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11th Meeting of Society for Social Choice and Welfare
Complete List of All Sessions

Session 1: Presidential Address by Maurice Salles (University of Caen)
Session Chair: John Weymark, Vanderbilt University
Session type: invited
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 9:15 - 10:30
Location: Stein
Session 2: Cost Sharing 1
Session Chair: Juan Vidal-Puga, Universidade de Vigo
Session type: contributed
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Amaltas
1. A New Rule for Source Connection Problems
Presented by: María Gómez-Rúa, Universidade de Vigo
2. Minimum Cost Steiner Tree Problems
Presented by: Silvia Lorenzo-Freire, University of A Coruña
3. Monotonicity Properties and the Irreducible Core in Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Problems
Presented by: Juan Vidal-Puga, Universidade de Vigo
Session 3: Strategic Social Choice 1
Session Chair: Huaxia Zeng, Singapore Management University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Stein
1. Maximal Domain for Strategy-proof Probabilistic Rules in Economies with One Public Good
Presented by: Shuhei Morimoto, Osaka University
2. The Structure of Strategy-Proof Random Social Choice Functions over Product Domains and Lexicographically Separable Preferences
Presented by: Souvik Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
3. Random Dictatorial Domains
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Presented by: Huaxia Zeng, Singapore Management University
Session 4: Foundations
Session Chair: Koichi Suga, Waseda University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Willow
1. An Inquiry into Sen’s View on Relevant Information for Democracy: Individual Preferences vs. Positional Objectivity
Presented by: Muriel Gilardone, University of Caen (CREM)
2. Condorcet, Preference, and Judgment
Presented by: Mahendra Prasad, University of California, Berkeley
3. Rawls on Probabilities: When Independence of the Events does not hold
Presented by: Koichi Suga, Waseda University
Session 5: Experiments 1
Session Chair: Rodrigo Velez, Texas A&M University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Casuarina
1. Decentralized Matching Markets: A Laboratory Experiment
Presented by: Joana Pais, ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon
2. An Experimental Analysis of an Envy-Free Auction
Presented by: Rodrigo Velez, Texas A&M University
Session 6: Public Economics
Session Chair: Maria Piotrowska, Wroclaw University of Economics
Session type: contributed
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Magnolia
1. Participation Tax Rates in the Long-Term
Presented by: Charlotte Bartels, FU Berlin
2. Urban Containment: An Effective Tool for Environmental Protection?
Presented by: Sofia Franco, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
3. Status-Directed Consumption and Local Public Goods
Presented by: Maria Piotrowska, Wroclaw University of Economics
Session 7: Cost Sharing 2
Session Chair: Youngsub Chun, Seoul National University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Amaltas
1. Sharing a Polluted River: The Responsibility Rule
