18 sessions, 54 papers

Spring 2010 Midwest Economic Theory Meeting
Complete List of All Sessions

  

Session 1: Auctions
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Simon Board, UCLA
Session type: contributed
Date: May 14, 2010
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Location: G42 - Jacobs Center
Optimal Dynamic Auctions for Durable Goods
Presented by: Simon Board, UCLA
First-price auctions with resale: the case of many bidders
Presented by: Gabor Virag, University of Rochester
Efficiency Levels in Sequential Auctions with Dynamic Arrivals
Presented by: Ron Lavi, The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  

Session 2: Contract Theory 1
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Charles Zheng, Iowa State University
Session type: contributed
Date: May 14, 2010
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Location: G43- Jacobs Center
A Coase Theorem Based on a New Concept of the Core
Presented by: Charles Zheng, Iowa State University
Dynamic Monopoly and Renegotiation
Presented by: Lucas Maestri, Yale University
Sequential Investment, Hold-up, and Ownership Structure
Presented by: Yi Zhang, Singapore Management University

  

Session 3: Bargaining
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Selcuk Ozyurt, New York University
Session type: contributed
Date: May 14, 2010
Time: 16:45 - 18:15
Location: G42 - Jacobs Center
Information Acquisition and Efficient Bargaining
Presented by: Ricardo Serrano-Padial, University of Wisconsin-Madison
One–dimensional bargaining
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Presented by: Arkadi Predtetchinski, Maastricht University
Searching a Bargain: Play it Cool or Haggle
Presented by: Selcuk Ozyurt, New York University

  

Session 4: Contract Theory 2
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Jianjun Wu, University of Arizona
Session type: contributed
Date: May 14, 2010
Time: 16:45 - 18:15
Location: G43 - Jacobs Center
Breaking up a Reseach Consortium
Presented by: Jianjun Wu, University of Arizona
Commission Sharing among Agents
Presented by: Frances Xu, University of Hong Kong
The Maximal Domain for the Revelation Principle when Preferences are Menu Dependent
Presented by: Rene Saran, Maastricht University

  

Session 5: Contract Theory 3
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Sidartha Gordon, Department of Economics
Session type: contributed
Date: May 15, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: 140 - Allen Center
Managerial Turnover
Presented by: Daniel Garrett, Northwestern University
Optimal R&D Project Selection Mechanisms
Presented by: Sidartha Gordon, Department of Economics
Subjective Evaluations with Performance Feedback
Presented by: Jan Zabojnik, Queen's University

  

Session 6: Decision Theory 1
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Martin Meier, Institut für Höhere Studien
Session type: contributed
Date: May 15, 2010
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: 153 - Allen Center
Dynamic Unawareness and Rationalizable Behavior
Presented by: Martin Meier, Institut für Höhere Studien
Intertemporal Substitution and Recursive Smooth Ambiguity Preferences
Presented by: Jianjun Miao, Boston University
Attention competition: a basic assessment
Presented by: Andreas Hefti, University of Zurich

  

Session 7: Decision Theory 2
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Madhav Chandrasekher, Arizona State University
Session type: contributed
Date: May 15, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Location: 140 - Allen Center
Consumption of Durable Goods Under Ambiguity: A Real Options Approach
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Presented by: Othon Moreno Gonzalez, The University of Texas at Austin
Discounting when Income is Stochastic and Discounted Utility Anomalies
Presented by: Svetlana Boyarchenko, University of Texas-Austin
Incomplete Menu Preferences and Ambiguity
Presented by: Madhav Chandrasekher, Arizona State University

  

Session 8: Information Economics
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Marco Ottaviani, Northwestern University
Session type: contributed
Date: May 15, 2010
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Location: 153 - Allen Center
Not So Cheap Talk: A Model of Advice with Communication Costs
Presented by: John Smith, Rutgers University-Camden
State-Contingent Pricing with Private Information: Adverse Selection across Market Structures
Presented by: Marco Ottaviani, Northwestern University
Loopholes: Social Learning and the Evolution of Contract Form
Presented by: Andrew Newman, Boston University, CEPR

  

Session 9: Mechanism Design
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Itai Sher, University of Minnesota
Session type: contributed
Date: May 15, 2010
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: 140 - Allen Center
Dynamic Implementation
Presented by: David Rahman, University of Minnesota
Optimal Mechanism Design with Speculation and Resale
Presented by: Jun Zhang, Queen's University
Optimal Selling Mechanisms on Incentive Graphs
Presented by: Itai Sher, University of Minnesota

  

