in Macroeconomics I
Organizer: Anne Villamil

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: 1st Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Fan Liu (University of Iowa, USA)
Macroeconomic Effects of Microsavings Programs for the Unbanked
Anne Villamil (University of Iowa, USA)
Zhigang Feng (University of Nebraska, USA)
Funding Employer-based Insurance: Regressive Taxation and Premium Exclusions
Felicia Ionescu (Federal Reserve Board, USA)
Kartik Athreya (, USA)
Urvi Neelakantan (, USA)
Ivan Vidangos (Federal Reserve Board, USA)
Investment Opportunities and Economic Outcomes: Who Benefits From College and the Stock Market?
Waseem Toraubally (Lancaster University, UK)
Strategic Trading and Comparative Advantage


Topics in Macroeconomics II
Organizer: Jang-Ting Guo
Chair: Juin-Jen Chang

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 702

Presenter
Title
Shu-Chun S. Yang (National Sun Yat-Sen University and International Monetary Fund, Taiwan and United States)
Wenyi Shen (Oklahoma State University, United States)
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity & State-Dependent Government Spending Multipliers
Alexandru Minea (School of Economics & CERDI, Universit´e d’Auvergne, France)
Maxime Menuet (Universite Orl'eans, France)
Patrick Villieua (Carleton University, Canada)
Public Debt and Endogenous Growth Cycles
Mark Weder (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
Wei Dai (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
Bo Zhang (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
Animal Spirits, Financial Markets and Aggregate Instability
Juin-Jen Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Jang-Ting Guo (University of California, Riverside, United States)
Jhy-Yuan Shieh (Soochow University, Taiwan)
Wei-Neng Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Sectoral Composition of Government Spending, Distortionary Income Taxation, and Macroeconomic (In)stability


Topics in Market Design
Organizer: Youngwoo Koh

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 519

Presenter
Title
Youngwoo Koh (Hanyang University, South Korea)
Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University, USA)
Jinwoo Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Repeat Applications in College Admissions
Maciej H. Kotowski (Havard Kennedy School, USA)
Ivan Balbuzanov (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Endowments, Exclusion, and Exchnage
Jinwoo Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University, USA)
Daniele Condorelli (University of Essex, UK)
Weak Cartel and Collusion-Proof Auctions
Sung-Ha Hwang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea)
Youngwoo Koh (Hanyang University, South Korea)
Constrained All-pay Auctions


Topics in Microeconomic Theory
Organizer: Ronald Stauber
Chair: Matthew Ryan

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: N. Room 501

Presenter
Title
Ruitian Lang (Australian National University, Australia)
Bidding by Invitation: A Sequential Selling Mechanism
Christoph Mueller (University of Queensland, Australia)
Robust Implementation in Weakly Perfect Bayesian Strategies
Takashi Ui (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Satoshi Nakada (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Shmuel Nitzan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Norio Takeoka (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Coherently Efficient Preference Aggregation
Matthew Ryan (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Strict Scalability of Choice Probabilities


Topics in Open Economy Macroeconomics
Organizer: Jang-Ting Guo
Chair: Jang-Ting Guo

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: S. Room 802

Presenter
Title
Dongwon Lee (University of California, Riverside, United States)
Welfare Enhancing Reserve Pooling in the Presence of Competitive Hoarding
Ryoji Ohdoi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
International Transmission of Financial Shocks without Financial Integration
Jie Luo (Tsinghua University, China)
Cheng Wang (Fudan University, China)
The Duration of Sovereign Default
Fu-Sheng Hung (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Jang-Ting Guo (University of California, Riverside, United States)
Tax Evasion and Financial Development under Asymmetric Information in Credit Markets


Topics in Theoretical Applied Microeconomics
Organizer: Rabah Amir

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: N. Room 501

Presenter
Title
Joana Resende (University of Porto, Portugal)
Rabah Amir (University of Iowa, USA)
Filomena Garcia (Indiana University, USA)
Optimal dynamic pricing of green goods under discounted network effects
Piin-hueih Chiang (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Exit in vertical relationships
Dipjyoti Majumdar (Concordia University, Canada)
Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
A note on Probabilistic Voting Rules
Rabah Amir (University of Iowa, USA)
Inferior goods and public good provision


Trade and Geography
Organizer: Wen-Tai Hsu
Chair: Wen-Tai Hsu

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 3:45 PM

Room: 1st Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Pao-Li Chang (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Wei Jin (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
The GATT/WTO Welfare Effects: 1950--2015
Lin Tian (Columbia University, USA)
Ariel Burstein (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Gordon Hanson (University of California San Diego, USA)
Jonathan Vogel (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.
Lin Ma (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Dimitrije Ruzic (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Globalization and Top Income Shares
Wen-Tai Hsu (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Lin Lu (Tsinghua University, China)
Pierre M. Picard (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Income Inequality, Productivity, and International Trade


