15th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics
University of Cambridge, UK, July 27-31, 2015

The 15th Annual SAET Conference will be held July 27-31, 2015 at the University of Cambridge, UK.

The lectures will take place at The Møller Centre.

The conference chairs are Tiago Cavalcanti, Hamid Sabourian and Nicholas Yannelis.

Conference Sponsors

The Cambridge-INET Institute
University of Iowa Tippie College of Business
Springer

The program can be printed by clicking on the above link.

Hotel Information

We have reserved a limited number of rooms in different colleges at Cambridge, all short walking distance from the Møller Centre where the conference will take place. We strongly advise you to book rooms as soon as possible (we suggest by late January 2015). Cambridge has a large number of visitors in the summer and the rooms may be taken. Please find this information and more by clicking on the Hotel Accommodation button below.

Registration Information

Registration is now open for the 2015 SAET Conference in Cambridge, UK. The conference registration fee is $350. The cost will be $450 after March 15th and $550 after May 1st. It is important that all participants are registered for the conference by May 1, 2015, so their names can be included in the program.

Students interested in participating in the SAET Conference, must send a verification letter from their supervisor. Once your request has been approved, you will receive a confirmation email.
The registration for approved student participants will be free, but will NOT include any conference meals.

Plenary Speakers

  • Monday, July 27 – Cornet, Bernard (PSE-University of Paris I & University of Kansas) — Presidential Lecture, Chair: Aloisio Araujo (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada): “Ambiguity in Financial Economics”
  • Tuesday, July 28 – Townsend, Robert (MIT) — Sir John Hicks Lecture, Chair: Edward C. Prescott (Arizona State University): “A Market Based Solution for Fire Sales and other Price Externalities:
    Segregated Security Exchanges and Ex Ante Rights to Trade”
  • Wednesday, July 29 – Dasgupta, Partha (University of Cambridge) — David Cass Lecture, Chair: Hamid Sabourian (University of Cambridge): “Welfare Axiomatics”
  • Thursday, July 30 – Reny, Philip (University of Chicago) — Lionel McKenzie Lecture, Chair: Konrad Podczeck (Universitat Wien): “Sequential Equilibria of Multistage Games with Infinite Sets of Actions and Types”
  • Friday, July 31 – Carroll, Gabriel (Stanford University) — Aliprantis Prize Lecture, Chair: Beth Allen (University of Minnesota): “Robust Incentive Contracting”

Program Committee:

  • Allen, Beth (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Amir, Rabah (University of Iowa, USA)
  • Araujo, Aloisio (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
  • d’Aspremont, Claude (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
  • Basile, Achille (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
  • Cavalcanti, Tiago (University of Cambridge, UK) — Co-Chair
  • Chernozhukov, Victor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Cornet, Bernard (PSE-University of Paris I & University of Kansas, France & USA)
  • Hammond, Peter (University of Warwick, UK)
  • Hervés-Beloso, Carlos (University of Vigo, Spain)
  • Horner, Johannes (Yale University, USA)
  • Kaneko, Mamoru (Waseda University, Japan)
  • Kehoe, Timothy (University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, USA)
  • Kojima, Fuhito (Stanford University, USA)
  • Kovenock, Dan (Chapman University, USA)
  • Levine, David (Washington University-St. Louis, USA)
  • Machina, Mark (University of California at San Diego, USA)
  • Moulin, Herve (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
  • Nishimura, Kazuo (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Plott, Charles (California Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Podczeck, Konrad (Universitat Wien, Austria)
  • Polemarchakis, Herakles (University of Warwick, UK)
  • Prescott, Edward C. (Arizona State University, USA)
  • Quah, John (University of Oxford, UK)
  • Reny, Philip (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Ritzberger, Klaus
    (Institute for Advanced Studies-Vienna, Austria)
  • Sabourian, Hamid (University of Cambridge, UK) — Co-Chair
  • Shannon, Chris (University of California-Berkeley, USA)
  • Squintani, Francesco (University of Warwick, UK)
  • Tourky, Rabee (Australian National University, Australia)
  • Tsomocos, Dimitrios (University of Oxford, UK)
  • Villamil, Anne (University of Iowa, USA)
  • Yannelis, Nicholas (University of Iowa, USA) — Co-Chair
  • Zame, William (UCLA, USA)

Local Organizing Committee

  • Cavalcanti, Tiago (University of Cambridge, UK)
  • Sabourian, Hamid (University of Cambridge, UK)

Session Organizers

Session Details

15th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics
University of Cambridge, UK, July 27-31, 2015

King's CollegeThe 15th Annual SAET Conference will be held July 27-31, 2015 at the University of Cambridge, UK.

The lectures will take place at The Møller Centre.

The conference chairs are Tiago Cavalcanti, Hamid Sabourian and Nicholas Yannelis.

Conference Sponsors



 

The program can be printed by clicking on the above link.

Hotel Information

We have reserved a limited number of rooms in different colleges at Cambridge, all short walking distance from the Møller Centre where the conference will take place. We strongly advise you to book rooms as soon as possible (we suggest by late January 2015). Cambridge has a large number of visitors in the summer and the rooms may be taken. Please find this information and more by clicking on the Hotel Accommodation button below.

Registration Information

Registration is now open for the 2015 SAET Conference in Cambridge, UK. The conference registration fee is $350. The cost will be $450 after March 15th and $550 after May 1st. It is important that all participants are registered for the conference by May 1, 2015, so their names can be included in the program.

Students interested in participating in the SAET Conference, must send a verification letter from their supervisor. Once your request has been approved, you will receive a confirmation email.
The registration for approved student participants will be free, but will NOT include any conference meals.

Plenary Speakers

    • Monday, July 27 – Cornet, Bernard (PSE-University of Paris I & University of Kansas) — Presidential Lecture, Chair: Aloisio Araujo (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada): “Ambiguity in Financial Economics”
    • Tuesday, July 28 – Townsend, Robert (MIT) — Sir John Hicks Lecture, Chair: Edward C. Prescott (Arizona State University): “A Market Based Solution for Fire Sales and other Price Externalities:
      Segregated Security Exchanges and Ex Ante Rights to Trade”
    • Wednesday, July 29 – Dasgupta, Partha (University of Cambridge) — David Cass Lecture, Chair: Hamid Sabourian (University of Cambridge): “Welfare Axiomatics”
    • Thursday, July 30 – Reny, Philip (University of Chicago) — Lionel McKenzie Lecture, Chair: Konrad Podczeck (Universitat Wien): “Sequential Equilibria of Multistage Games with Infinite Sets of Actions and Types”
    • Friday, July 31 – Carroll, Gabriel (Stanford University) — Aliprantis Prize Lecture, Chair: Beth Allen (University of Minnesota): “Robust Incentive Contracting”

 

Program Committee:

  • Allen, Beth (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Amir, Rabah (University of Iowa, USA)
  • Araujo, Aloisio (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
  • d’Aspremont, Claude (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
  • Basile, Achille (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
  • Cavalcanti, Tiago (University of Cambridge, UK) — Co-Chair
  • Chernozhukov, Victor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Cornet, Bernard (PSE-University of Paris I & University of Kansas, France & USA)
  • Hammond, Peter (University of Warwick, UK)
  • Hervés-Beloso, Carlos (University of Vigo, Spain)
  • Horner, Johannes (Yale University, USA)
  • Kaneko, Mamoru (Waseda University, Japan)
  • Kehoe, Timothy (University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, USA)
  • Kojima, Fuhito (Stanford University, USA)
  • Kovenock, Dan (Chapman University, USA)
  • Levine, David (Washington University-St. Louis, USA)
  • Machina, Mark (University of California at San Diego, USA)
  • Moulin, Herve (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
  • Nishimura, Kazuo (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Plott, Charles (California Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Podczeck, Konrad (Universitat Wien, Austria)
  • Polemarchakis, Herakles (University of Warwick, UK)
  • Prescott, Edward C. (Arizona State University, USA)
  • Quah, John (University of Oxford, UK)
  • Reny, Philip (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Ritzberger, Klaus (Institute for Advanced Studies-Vienna, Austria)
  • Sabourian, Hamid (University of Cambridge, UK) — Co-Chair
  • Shannon, Chris (University of California-Berkeley, USA)
  • Squintani, Francesco (University of Warwick, UK)
  • Tourky, Rabee (Australian National University, Australia)
  • Tsomocos, Dimitrios (University of Oxford, UK)
  • Villamil, Anne (University of Iowa, USA)
  • Yannelis, Nicholas (University of Iowa, USA) — Co-Chair
  • Zame, William (UCLA, USA)

Local Organizing Committee

  • Cavalcanti, Tiago (University of Cambridge, UK)
  • Sabourian, Hamid (University of Cambridge, UK)

Session Organizers

Session Details

Advances in Macroeconomics

Organizer(s): Timothy J. Kehoe

Presenter Title
Enoch Hill (Wheaton College, USA) David Pérez Reyna(Banco de la República, Colombia)
How Leverage Tips the Scale: Analyzing the Impact of Banks’ Leverage Ratio on Output
Sewon Hur (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Jose Asturias (School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, Qatar) Timothy J. Kehoe (University of Minnesota, USA) Kim J. Ruhl (Stern School, New York University, USA)
Firm Entry and Exit and Aggregate Growth
Alessandra Fogli (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, USA) Enoch Hill (Wheaton College, USA)
Spatial Business Cycles
Timothy J. Kehoe (University of Minnesota, USA) Daniela Costa (University of Minnesota, USA) Gajendran Raveendranathan (University of Minnesota, USA) Kim J. Ruhl (Stern School, New York University, USA)
The Stages of Economic Growth Revisited

Advances in Mechanism Design and Information Economics

Organizer(s): Vasiliki Skreta

Presenter Title
Ben Brooks (University of Chicago, USA)
Lower Bounds on Revenue in the First Price Auction
Rahul Deb (University of Toronto, Canada)
Optimal Adaptive Testing
Andy Zapechelnyuk (University of Glaskow, UK) Anton Kolotilin, Ming Li, Tymofiy Mylovanov
Targeted vs. Public Bayesian Persuasion
Vasiliki Skreta (University College London, UK) Frederic Koessler
Optimal Certification and Mediation with Heterogeneous Consumers

Allocation of Indivisible Goods

Organizer(s): Rakesh Vohra

Presenter Title
Marek Pycia (UCLA, USA) Antonio Miralles (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
2nd Welfare Theorem without Transfers
Elizabeth Baldwin (London School of Economics, UK) Paul Klemperer (University of Oxford, UK)
Understanding Preferences: “Demand Types”, and
the Existence of Equilibrium with Indivisibilities
Tadashi Hashimoto (Yeshiva University, USA)
The Generalized Random Priority Mechanism with Budgets
Rakesh Vohra (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Thanh Nguyen (Purdue University, USA)
Near Feasible Stable Matchings with Complementarities

Ambiguity in Games

Organizer(s): Chris Shannon

Presenter Title
Ronald Stauber (Australian National University, Australia)
Irrationality and Ambiguity in Extensive Games
TBA  
Igor Muraviev (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Kuhn’s Theorem under Ambiguity
TBA  

Ambiguity, Corporations and Pricing

Organizer(s): José Heleno Faro

Presenter Title
Lorenzo Garlappi (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada) Ron Giammarino (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada) Ali Lazrak (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada)
Ambiguity and the Corporation: Group Decisions, Time Inconsistency, and Underinvestment
Bruno Holanda (IMPA, Brazil) Aloisio Araujo (IMPA and EPGE/FGV, Brazil) José Heleno Faro (Insper, Brazil)
Updating Pricing Rules
Peng Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Parimal Kanti Bag (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Dominance of Contributions Monitoring in Teams
José Heleno Faro (Insper, Brazil) Efe Ok (New York University, USA) Gil Riella (Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil)
Bewley ‘meet’ Gilboa and Schmeidler: Legitimate Preferences and Uncertainty