Presented by: Jorge Alcalde-Unzu, Public University of Navarre
2. Two Characterizations of the Uniform Rule based on a Robustness Property
Presented by: Siwei Chen, University of Rochester
3. Subgroup Additivity in the Queueing Problem
Presented by: Youngsub Chun, Seoul National University
Session 8: Decision Theory 1
Session Chair: Shasikanta Nandeibam, University of Bath
Session type: contributed
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Magnolia
1. A Theory of Choice Under Internal Conflict
Presented by: Ricardo Arlegi, Public University of Navarre
2. Choice by Sequential Procedures
Presented by: Miguel-Angel Ballester, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
3. The Geometry of Revealed Preference
Presented by: Rahul Deb, University of Toronto
4. Preference for Flexibility and Stochastic Preference
Presented by: Shasikanta Nandeibam, University of Bath
Session 9: Strategic Social Choice 2
Session Chair: Hikaru Kondo, Osaka University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Stein
1. The Division Problem under Constraints
Presented by: Gustavo Bergantinos, Universidade de Vigo
2. Balancing the Power to Appoint Officers
Presented by: Danilo Coelho, Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA)
3. An Impossibility of Strategy-proof and Anonymous Assignment Rule of Indivisible Objects
Presented by: Hikaru Kondo, Osaka University
Session 10: Axiomatic Measurement 1
Session Chair: Pascaline Vincent, CREM Université Rennes 1
Session type: contributed
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Casuarina
1. The Measurement of Multi-group Dissimilarity and Related Orders
Presented by: Francesco Andreoli, THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
2. My Group Beats Your Group: Evaluating Non-Income Inequalities
Presented by: Tugce Cuhadaroglu, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
3. Appraising the Breakdown of Unequal Individuals in a City
Presented by: Pascaline Vincent, CREM Université Rennes 1
Session 11: Voting 1
Session Chair: Marc Vorsatz, Fundacion de Estudios de Economia Aplicada
Session type: contributed
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Willow
1. Collective Approval
Presented by: Conal Duddy, London School of Economics
2. A New Method of the Single Transferable Vote and its Axiomatic Justification
Presented by: Alexander Karpov, National Research University Higher School of Economics
3. Optimal Apportionment
Presented by: Jean-Francois Laslier, Ecole Polytechnique
4. Non-Anonymous Ballot Aggregation: an Axiomatic Generalization of Approval Voting
Presented by: Marc Vorsatz, Fundacion de Estudios de Economia Aplicada
Session 12: Arrow Lecture by Matthew Jackson (Stanford University)
Session Chair: Bhaskar Dutta, University of Warwick
Session type: invited
Date: August 17, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 17:45
Location: Stein
Session 13: SCW Prize Lecture by Lars Ehlers (Montreal University) and Adam Meirowitz (Princeton University)
Session type: invited
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Stein
Session 14: Auctions 1
Session Chair: Shigehiro Serizawa, Osaka University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Stein