Trade Pattern and Trade Policy
Organizer: Pao-Li Chang

Date: 2018-06-13

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: S. Room 702

Presenter
Title
John Morrow (Birkbeck University of London, UK)
Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po, France)
Swati Dhingra (London School of Economics, UK)
Swimming Upstream: Input-output linkages and the direction of product adoption in Indian manufacturing
Yoichi Sugita (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Paul S. Segerstrom (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden)
A Solution to the Melitz-Trefler Puzzle
Wei Jin (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Wen-Tai Hsu (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy with Strategic Interactions
Iona Hyojung Lee (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Pao-Li Chang (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Cultural Preferences in International Trade: Evidence from the Globalization of Korean Pop Culture


Trade, Structural Change, and Development
Organizers: Ping Wang and Been-Lon Chen
Chair: Been-Lon Chen

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 1:30 PM

Room: 2nd Conference Room

Presenter
Title
Yunfang Hu (Kobe University, Graduate School of Economics, Japan)
Trade Liberalization and Specialization on Endogenous Physical and Human Capital
Minho Kim (Korea Development Institute, Korea)
Iona Hyojung Lee (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Impact of China on Korea's Manufacturing Plants: The Role of Intermediate Goods Trade
Junmin Liao (Wuhan university, China)
Ande Shen (Wuhan university, China)
Structural Transformation and Aggregate Productivity in China
Yi-Chan Tsai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
I-Hsin Chang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Ching-Sheng Mao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Skill Wage Premium and Sectoral Labor Shift


Transparency and Incomplete Information
Organizer: Santanu Roy

Date: 2018-06-12

Time: 9:00 AM

Room: S. Room 901

Presenter
Title
Parimal Bag (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Nona Pepito (Essec Business School, Singapore)
Hamid Sabourian (University of Cambridge, UK)
Divide and Lead: Persuasion by Obfuscation
Ayca Kaya (University of Miami, USA)
Santanu Roy (Southern Methodist University, USA)
Repeated Sales under Adverse Selection: Role of Transparency
Saara Hämäläinen (Helsinki Center of Economic Research, Finland)
Vaiva Petrikaite (Instituto de An ́alisis Econ ́omico and Barcelona GSE, Spain)