Applications of Optimal Transport to Economics

Organizer(s): Rakesh Vohra, Chair: Deniz Dizdar

Presenter Title
Arnaud Dupuy (CEPS/INSTEAD, France)
Migration in China: to Work or to Wed?
Ran Shao (Yeshiva University, USA)
Implementability: a View from Optimal Transport
Deniz Dizdar (University of Montreal, Canada)
Two-sided Investments and Matching with Multi-dimensional Cost Types and Attributes
 

Applied General Equilibrium Theory

Organizer(s): Yves Balasko

Presenter Title
Vinicius Carrasco (PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Robust Monopoly Pricing.
Steve Spear (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
The Market Game with Production and Arbitrary Returns to Scale: Coordination and Price Stickiness
Octavio Tourinho (UERJ, Brazil) Yves balasko (University of York, UK, UK)
The Law of Proportionality of Factor Contents, Reality or Artifact of CGE Modeling?
Mich Tvede (University of Newcastle, UK)
Beyond Laissez-faire: The Case of Heterogenous Priors

Auctions and Experiments

Organizer(s): Todd R. Kaplan

Presenter Title
Todd Kaplan (University of Exeter/University of Haifa, UK) Sven Fischer (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany) Werner Guth (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany) Roi Zultan (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Auctions and Leaks: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation
Ella Segev (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Gal Cohensius (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Sequential Bidding in Asymmetric First Price Auctions
Xiaogang Che (Durham University, UK) Tilman Klumpp (University of Alberta, Canada)
Auctions versus Sequential Mechanism When Resale is Allowed
Theodore Turocy (University of East Anglia, UK) Lucas Rentschler (Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala)
All-Pay Auctions with Private Signals, Including the Highly Competitive Case

Bargaining Theory and Applications

Organizer(s): Cheng-Zhong Qin

Presenter Title
Fei Li (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA)
Transparency of Outside Options in Bargainin
Jin Yeub Kim (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
The Noncooperative Foundations of the Neutral Bargaining Solution
Cheng-Zhong Qin (University of California-Santa Barbara, USA)
Complete Characterization and Implementation of Nash Bargaining Solutions with Non-Convex Problems
Chuang Qu (Shandong University, China)
Monopoly Power and Profit

Bounded Rationality and Limited Attention

Organizer(s): Willemien Kets

Presenter Title
Jakub Steiner (CERGE-EI, Czech Republic) Balazs Szentes
Co-evolution of Utility and Attention
Roberto Serrano (Brown University, USA) Geoffroy de Clippel (Brown University, USA) Rene Saran (Yale-NUS College, Singapore)
Mechanism Design with Bounded
Depth of Reasoning and Small
Modeling Mistakes
Ming Yang (Duke, USA)
Security Design in a Production Economy with Flexible Information Acquisition
Larbi Alaoui (UPF, Spain) Antonio Penta
Coordination and Sophistication

Bubbles, Multiple Equilibria, and Economic Activities I

Organizer(s): Jianjun Miao, Chair: Pengfei Wang

Presenter Title
Yi Wen (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis & Tsinghua University., USA) Feng DongPengfei Wang
Credit Search and Credit Cycles
Todd Keister (Rutgers University, USA) Huberto Ennis
Optimal Banking Contracts and Financial Fragility
Leo Kaas (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Public Debt and Total Factor Productivity
Pengfei Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Jianjun Miao (Boston College, USA)
Stock Market Bubbles and Unemployment

Bubbles, Multiple Equilibria, and Economic Activities II

Organizer(s): Jianjun Miao, Chair: Pengfei Wang

Presenter Title
Tomhiro Hirano (University of Tokyo, Japan) Noriyuki Yanagawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Asset Bubbles, Inequality, and Trickle-Down Effects
Bo Zhao (China Center for Economic Research, China)
Rational Housing Bubbles
Hubert Kempf (Paris School of Economics, France) Russell Cooper (Penn State University, USA)
Deposit Insurance and Bank Liquidation without Commitment: Can we Sleep Well?
Christophe Chamley (Boston University, USA) Lucia Esposito (Central Bank of Italy, Italy)
Does the Option for Delay Facilitate Coordination?

Choice Theory and Bounded Rationality I

Organizer(s): Marco Mariotti & Paola Manzini, Chair: Marco Mariotti

Presenter Title
Nobuo Koida (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan)
Anticipated Stochastic Choice
John Rehbeck (UC San Diego, USA) Richard Brady (UC San Diego)
Menu Dependent Stochastic Consideration
Levent Ulku (ITAM, Mexico) Marco Mariotti (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Paola Manzini (University of St Andrews, UK)
Stochastic Complementarity
Ernesto Savaglio (Universitta’ di Chieti, Italy) V.Danilov (Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics RAS, Russia) G.Koshevoy (Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics RAS, Russia)
Hyper-relations, Choice Functions, and Orderings of Opportunity Sets

Choice Theory and Bounded Rationality II

Organizer(s): Paola Manzini & Marco Mariotti, Chair: Paola Manzini

Presenter Title
Shaowei Ke (Princeton University, USA)
Boundedly Rational Backward Induction
Sean Horan (Universite de Montreal, Canada) Levent Ulku (ITAM)
Simplicity in choice
Doron Ravid (Princeton University, USA)
Focus, then Compare
Andrew Ellis (London School of Economics, UK) Michele Piccione (London School of Economics, UK)
Complexity, Correlation, and Choice

Communication

Organizer(s): Andreas Blume, Chair: Mark Thordal-Le Quement

Presenter Title
In-Uck Park (University of Bristol, UK) Andreas Blume (University of Arizona, USA)
Quid pro Quo: Friendly Information Exchange between Rivals
Sidartha Gordon (Sciences Po, France) Nicolas Klein (University of Montreal, Canada)
Overcautious or Trigger-Happy Advisors — When Best to Stop
Toru Suzuki (University of Technology, Sidney, Australia)
Efficient Conversational Rule
Mark Thordal-Le Quement (University of Bonn, Germany) Christian Kellner (University of Bonn, Germany)
Endogenous Ambiguity in Cheap Talk

Competition and Regulatory Economics

Organizer(s): Flavio Menezes

Presenter Title
Flavio Menezes (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Delegation and the Choice of Strategic Variable in Oligopoly Games
Chengsi Wang (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Search Platforms: Showrooming and Price Coherence
Simona Fabrizi (Massey University, New Zealand) Steffen Lippert (University of Auckland, New Zealand) José A. Rodrigues-Neto (ANU Research School of Economics, Australia)
Attack and Defense
Steffen Lippert (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Nisvan Erkal (University of Melbourne, Australia) Simona Fabrizi (Massey University, New Zealand)
Horizontal Mergers and Innovation

Competitive Markets with Adverse Selection

Organizer(s): Piero Gottardi

Presenter Title
Eduardo Azevedo (Wharton, USA) Dan Gottlieb (Wharton, USA)
Perfect Competition in Markets with Adverse Selection
Sarah Auster (Bocconi, Italy) Piero Gottardi (EUI)
Competing Mechanisms in Lemons Markets
Francois Salanie (TSE, France) Andrea Attar (TSE, France) Thomas Mariotti (TSE, France)
Multiple Contracting in Insurance Markets: Cross-Subsidies and Quantity Discounts
Humberto Moreita (FGV, Brazil) Vitor Farinha Luz (EUI and UBC, Italy & USA) Piero Gottardi (EUI, Italy)
A Multidimensional Competitive Insurance Model

Complementarity and Revealed Preference

Organizer(s): John K.-H. Quah

Presenter Title
Chang-Koo Chi (Aalto University, Finland)
The Value of Information and Posterior Dispersion
Koji Shirai (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Natalia Lazzati (University of Michigan) John K.-H. Quah (University of Oxford, UK)
A Revealed Preference Theory of Monotone Choice and Strategic Complementarity
John K.-H. Quah (University of Oxford , UK) Matthew Polisson (University of Leicester, UK) Ludovic Renou (University of Essex, UK)
Revealed Preferences Over Risk and Uncertainty
Matthew Polisson (University of Leicester, UK) Ralph Bayer (University of Adelaide, Australia) Subir Bose (University of Leicester, UK)John  K.-H. Quah (University of Oxford, UK) Ludovic Renou (University of Essex, UK)
Testing for Ambiguity

Computational Economics

Organizer(s): Felix Kubler

Presenter Title
Simon Scheidegger (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Johannes Brumm (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Using Adaptive Sparse Grids to Solve High-Dimensional Dynamic Models
Walt Pohl (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
A Perturbation Approach to Projection Methods in Asset Pricing
Karl Schmedders (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Felix Kubler (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice, the Wealth
Distribution and Asset Price
Felix Kubler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Asset Pricing in Large Economies with Boundedly Rational Agents

Contests and Applications

Organizer(s): Brian Roberson

Presenter Title
René Kirkegaard (University of Guelph, Canada) Timothy P. Hubbard (Colby College, USA)
Asymmetric Auctions with More than Two Bidders
Pierre Boyer (University of Mannheim, Germany) Felix Bierbrauer (Max Planck Institute)
Efficiency, Welfare, and Political Competition
Alexander V. Hirsch (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Policy Contests
Brian Roberson (Purdue University, USA) Dan Kovenock (Chapman University, USA)
The Optimal Defense of a Flow Network

Contests I

Organizer(s): Dan Kovenock

Presenter Title
Wolfgang Leininger (TU Dortmund, Germany) Jörg Franke (TU Dortmund, Germany) Cédric Wasser  (University of Bonn, Germany)
Revenue Maximizing Head Starts in Contests
Aner Sela (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Contests with Prizes for Both Winning and Losing
Marco Serena (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Information in Contests
Dan Kovenock (Chapman University, USA) Alan Gelder (Chapman University, USA)
Dynamic Behavior and Player Types in Majoritarian Multi-Battle Contests

Contests II

Organizer(s): Dan Kovenock

Presenter Title
Qiang Fu (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Xuyuan Liu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Pro Rata or Fixed? Pricing Strategy of Crowdsourcing Contest Intermediaries
David A. Malueg (University of California Riverside, USA) Stefano Barbieri (Tulane University)
Private-Information Group Contests
Subhasish M. Chowdhury (University of East Anglia, UK) Kyung Hwan Baik (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea) Abhijit Ramalingam (University of East Anglia, UK)
Resources for Conflict: Constraint or Wealth?
Kai A. Konrad (Max Planck Inst. for Tax Law and Public Finance, Germany) Dan Kovenock (Chapman University, USA)
Interest Groups, Influence Activities and Politicians with Imperfect Commitment

Contests: Groups and Design

Organizer(s): Luis Corchón and Carmen Beviá, Chair: Luis Corchón

Presenter Title
Carmen Beviá (UAB, Spain) Luis Corchon (U. Carlos III, Spain)
Dominant Strategy Implementation in Contests
Christian Ewerhart (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
An Envelope Approach to Tournament Design
Iryna Topolyan (Department of Economics, University of Cincinnati, USA) Subhasish M. Chowdhury (East Anglia, UK)
The Group All-pay Auction with Heterogeneous Impact Functions
Alex Vázquez (UAB, Spain)
Optimal Contest Design with Budget Constraints

Contests: Theory and Applications

Organizer(s): Luis Corchón and Carmen Beviá, Chair: Carmen Beviá

Presenter Title
Luis Corchón (U Carlos III, Spain) Marco Serena (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Properties of Contests (if any)
Jingfeng Lu (Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore) Xin Feng (Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Effort-Maximizing Contingent Prize Allocations
in Sequential Three-Battle Contests
Alan Gelder (Chapman University, USA) Dan Kovenock (Chapman University, USA) Brian Roberson (Purdue University, USA) Roman Sheremeta (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
All-Pay Auctions with Ties: Theory and Experiments
Federico Masera (U Carlos III, Spain)
Size of the Welfare State, Religiosity and Church Participation

