18 sessions, 54 papers

Fall 2010 Midwest Economic Theory Meeting
Complete List of All Sessions

  

Session 1: Information Aggregation
Session Organizer: Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 17, 2010
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: 309
How Optimism Without a Common Prior Leads to Price Discovery and Efficiency in a Dynamic Matching Market
By Dipjyoti Majumdar; Concordia University and CIREQ Artyom Shneyerov; Concordia University, CIREQ and CIRANO Huan Xie; Concordia University
Presented by: Artyom Shneyerov, Concordia University, CIRANO, CIREQ
Analytic Model Aggregation
By Lu Hong;Loyola University Chicago Scott E. Page; University of Michigan
Presented by: Lu Hong, Loyola University Chicago
Price Inference in Small Markets
By Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Marek Weretka, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presented by: Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  

Session 2: Agency
Session Organizer: Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 17, 2010
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: 313
Auditing an Intermediary
By Wolf Gick, Harvard University
Presented by: Wolf Gick, Harvard University
The Puzzle of Attorney's Fee Structure: a Signaling Explanation
By Yuk-fai Fong; Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Frances Xu; School of Economics and Finance, University of Hong Kong
Presented by: Zhiyun Xu, Kellogg School of Management
Dynamic Agency with Persistent Exogenous Disturbances
By Rui Li; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presented by: Rui Li, University of Wisconsin Madison

  

Session 3: Learning and Dynamics
Session Organizer: William Sandholm, University of Wisconsin
Session type: invited
Date: September 17, 2010
Time: 15:15 - 16:45
Location: 309
Uniqueness of Oblivious Equilibrium in Dynamic Discrete Games
By Joao Macieira; Virginia Tech
Presented by: Joao Macieira, Virginia Tech
Global Dynamics in the Kiyotaki-Wright Model with Pure Strategies
By Federico Bonetto; Georgia Institute of Technology Maurizio Iacopetta; OFCE (Sciences Po) and SKEMA
Presented by: Maurizio Iacopetta, Georgia Institute of Technology
Learning To Love Money
By Tingwen Liu; University of Illinois Dennis O'Dea; University of Illinois Sergey V. Popov; University of Illinois
Presented by: Sergey Popov, University of Illinois

  

Session 4: Retail Markets
Session Organizer: Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 17, 2010
Time: 15:15 - 16:45
Location: 313
Credible Communication in Retail Markets
By Dmitry Lubensky; University of Michigan
Presented by: Dmitry Lubensky, University of Michigan
Disclosure and Signaling of Product Quality with Price Competition.
By Maarten C.W. Janssen; University of Vienna Santanu Roy; Southern Methodist University
Presented by: Santanu Roy, Southern Methodist University
Managing Strategic Buyers
By Johannes Horner; Yale Larry Samuelson; Yale
Presented by: Larry Samuelson, Yale University

  

Session 5: Incomplete Markets
Session Organizer: Ricardo Serrano-Padial, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session Chair: Ricardo Serrano-Padial, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 17, 2010
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Location: 313
Mirrlees Meets Modigliani-Miller: Optimal Individual/Corporate Taxes and Capital Structure
JEL codes: E62, G11, G32
By Kyoung Jin Choi; Washington University in St. Louis
Presented by: Kyoung Jin Choi, Washington University in St. Louis
Payout policy and bubbles
By Camelia Bejan; Rice University Florin Bidian
Presented by: Camelia Bejan, Rice University
Dynamic Poaching in Unsecured Lending
By Lukasz A. Drozd; University of Pennsylvania Ricardo Serrano-Padial; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presented by: Ricardo Serrano-Padial, University of Wisconsin - Madison

  

Session 6: Game Theory
Session Organizer: Ricardo Serrano-Padial, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 17, 2010
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Location: 309
Characterizing Dominance Solvability, Global Stability, and the Correspondence Principle in Games with Strategic Substitutes
By Sunanda Roy; Iowa State University Tarun Sabarwal; University of Kansas
Presented by: Sunanda Roy, Iowa State University
A Folk Theorem for Stochastic Games with Private Almost-Perfect Monitoring
By Katsuhiko Aiba; University of Wisconsin Madison
Presented by: Katsuhiko Aiba, University of Wisconsin Madison
When Can Forgetfulness Make Us Better Off?
By Jie Zheng; Washington University in St. Louis
Presented by: Jie Zheng, Washington University in St. Louis

  

Session 7: Communication
Session Organizer: Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 18, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: 309
Persuasion and Dynamic Communication
By Itai Sher; University of Minnesota
Presented by: Itai Sher, University of Minnesota
Rhetoric in Legislative Bargaining with Asymmetric Information
By Ying Chen; Arizona State University Hulya Eraslan; Johns Hopkins University
Presented by: Ying Chen, Arizona State University
Expert Experimentation
By Nicolas Klein; University of MUnich Tymofiy Mylovanov; Penn State University
Presented by: Tymofiy Mylovanov, Penn State University