Alphabetical List of Participants

Abe, Takkaki (Waseda University, Japan) - Cooperative Games and Its Applications
Allouch, Nizar (University of Kent, UK) - Networks I, Networks II
Aloi, Marta (University of Nottingham, UK) - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade
Amir, Rabah (University of Iowa, USA) - Topics in Theoretical Applied Microeconomics
Andersson, Tommy (Lund University, Sweden) - Matching and Market Design I
Antinolfi, Gaetano (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Consumer Finance
Aoki, Takaaki (Kyoto University, Japan) - Nonlinear Dynamics in the Intertermporal Equilibrium Models
Aoyagi, Masaki (ISER, Osaka University, Japan) - Strategic Interactions: Theory and Experiment
Arkolakis, Costas (Yale University, USA) - Economic Geography and Spatial Economics, Firms in International Trade, Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade, Production Fragmentation, Multinationals, and Offshoring, Topics in International Trade
Arnosti, Nick (Columbia Business School, USA) - Matching and Market Design II
Asheim, Geir B. (University of Oslo, Norway) - Topics in Game Theory I
Au, Pak Hung (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) - Applied Game Theory II: Industrial Organization, Communication and Persuasion
Bag, Parimal (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Transparency and Incomplete Information
Balbus, Łukasz (University of Zielona Góra, Poland) - Dynamic Equilibrium Theory
Bandaogo, Mahama Samir (Wesleyan University, USA) - Open Economy Macro: Policy and Forecasting
Banerjee, Shraman (O.P. Jindal Global University, India) - Mechanism Design and Continuous-Time Game
Barany, Zsofia (Sciences Po, France) - Growth and Development
Barbieri, Stefano (Tulane University, USA) - Contests III
Bellofatto, Andres (University of Queensland, Australia) - Overlapping Generations Models
Bhattacharjee, Swagata (Ashoka University, India) - Information and Learning
Billot, Antoine (University of Paris 2, France) - Finance & Decision
Bochet, Olivier (New York University-Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) - Topics in Game Theory II
Bourles, Renaud (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France) - Networks I
Boyarchenko, Svetlana (University of Texas at Austin, USA) - Information and Learning
Bó, Inácio (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) - Matching and Market Design II
Cao, Dan (Georgetown University, USA) - Power Laws in Economics and Finance
Carbajal, Juan Carlos (UNSW - Sydney, Australia) - Behavioral Mechanism Design, Advances in Mechanism Design
Cerreia-Vioglio, Simone (Bocconi University, Italy) - Developments in Decision Theory
Chan, Jimmy (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Political Economy
Chang, Juin-Jen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Topics in Macroeconomics II
Chang, Pao-Li (Singapore Management University, Singapore) - Trade Pattern and Trade Policy, Trade and Geography
Chang, Wei-Shiun (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) - Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Charoensook, Banchongsan (Keimyung University, South Korea) - Networks II
Chateauneuf, Alain (University of Paris1, France) - Finance & Decision
Chen, Been-Lon (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Financial Constraints and Wealth Distribution, Optimal Taxation and Social Capital, Trade, Structural Change, and Development
Chen, Bo (Southern Methodist University, USA) - Mechanism Design and Communication
Chen, Cheng (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Firms in International Trade
Chen, Chia-Hui (Kyoto University, Japan) - Game Theory
Chen, Chun-Ting (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) - Topics in Game Theory II
Chen, Enxian (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Mathematical Economics II
Chen, Hung-Ju (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC) - Technology, Public Policy and Growth
Chen, Shu-Hua (National Taipei University, Taiwan) - Cycles, Time Allocation, and Macroeconomic Stability
Chen, Wei-Cheng (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan, ROC) - Technology, Public Policy and Growth
Chen, Yi-Chun (National University of Sinapore, Singapore) - Topics in Game Theory I, Topics in Game Theory II, Topics in Game Theory III
Chen, Yi-Yi (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) - Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Chen, Ying (Johns Hopkins University, USA) - Political Economy
Chen, Yu-chin (University of Washington, USA) - Open Economy Macro: Policy and Forecasting
Chen, Yunmin (Shandong University, China) - Optimal Taxation and Social Capital
Cheng, Wan-Jung (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC) - Mismatch, Market Distortions and Disparities
Cheung, Man-Wah (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Mechanism Design and Continuous-Time Game
Cheung, T. Terry (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Political Institutions, Productivity and Structural Transformation
Chiang, Piin-hueih (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) - Topics in Theoretical Applied Microeconomics
Chien, YiLi (Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, USA) - Ramsey Taxation and Social Insurance
Chiu, Jonathan (Bank of Canada, Canada) - Money and Monetary Policy
Chor, Davin (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Firms in International Trade
Chukwudi Henry, Dike (University of Kent, UK) - Networks II
Chun, Youngsub (Seoul National University, South Korea) - Social Choice and Cooperative Game Theory
Constant, Karine (University of Créteil, France) - Macroeconomic Dynamics
Cornet, Bernard (University of Kansas, USA) - Finance & Decision
Dai, Anovia (Shanghai Jia Tong University, China) - Applied Game Theory II: Industrial Organization