Cooperation and Coordination in Laboratory Experiments

Organizer(s): Gabriele Camera

Presenter Title
Maria Bigoni (University of Bologna, Italy) Marco Casari (University of Bologna, Italy) Andrzej Skrzypacz (Stanford University, USA) Giancarlo Spagnolo (SITESSE, Sweden)
Sand in the Wheels: Cooperation with Imperfect Monitoring in Continuous Time
Enrique Fatas (University of East Anglia, UK) Marco Castillo (George Mason University, USA) Ragan Petrie (George Mason University, USA) Axel Sonntag (University of East Anglia, UK)
Backlash. An Experimental Analysis of Group Cohesion, Sanctions and Sacrifice
Johannes Leutgeb (WZB, Germany) Steffen Huck (WZB, Germany) Ryan Oprea (UCSB, USA)
Payoff Information may Hamper the Evolution of Cooperation
Stefania Bortolotti (University of Cologne, Germay) Gabriele Camera (Chapman University & University of Basel, USA & Switzerland) Marco Casari (University of Bologna, Italy)
An Experiment on Retail Payments Systems

Cooperative Game Theory

Organizer(s): Michel Grabisch

Presenter Title
Philippe Solal (Université Jean Monnet, Laboratoire GATE Lyon-Saint-Etienne, France) Sylvain Béal (Université de Franche-Comté, Laboratoire CRESE, France) Eric Rémila (Université Jean Monnet, Laboratoire GATE Lyon-Saint-Etienne, France)
A Simple Proof of Axiomatic Characterizations using Associated Consistency
José Manuel Zarzuelo (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain) Peter Sudhölter (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)
On Highway Problems
Peter Sudhölter (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark) Bezalel Peleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
On Bargaining Sets of Convex NTU Games
Michel Grabisch (Paris School of Economics, University of Paris I, France) Christophe Labreuche (Thales Research & Technology France, France)
On the Vertices of Some Sets of Multichoice Games and their Application in GAI Models

Credit Market Frictions

Organizer(s): Eric Young

Presenter Title
Eric Young (University of Virginia, USA) Kartik Athreya (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, USA) Juan Sanchez (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA) Xuan Tam (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Bankruptcy and Delinquency in a Model of Unsecured Debt
 
Lukasz Drozd (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA) Ricardo Serrano-Padial (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Financial Contracting with Enforcement Externalities
Mark Huggett (Georgetown University, USA) Alejandro Badel (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA)
Taxing Top Earners: A Human Capital Perspective

Decision Theory: Theoretical Foundations and Experiments

Organizer(s): Jack Stecher

Presenter Title
Ken Binmore (Bristol University, UK)
A Minimal Extension of Bayesian Decision Theory
Jeff Kline (University of Queensland, Australia) Simon Grant (Australian National University, Australia) Idione Meneghel (Australian National University, Australia) John Quiggin (University of Queensland, Australia) Rabee Tourky (University of Queensland, Australia)
A Theory of Robust Experiments for Choice Under Uncertainty
Laetitia Placido (Baruch College, City University of New York, USA) Olivier Armantier (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA) Louis Levy-Garboua (Paris School of Economics, France) Claire Owen (Paris School of Economics, France)
Discovering Preferences: A Theoretical Framework and an Experiment
Jack Stecher (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Linda Moya (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Task Familiarity, Payoff Salience, and the Description-Experience Gap

Demand and Revealed Preference

Organizer(s): John K.-H. Quah

Presenter Title
Joshua Lanier (University of Oxford, UK)
Monotonic Demand and Expected Utility
Pawel Dziewulski (University of Oxford, UK)
Revealed Time Preference
Victor Aguiar (Brown University, USA) Roberto Serrano (Brown University, USA)
Slutsky Matrix Norms and Revealed Preference Tests of Consumer Behavior
Christopher Chambers (University of California-San Diego, USA) Federico Echenique (Caltech, USA) Kota Saito (Caltech, USA)
Testable Implications of Translation Invariance and Homotheticity: Variational, Maxmin, CARA and CRRA Preferences

Discontinuous Games I

Organizer(s): Philip J. Reny

Presenter Title
Paulo Barelli (University of Rochester, USA) Srihari Govindan (University of Rochester, USA) Robert Wilson (Stanford University, USA)
Homotopy Methods in Games with Discontinuities
Rida Laraki (CNRS, LAMSADE (Univ. of Dauphine and Ecole Polytechnique, France) Philippe Bich (Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne- PSE)
On the Existence of Approximate Equilibria and Sharing Rule Solutions In Discontinuous Games
Rabee Tourky (Australian National University, Australia)
Fixed Point Theorems in Simply Connected Partially Ordered Spaces
Richard P. McLean (Rutgers University, USA) Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau (Rutgers University, USA)
Complete and Incomplete Information Games with Discontinuous Payoffs

Discontinuous Games II

Organizer(s): Philip J. Reny

Presenter Title
Wei He (University of Iowa, USA) Nicholas Yannelis (University of Iowa, USA)
Equilibria with Discontinuous Preferences
Konrad Podczeck (University of Vienna, Austria) Guilherme Carmona (University of Surrey, UK)
Existence of Nash Equilibrium in Ordinal Games with Discontinuous Preferences
Pavlo Prokopovych (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine)
Majorized Correspondences and Equilibrium Existence in Discontinuous Games
Vincenzo Scalzo (DISES, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Remarks on the Existence and Stability of Some Approximate Equilibria in Strategic Form Games

Dynamic & Repeated Games: Theory and Experiments

Organizer(s): Takako Fujiwara-Greve

Presenter Title
Takuo Sugaya (Stanford University GSB, USA) Alexander Wolitzky (MIT, USA)
On the Equilibrium Payoff Set in Repeated Games with Imperfect Private Monitoring
Naoko Nishimura (Shinshu University, Japan) Tatsuyoshi Saijo (Kochi University of Technology & Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Demand Reduction in Average-Pricing Multi-unit Discriminatory Auction with Other-Regarding Buyers
Takako Fujiwara-Greve (Keio University, Japan) Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (Musashino University, Japan) Naoko Nishimura (Shinshu University, Japan) Nobue Suzuki (Komazawa University, Japan)
Voluntary Partnerships, Cooperation, and Coordination
Hitoshi Matsushima (University of Tokyo, Japan) Yutaka Kayaba (University of Tokyo, Japan) Tomomi Tanaka (World Bank) Tomohisa Toyama (Kogakuin University, Japan)
Behavioral Approach to Repeated Games with Private Monitoring

Dynamic Adverse Selection

Organizer(s): Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim

Presenter Title
Ilwoo Hwang (University of Miami, USA)
Collapsing Confidence: Dynamic Trading with Developing Adverse Selection
Francesco Palazzo (Central Bank of Italy, Italy)
Is Time Enough to Alleviate Adverse Selection?
Lucas Maestri (FGV/EPGE, Brazil) Dino Gerardi (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy)
Bargaining over a Divisible Good in the Market for Lemons
Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim (University of Iowa, USA)
Selling a Lemon under Demand Uncertainty

Dynamic and Stochastic Games

Organizer(s): Lukasz Wozny

Presenter Title
Andrzej S. Nowak (University of Zielona Gora, Polandl) Anna Jaskiewicz (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Stationary Almost Markov Perfect Equilibria in Discounted Stochastic Games
Kutay Cingiz (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) Janos Flesch (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) P. Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) Arkadi Predtetchinski (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Doing it now, later or never
Lukasz Balbus (University of Zielona Gora, Poland) Anna Jaskiewicz (Wrocław University of Technology, Poland) Andrzej S. Nowak (University of Zielona Gora, Poland)
Bequest Games
Lukasz Wozny (Warsaw School of Economics, Polandl) Lukasz Balbus (University of Zielona Gora, Poland) Pawel Dziewulski (University of Oxford, UK) Kevin Reffett (Arizona State University, USA)
Equilibria in Large Stochastic Games with Complementarities

Dynamic Economies

Organizer(s): Takashi Kamihigashi

Presenter Title
Thomas Seegmuller (GREQM, France) Xavier Raurich (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
On the Interplay Between Speculative Bubbles and Productive Investment
Hiroyuki Ozaki (Keio University, Japan) Eisei Ohtaki (Kanagawa University)
Optimality in a Stochastic OLG Model with Ambiguity
Alain Venditti (GREQAM, France) Kazuo Nishimura(Kobe University, Japan)Carine Nourry(GREQAM, France)Thomas Seegmuller(GREQAM, France)
Growth and Public Debt: What are the Relevant Tradeoffs?
Takaaki Aoki (Kyoto University, Japan)
Optimal Control Problem with Quasi-geometric Discounting

Dynamic Games

Organizer(s): Hamid Sabourian

Presenter Title
Mikhail Safronov (Northwestern University, USA) Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University, USA)
Explicit Renegotiation in Repeated Games
 
Rohit Lamba (University of Cambridge, UK)
Dynamic Contracting
Matthew Elliot (Caltech, USA)
Decentralized Bargaining

Dynamic Political Economy

Organizer(s): Hulya Eraslan & Vincent Anesi

Presenter Title
Santiago Oliveros (University of Essex, UK)Matias Iaryczower(Princeton University, USA)
Competing for Loyalty: The Dynamics of Political Support
Hulya Eraslan (Rice University, USA)
Uniqueness of Stationary Equilibrium Payoffs in the
Baron-Ferejohn Model with Risk Averse Players
Jan Zapal (CERGE-EI \& IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE, Czech Republic)T. Renee Bowen(Stanford University, USA)Ying Chen(Johns Hopkins University, USA)Hulya Eraslan(Rice University, USA)
Efficiency of Flexible Budgetary Institutions
Vincent Anesi (University of Nottingham, UK)John Duggan(University of Rochester, USA)
Existence and Indeterminacy of Markovian Equilibria in Legislative Bargaining Games

Dynamic Programming

Organizer(s): Takashi Kamihigashi & Juan Pablo Rincón-Zapatero, Chair: Juan Pablo Rincón-Zapatero

Presenter Title
Anna Jaskiewicz (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)Andrzej S.Nowak(University of Zielona Góra, Poland)
A Dynamic Stochastic Choice Problem with Risk-Sensitive Preferences
Cuong Le Van (Paris School of Economics, France)Takashi Kamihigashi(Kobe University)
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for a Solution of the Bellman Equation to be the Value Function: a General Principle
Masayuki Yao (Keio University, Japan)Takashi Kamihigashi(Kobe University, Japan)
Dynamic Programming with Upper Semicontinuous Returns
Juan Pablo Rincón-Zapatero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)Robert A. Becker(Indiana University, USA)
New Results about Existence and Uniqueness of Unbounded from below Recursive Utilities

Dynamic Stochastic Models

Organizer(s): Takashi Kamihigashi & Juan Pablo Rincón-Zapatero, Chair: Takashi Kamihigashi

Presenter Title
Lise Clain-Chamosset-Yvrard (GREQAM, France)Takashi Kamihigashi(Kobe University, Japan)
International Transmission of Bubble Crashes: Stationary Sunspot Equilibria in a Two-Country Overlapping Generations Model
Yiannis Vailaki (University of Glasgow, UK)Takashi Kamihigashi(Kobe University, Japan)Cuong Le Van(Paris School of Economics, France)
Monotone Concave Operators: Applications to Stochastic Dynamic Programming
Tim S. Worrall (University of Edinburgh, UK)S. Foss(Heriot-Watt University, UK)V. Shneer(Heriot-Watt University, UK)J.P. Thomas(University of Edinburgh, UK)
Stochastic Stability of Monotone Economies in Regenerative Environments
Takashi Kamihigashi (Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University, Japan)John Stachurski(Australian National University, Australia)
Seeking Ergodicity in Dynamic Economies

Economic Dynamics

Organizer(s): Mich Tvede

Presenter Title
Aditya Goenka (University of Birmingham, UK)Lin Liu(University of Liverpool, UK)
Infectious Diseases, Human Capital and Economic Growth
Lalaina Rakotonindrainy (Paris School of Economics, University of Paris 1, France)Jean-Marc Bonnisseau(Paris School of Economics, University of Paris 1)
A Note on the Characterization of Optimal Allocations in OLG Economies with Multiple Goods
Mauro Bambi (York University, UK)
On the Stability and Erratic Behavior of Medium-term Fluctuations
Indrajit Ray (Cardiff University, UK)
Testable Restrictions of Equilibrium Outcomes in Strategic Market Games