1. Multi-item Vickrey-English-Dutch Auction
Presented by: Albin Erlanson, Lund University
2. The Vickrey-Target Strategy and the Core in Ascending Combinatorial Auctions
Presented by: Ryuji Sano, Osaka University
3. A Characterization of Simultaneous Ascending Rule: Strategy-proofness and Efficiency with Nonquasi-linear Preferences
Presented by: Shigehiro Serizawa, Osaka University
Session 15: Bargaining
Session Chair: Suresh Mutuswami, University of Leicester
Session type: contributed
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Amaltas
1. The Asymmetric Leximin Solution
Presented by: Bram Driesen, University of Heidelberg
2. Monotonicity and Efficiency on Bargaining: Individually Strict Monotonic Solutions
Presented by: Jaume Garcia-Segarra, Universitat Jaume I Castelló
3. Bargaining Model with Coalition Selection Restricted by a Recognition Rule
Presented by: Robert Golanski, Warsaw School of Economics
4. Bilateral Bargaining in an Ambiguous Environment
Presented by: Suresh Mutuswami, University of Leicester
Session 16: Voting 2
Session Chair: Matias Nunez Rodriguez, CNRS - Université de Cergy Pontoise
Session type: contributed
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Willow
1. Welfare-Maximizing Scoring Rules
Presented by: Peter Postl, The University of Birmingham
2. The Informational Simplicity of Scoring Rules.
Presented by: Matias Nunez Rodriguez, CNRS - Université de Cergy Pontoise
Session 17: Experiments 2
Session Chair: Ingrid Rohde, Bilgi University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Magnolia
1. Follow Recommendations to Avoid Coordination-Failure
Presented by: Indrajit Ray, University of Birmingham
2. Risk and Inequality in a Social Decision Making Experiment
Presented by: Ingrid Rohde, Bilgi University
Session 18: Fairness
Session Chair: Zeliha Emel Öztürk, Maastricht University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Casuarina
1. Monotonicity Properties for the Adjudication of Conflicting Claims
Presented by: Yoichi Kasajima, Hiroshima Shudo University
2. The Egalitarian Equivalent and Gain Max-min Solutions for Package Assignment Problems
Presented by: Somdeb Lahiri, PD Petroleum University
3. Fair Division among Other-Regarding Agents
Presented by: Francois Maniquet, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain
4. Measuring Envy
Presented by: Zeliha Emel Öztürk, Maastricht University
Session 19: Auctions 2
Session Chair: Nozomu Muto, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Session type: contributed
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Stein
1. Selling a Technological Innovation through Auction in an Oligopolistic Industry
Presented by: Srobonti Chattopadhyay, Jawaharlal Nehru University
2. Efficiency and Compromise: A Bid-Offer-Counteroffer Mechanism with Two Players
Presented by: Yuan Ju, University of York
3. Lottery versus All-Pay Auction Contests: A Revenue Dominance Theorem
Presented by: Wolfgang Leininger, Universitaet Dortmund
4. Goods Revenue Monotonicity in Combinatorial Auctions
Presented by: Nozomu Muto, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Session 20: Computational Social Choice
Session Chair: Yuliya Veselova, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Session type: contributed
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Amaltas
1. Necessary and Possible Winners for Top-Cycles from Preferences Allowing Ties and Tentative Incompleteness
Presented by: Rémy-Robert Joseph, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane
2. The Probability of Casting a Decisive Vote: From IC to IAC through Ehrhart's Polynomials and Strong Mixing
Presented by: Michel Le Breton, Toulouse School of Economics
3. Social Choice for Anaphora Resolution
Presented by: Sumiyo Nishiguchi, Tokyo University of Science
4. The Difference of Manipulability Indexes in IC and IANC Model
Presented by: Yuliya Veselova, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Session 21: Mechanism Design 1
Session Chair: Soumendu Sarkar, TERI University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Magnolia
1. Generalized Reduced-Form Auctions: A Network-Flow Approach
Presented by: Jinwoo Kim, Seoul National University
2. Mechanism Design in Multidimensional Dichotomous Domains
Presented by: Debasis Mishra, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
3. The Land Acquisition Problem: a Mechanism Design Approach
Presented by: Soumendu Sarkar, TERI University
Session 22: Voting 3
Session Chair: Shin Sato, Fukuoka University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Willow
1. Are Condorcet Procedures So Bad According to the Reinforcement Axiom?
Presented by: Sebastien Courtin, THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
2. Condorcet Admissibility
Presented by: Clemens Puppe, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
3. Informational Requirements of Social Choice Rules to Avoid the Condorcet Loser
Presented by: Shin Sato, Fukuoka University