Das, Mausumi (Delhi School of Economics, India) - Population, Human Capital, and Bequests
Davoodalhosseini, Mohammad (Bank of Canada, Canada) - Monetary Economics
DeJarnette, Patrick (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) - Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Deb, Rahul (University of Toronto, Canada) - Advances in Mechanism Design
Dempsey, Kyle (Ohio State University, USA) - Models of Endogenous Default
Ding, Huihui (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France) - Topics in Game Theory III
Dingel, Jonathan (University of Chicago, USA) - Economic Geography and Spatial Economics
Dominiak, Adam (Virginia Tech, USA) - Awareness and Beliefs
Dong, Miaomiao (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Topics in Economic Theory II
Drugeon, Jean-Pierre (PSE - CNRS, France) - Axiomatics of Temporal Preferences, Dynamic Equilibrium Theory
Dur, Umut (North Carolina State University, USA) - Matching
Dávila, Julio (CORE - Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) - Population, Human Capital, and Bequests
Eraslan, Hulya (Rice University, United States) - Political Economy
Ewerhart, Christian (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Contests I
Fabinger, Michal (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Economic Geography and Spatial Economics
Fabrizi, Simona (University of Auckland, New Zealand) - Information and Decisions
Fan, Jingting (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Firms in International Trade
Fang, Dawei (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) - Contests II
Fu, Qiang (National University Singapore, Singapore) - Contests I
Fuentes, Matías (National University of San Martín, Argentina) - Topics in Economic Theory I
Fujiwara-Greve, Takako (Keio University, Japan) - Dynamic Games
Funaki, Yukihiko (Waseda University, Japan) - Cooperative Games and Its Applications
Gallo, Edoardo (Cambridge University, UK) - Complex Interaction: Theory and Experiment
Gizatulina, Alia (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland) - Topics in Economic Theory III
Gokan, Yoichi (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) - Taxation, Growth, and Income Inequality
Gomberg, Andrei (ITAM, Mexico) - Social Choice with Applications
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro (Deakin University, Australia) - Money and Monetary Policy
Gottlieb, Charles (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) - Growth and Development
Grant, Simon (Australian National University, Australia) - Awareness and Beliefs
Guo, Jang-Ting (University of California, Riverside, United States) - Topics in Macroeconomics II, Topics in Open Economy Macroeconomics
Ha-Huy, Thai (Université Paris-Saclay, France) - Axiomatics of Temporal Preferences
Han, Xiang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Mechanism Design and Matching II
Hanaki, Nobuyuki (Universite Cote d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France) - Complex Interaction: Theory and Experiment
Hatchondo, Juan-Carlos (Indiana University, USA) - Models of Endogenous Default
He, Chao (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Monetary Economics
He, Wei (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Mechanism Design and Applications
Heese, Carl (University of Bonn, Germany) - Applied Game Theory I: Political Economy
Heinsalu, Sander (Australian National University, Australia) - Advances in Game Theory
Herings, Jean-Jacques (Maastricht University, Netherlands) - Networks I, Networks II, Networks I
Hirai, Toshiyuki (University of Toyama, Japan) - Game Theory and its Application
Hirano, Tomohiro (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Power Laws in Economics and Finance
Hirsch, Alexander V. (California Institute of Technology, USA) - Contests II
Hsu, Minchung (GRIPS, Japan) - Quantitative Macroeconomics
Hsu, Wen-Tai (Singapore Management University, Singapore) - Trade and Geography
Hu, Tai-Wei (University of Bristol, UK) - Monetary Economics, Models of Endogenous Default
Hu, Yunfang (Kobe University, Graduate School of Economics, Japan) - Trade, Structural Change, and Development
Hung, Fu-Sheng (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) - Topics in Open Economy Macroeconomics
Hwang, Ilwoo (University of Miami, United States) - Applied Game Theory I: Political Economy
Hwang, Sung-Ha (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea) - Topics in Market Design
Hämäläinen, Saara (Helsinki Center of Economic Research, Finland) - Transparency and Incomplete Information
Hörner, Johannes (Yale University, USA) - Topics in Economic Theory II, Topics in Economic Theory III
Ikeda, Shinsuke (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) - Behavioral Economics: Theory and Experiment
Imrohoroglu, Selahattin (Selo) (USC Marshall School of Business, United States) - Quantitative Macroeconomics
Imrohoroglu, Selo (USC Marshall School of Business, United States) - Quantitative Macroeconomics
Ionescu, Felicia (Federal Reserve Board, USA) - Topics in Macroeconomics I
Ishikawa, Ryuichiro (Waseda University, Japan) - Individual Learning in Games
Itaya, Jun-ichi (Hokkaido University, Japan) - Optimal Taxation and Social Capital
Iwase, Yusuke (Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, Japan) - Matching and Market Design II
Jain, Ritesh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Topics in Game Theory II
Jang, Inkee (Xiamen University, China) - Social Choice and Cooperative Game Theory
Jeong, Jinyong (Boston College, USA) - Matching
Jiang, Helu (Ping Wang, Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Decisions
Jin, Wei (Singapore Management University, Singapore) - Trade Pattern and Trade Policy
Jo, Jinhee (Kyung Hee University, South Korea) - Applied Game Theory I: Political Economy
Jung, Hanjoon Michael (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Contests III, Game Theory