  

Session 8: Information and Networks
Session Organizer: Ricardo Serrano-Padial, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 18, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: 313
Dominant Strategy Implementation of Stable Rules
By Taro Kumano; Washington University in St.louis Masahiro Watabe; Zirve University
Presented by: Taro Kumano, Washington University in St.Louis
Consent in Bayesian Network Formation
By Dennis O'Dea; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presented by: Dennis O'Dea, University of Illinois
Competitive Nonlinear Pricing with Vertically Differentiated Principals
By Masahiro Watabe; Zirve University
Presented by: Masahiro Watabe, Zirve University

  

Session 9: Evolution and Learning I
Session Organizer: William Sandholm, University of Wisconsin
Session type: invited
Date: September 18, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Location: 309
Regret Matching with Finite Memory
By Rene Saran; Maastricht University Roberto Serrano; Brown University and IMDEA Social Sciences Institute
Presented by: Rene Saran, Maastricht University
Law of Large Numbers and Evolutionary Dynamics
By Robert E Molzon University of Kentucky
Presented by: Robert Molzon, University of Kentucky
Observational Learning with Position Uncertainty
By Ignacio Monzon; Collegio Carlo Alberto Michael P. Rapp; University of Wisconsin, Madison
Presented by: Michael Rapp, Universtiy of Wisconsin, Madison

  

Session 10: Market Behavior
Session Organizer: Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 18, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Location: 313
Competitive Effects of Mass Customization
By Oksana Loginova; University of Missouri
Presented by: Oksana Loginova, University of Missouri-Columbia
More Punishment, Less Default?
By Erwan Quintin, Wisconsin School of Business
Presented by: Erwan Quintin, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Information about Sellers' Past Behavior in the Market for Lemons
By Kyungmin Kim; University of Iowa
Presented by: Kyungmin Kim, University of Iowa

  

Session 11: Search and Matching
Session Organizer: Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 18, 2010
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Location: 313
On the Role of Confidentiality and Deadlines in Bilateral Negotiations
By Silvana Krasteva Texas A&M University Huseyin Yildirim Duke University
Presented by: Silvana Krasteva, Texas A&M University
Buyer heterogeneity and competing mechanisms
By Gabor Virag; University of Rochester
Presented by: Gabor Virag, University of Rochester
Clients, Lawyers, Second Opinions, and Agency
By Andrew Daughety; Vanderbilt University Jennifer Reinganum; Vanderbilt University
Presented by: Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University

  

Session 12: Information I
Session Organizer: Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 18, 2010
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Location: 309
Oligopoly Signal-Jamming Dynamics
By Dan Bernhardt, University of Illinois; Bart Taub, University of Illinois
Presented by: Bart Taub, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Asset Prices and Market Participation in the Presence of Managerial Manipulation
By Bo Sun, Federal Reserve Board
Presented by: Bo Sun, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Strategically Valuable Information
By Josh Cherry; University of Michigan Lones Smith; University of Wisconsin
Presented by: Joshua Cherry, University of Michigan

  

Session 13: Political Economy
Session Organizer: Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 18, 2010
Time: 15:45 - 17:15
Location: 313
Fuzzy political campaigns
By Arianna Degan; Université du Québec à Montréal Ming Li; Concordia University
Presented by: Ming Li, Concordia University
Time-Consistent Majority Rules and Heterogeneous Preferences in Group Decision-Making
By Huseyin Yildirim; Duke University
Presented by: Huseyin Yildirim, Duke University
A Theory of Strategic Voting in Runoff Elections
By Laurent Bouton; Boston University
Presented by: Laurent Bouton, Boston University

  

Session 14: Learning about Payoffs
Session Organizer: Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 18, 2010
Time: 15:45 - 17:15
Location: 309
Policy Uncertainty and Technology Adoption
By Mohammad Hossein Dehghani; The University of Texas at Austin
Presented by: Mohammad Dehghani, University of Texas at Austin
Experimentation with Costly Project Maintenance
By Jean Guillaume Forand; Wallis Institute and University of Waterloo
Presented by: Jean Guillaume Forand, Wallis Institute and University of Waterloo
Lead Me Not into Temptation: Search and Context Dependent Preferences
By Collin Buckley Raymond; University of Michigan
Presented by: Collin Raymond, University of Michigan

  