Economic Theory I

Organizer(s): Nicholas Yannelis, Chair: Larry Selden

Presenter Title
Tilman Borgers (University of Michigan, USA)Yan-Min Choo(University of Michigan, USA)
Revealed Relative Utilitarianism
Andrei Barbos (University of South Florida, USA)
Optimal Contracts with Random Auditing
Peter Hammond (University of Warwick, UK)
A Notion of Statistical Equilibrium for Games with Many Players
Larry Selden (Columbia University, USA)
Changing Tastes

Economic Theory II

Organizer(s): Zhiwei (Vina) Liu & Nicholas Yannelis, Chair: Peter Hammond

Presenter Title
Zhiwei (Vina) Liu (International School of Economics and Management, China)Luciano De Castro(University of Iowa, USA)Nicholas C. Yannelis(University of Iowa, USA)
Implementation Under Ambiguity
Aloisio Araujo (IMPA, Brazil)
Refining Dynamic Equilibria
Huiyi (Kathy) Guo (University of Iowa, USA)Nicholas Yannelis(University of Iowa, USA)
Full Ambiguous and Robust Implementation
Anuj Bhowmik (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Edgeworth’s Conjecture under Asymmetric Information

Economic Theory III

Organizer(s): Nicholas Yannelis, Chair: Theodoros Diasakos

Presenter Title
Edward C. Prescott (Arizona State University & Australian National University, USA & Australia)
Monetary Policy with 100% Fractional Reserve Banking: An Exploration
Alexandru Nichifor (University of St Andrews & Stanford University, Scotland & USA)John W. Hatfield(University of Texas at Austin, USA)Scott D. Kominers(Harvard University, USA)Michael Ostrovsky(Stanford University, USA)Alexander Westkamp(Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Chain Stability in Trading Networks
Idione Meneghel (Australian National University, Australia)Rabee Tourky(Australian National University, Australia)
Statistical Reasoning in Predicting the Unpredictable
Juan Block (University of Cambridge, UK)
Timing and Codes of Conduct

Economics of Diversity and Social Interactions

Organizer(s): Shlomo Weber, Chair: Mariya Teteryatnikova

Presenter Title
Mariya Teteryatnikova (University of Vienna, Austria)Harald Fadinger(University of Mannheim, Germany)Christian Ghiglino(University of Essex, UK)
Productivity, Networks and Input-Output Structure
Seungwon (Eugene) Jeong (Stanford University, USA)
Multidimensional second-price and English auctions
Constantine Sorokin (Higher School of Economics and New Economic School, Russia)
A Multidimensional Theory of Spatial General Equilibrium: Tibout Revisited
Eric Hoffmann (University of Kansas, USA)
Global Games Selection in Games with Strategic Substitutes or Complements

Economics of Information

Organizer(s): Joao Correia da Silva

Presenter Title
Christoph Siemroth (University of Mannheim, Germany)
The Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets when Forecasts are Self-defeating
Fabrizio Adriani (University of Leicester, UK)Silvia Sonderegger(University of Nottingham and CeDEx.)
A Theory of Esteem Based Peer Pressure
Luis Vasconcelos (University of Essex, UK)
Simultaneous Reporting of Credit Ratings May Discipline Rating Agencies
Joao Correia da Silva (University of Porto, Portugal)
Impossibility of Market Division with Two-sided Private Information about Production Costs

Education

Organizer(s): Christopher Rauh and Constantine Yannelis, Chair: Constantine Yannelis

Presenter Title
Rajesh Ramachandran (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)David D. Laitin(Stanford University, USA)Stephen L. Walter(Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, USA)
Language of Instruction and Student Learning: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Cameroon
Christopher Rauh (University of Cambridge, UK)
The Political Economy of Early and College Education – Can Voting Bend the Great Gatsby Curve?
Jack Willis (Harvard University, USA)
Identifying Spillovers by Predicting Compliance
Constantine Yannelis (Stanford University, USA)
Asymmetric Information in Student Loans

Epistemic Game Theory and Experiments

Organizer(s): Marciano Siniscalchi

Presenter Title
Paul J. Healy (Ohio State University, USA)
Rationality and Belief Updating in Extensive-Form Games: Experimental Evidence
Yun Wang (Xiamen University, China)
Belief and Higher-order Belief in the Centipede Game: An Experimental Investigation
Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University, USA)
Sequential Preferences and Sequential Rationality
Kiryl Khalmetski (University of Cologne, Germany)Axel Ockenfels(University of Cologne, Germany)Peter Werner(University of Cologne, Germany)
Surprising Gifts: Theory and Laboratory Evidence

Epistemic Game Theory: Theory and Applications

Organizer(s): Amanda Friedenberg

Presenter Title
Lin Hu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)Amanda Friedenberg(Arizona State University, USA)
On the Persistence of Inefficient Policies
Byung Soo Lee (University of Toronto, USA)
Degrees of Caution in Games
Luciano Pomatto (Northwestern University, USA)
Stable Matching Under Forward-Induction Reasoning
Amanda Friedenberg (ASU, USA)Adam Brandenburger(NYU, USA)Alex Danieli (, Israel)
How Many Levels Do Players Reason? Observational Challenges and Solutions

Evolution and Learning I: Games

Organizer(s): Carlos Alos-Ferrer

Presenter Title
Simon Weidenholzer (University of Essex, UK)
Constrained Mobility and the Evolution of Efficiency
Johannes Buckenmaier (University of Cologne, Germany)Carlos Alos-Ferrer(University of Cologne)
Cournot vs. Walras: A Reappraisal through Simulations
Fei Shi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Cournot Competition, Imitation, and Information Networks
Carlos Alos-Ferrer (University of Cologne, Germany)Nick Netzer(University of Zurich, Switzerland)
On the Convergence of Logit-Response to (strict) Nash Equilibria

Evolution and Learning II: Applications

Organizer(s): Carlos Alos-Ferrer

Presenter Title
Jonathan Newton (University of Sydney, Australia)
Protest, Financial Panic and Shared Intentions
Christoph Kuzmics (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Communication before Coordination with Independent Private Values: How Pedestrians Avoid Bumping into Each Other
Federica Farolfi (University of Cologne, Germany)
Leadership in an Uncertain World. Assessing Complexity and Information within Organizations
Fabrizio Germano (Universitat Pompeu i Fabra, Spain)Lloyd A. Demetrius(Harvard university, USA)
On the Macroscopic Origins and Consequences of Economic Inequality: An Evolutionary Perspective

Evolutionary Game Theory and Learning

Organizer(s): Hamid Sabourian

Presenter Title
Ingela Alger (Toulouse School of Economics (CNRS, LERNA) & Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France)Jorgen W. Weibull(Stockholm School of Economics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Institute for Advanced Study
in Toulouse, Sweden & France)

Evolution Leads to Kantian Morality
Abhimanyu Khan (University of Cambridge, UK)
Imitation by Firms in a Differentiated Market
Mathias Staudigl (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Large Deviations and Stochastic Stability in Games
Hamid Sabourian (University of Cambridge, UK)Wei Torng Juang(Academia Science Taiwan, Taiwan)
Evolution of Learning Rules

Experimental Economics

Organizer(s): Todd R. Kaplan

Presenter Title
Michalis Drouvelis (University of Birmingham, UK)Vessela Daskalova(University of Cambridge, UK)Nicolaas J. Vriend(Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Social Identity and Punishment in a Minimum Effort Game
Surajeet Chakravarty (University of Exeter, UK)Miguel Fonseca(University of Exeter, UK)Sudeep Ghosh(Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)Sugata Marjit(Center for Studies in the Social Sciences, India)
Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Cooperation: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment in India
Lawrence Choo (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Market Selection and Aggregated Outcomes: An Experiment based on the Hat Puzzle Game
Jana Vyrastekova (Nijmegen University, The Netherlands)Daan van Soest(Tilburg University, The Netherlands)Jan Stoop(Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Give and Take in Public Goods Games

Extending Monopolistic Competition Models I

Organizer(s): Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira and Claude d’Aspremont, Chair: Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira

Presenter Title
Philip Ushchev (National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Russia)Mathieu Parenti(Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)Jacques Thisse(Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Toward a Theory of Monopolistic Competition
Federico Etro (Dept. Economics, Ca Foscari University, Italy)Paolo Bertoletti(Dept. of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Italy)
A General Theory of Endogenous Market Structures
Claude d’Aspremont (CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira(BETA, Université de Strasbourg, France)
Oligopolistic vs. Monopolistic Competition: Do Intersectoral Effects Matter?
André de Palma (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France)Simon Anderson(University of Virginia, USA)
Economic Distributions and Primitive Distributions in Monopolistic Competition

Extending monopolistic competition models II

Organizer(s): Claude d’Aspremont and Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, Chair: Claude d’Aspremont

Presenter Title
Paolo Epifani (University of Nottingham (UK and Ningbo), China)Gino Gancia(CREI and UPF, Spain)
Trade Imbalance and Welfare in Monopolistic Competition
Sergey Kichko (National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Russia)Kristian Behrens(ESG-UQAM, Montreal, Canada)Philip Ushchev(National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Trade Liberalization and Markup Divergence: An Epsilon-CES Approach
Kristian Behrens (ESG-UQAM, Montreal, Canada)Giordano Mion(Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, Guilford, UK)Yasusada Murata(ARISH, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan)Jens Suedekum(DICE, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Distorted Monopolistic Competition
Bertrand Koebel (BETA, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, France)Xi Chen(Statec, Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Fixed Cost, Variable Cost, Markups and Returns to Scale

Fair Division

Organizer(s): Herve Moulin

Presenter Title
Juan Moreno Ternero (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain)Christopher P. Chambers(University of California-San Diego, USA)
Taxation and Poverty
Jens Lens Hougaard (Copenhagen University, Denmark)Herve Moulin(Uni Glasgow)
Sharing the Cost of Risky Items
Karol Szwagrzak (University of Souther Denmark, Denmark)
Efficient Fair and Groupstrategyproof Allocation under Network Constraints
Herve Moulin (University of Glasgow, UK)
One Dimensional Mechanism Design: Fairness and Incentives

Finance and Decision

Organizer(s): Alain Chateauneuf and Bernard Cornet, Chair: Bernard Cornet

Presenter Title
Illia Pasichnichenko (Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine)Victor I. Ivaneko(Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine)
Expected Utility for Nonstochastic Risk
Yann REBILLE (Institute of Economics and Management of Nantes-IAE, University of Nantes, France)
A de Finetti’s Dutch Book Argument for Non-additive Set Functions
Thierry CHAUVEAU (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Stochastic Dominance, Risk and Disappointment: A Synthesis.
Alain CHATEAUNEUF (PSE Université Paris 1 and IPAG business School, France)Bernard CORNET(PSE Université de Paris1 and Kansas University, France)
Submodular Pricing in Finance and Insurance

Finance and Political Economy

Organizer(s): Igor Livshits

Presenter Title
Braz Camargo (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil)
Credit Constraints and Voting on Human Capital Policies
Facundo Piguillem (Einaudi, Italy)
Shut Down or Step Up: Political Polarization and Optimal Budget Rules
Alessandro Dovis (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Political Economy of Sovereign Debt: Cycles of Debt Crisis and Inequality
Igor Livshits (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Sovereign Default and Political Turnover

Financial Contracts and Default

Organizer(s): Igor Livshits

Presenter Title
Natalia Kovrijnykh (Arizona State University, USA)
Who Should Pay for Credit Ratings and How?
Viktar Fedaseyeu (Bocconi, Italy)
The Economics of Debt Collection: Enforcement of Consumer Credit Contracts
 
Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Screening and Adverse Selection in a Frictional Market