Jung, Jae Wook (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, South Korea) - Topics in International Trade
Jung, Soojeong (Department of Economics, Seoul National University, South Korea) - Game Theory and its Application
Kaboski, Joseph (University of Notre Dame, USA) - Growth and Development
Kam, Timothy (Australian National University, Australia) - Money and Monetary Policy
Kao, Yi-Cheng (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan) - Competing through Information in Markets
Kawai, Keiichi (UNSW Business School, Australia) - Competing through Information in Markets
Kawamura, Kohei (Waseda University, Japan) - Communication and Persuasion
Kaya, Ayca (University of Miami, USA) - Transparency and Incomplete Information
Kesten, Onur (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Matching
Khan, Urmee (University of California at Riverside, United States) - Axiomatics of Temporal Preferences
Kim, Eungsik (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Overlapping Generations Models
Kim, Jin Yeub (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) - Applied Game Theory IV
Kim, Jinwoo (Seoul National University, South Korea) - Topics in Market Design
Kim, Kyungmin (Teddy) (University of Miami, United States) - Applied Game Theory I: Political Economy, Applied Game Theory II: Industrial Organization
Kim, Minho (Korea Development Institute, Korea) - Trade, Structural Change, and Development
Kim, Soojin (Purdue University, USA) - Ramsey Taxation and Social Insurance
Kimya, Mert (Koc University, Turkey) - Networks I
Kishishita, Daiki (University of Tokyu, Japan) - Electoral Competition and Contest
Klaus, Bettina (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) - Matching and Market Design I
Kline, Jeff (University of Queensland, Australia) - Advances in Game Theory
Klose, Bettina (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) - Contests III
Ko, Chiu Yu (Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Game Theory and its Application
Kobus, Martyna (Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) - Social Choice with Applications
Koh, Youngwoo (Hanyang University, South Korea) - Topics in Market Design
Kojima, Fuhito (Stanford, United States) - Matching and Market Design II
Konishi, Hideo (Boston College, USA) - Social Choice with Applications, Electoral Competition and Contest
Koriyama, Yukio (Ecole Ploytechnique, France) - Complex Interaction: Theory and Experiment
Korpela, Ville (Turku School of Economics, Finland) - Mechanism Design and Continuous-Time Game
Kotowski, Maciej H. (Havard Kennedy School, USA) - Topics in Market Design
Kovenock, Dan (Chapman University, USA) - Contests I, Contests II
Krasteva, Silvana (Texas A&M University, USA) - Information Acquisition and Dynamic Optimal Contract
Kucheryavyy, Konstantin (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade
Kunieda, Takuma (Kwansaei University, Japan) - Nonlinear Dynamics in the Intertermporal Equilibrium Models
Kunimoto, Takashi (Singapore Management University, Singapore) - Topics in Game Theory III
Kvasov, Dmitry (Waseda University, Japan) - Advances in Game Theory
Kwon, H. Dharma (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States) - Applied Game Theory I: Political Economy
Lai, Chih-Fang (Soochow University, Taiwan) - Optimal Taxation and Social Capital
Lai, Edwin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Production Fragmentation, Multinationals, and Offshoring
Lai, Ting-Wei (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) - Taxation, Growth, and Income Inequality
Lang, Ruitian (Australian National University, Australia) - Topics in Microeconomic Theory
Lashkari, Danial (Yale University, USA) - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade
Le Riche, Antoine (University of Sichuan, China) - Nonlinear Dynamics in the Intertermporal Equilibrium Models
Lee, Dongwon (University of California, Riverside, United States) - Topics in Open Economy Macroeconomics
Lee, Eungik (Seoul Nathional University, South Korea) - Strategic Interactions: Theory and Experiment
Lee, Eunhee (University of Maryland, USA) - Production Fragmentation, Multinationals, and Offshoring, Economic Geography and Spatial Economics, Firms in International Trade, Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade, Topics in International Trade
Lee, Iona Hyojung (Singapore Management University, Singapore) - Trade Pattern and Trade Policy
Lee, Jihong (Seoul National University, Korea) - Applied Game Theory III
Lee, Sang Yoon (Tim) (Toulouse School of Economics, France) - Growth and Development
Lee, Seojin (Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, China) - Open Economy Macro: Policy and Forecasting
Lee, Shun-Fa (Tamkang University, Taiwan) - Financial Constraints and Wealth Distribution
Lee, Wen-Chieh (National Chengchi University, Taiwan, ROC) - Political Institutions, Productivity and Structural Transformation
Lee, Yi-Shan (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Leister, Matthew (Monash University, Australia) - Networks II
Letina, Igor (University of Bern, Switzerland) - Behavioral Mechanism Design
Li, Duozhe (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR) - Applied Game Theory III
Li, Jiangtao (University of New South Wales, Australia) - Mechanism Design and Applications
Li, Jiayi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Overlapping Generations Models
Li, Mengling (Xiamen University, China) - Social Choice and Cooperative Game Theory
Li, Ming (Concordia University, Canada) - Communication and Persuasion
Li, Yiting (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) - Monetary Economics, Money and Monetary Policy
Li, Yunan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Mechanism Design and Applications
Liang, Fei-Chi (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) - Optimal Taxation and Social Capital