Session 23: Signaling and Communication Games
Session Chair: Dries Vermeulen, Maastricht University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Casuarina
1. Authority, Consensus and Governance
Presented by: Archishman Chakraborty, York University
2. Information, Efficiency and Coordination in a Game with Two-sided Cheap Talk
Presented by: Chirantan Ganguly, Queen's University Belfast
3. A Characterization of Separating Equilibrium in Multidimensional Signaling Games
Presented by: Dries Vermeulen, Maastricht University
Session 24: Condorcet Lecture by Claude d'Aspremont (CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain)
Session type: invited
Date: August 18, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 17:45
Location: Stein
Session 25: Cooperative Games 1
Session Chair: Dominik Karos, Saarland University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Maple
1. A New Outside Option Value for Networks - Forecasting Distribution of Power of political Agreements
Presented by: Julia Belau, Ruhr Graduate School in Economics
2. Tournament Games with Externalities: The No Threat Equilibrium
Presented by: Ruben Juarez, University of Hawaii
3. Coalition Formation in Generalized Apex Games
Presented by: Dominik Karos, Saarland University
Session 26: Decision Theory 2
Session Chair: Oliver Walker, London School of Economics
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Amaltas
1. Comparative Riskiness of Random Vector Outcomes
Presented by: Sudhir Shah, Delhi School of Economics
2. A Representation Theorem for Choice Under Conscious Unawareness
Presented by: Oliver Walker, London School of Economics
Session 27: Matching 1
Session Chair: Hideo Konishi, Boston College
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Magnolia
1. Dynamic Allocation of Objects to Queuing Agents
Presented by: Francis Bloch, Ecole Polytechnique
2. A Partnership Formation Process
Presented by: Jens Gudmundsson, Lund University
3. Household Formation and Markets
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Presented by: Hideo Konishi, Boston College
Session 28: Axiomatic Measurement 2
Session Chair: Alain Trannoy, EHESS, Marseille
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Casuarina
1. Securing Basic Well-being for All
Presented by: Reiko Gotoh, Ritsumeikan University
2. Equality of Opportunity and Stochastic Dominance
Presented by: Alain Trannoy, EHESS, Marseille
Session 29: Development
Session Chair: Sebastian Vollmer, University of Goettingen & Harvard School of Public Health
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Willow
1. Sub-national Disparities and Inter-temporal Evolution of Multidimensional Poverty across Developing Countries
Presented by: Sabina Alkire, OPHI, University of Oxford
2. Caste Bias, Corruption and Distribution in India: The Effect of Voter Preferences on Policy Outcomes in Uttar Pradesh
Presented by: Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics
3. An African Growth Miracle? Or: What do Asset Indices Tell Us about Trends in Economic Performance?
Presented by: Sebastian Vollmer, University of Goettingen & Harvard School of Public Health
Session 30: Competition and Equilibrium
Session Chair: Amarjyoti Mahanta, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Maple
1. Competition in R&D and Sharing of Innovative Knowledge
Presented by: Kaustav Das, Pennsylvania State University
2. Bilateral Monopoly and Competitive Equilibrium
Presented by: Amarjyoti Mahanta, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Session 31: Matching 2
Session Chair: T.C.A Madhav Raghavan, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Magnolia
1. Pairwise Stability and Strategy-Proofness for College Admissions with Budget Constraints
Presented by: Azar Abizada, University of Rochester
2. New fairness notions in the assignment of indivisible resources
Presented by: Nanyang Bu, University of Rochester
3. Matching With Minimal Priority Rights
Presented by: Szilvia Papai, Concordia University
4. Strategy-Proof Project Assignment
Presented by: T.C.A Madhav Raghavan, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Session 32: Axiomatic Measurement 3
Session Chair: Jonathan Rothbaum, The George Washington University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Casuarina
1. Measuring Vulnerability Using the Counting Approach
Presented by: Indranil Dutta, University of Manchester
2. Resource-Based Sustainability: Technological Change and Uncertainty
Presented by: Paolo Piacquadio, University of Louvain
3. Distribution-Sensitive Mobility: A Cutoff-Based Approach to Mobility Measurement
Presented by: Jonathan Rothbaum, The George Washington University
Session 33: Voting 4
Session Chair: Vincent Merlin, CNRS, Université de Caen
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Willow
1. An analysis of mixed member proportional rule from an aggregation perspective - a case study of the German parliamentary election system