Financial Economics

Organizer(s): Edward S. Prescott

Presenter Title
John Boyd (University of Minnesota, USA)Abu Jalal(Suffolk University, UK)John Pokorny(University of Minnesota, USA)
Inflation, Welfare, and the Fisher Effect: Theory and Empirics
Jean-Edouard Colliard (HEC Paris, France)
Strategic Selection of Risk Models and Bank Capital Regulation
Thorsten Koeppl (Queen’s University, Canada)Jonathan Chiu(Bank of Canada, Canada)
Livin’ on the Edge with Ratings: Liquidity, Efficiency and Stability
Edward S. Prescott (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, USA)Douglas Davis(Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Fixed Prices and Regulatory Discretion as Triggers for Contingent Capital Conversion: An Experimental Examination

Financial Networks and Systemic Risk I

Organizer(s): Frank Page

Presenter Title
Sofia Priazhkina (Indiana University, USA)
Definition of Systemic Risk in Financial Networks
Selman Erol (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Network Formation and Systemic Risk
Peter Zimmerman (University of Oxford, USA)Rodney Garratt(Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA)
Does Central Clearing Reduce Counterparty Risk in Realistic Financial Networks
Jean-Pierre Zigrand (LSE – Systemic Risk Centre, UK)
Arbitrage Networks

Financial Networks and Systemic Risk II

Organizer(s): Frank Page

Presenter Title
Jieshuang He (Indiana University, USA)
Endogenous Bank Networks and Systemic Risk
Inna Grinis (LSE, UK)
Credit Risk Spillovers, Systemic Importance and Vulnerability in Financial Networks
Dilyara Salakhova (Banque de France, France)
Payment Delays and Contagion
Co-Pierre Georg (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
The Extreme Fragility of Financial Intermediation

Fiscal theory and the European crisis

Organizer(s): Raphael Espinoza

Presenter Title
Raphael Espinoza (University College of London, UK)
High Public Debt: Some Consequences
Zineddine Alla (Sciences Po (Institut d’etudes politiques de Paris), France)
Optimal Fiscal Devaluations in a Currency Union
Suman Basu (International Monetary Fund, USA)
Heterogeneous Countries in a Financial Union
Rana Sajedi (European University Institute, Italy)
Structural Reforms and Fiscal Consolidation: Is There a Tradeoff?

Foundational Issues in Game Theory

Organizer(s): Giacomo Bonanno

Presenter Title
Aviad Heifetz (Open University of Israel, Israel)Enrico Minelli
Relational Game Theory
Burkhard Schipper (University of California, Davis, USA)
Self-confirming Games: Unawareness, Discovery, and Equilibrium
Antonio Penta (University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA)Larbi Alaoui
Cost-benefit Analysis in Reasoning
Giacomo Bonanno (University of California, Davis, USA)
Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium and Sequential Equilibrium

Fundamentals of Game Theory

Organizer(s): Konrad Podczeck

Presenter Title
Guilherme Carmona (University of Surrey, UK)
Generic Robustness of Nash Equilibrium to Incomplete Information
Michael Greinecker (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Typology of Beliefs and Rationalizability with Many Players
Christopher Kah (University of Innsbruck, Austria)Michael Greinecker(University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Pairwise Matching in Large Economies
Eiichiro Kazumori (SUNY-Buffalo, USA)
Bayesian Games with Baire Class 1 Payoff Functions

Game Theory and Applications

Organizer(s): Klaus Ritzberger

Presenter Title
Jörgen Weibull (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden)Roger Myerson(University of Chicago, USA)
Tenable Strategy Blocks and Settled Equilibria
Zsuzsanna Fluck (Michigan State University, USA)Naveen Khanna(Michigan State University, USA)
A Theory of Collective Decision-making in Corporate Boards
Ishita Chatterjee (University of Western Australia, Australia)
Regulating Digital Commercial Piracy: An Ex-post Analysis
David Kelsey (University of Exeter, UK)Sara le Roux(Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Dragon Slaying with Ambiguity: Theory and Experiments

Games and Economic Theory

Organizer(s): Carlos Hervés-Beloso

Presenter Title
Marta Faias (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)Javier Hervés Estévez(Universidad de Vigo, Spain)Emma Moreno García(Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
Stability in Price Competition Revisited
Nicholas Ziros (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)Dimitrios Xefteris(University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Multi-market Equilibria in Spatial Market Games
Carmen Quinteiro Sandomingo (Universidad de Vigo, Spain)Miguel Mirás Calvo(Universidad de Vigo, Spain)Estela Sánchez Rodríguez(Universidad de Vigo, Spain)
On the Faces of the Core of a Balanced Game
Miguel Mirás Calvo (Universidad de Vigo, Spain)Carmen Quinteiro Sandomingo(Universidad de Vigo, Spain)Estela Sánchez Rodriguez(Universidad de Vigo, Spain)
The Core-center of a Bankruptcy Game

Games and Markets

Organizer(s): Leonidas Koutsougeras

Presenter Title
Jayasri Dutta (University of Birmingham, UK)H. Polemarchakis(University of Warwick, UK)
Gaussian Common Knowledge
Lionel de Boisdeffre (Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’ Adour, France)
Dropping Rational Expectations
Monica Giovanniello (University of Warwick, UK)Herakles Polemarchakis(University of Warwick, UK)
Markets for Votes: Conflict, Distribution and Welfare
Leonidas C. Koutsougeras (University of Manchester , UK)Rabah Amir(University of Iowa, USA)
Mediated Trade Across Markets

General Equilibrium

Organizer(s): Carlos Hervés-Beloso

Presenter Title
Angelos Angelopoulos (University of Manchester, UK)
Walrasian and Value Allocations under Ambiguity in Coalitional Dependent Large Economies with Differential Information
Sebastian Cea Echenique (PSE – University Paris 1, France)Juan Pablo Torres-Martínez(University of Chile, Chile)
Credit Segmentation in General Equilibrium
Geghard Bedrosian (Bielefeld University, Germany)Frederik S. Herzberg(Bielefeld University, Germany)
Microeconomic Foundation of Representative Agent Models by Means of Ultraproducts
Carlos Hervés Beloso (University of Vigo, Spain)
Endogenous Control of Externalities in Economies with Tradable Rights

General Equilibrium and Economic Dynamics

Organizer(s): Mich Tvede

Presenter Title
Vincent Maurin (European University Institute, Italy)
Re-using Collateral: A General Equilibrium Model of Rehypothecation
Herve Cres (NYU, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)Mich Tvede(Newcastle University, UK)
Economic Correctness: Why Incomplete Markets Might Never Fail
Matias Fuentes (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina)
Marginal Pricing and Marginal Cost Pricing Equilibria in Economies with Externalities and Infinitely many Commodities
Milan Horniacek (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)Lubica Simkova(Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
Innovation and Efficiency in Dynamic Oligopolistic General Equilibrium

General Equilibrium and Financial Frictions

Organizer(s): Aloisio Araujo

Presenter Title
 
Jean-Pierre Drugeon (Paris School of Economics and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)Philippe Bich(Paris School of Economics and Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)Lisa Morhaim(Université de Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, France)
Aggregators, Recursive Payoffs and Dynamic Programming
Juan Pablo Gama (IMPA, Brazil)Aloisio Araujo(IMPA and FGV, Brazil)Alain Chateauneuf(Universite de Paris 1, France)Rodrigo Novinski(Ibmec faculdades, Brazil)
General Equilibrium, Risk Loving, Ambiguity and Volatility
Mauricio Villalba (IMPA, Brazil)Aloisio Araujo(IMPA and FGV, Brazil)
Bankruptcy Might Lead to Pareto Improvement in
a Non Convex Economy

Implementation via Markets

Organizer(s): Walter Trockel, Chair: Ata Atay

Presenter Title
Patrick Beißner (IMW, Bielefeld University, Germany)
Non-Implementability of Arrow Debreu Equilibria by Continuous Trading and Volatility Uncertainty
Guangsug Hahn (POSTECH, Korea)Joon Yeop Kwon(POSTECH, Korea)
Market-based CEO Compensation under Ambiguity
Theodoros M. Diasakos (University of St Andrews, UK)Kostas Koufopoulos(University of Pireaus, Greece)
Optimal Mechanism under Adverse Selection: The Canonical Insurance Problem
Ata Atay (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)Francesc Llerena(U. Rovira i Virgili-CREIP, Spain)Marina Nunez(Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Generalized Three-sided Assignment Markets: Consistency and the Core

Information Acquisition and Production

Organizer(s): Maher Said, Chair: Raphael Boleslavsky

Presenter Title
Romans Pancs (Unaffiliated, USA)Arina Nikandrova(Birkbeck, UK)
Dynamic Project Selection
Ina Taneva (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Information Design
Anne-Katrin Roesler (University of Bonn, Germany)
Is Ignorance Bliss? Rational Inattention and Optimal Pricing
Raphael Boleslavsky (University of Miami, USA)Christopher Cotton(Queen’s University, Canada)
Limited Capacity in Project Selection: Competition Through Evidence Production

Information Aggregation in Markets

Organizer(s): Xavier Vives

Presenter Title
Anna Bayona (ESADE Business School, Spain)
Supply Function Competition, Market Power and the Neglect of the Information Content of Prices: A Laboratory Study
Stephen Morris (Princeton University, USA)
Information and Market Power
Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University, USA)
Attention, Coordination, and Bounded Recall
Xavier Vives (IESE Business School, Spain)
Endogenous Public Information and Welfare in Market Games

Information and Market Design

Organizer(s): Marzena Rostek, Chair: Rohit Rahi

Presenter Title
Nicolas Lambert (Stanford University GSB, USA)Michael Ostrovsky(Stanford GSB, USA)Michael Panov(Stanford GSB, USA)
Strategic Trading in Informationally Complex Environments
Haoxiang Zhu (MIT, USA)Darrell Duffie(Stanford GSB)Piotr Dworczak(Stanford GSB, USA)
Benchmarks in Search Markets
Songzi Du (Simon Fraser University, Canada,)Haoxiang Zhu(MIT, USA)
Welfare and Optimal Trading Frequency in Dynamic Double Auctions
Rohit Rahi (LSE Finance, UK)Jean-Pierre Zigrand(LSE Finance, UK)
Information Aggregation in a Competitive Economy

Innovation and Growth

Organizer(s): Julio Dávila and Silvia Galli

Presenter Title
Pedro Bento (West Virginia University, USA,)
Patent Protection and Product-Market Regulation with Vertical and Horizontal Innovation
Réka Juhász (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade
SIlvia Galli (CORE, C. University of Louvain, Belgium)Guido Cozzi(University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland)
Stories from the Frontier
Julio Dávila (CORE, C. University of Louvain, Belgium)
Public Domain

International Trade

Organizer(s): Costas Arkolakis, Chair: Peter Neary

Presenter Title
Swati Dhingra (London School of Economics, UK)
Input Mix and Product Adoption: Evidence from India
Mathieu Parenti (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
David vs. Goliath
Giammario Impullitti (University of Nottingham, UK)Leonardo Baccini(London School of Economics, UK)Edmund J. Malesky(Duke University, USA)
Globalization and State Capitalism: Assessing Vietnam Accession to WTO
Peter Neary (University of Oxford, UK)Monika Mrázová(Surrey and Geneva, UK)Mathieu Parenti(CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Technology, Demand, and the Size Distribution of Firms

International Trade and Factor Movements I

Organizer(s): Giovanni Facchini and Giammario Impullitti, Chair: Giammario Impullitti

Presenter Title
Holger Breinlich (University of Essex, UK)Volker Nocke(University of Mannheim, Germany)Nicolas Schutz(University of Mannheim, Germany)
Merger Policy in a Quantitative Model of International Trade
Rahul Mukherjiee (IHEID Geneva, Switzerland)Ron Alquist(King’s Peak Asset Management)Linda L. Tesar(University of Michigan, USA)
Liquidity Driven FDI
James Lake (Southern Methodist University, USA)Maia Linask(University of Richmond, USA)
Could Tariffs be Pro-cyclical?
Richard Chisik (Ryerson University, Canada)Julian Emami Namini(Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
International Trade and Labor Market Discrimination