Liang, Meng-Yu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Game Theory
Liao, Junmin (Wuhan university, China) - Trade, Structural Change, and Development
Liao, Pei-Ju (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC) - Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Decisions
Liao, Shian-Yu (Chung Yuan Christian Universit, Taiwan) - Financial Constraints and Wealth Distribution
Lim, Kevin (University of Toronto, Canada) - Topics in International Trade
Lippert, Steffen (University of Auckland, New Zealand) - Information and Decisions, Dynamic Games
Liu, Dan (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Economic Geography and Spatial Economics
Liu, Fan (University of Iowa, USA) - Topics in Macroeconomics I
Liu, Vina (Zhiwei) (Capital University of Economics and Business, China) - Topics in Economic Theory I
Livshits, Igor (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA) - Consumer Finance, Macroeconomics and Finance
Lo, Melody (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) - Political Economy
Lombardi, Michele (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) - Social Choice and Cooperative Game Theory
Long, Yan (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Networks II
Lu, Jay (UCLA, USA) - Competing through Information in Markets, Recent Developments in Economic Theory
Luckraz, Shravan (Nottingham University, China) - Advances in Game Theory
Luo, Jie (Tsinghua University, China) - Topics in Open Economy Macroeconomics
Luo, Xiao (National University of Sinapore, Singapore) - Topics in Game Theory I, Topics in Game Theory II, Topics in Game Theory III
Luo, Zijun (Sam Houston State University, USA) - Contests II
Ma, Lin (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Trade and Geography
Majumdar, Dipjyoti (Concordia University, Canada) - Topics in Theoretical Applied Microeconomics
Martin Rodríguez, Maria (Nagoya University, Japan) - Dynamic Games
Massari, Filippo (UNSW, Australia) - Developments in Decision Theory
Masuda, Takehito (ISER, Osaka University, Japan) - Strategic Interactions: Theory and Experiment
Mayskaya, Tatiana (Higher School of Economics, Russia) - Information and Learning
Meng, Dawen (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Mechanism Design and Communication
Michaels, Ryan (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA) - Macroeconomics and Finance
Miller, Alan (University of Haifa, Israel) - Social Choice with Applications
Minea, Alexandru (School of Economics & CERDI, Universit´e d’Auvergne, France) - Topics in Macroeconomics II
Mino, Kazuo (Kyoto University, Japan) - Financial Constraints and Wealth Distribution
Mishra, Debasis (Indian Statistical Institute, India) - Behavioral Mechanism Design
Morrow, John (Birkbeck University of London, UK) - Trade Pattern and Trade Policy
Mueller, Christoph (University of Queensland, Australia) - Topics in Microeconomic Theory
Mueller-Frank, Manuel (IESE, Spain) - Topics in Economic Theory II
Nachbar, John (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Advances in Mechanism Design
Nakajima, Tomoyuki (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Ramsey Taxation and Social Insurance
Neng, Qian (National University of Singapore, South Korea) - Strategic Interactions: Theory and Experiment
Nichifor, Alexandru (Melbourne, Australia) - Matching
Nikandrova, Arina (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - Topics in Economic Theory II
Nishimura, Kazuo (RIEB and Kobe University, Japan) - Nonlinear Dynamics in the Intertermporal Equilibrium Models
Noguera, Guillermo (Yale University, USA) - Firms in International Trade
Norman, Peter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) - Topics in Economic Theory III
O'Callaghan, Patrick (University of Queensland, Australia) - Games and Decisions
Ogaki, Masao (Keio University, Japan) - Behavioral Economics: Theory and Experiment
Ohdoi, Ryoji (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) - Topics in Open Economy Macroeconomics
Oishi, Takayuki (Meisei University, Japan) - Cooperative Games and Its Applications
Pai, Mallesh (Rice University, USA) - Advances in Mechanism Design
Pan, Chen-Yu (Wuhan University, PRC) - Electoral Competition and Contest
Papai, Szilvia (Concordia University, Canada) - Matching
Parente, Stephen (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) - Political Institutions, Productivity and Structural Transformation
Parkhomenko, Andrii (USC Marshall School of Business, United States) - Quantitative Macroeconomics
Pashchenko, Svetlana (UGA, Terry College of Business, United States) - Quantitative Macroeconomics
Phelan, Gregory (Williams College, USA) - Power Laws in Economics and Finance
Pivato, Marcus (University of Cergy, Canada) - Axiomatics of Temporal Preferences
Ponthière, Grégory (University Paris East, France) - Population, Human Capital, and Bequests
Porapakkarm, Ponpoje (National Graduate Insitute of Policies Studies, Japan) - Topics in Applied Theoretical Economics
Prescott, Ned (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, United States) - Topics in Applied Theoretical Economics
Prokopovych, Pavlo (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine) - Topics in Economic Theory I
QU, Xiangyu (University of Paris I, France) - Finance & Decision
Qian, Xuewen (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China) - Topics in Game Theory I
Qiao, Lei (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Mechanism Design and Matching II
Qiao, Yongchuan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Topics in Game Theory I
Qin, Cheng-Zhong (UCSB, United States) - Applied Game Theory IV
Quigley, Daniel (University of Oxford, UK) - Topics in Economic Theory III
Quintin, Erwan (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) - Models of Endogenous Default