Session 10: Networks
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: S. Nageeb Ali, UC-San Diego
Session type: contributed
Date: May 15, 2010
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: 153 - Allen Center
Allocation Rules on Networks
Presented by: Cagatay Kayi, Maastricht University
Fund-Raising Games Played on a Network
Presented by: Alison Watts, Southern Illinois University
Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies
Presented by: S. Nageeb Ali, UC-San Diego

  

Session 11: Political Economics
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Antoine LOEPER, Kellogg Shool of Management
Session type: contributed
Date: May 15, 2010
Time: 15:15 - 16:45
Location: 140 - Allen Center
Revealed Political Power
Presented by: Jinhui Bai, Georgetown University
Voting and Information Aggregation in Unicameral Parliamentary and Semi-Presidential Democracies
Presented by: YUSUF IZMIRLIOGLU, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Group Formation, Free Mobility and Social Optimality
Presented by: Antoine LOEPER, Kellogg Shool of Management

  

Session 12: Repeated and Dynamic Games 1
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University
Session type: contributed
Date: May 15, 2010
Time: 15:15 - 16:45
Location: 153 - Allen Center
Dynamic Bilateral Trading in Networks
Presented by: Daniele Condorelli, University College London
The Folk Theorem for Stochastic Games
Presented by: Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University
Information Revelation in Relational Contracts
Presented by: Jin Li, Kellogg School of Management

  

Session 13: Repeated and Dynamic Games 2
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Brian Rogers, Northwestern University, Kellogg
Session type: contributed
Date: May 15, 2010
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Location: 140 - Allen Center
A structure theorem for rationalizability in dynamic games
Presented by: Yi-Chun Chen, National University of Singapore
Expert Experimentation
Presented by: Nicolas Klein, University of Munich
The obvious way to play repeated Battle-of-the-Sexes games: Theory and Evidence
Presented by: Brian Rogers, Northwestern University, Kellogg

  

Session 14: Search and Matching 1
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Ronald Wolthoff, University of Chicago
Session type: contributed
Date: May 15, 2010
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Location: 153 - Allen Center
Applications and Interviews A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search
Presented by: Ronald Wolthoff, University of Chicago
Fraternities and Labor Market Outcomes
Presented by: Sergey Popov, UIUC
A Theory of Partially Directed Search with Interdependent Values
Presented by: Kyungmin Kim, Hong Kong University of Science and Tech

  

Session 15: Search and Matching 2
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Thomas Gall, University of Bonn
Session type: contributed
Date: May 16, 2010
Time: 9:30 - 11:00
Location: 140 - Allen Center
Segregation, Affirmative Action, and Investment
Presented by: Thomas Gall, University of Bonn
The informational role of prices and the essentiality of money in the Lagos-Wright model
Presented by: Daniela Puzzello, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai
Sustained Positive Consumption in a Model of Stochastic Growth: The Role of Risk Aversion
Presented by: Santanu Roy, Southern Methodist University

  

Session 16: Topics Game Theory 1
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Laurent Mathevet, University of Texas at Austin
Session type: contributed
Date: May 16, 2010
Time: 9:30 - 11:00
Location: 153 - Allen Center
Strategic Rational Expectations - Towards A Theory Of The Coordination of Expectations
Presented by: Timo Ehrig, Max-Planck-Institute for Math. i.t.S.
Coordination under Limited Depth of Reasoning
Presented by: Terri Kneeland, University of British Columbia
Sentiments and Rationalizability
Presented by: Laurent Mathevet, University of Texas at Austin

  

Session 17: Topics Game Theory 2
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Subir Chakrabarti, Indiana Univeristy Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Session type: contributed
Date: May 16, 2010
Time: 11:15 - 12:45
Location: 140 - Allen Center
Existence of perfect equilibria: a direct proof
Presented by: Iryna Topolyan, Purdue University Krannert School of Management
A Direct Proof of the Existence of Sequential Equilibrium and a Backward Induction Characterization
Presented by: Subir Chakrabarti, Indiana Univeristy Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Rationalizability, Adaptive Dynamics, and the Correspondence Principle in Games with Strategic Substitutes
Presented by: Tarun Sabarwal, University of Kansas

  

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Session 18: Topics Game Theory 3
Session Organizer: ,
Session Chair: Yaron Azrieli, Ohio State University
Session type: contributed
Date: May 16, 2010
Time: 11:15 - 12:45
Location: 153 - Allen Center
An axiomatic foundation for multidimensional spatial models of elections with a valence dimension
Presented by: Yaron Azrieli, Ohio State University
Unbeatable Imitation
Presented by: Burkhard Schipper, University of California, Davis
Do You Think About What I Think you Think? Finite Belief Hierarchies in Games
Presented by: Willemien Kets, Santa Fe Institute, Tilburg University