International Trade and Factor Movements II

Organizer(s): Giovanni Facchini and Giammario Impullitti, Chair: Giammario Impullitti

Presenter Title
John Morrow (University of Essex, UK)
Is Skill Dispersion a Source of Productivity and Exporting in Developing Countries?
Luca David Opromolla (Banco de Portugal, Portugal)Giordano Mion(University of Surrey, UK)Alessandro Sforza(LSE, UK)
Managers Mobility and Knowledge Transfer
Gabriel Felbermayr (University of Munich and Ifo, Germany)R. Aichele(University of Munich and Ifo, Germany)I. Heiland(University of Munich and Ifo, Germany)
Going Deep: The Trade and Welfare Effects of TTIP
Julien Prat (CREST, Francer)Giammario Impullitti(University of Nottingham, UK)Gabriel Felbermayr(University of Munich and Ifo, Germany)
Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economy

International Trade and Trade Agreements

Organizer(s): Eric Bond

Presenter Title
Meredith Crowley (University of Cambridge, UK)Lu Han(University of Cambridge, UK)Huasheng Song(Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China)
Local Market Conditions, Import Prices and Exchange Rate Pass Through: Evidence from Chinese Exports to the European Union
Benjamin Zissimos (University of Exeter , UK)Matthew Cole(University of Oregon)
Too Small To Protect? The Role of Firm Size in Trade Agreements
Yan Ma (Kobe University, Japan)
Supermodularity, Comparative Advantage, and Global Supply Chains
Eric Bond (Vanderbilt University, USA)Kamal Saggi(Vanderbilt University, USA)
Compulsory Licensing and Patent Protection: A North-South Perspective

International Trade Theory and its Applications

Organizer(s): Timothy J. Kehoe

Presenter Title
Radoslaw Stefanski (University of St Andrews, UK)
Spend, Baby, Spend: Windfalls, Specialization and Misallocation
Pau S. Pujolàs (McMaster University, Canada)Timothy J. Kehoe(University of Minnesota, USA)Kim J. Ruhl(New York University Stern School of Business, USA)
Solving Monopolistic Competition Trade Models with Multiple Dimensions of Heterogeneity
Teodora Borota Milicevic (Uppsala University, Sweden)Rita Ginja(Uppsala University, Sweden)Selva Baziki(Uppsala University, Sweden)
Import Competition and Technological Changes: Mobility of Workers and Firms
Illenin Kondo (Federal Reserve Board, USA)
Optimal Taxation and Trade Reforms

Intertemporal Choice and Equilibrium Dynamics

Organizer(s): Ping Wang, Chair: Costas Azariadis

Presenter Title
Costas Azariadis (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Corruption in Growth Theory
YiLi Chien (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA)Hanno Lustig(UCLA)Kanda Naknoi(University of Connecticut, USA)
Why Are Exchange Rates So Smooth? A Segmented Asset Markets Explanation
Chia-Ying Chang (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Status, Inheritance, and Growth
Guillaume Vandenbroucke (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA)Yu-Chien Kong(La Trobe University, Australia)B. Ravikumar(Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA)
Explaining Differences in Life Cycle Earnings across Cohorts

Learning

Organizer(s): John Nachbar

Presenter Title
Laurent Mathevet (New York University, USA)
An Axiomatic Perspective on Bounded Rationality in Games
Ignacio Esponda (Washington University-St Louis, USA)Demian Pouzo(UC Berkeley, USA)
Berk-Nash Equilibrium: A Framework for Modeling Agents with Misspecified Models
Yehuda Levy (Oxford University, UK)
Limits to Rational Learning
Jacob Leshno (Columbia University, USA)
Universal Communication via Robust Coordination

Liquidity, Asset Prices, and Optimal Policy

Organizer(s): Alexandros Vardoulakis, Chair: Skander Van den Heuvel

Presenter Title
David Rappoport (Federal Reserve Board, USA)
A Dynamic Model of Leverage and Interest Rates
Regis Breton (Banque de France, France)Jung-Hyun Ahn (NEOMA Business School, France)Vincent Bignon (Banque de France, France)Antoine Martin(Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA)
Market for Liquidity and Central Bank Policy
David Arseneau (Federal Reserve Board, USA)David Rappoport(Federal Reserve Board, USA)Alexandros Vardoulakis(Federal Reserve Board, USA)
Secondary Market Liquidity and the Optimal Capital Structure
Skander Van den heuvel (Federal Reserve Board, USA)
The Welfare Costs of Bank Liquidity and Capital Requirements

Macro Policy I

Organizer(s): Anne Villamil, Chair: Caterina Mendicino

Presenter Title
Fan Liu (University of Iowa, USA)
Microfinance in the U.S.
Gevorg Hunanyan (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
On the Effectiveness of Capital Requirements
Paola Boel (Riksbank, Sweden)Christopher Waller(Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, USA)
On the Efficacy of Quantitative Easing at the Zero Lower Bound
Caterina Mendicino (Bank of Portugal, Portugal)
Tax Benefits of Debt-financing and the Optimal Rate of Inflation

Macro Policy II

Organizer(s): Caterina Mendicino and Anne Villamil, Chair: Rajnish Mehra

Presenter Title
Anne Villamil (University of Iowa, USA)
Health Insurance and Talent Misallocation
Antonio Antunes (Bank of Portugal, Portugal)
Consumer Default Effects of Capital Income Tax Cuts
Ettore Panetti (Bank of Portugal, Portugal)Elena Mattana
A Dynamic Quantitative Macroeconomic Model of Bank Runs
Hye-jin Cho (University of Paris 1, Pantheon Sorbonne, France)
Speculative Bubble Burst

Market Microstructure

Organizer(s): Bart Taub

Presenter Title
Christian Julliard (LSE, UK)Albina Danilova(LSE, UK)
Information Asymmetries, Volatility, Liquidity, and the Tobin Tax
Shmuel Baruch (University of Utah, USA)Lawrence Glosten(Columbia University, USA)
Fleeting Orders
Anna Amirdjanova (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Insider Trading: Effects on Uninformed Traders with Bounded Rationality
Alex Boulatov (HSE, Russia)Bart Taub(Glasgow University, UK)
How High-Frequency Traders Make Their Money

Markets with Many Commodities

Organizer(s): Maria Gabriella Graziano

Presenter Title
Francesca Centrone (Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)Anna Martellotti(Università di Perugia, Italy)
Coalitional Extreme Desirability in Finitely Additive Exchange Economies
Takashi Suzuki (Meiji-Gakuin University, Japan)
A Coalitional Production Economy with Infinitely many Indivisible Commodities
Ioannis A.Polyrakis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Geometric Properties of Cones and Equilibrium
Maria Gabriella Graziano (University of Naples Federico II and CSEF, Italy)Achille Basile(University of Naples Federico II , Italy)Ciro Tarantino(University of Naples Federico II , Italy)
Coalitional Fairness with many Commodities

Matching

Organizer(s): Onur Kesten

Presenter Title
Alexander S. Nesterov (WZB, Germany)
Matching with Cardinal Preferences
Sinan Ertemel (ITU, Turkey)
A Study of the Turkish High School Admissions System
Ayse Yazici (Durham, UK)
More on Incentives in Decentralized Random Matching
Onur Kesten (Carnegie Mellon, USA)
The Curse of Stability: Designing the Appeals Round in School Choice

Matching and Market Design I

Organizer(s): Fuhito Kojima

Presenter Title
Fuhito Kojima (Stanford University, USA)Yuichiro Kamada(Berkeley Haas, USA)
Stability Concepts in Matching under Distributional Constraints
Maciej Kotowski (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA)Sangram V. Kadam(Harvard University, USA)
Multi-period Matching
Zhiwei Chong (China Economcis and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics, China)
Decentralized Two-Sided Matching Markets: Game-Theoretic Analyses and Design
Daisuke Hirata (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)Yusuke Kasuya(Yokohama National University, Japan)
Stable and Strategy-Proof Rules in Matching Markets with Contracts

Matching and Market Design II

Organizer(s): M. Utku Unver

Presenter Title
Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Equilibrium and Matching under Price Controls
Umut Dur (North Carolina State University, USA)Onur Kesten (Carnegie Melon University, USA)Utku Unver(Boston College, USA)
Flexible Top Trading Cycles and Chains Mechanism: Maintaining Diversity in Erasmus Student Exchange
Alexander Westkamp (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)John Hatfield (University of Texas-Austin, USA)Scott Kominers(Harvard University, USA)
Strategy-proofness and Stability for Matching with Contracts
Utku Unver (Boston College, USA)Haluk Ergin(University of California-Berkeley, USA)Tayfun Sonmez(Boston College, USA)
Lung Exchange

Mathematical Economics

Organizer(s): Yeneng Sun

Presenter Title
Roberto Raimondo (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Pathwise Smooth Splittable Congestion Games
Xiang Sun (Wuhan University, China)Haomiao Yu(Ryerson University)
On the Equivalence of Randomized Strategy Equilibria in No-atomic Games
Yishu Zeng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Xiang Sun(Wuhan University, China)
Perfect Equilibria in Large Games
Yeneng Sun (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Darrell Duffie(Stanford University, USA)Lei Qiao(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Continuous-Time Random Matching

Microstructure Theory

Organizer(s): Alex Boulatov

Presenter Title
Sergei Severinov (University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada)
Optimal Mechanism with Budget Constrained Bidders
Dmitry Livdan (UC Berkeley, USA)
Optimal Double Auction
Bart Taub (Glasgow University, UK)
A Dynamic Mechanism Approach to Asset Equilibria with a Martingale Property
Dmitry Makarov (NES, Moscow, Russia)
Competition among Portfolio Managers and Asset Specialization

Money: Theoretical Foundations

Organizer(s): Ross M. Starr

Presenter Title
Gabriele Camera (Chapman University and University of Basel, USA and Switzerland)Maria Bigoni(University of Bologna, Italy)Marco Casari(University of Bologna, Italy)
Money is More than Memory
Dror Goldberg (The Open University of Israel, Israel)Gabriele Camera(Chapman University, USA)Avi Weiss(Bar Ilan University, Israel)
The Emergence of Decentralized and Centralized Trading Institutions: Money vs. Walras in the Laboratory
Ross M. Starr (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Government-Endorsed Fiat Money: Natural Monopoly in a Trading Post Economy
 

Network Economics

Organizer(s): Alex Teytelboym

Presenter Title
C. Matthew Leister (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Information Acquisition and Response in Peer-effects Networks
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (Columbia Business School, USA)Marco Di Maggio(Columbia Business School)
Microeconomic Origins of Macroeconomic Tail Risks
Kostas Bimpikis (Stanford GSB, USA)
Cournot Competition in Networked Markets
Alex Teytelboym (INET, University of Oxford, UK)Yongwhan Lim(MIT, USA)Asuman Ozdaglar(MIT, USA)
Cascades in Networks: A Simple Theory and Applications

Network Formation

Organizer(s): P. Jean-Jacques Herings

Presenter Title
Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge, UK)Diego Cerdeiro(University of Cambridge, UK)Marcin Dziubinski(Warsaw University, Poland)
Individual Security and Network Design
Ana Mauleon (Université de Saint-Louis-Bruxelles, Belgium)P. Jean-Jacques Herings(Maastricht University)Vincent Vannetelbosch(University of Louvain, Belgium)
Stability of Networks under Level-K Farsightedness
Frank Page (Systemic Risk Centre, LSE, London, UK)Jieshuang He(Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Bilateral Incentive Compatibility and Delegated Networking
Rajiv Vohra (Brown University, USA)Bhaskar Dutta(University of Warwick, UK)
Rational Expectations and Farsighted Stability

Networks

Organizer(s): Francis Bloch, Chair: Rene van den Brink

Presenter Title
Leonie Baumann (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Time Allocation in Friendship Networks
Maia King (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Who Can You Trust? Reputation and Cooperation in Networks
Timo Hiller (University of Bristol, UK)
Peer Effects in Endogenous Networks
Rene van den Brink (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Polluted River Problems and Games with a Permission Structure