Raimonto, Roberto (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Mathematical Economics I
Rath, Kali (University of Notre Dame, USA) - Mathematical Economics I
Raymond, Collin (Purdue University, USA) - Developments in Decision Theory
Reffett, Kevin (Arizona State University, USA) - Dynamic Equilibrium Theory
Resende, Joana (University of Porto, Portugal) - Topics in Theoretical Applied Microeconomics
Riyanto, Yohanes (Nangyang Technological University, Singapore) - Complex Interaction: Theory and Experiment
Roberson, Brian (Purdue University, USA) - Contests I, Contests II, Contests III
Romalis, John (University of Sydney, Australia) - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade
Rommeswinkel, Hendrik (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) - Awareness and Beliefs
Rong, Kang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Information Acquisition and Dynamic Optimal Contract
Roy, Santanu (Southern Methodist University, USA) - Transparency and Incomplete Information
Rubinchik, Anna (University of Haifa, Israel) - Information and Decisions
Ryan, Matthew (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) - Topics in Microeconomic Theory
Sahuguet, Nicolas (HEC Montreal, Canada) - Electoral Competition and Contest
Said, Maher (New York University, USA) - Advances in Mechanism Design
Sakamoto, Norihito (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) - Individual Learning in Games
Sanktjohanser, Anna (TSE, France and Yale University, USA) - Topics in Economic Theory II
Sasaki, Shunichiro (Kindai University, Japan) - Behavioral Economics: Theory and Experiment
Schummer, James (Northwestern University, USA) - Matching and Market Design I
Seegmuller, Thomas (AMSE-AMU-CNRS, France) - Macroeconomic Dynamics
Sekiguchi, Tadashi (Kyoto University, Japan) - Dynamic Games
Sheng, Liugang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Production Fragmentation, Multinationals, and Offshoring
Shi, Kang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Cycles, Time Allocation, and Macroeconomic Stability
Shields, Timothy (Chapman University, USA) - Games and Decisions
Shin, Yongseok (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Growth and Development
Siegel, Ron (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Contests II
Skreta, Vasiliki (UT Austin and UCL, USA and UK) - Competing through Information in Markets
So, Inhwan (Bank of Korea, South Korea) - Open Economy Macro: Policy and Forecasting
Spear, Stephen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Overlapping Generations Models
Stauber, Ronald (Australian National University, Australia) - Topics in Microeconomic Theory
Stecher, Jack (University of Alberta, Canada) - Games and Decisions
Sugaya, Takuo (Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA) - Recent Developments in Economic Theory
Sugita, Yoichi (Hitotsubashi University, Japan) - Trade Pattern and Trade Policy
Sun, Ning (Nanjing Audit University, China) - Mechanism Design and Matching II
Sun, Xiang (Wuhan University, China) - Mathematical Economics II
Sun, Yang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Topics in Game Theory I
Sun, Yeneng (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Mathematical Economics I, Mathematical Economics II
Sun, Yifei (University of International Business and Economics, China) - Topics in Game Theory II
Takahashi, Harutaka (Meiji Gakuin University, Japan) - Nonlinear Dynamics in the Intertermporal Equilibrium Models
Takahashi, Hiroki (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Individual Learning in Games
Takeoka, Norio (Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Japan) - Behavioral Economics: Theory and Experiment
Tam, Xuan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Consumer Finance
Tan, Teck Yong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) - Applied Game Theory II: Industrial Organization
Taneva, Ina (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Information and Learning
Tang, Liping (Sun Yat-sen University, China) - Individual Learning in Games
Tang, Qianfeng (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Mechanism Design and Communication
Tang, Rongsheng (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Mismatch, Market Distortions and Disparities
Tang, Yang (Nanyang Technology University, Singapore) - Mismatch, Market Distortions and Disparities
Taylor, James (Australian National University, Australia) - Information and Decisions
Thomson, William (University of Rochester, United States of America) - Game Theory and its Application
Thysen, Heidi (LSE, UK) - Behavioral Mechanism Design
Tian, Guoqiang (Texas A&M University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, USA) - Information Acquisition and Dynamic Optimal Contract, Mechanism Design and Matching II, Mechanism Design and Continuous-Time Game, Mechanism Design and Matching I
Tian, Lin (Columbia University, USA) - Trade and Geography
Toda, Alexis Akira (University of California, San Diego, USA) - Power Laws in Economics and Finance
Toraubally, Waseem (Lancaster University, UK) - Topics in Macroeconomics I
Troyan, Peter (University of Virginia, USA) - Matching and Market Design II
Tsai, Yi-Chan (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) - Trade, Structural Change, and Development
Tsakas, Nikolas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) - Networks I
Turnovsky, Stephen (University of Washington, USA) - Taxation, Growth, and Income Inequality
Tyazhelnikov, Vladimir (University of Sydney, Australia) - Production Fragmentation, Multinationals, and Offshoring
Ueda, Kaoru (Nanzan University, Japan) - Electoral Competition and Contest
Ueda, Kenichi (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Topics in Applied Theoretical Economics
Ui, Takashi (Hitotsubashi University, Japan) - Topics in Microeconomic Theory
Unver, Utku (Boston College, USA) - Matching and Market Design I