Session 15: Evolution and Learning II
Session Organizer: William Sandholm, University of Wisconsin
Session type: invited
Date: September 19, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: 309
The tempered best response dynamic
By Dai Zusai; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presented by: Dai Zusai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Why Learning Doesn't Add Up: Equilibrium Selection with a Composition of Learning Rules
By Russell Golman; Carnegie Mellon University
Presented by: Russell Golman, Carnegie Mellon University
On The Stability of CSS under the Replicator Dynamic
By Fernando M. Louge; Bielefeld University
Presented by: Fernando Louge, Bielefeld University

  

Session 16: Information II
Session Organizer: Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 19, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: 313
Buyer-Seller Bargaining with Endogenous Information
By Daniel Quint; University of Wisconsin Ricardo Serrano-Padial; University of Wisconsin
Presented by: Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Reverse Price Discrimination with Bayesian Buyers
By Se Hoon Bang; Michigan State University Jaesoo Kim; IUPUI Young-ro Yoon; Wayne State University
Presented by: Jaesoo Kim, IUPUI
Competitive Contracts with Productive Information Gathering
By Bing Ye; Toulouse School of Economics Sanxi Li; Toulouse School of Economics
Presented by: Bing YE, Toulouse School of Economics

  

Session 17: Auctions
Session Organizer: Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 19, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Location: 313
Auctions with Synergy and Resale
By Xiaoshu Xu; the Ohio State University Dan Levin; the Ohio State University Lixin Ye; the Ohio State University
Presented by: Xiaoshu Xu, Ohio State Univ.
Common Values Auctions with Bidder Solicitation
By Stephan Lauermann; University of Michigan Asher Wolinsky; Northwestern University
Presented by: Stephan Lauermann, University of Michigan
Risk&Regret-Averse Bidders in Sealed Bid Auctions
By Takashi Hayashi: University of Texas at Austin Hisayuki Yoshimoto: University of California, Los Angeles
Presented by: Hisayuki Yoshimoto, University of California, Los Angeles

   Index of Participants

Legend: C=chair, P=Presenter, D=Disscussant

Session 18: Mechanism Design
Session Organizer: Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session type: invited
Date: September 19, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Location: 309
Detecting Profitable Deviations
By David Rahman; University of Minnesota
Presented by: David Rahman, University of Minnesota
Improving on Dominant Strategy Mechanisms in the Public Good Problem
By Douglas S. Smith; University of Michigan
Presented by: Doug Smith, Michigan University
Online Privacy and Price Discrimination
By Vincent Conitzer; Duke University Curtis Taylor; Duke University Liad Wagman; Illinois Institute of Technology
Presented by: Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology

#	Participant	Roles in Conference
1	Aiba, Katsuhiko	P6
2	Bejan, Camelia	P5
3	Bouton, Laurent	P13
4	Chen, Ying	P7
5	Cherry, Joshua	P12
6	Choi, Kyoung Jin	P5
7	Daughety, Andrew	P11
8	Dehghani, Mohammad	P14
9	Forand, Jean Guillaume	P14
10	Gick, Wolf	P2
11	Golman, Russell	P15
12	Hong, Lu	P1
13	Iacopetta, Maurizio	P3
14	Kim, Kyungmin	P10
15	Kim, Jaesoo	P16
16	Krasteva, Silvana	P11
17	Kumano, Taro	P8
18	Lauermann, Stephan	P17
19	Li, Rui	P2
20	Li, Ming	P13
21	Loginova, Oksana	P10
22	Louge, Fernando	P15
23	Lubensky, Dmitry	P4
24	Macieira, Joao	P3
25	Molzon, Robert	P9
26	Mylovanov, Tymofiy	P7
27	O'Dea, Dennis	P8
28	Popov, Sergey	P3
29	Quint, Daniel	P16
30	Quintin, Erwan	P10
31	Rahman, David	P18
32	Rapp, Michael	P9
33	Raymond, Collin	P14
34	Rostek, Marzena	P1
35	Roy, Santanu	P4
36	Roy, Sunanda	P6
37	Samuelson, Larry	P4
38	Saran, Rene	P9
39	Serrano-Padial, Ricardo	P5, C5
40	Sher, Itai	P7
41	Shneyerov, Artyom	P1
42	Smith, Doug	P18
43	Sun, Bo	P12
44	Taub, Bart	P12
45	Virag, Gabor	P11
46	Wagman, Liad	P18
47	Watabe, Masahiro	P8
48	Xu, Xiaoshu	P17
49	Xu, Zhiyun	P2
50	YE, Bing	P16
51	Yildirim, Huseyin	P13
52	Yoshimoto, Hisayuki	P17
53	Zheng, Jie	P6
54	Zusai, Dai	P15

This program was last updated on 2010-09-10 14:2:47 EDT