New Methods in Dynamic General Equilibrium

Organizer(s): Kevin Reffett

Presenter Title
Christopher Sleet (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)Matthias Messner(Bocconi University, Italy)Nicola Pavoni(Bocconi University, Italy)
Recursive Dual Methods: Theory and Examples
Martin Kaae Jensen (University of Leicester, UK)Herakles Polemarchakis(University of Warwick)
Redistributional Policies and Uninsurable Risk
Sevin Yeltekin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Poverty and Self-Control
Manjira Datta (Arizona State University, USA)Kevin Reffett(Arizona State University, USA)Lukasz Wozny(Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
Comparing Indeterminancies

Nonlinear Dynamics in the Intertermporal Equilibrium Models

Organizer(s): Kazuo Nishimura

Presenter Title
Harutaka Takahashi (Meiji Gakuin University, Japan)
Unbalanced Growth in A Neoclassical Two-sector Optimal Growth Model with Sector Specific Technical Progress: Baumol’s Unbalanced Growth Revisited
Ngo Van Long (McGill University, Canada)
Capital Labor Substitution, Structural Change, and the Labor Income Share
Kazumichi Iwasa (Kobe University, Japan)Kazuo Nishimura(Kobe University, Japan)
Trade and Indeterminacy
Ken-Ichi Akao (Waseda University, Japan)Hiroki Sakamoto(Waseda University, Japan)
A Theory of Disasters and Long-run Growth

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Organizer(s): Timothy J. Kehoe

Presenter Title
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba Martos (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)José Luis Torres(Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
Public Debt Frontiers: The Greek Case
Laura Sunder-Plassmann (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Incomplete Sovereign Debt Relief
Andrea Waddle (University of Richmond, USA)
Globalization and Jobless Recoveries
Timothy Uy (University of Cambridge, UK)
Bond Auctions and Sovereign Default

Optimal Taxation with Private Information

Organizer(s): Tom Krebs

Presenter Title
Nicolas Werquin (Toulouse School of Economics, France)Mikhail Golosov(Princeton University, USA)Aleh Tsyvinski(Yale University, USA)
A Variational Approach to the Analysis of Tax Systems
Nicola Pavoni (Bocconi University, Italy)Arpad Abraham(EUI)Sebastian Koehne(SIIE, Sweden)
Optimal Income Taxation with Asset Accumulation
Sebastian Findeisen (Mannheim University, Germany)Dominik Sachs(EUI, Italy)
Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies
Tom Krebs (Mannheim University, Germany)Sebastian Findeisen(Mannheim University, Germany)Dominik Sachs(EUI, Germany)
Optimal Taxation with Moral Hazard and Risky Human Capital

Political Economy I

Organizer(s): Francesco Squnitani & Amrita Dhillon

Presenter Title
Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay (University of Birmingham, UK)Kalyan Chatterjee(Penn State University, USA)Jaideep Roy(Murdoch University, Western Australia)
Manufacturing Dissent: Political Consequences of
Profit-seeking Media
Robert L. Powell (Berkeley, USA)
Taking Sides in Wars of Attrition
Antonio Nicolo (Manchester University, UK)S. Barbera
Voting and Information Disclosure
Willemien Kets (Northwestern University, USA)Alvaro Sandroni(Northwestern University, USA)
A Belief-based Theory of Homophily

Political Economy II

Organizer(s): Francesco Squnitani & Amrita Dhillon

Presenter Title
Enriqueta Aragones (IAE, Spain)Dimitrios Xefteris(University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Voters’ Private Valuation of Candidates’ Quality
Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick, UK)
Networks of Experts
Amrita Dhillon (King’s College London, UK)P.KrishnanM.PatnamC.Perroni
The Natural Resource Curse Revisited: Theory and Evidence from India
Matias Iaryczower (Princeton, USA)Nemanja Antic(Princeton University, USA)
Optimally Toothless Policies

Political Economy III

Organizer(s): Francesco Squnitani & Amrita Dhillon

Presenter Title
Alberto Bisin (New York University, USA)Thierry Verdier(Paris School of Economics, France)
On the Joint Dynamics of Culture and Institutions
John Londregan (Princeton, USA)
Free Association and Dictatorial Rule
Odilon Camara (USC, USA)Ricardo Alonso
Political Disagreement and Information in Elections
Giulio Seccia (University of Southhampton, UK)Anurag BanerjeeSarit Markovic
The Endgame

Political Economy IV

Organizer(s): Francesco Squnitani & Amrita Dhillon

Presenter Title
Pablo Montagnes (University of Chicago, USA)Alexander V. Hirsch(California Institute of Technology, USA)
The Lobbyist’s Dilemma: Gatekeeping and the Profit Motive
Jacopo Perego (NYU, USA)Sevgi Yuksel(New York University, USA)
Media Competition and the Source of Disagreement
Joseph McMurray (Bingham Young University, USA)
Ideology as Opinion: Polarization in a Spatial Model
of Common-value Elections
 

Political Economy V

Organizer(s): Francesco Squnitani & Amrita Dhillon

Presenter Title
Renee Bowen (Stanford University, USA)
Collective Choice in Dynamic Public Good Provision:
Real versus Formal Authority
Konstantinos Matakos (LSE & King’s College London, UK)Dimitrios Xefteris(University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Divide and Rule: Redistribution in a Model with Differentiated Candidates
Galina Zudenkova (Mannheim University, Germany)Maria Petrova(University Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Content and Collective Action Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes
 

Public Economics and Networks

Organizer(s): Nizar Allouch

Presenter Title
Nicole Tabasso (Surrey University, UK)
Diffusion of Multiple Information
Samson Alva (University of Texas, USA)
Electoral Competition and Social Influence Networks
Luca Paolo Merlino (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belguim)Markus Kinateder(Universidad de Navarra, Spain)
Public Goods in Endogenous Networks
David Minarsch (Cambridge University, UK)C. Matthew Leister(University of California-Berkeley, USA)
Knowledge and Pricing in Intermediated Markets

Quantitative Macroeconomics

Organizer(s): Selo Imrohoroglu

Presenter Title
Vincent Sterk (University College London, UK)Petr Sedlacek(University of Bonn, Germany)
The Growth Potential of Startups over the Business Cycle
Tomoaki Yamada (Meiji University, Japan)
Can Guest Workers Solve Japan’s Fiscal Problems?
Gary Hansen (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Low Frequency Fluctuations
Selo Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California, USA)
Capital Income Tax Reform and the Japanese Economy

Real Option Games

Organizer(s): Frank Riedel

Presenter Title
Jacco Thijssen (York University, UK)
Attrition and Preemption in a Continuous-Time Investment Game with Stochastic Payoffs
Jan-Henrik Steg (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Subgame-Perfect Equilibria in Stochastic Timing Games
Nick Huberts (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Entry Deterrence by Timing rather than Overinvestment in a Strategic Real Options Framework
Tobias Hellmann (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Ambiguity in a Real Options Game

Repeated games

Organizer(s): Guilherme Carmona

Presenter Title
Guilherme Carmona (University of Surrey, UK)Hamid Sabourian(University of Cambridge, UK)
Approachability with Discounting and the Folk Theorem
Olivier Gossner (Université Paris-Saclay (CNRS  École Polytechnique) and LSE, France)
The Robustness of Incomplete Penal Codes in Repeated Interactions
Antoine Salomon (Université Paris Dauphine, France)Francoise Forges(Université Paris Dauphine, France)
Bayesian Repeated Games
Juan Escobar (University of Chile, Chile)Gastón Llanes(Catholic University of Chile, Chile)
Cooperation Dynamics in Repeated Games of Adverse Selection

Risk and Risk Sharing in Decentralized Markets

Organizer(s): Marzena Rostek, Chair: Antonio Cabrales

Presenter Title
Maryam Farboodi (Princeton University, USA)
Intermediation and Voluntary Exposure to Counterparty Risk
Jonathon Hazell (MIT & University of Cambridge, USA & UK)Matt Elliott(Caltech, USA)
Efficiency, Stability and Contagion in Financial Networks
Kathy Yuan (LSE Finance, UK)Edward Denbee(Bank of England, UK)Christian Julliard(LSE Finance, UK)Ye Li(Columbia University, USA)
Network Risk and Key Players: A Structural Analysis of Interbank Liquidity
Antonio Cabrales (UCL, UK)Piero Gottardi(EUI, Italy)Fernando Vega-Redondo(Bocconi University, Italy)
Risk Sharing and Contagion in Networks

Skill, Technology and Development I

Organizer(s): Ping Wang

Presenter Title
 
Alexander MongeNaranjo (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA)Pedro-Cavalcanti Ferreira(Fundacao Getulio Vargas)
Slums, Skill Formation and the Urban and Structural Development of Countries
Yin-Chi Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)Pei-Ju Liao(Academia Sinica, Taiwan)Ping Wang(Washington University in St. Louis, USA)Chong K. Yip(Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Educational Choice, Rural-urban Migration and Economic Development: The Role of Zhaosheng in China
David Wiczer (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA)Stephen Parente(UIUC, USA)
Productivity Gaps, Unemployment, Migration and Development: Harris-Todaro Meets Mortensen Pissarides

Skill, Technology and Development II

Organizer(s): Ping Wang, Chair: B. Ravikumar

Presenter Title
B. Ravikumar (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA)German Cubas(University of Houston, USA)Gustavo Ventura(Arizona State University, USA)
Talent, Labor Quality, and Economic Development
Chong K. Yip (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)Tsz-Nga Wong(Bank of Canada, Canada)
A Model of Technology Assimilation
Carlos Garriga (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA)Yang Tang(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)Ping Wang(Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Spatial Misallocation Across Chinese Cities
Lin Ma (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Yang Tang(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Understanding Spatial Wage Distribution Within and Between Chinese Cities

Social Choice

Organizer(s): Anna Bogomolnaia

Presenter Title
Dolors Berga (University of Girona, Spain)Riste Gjorgjiev(University of Girona, Spain)
Impartial Assignment of m prizes
John Ledyard (Caltech, USA)
Auction Design for Buybacks in Fisheries
Patrick Harless (University of Rochester, USA)
Solidarity in Preference Aggregation: Improving on a Status Quo
Emel Ozturk (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Measurement of Equality of Opportunity: A Normative Approach

Social Choice and Cooperative Game Theory

Organizer(s): Youngsub Chun

Presenter Title
Shiran Rachmilevitch (University of Haifa, Israel)
Parametrized Bargaining Solutions
Joosung Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Bargaining and Buyout
Gerard van den Laan (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Rene van den Brink(VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Chris Dietz(VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Genjiu Xu(VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Comparable Characterizations of Four Solutions for Permission Tree Games
Youngsub Chun (Seoul National University, South Korea)Duygu Yengin(University of Adelaide, Australia)
Welfare Lower Bounds and Strategyproofness in the Queueing Problem

Social Networks

Organizer(s): Agnieszka Rusinowska

Presenter Title
Anja Prummer (The Cambridge – INET Institute, UK)Francesco Nava(LSE, UK)
A Model of Mobilisation
Tim Hellmann (Bielefeld University, Institute of Mathematical Economics, Germany)Herbert Dawid(Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics, and Institute of Mathematical Economics)
Investments in R&D and the Formation of R&D Clusters
Florian Gauer (Bielefeld University, Center for Mathematical Economics, Germany)
Strategic Formation of Homogeneous Bargaining Networks
Agnieszka Rusinowska (Paris School of Economics  CNRS, University of Paris 1, Centre dEconomie de la Sorbonne, France)Philipp Moehlmeier(Bielefeld University, Center of Mathematical Economics, Germany)Emily Tanimura(University of Paris I, Centre dEconomie de la Sorbonne, France)
Competition for the Access to and Use of Information in Networks