Uruyos, Manachaya (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) - Technology, Public Policy and Growth
Velez, Rodrigo (Texas A&M University, USA) - Mechanism Design and Matching II
Venditti, Alain (AMSE-AMU-CNRS, France) - Macroeconomic Dynamics
Vesperoni, Alberto (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria) - Contests I
Veszteg, Robert (Waseda Unviersity, Japan) - Information and Decisions
Vierø, Marie-Louise (Queen's University, Canada) - Awareness and Beliefs
Villamil, Anne (University of Iowa, USA) - Topics in Macroeconomics I
Visschers, Ludo (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Macroeconomics and Finance
Vong, Allen (Yale University, USA) - Topics in Economic Theory III
Walsh, Conor (Yale University, USA) - Economic Geography and Spatial Economics
Wang, Cheng (Fudan University, PRC) - Overlapping Generations Models
Wang, Chien-Chiang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Money and Monetary Policy
Wang, Joseph Tao-yi (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) - Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Games and Decisions
Wang, Peng (Nanjing Audit University, China) - Topics in Game Theory III
Wang, Ping (Ping Wang, Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Decisions, Technology, Public Policy and Growth, Financial Constraints and Wealth Distribution, Mismatch, Market Distortions and Disparities, Political Institutions, Productivity and Structural Transformation, Trade, Structural Change, and Development
Wang, Wenya (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Macroeconomics and Finance
Wang, Yin-Chi (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Decisions
Wang, Yong (Peking University, China) - Political Institutions, Productivity and Structural Transformation
Wang, Yung-Lin (Durham University, UK) - Population, Human Capital, and Bequests
Wang, Zheng (Capital University of Economics and Business, China) - Cooperative Games and Its Applications
Wang, Zhewei (Shandong University, China) - Contests III
Watanabe, Naoki (Keio University, Japan) - Mathematical Economics I, Recent Developments in Economic Theory
Weder, Mark (The University of Adelaide, Australia) - Topics in Macroeconomics II
Wei, Xiao (Fudan University, China and University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Topics in Economic Theory I
Wen, Quan (University of Washington, USA) - Information Acquisition and Dynamic Optimal Contract
Whitmeyer, Mark (UT Austin, USA) - Competing through Information in Markets
Wiczer, David (SUNY-Stony Brook, USA) - Mismatch, Market Distortions and Disparities
Wigniolle, Bertrand (Paris School of Economics, France) - Macroeconomic Dynamics
Wong, Hoi Pan (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Financial Constraints and Wealth Distribution
Wong, Woan Foong (University of Oregon, USA) - Topics in International Trade
Wozny, Lukasz (Arizona State University, USA) - Dynamic Equilibrium Theory
Wu, Bin (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Mathematical Economics II
Wu, Qinggong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Mechanism Design and Applications
Xiang, Chong (Purdue University, USA) - Topics in International Trade
Xiao, Jun (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Applied Game Theory III
Xiong, Siyang (University of Bristol, UK) - Mechanism Design and Communication
Xu, Juanyi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Open Economy Macro: Policy and Forecasting
Xue, Jianpo (Renmin University of China, China) - Cycles, Time Allocation, and Macroeconomic Stability
Xue, Jingyi (Singapore Management University, Singapore) - Developments in Decision Theory
Yang, Chih-Chun (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Game Theory
Yang, Kai (University of Chicago, USA) - Recent Developments in Economic Theory
Yang, Shu-Chun S. (National Sun Yat-Sen University and International Monetary Fund, Taiwan and United States) - Topics in Macroeconomics II
Yang, Xintong (Capital University of Economics and Business;, China) - Applied Game Theory IV
Yannelis, Nicholas (University of Iowa, USA) - Topics in Economic Theory I
Yao, Yao (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) - Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Decisions
Yeh, Chun-Hsien (Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Game Theory and its Application
Yew, Siew Ling (Monash University, Australia) - Taxation, Growth, and Income Inequality
Yip, Chong Kee (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Cycles, Time Allocation, and Macroeconomic Stability
Young, Eric (University of Virginia, USA) - Consumer Finance
Yu, Haomiao (Ryerson University, Canada) - Mathematical Economics II
Yu, Hsin-Jung (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Ramsey Taxation and Social Insurance
Yu, Ning (Nanjing Audit University, China) - Mechanism Design and Matching I
Yu, Pei-Cheng (UNSW - Sydney, Australia) - Behavioral Mechanism Design
Zapechelnyuk, Andy (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom) - Communication and Persuasion
Zeng, Huaxia (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Social Choice and Cooperative Game Theory
Zhang, Jun (Nanjing Audit University, China) - Mechanism Design and Matching I
Zhang, Yongchao (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Mechanism Design and Matching I
Zhao, Xiaojian (Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Applied Game Theory III
Zheng, Bingyong (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) - Information Acquisition and Dynamic Optimal Contract
Zheng, Jie (Tsinghua University, China) - Contests I
Zheng, Yu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) - Technology, Public Policy and Growth
Zhu, Tao (Hong Kong Univerity of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Monetary Economics