The Theory of Value: A Memorial Session for Monique Florenzano

Organizer(s): M. Ali Khan

Presenter Title
Emma Moreno-Garcia (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
On Convergence of Bargaining Sets for Exchange Economies
Kali P. Rath (University of Notre Dame, USA)M. Ali Khan(Johns Hopkins University, USA)Lei Qiao(National University of Singapore, Singapore)Yeneng Sun(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
General Equilibrium Theory on a Finitely-Additive Measure Space of Agents: A Viable Option?
Cuong Le Van (University of Paris I, France)Takashi Kamihigashi(Kobe University, Japan)
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for a Solution to the Bellman Equation to be the Value Function: a General Principle
Nizar Allouch (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)Maia King(Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Policy Reform in Networks

Topics in Applied Theory

Organizer(s): Rabah Amir

Presenter Title
Yu-Fai (Michael) Choi (University of Iowa, USA)
The Economics of Web Search
Adriana Gama-Velazquez (El Colegio de México, Mexico)
Oligopoly with Incompatible Networks
Charlene Cosandier (Mines Paris Tech, France)
Intermediaries vs Trolls in Contests for Patents
Rabah Amir (University of Iowa, USA)Luciano De Castro(University of Iowa, USA)
Nash Equilibrium in Games with Quasi-Monotonic Best-Responses

Topics in Auctions, Contests and Markets

Organizer(s): Diego Moreno and John Wooders

Presenter Title
John Wooders (Department of Economics, University of Technology Sydney, Australia)Matt Van Essen (University of Alabama, USA)
Equilibrium and Maximin Perfection in a Dynamic Fair Division Auction
Angel Hernando-Veciana (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Rounding in the Libor Submissions
Jason Shachat (Durham University Business School, UK)J. Todd Swarthout(Georgia State University, USA)Yun Wang(Xiamen University, China)
The Market Allocation of Property Rights and the Destruction of Trust
Diego Moreno (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)Ezra Einy(Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)Benyamin Shitovitz(University of Haifa, Israel)
The Value of Public Information in Common-Value Tullock Contests

Topics in Dynamic Incentives

Organizer(s): Hector Chade, Chair: Juan Ortner

Presenter Title
 
Gonzalo Cisternas (MIT Sloan, USA)Alessandro Bonatti(MIT Sloan, USA)Juuso Toikka(MIT, Department of Economics, USA)
Dynamic Oligopoly with Incomplete Information
Yingni Guo (Northwestern University, USA)Johannes Horner(Yale University, USA)
Dynamic Mechanisms without Money
Juan Ortner (Boston University, USA)Sylvain Chassang(Princeton University, USA)
Collusion in Auctions with Price Limits: Theory and Evidence from Procurement

Topics in Economic theory

Organizer(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Presenter Title
V. Bhaskar (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Learning, New Technology and the Ratchet Effect
Maxwell B. Stinchcombe (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Updating Ambiguous Beliefs: Theory and Applications
Caroline Thomas (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Career Concerns and Policy Intransigence – A Dynamic Signaling Model
Svetlana Boyarchenko (University of Texas at Austin, USA)Sergei Levendorskii
Poisson Bandits of Evolving Shade of Gray

Topics in Financial Decision Making

Organizer(s): Jan Wenzelburger

Presenter Title
Philipp Weinschenk (Max-Planck Institut, Bonn, Germany)
What Determines Success? The Complex Relationship Between Incentives and Performance
Conrad Spanaus (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Asset Pricing Using Downside Risk of Payoffs
Jan Wenzelburger (University of Liverpool, UK)Fei Su(University of Liverpool, UK)
Catastrophe Bonds, Innovations, and the CAPM
Fabrizio Perri (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, USA)Dirk Krueger(University of Pennsylvania, USA)Kurt Mitman(IIES, Stockholm University, Sweden)
Macroeconomics and Heterogeneity

Topics in Financial Stability

Organizer(s): M. Udara Peiris, Chair: Dimitrios P. Tsomocos

Presenter Title
Juan Francisco Martínez (Central Bank of Chile , Chile)Sebastin Becerra(Central Bank of Chile, Chile)Luis Cabezas(Central Bank of Chile, Chile)
Macro Financial Model: A Proposal for Chile
Daniele Siena (Banque de France, France)Tommaso Monacelli(Bocconi University, Italy)Luca Sala (Bocconi University, Italy)
Exchange Rate Regimes, Financial Imperfections and Productivity
Jacqueline Dai (HSBC Business School, Peking University, China)Kwangwon Ahn(HSBC Business School, Peking University, China)Chansoo Kim(Korean Institute of Science and Technology,, South Korea)Dimitrios P. Tsomocos(University of Oxford, UK)
Systemic Risk and Financial Fragility in China
M. Udara Peiris (NRU Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation)Charles Goodhart(LSE, UK)Dimitrios P. Tsomocos(University of Oxford, UK)
Capital Adjustment Costs Through Corporate Default

Topics in Game Theory

Organizer(s): Richard P. McLean

Presenter Title
Metin Uyanik (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
On the Non-emptiness of the Alpha-Core of Discontinuous Games
Haomiao Yu (Ryerson University, Canada)Xiang Sun(Wuhan University, China)
Pure Strategy Equilibria in Non-atomic Games with Discontinuous Payoffs
M.Ali Khan (Johns Hopkins University, USA)Yongchao Zhang(Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
On Pure Strategy Equilibria in Games with Correlated Information
Ahmet Alkan (Sabanci University, Turkey)Alparslan Tuncay(Sabanci University, Turkey)
Pairing Games and Markets

Topics in Game Theory I

Organizer(s): Xiao Luo

Presenter Title
Takashi Kunimoto (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)Yi-Chun Chen(National University of Singapore, Singapore)Yifei Sun(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Implementation with Transfers
Yi-Chun Chen (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Takashi Kunimoto(Hitotsubashi University, Japan)Yifei Sun(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Robust Dynamic Implementation
Shravan Luckraz (University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China)Gafurjan Ibragimov(UPM, Malaysia)
Pursuit-evasion Games on a Graph – On a Class of Evasion Strategies
Xiao Luo (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Ben Wang(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Toward a Unified Theory of “Perfectly” Rational Strategic Behavior: MACA

Topics in Game Theory II

Organizer(s): Xiao Luo, Chair: Ming Li

Presenter Title
Chen Qu (BI Norwegian Business School, Norway)
Endogenous Coalition of Intellectual Properties: A Three-Patent Story
Bin Liu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Jingfeng Lu(National University of Singapore)
Optimal Two-Stage Procurement with Private R&D Efficiency
Xin Feng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Jingfeng Lu(National University of Singapore, Singapore)Yeneng Sun(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Revenue-Maximizing Auction with Bi-Dimensional Private Information on Value and Entry Cost
Ming Li (Concordia University, Canada)Sourav Bhattacharya(SourUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA)
Strategic Communication and Group Formation

Topics in Industrial Organization and Economic Theory

Organizer(s): Emma Moreno-García

Presenter Title
Joana Resende (Cef.Up, University of Porto, Portugal)Rosa Branca Esteves(NIPE, University of Minho, Portugal)
Geo-fence versus Geo-conquest: Price Discrimination through Target Advertising
Joana Pinho (Cef.Up, University of Porto, Portugal)António Brandão(Cef.Up, University of Porto)
How Do Asymmetries in Firms Productivity Affect the Labor Market?
Joaquin Gómez-Miñambres (Bucknell University, USA)
Employment and Unemployment Benefits as Gifts: A Road to Voluntary Exploitation in Labor
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato (Duke University, USA)
The One Child Policy and Promotion of Mayors in China

Topics in Industrial Organization and Finance

Organizer(s): Marta Faias

Presenter Title
Filomena Garcia (Indiana University and UECE/ISEG, USA)Andrea Vezzulli (ISEG and UECE, Portugal)
Optimal contracting for innovation
Jaime Luque (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)Timothy Riddiough(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
A Theory of Subprime Mortgage Lending with Applications to the Rise and Fall of the Subprime Mortgage Market
Philip J. Erickson (University of Iowa, USA)
Information Asymmetry in Profit-generating Graduate Education Markets: A Structural Approach to Law Schools
Margarida Catalão-Lopes ( CEG-IST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)Duarte Brito(Universidade Nova de Lisboa and CEFAGE-UE, Portugal)
Endogenous Post-merger Internal Organization and Consumer Welfare

Topics in Microeconomic Theory I

Organizer(s): Siyang Xiong

Presenter Title
Siyang Xiong (University of Bristol, UK)Yi-Chun Chen(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
The Incentive Compatibility Critique
Georgios Gerasimou (University of St Andrews, UK)
Dominance Solvable Games with Multiple Payoff Criteria
Xiaojian Zhao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)Fuhai Hong(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Sunk Cost as a Self-Disciplining Device
Jiangtao Li (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Yi-Chun Chen(National University of Singapore, Singapore)Wei He(University of Iowa, USA)Yeneng Sun(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Deterministic Implementation of Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanisms

Topics in Microeconomic Theory II

Organizer(s): Beth Allen

Presenter Title
Patrick O’Callaghan (University of Queensland, Australia)
How to Measure Utility or Elicit Beliefs without Mixing Apples and Oranges: An Application to Brownian Motion
Valeriy M. Marakulin (Sobolev Institute of Mathmatics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)
On the Theory of Spatial General Equilibrium and Tiebout Equilibrium in Multidimensional Space
Cigdem Gizem Korpeoglu (Carnegie Mellon University and University College London, USA and England)
Consumer Unions: Blessing or Curse?
Beth Allen (University of Minnesota, USA)
TBA

Topics on Economic Development

Organizer(s): Tiago Cavalcanti

Presenter Title
Julian Neira (University of Exeter, UK)
Bankruptcy and Aggregate Productivity
Julieta Caunedo (Cornell University, USA)
Industry Dynamics, Investment and Uncertainty
Francesco Caselli (London School of Economics, UK)John ColemanChristian Siegel
Domestic Market Size, Inward Orientation, and Industrialization
Tiago Cavalcanti (University of Cambridge, UK)
Finance and Development:
On the Causal Effect of Access to Credit on Productivity

Wealth Distribution: Empirics

Organizer(s): Alberto Bisin

Presenter Title
M. De Nardi (University College of London, UK)F. Yang(, USA)
Wealth Inequality, Family Background, and Estate Taxation
F. Kindermann (University of Bonn, Germany)D. Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)
High Marginal Tax Rates on the Top 1%? Lessons from a Life Cycle Model with Idiosyncratic Income Risk
A. Bisin (New York Univerisity, USA)J. Benhabib(New York Univerisity, USA)M. Luo(New York University, USA)
The Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution and Social Mobility
S. Zhu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)C.C. Yang(Academia Sinica, Taiwan)S. Wu(Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Elasticities of Pareto Parameters and the Optimal Top Tax Rate

Wealth Distribution: Theory I

Organizer(s): Alberto Bisin

Presenter Title
B. Moll (Princeton University, USA)Xavier Gabaix(New York University, USA)Jean-Michel Lasry(University of Paris-Dauphine, France)Pierre-Louis Lions(College de France, France)
The Dynamics of Inequality
J. Benhabib (New York University, USA)A. Bisin(New York University)S. Zhu(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
The Wealth Distribution in Bewley Models with Investment Risk
 
R. Fernholz (Claremont McKenna College, USA)
A Model of Economic Mobility and the Distribution of Wealth

Wealth Distribution: Theory II

Organizer(s): Alberto Bisin

Presenter Title
M. Nirei (Ministry of Finance, Japan)S. Aoki(Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Zipf’s Law, Pareto’s Law, and the Evolution of Top Incomes in the U.S.
C. Ewald (University of Glasgow, UK)
On the Stochastic Dynamics of Distributions
A. Toda (Univesity of California, San Diego, USA)Yoshiyuki Miyoshi(Univesity of California, San Diego, USA)
Growth, Welfare, and Inequality under Basic Income/Flat Tax
M. D’Amato (University of Salerno, Italy)C. Di Pietro(University of Salerno, Italy)
Left and Right. A Tale of Two Tails in the Wealth Distribution