Presented by: Victoria Brosi, University of York
2. Voting and Culture
Presented by: Arye Hillman, Bar-Illan University
3. The robustness of the Penrose-Banzhaf and Shapley-Shubik measures of power to positive correlation
Presented by: Serguei Kaniovski, Austrian Institute of Economic Research
4. Can we Avoid Vote Swapping in Representative Democracies ?
Presented by: Vincent Merlin, CNRS, Université de Caen
Session 34: Incentives 1
Session Chair: Rajlakshmi Mallik, NSHM Business School
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Amaltas
1. Inefficiencies in the Shadow of Conflict
Presented by: Madhav Aney, Singapore Management University
2. Dynamic Pricing under Social Learning with Strategic Consumers
Presented by: Manaswini Bhalla, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
3. Assessment to Placement: Uncertainty and Effort Choice
Presented by: Rajlakshmi Mallik, NSHM Business School
Session 35: Cooperative Games 2
Session Chair: Helga Habis, Corvinus University of Budapest
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Maple
1. Stability and Index of the Meet Game on a Lattice
Presented by: Joseph Abdou, University Paris 1
2. Size Monotonicity and Stability of the Core in Hedonic Games
Presented by: Dinko Dimitrov, Saarland University
3. Aggregate Monotonic Stable Single-Valued Solutions for Cooperative Games
Presented by: Pedro Calleja, University of Barcelona
4. Transferable Utility Games with Uncertainty
Presented by: Helga Habis, Corvinus University of Budapest
Session 36: Mechanism Design 2
Session Chair: Karol Szwagrzak, University of Rochester
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Magnolia
1. The Characterization of Affine Maximizers When There Are Only Two Alternatives: A Technical Note
Presented by: Thierry Marchant, Ghent University
2. No-envy, Egalitarian Equivalence and Strategyproofness in Queueing Problems
Presented by: Manipushpak Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute
3. Rational Allocations In Single Object Auctions
Presented by: Abdul Quadir, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
4. Efficient, Fair, and Group Strategy-Proof (Re)Allocation in Networks
Presented by: Karol Szwagrzak, University of Rochester
Session 37: Axiomatic Measurement 4
Session Chair: Margherita Negri, Université Catholique de Louvain
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Casuarina
1. Equalization of Opportunity : Definitions and Implementable Conditions
Presented by: Arnaud Lefranc, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
2. Ethnic Polarization Orderings and Indices
Presented by: Bhargav Maharaj, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira
3. Inefficiency
Presented by: Alan Miller, University of Haifa
4. An Axiomatic Approach to the Measure of Ethnic Politics
Presented by: Margherita Negri, Université Catholique de Louvain
Session 38: Voting 5
Session Chair: Felix Ketelaar, University of Bonn
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Willow
1. Polling or Experimentation in Agenda Setting?
Presented by: Jidong Chen, Princeton University
2. Professional Advice from Randomly Transparent Committees
Presented by: Saptarshi Ghosh, University of Birmingham
3. Markov Voting Games and the Persistence of Inefficient Policies
Presented by: Parikshit Ghosh, Delhi School of Economics
4. On Informational Coherence and Full Deliberation in Heterogeneous Committees
Presented by: Felix Ketelaar, University of Bonn
Session 39: Taxation
Session Chair: John Weymark, Vanderbilt University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Amaltas
1. Tax Based Electoral Competition With Costs
Presented by: Francisco Marhuenda, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
2. Marginal Deadweight Loss when the Income Tax is Nonlinear
Presented by: Laurent Simula, Uppsala University
3. Fair Optimal Tax with Endogenous Productivities
Presented by: Giacomo Valletta, Maastricht University
4. Citizen Candidates and Voting Over Incentive-Compatible Nonlinear Income Tax Schedules
Presented by: John Weymark, Vanderbilt University
Session 40: Cooperative Games 3
Session Chair: Hans Peters, Maastricht University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Maple
1. The SD-prenucleolus for TU games
Presented by: Ilya Katsev, St. Petersburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics
2. Axiomatization of the nucleolus of the assignment game
Presented by: Marina Núñez, Universitat de Barcelona
3. On extensions of the core and the anticore of transferable utility games
Presented by: Hans Peters, Maastricht University
Session 41: Mechanism Design 3
Session Chair: Conan Mukherjee, Indian Statistical Institute
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Willow
1. Budget-Balance, Fairness and Minimal Manipulability
Presented by: Tommy Andersson, Lund University
2. Fair and Group Strategy-Proof Good Allocation with Money
Presented by: Conan Mukherjee, Indian Statistical Institute
Session 42: Matching 3
Session Chair: Antonio Romero-Medina, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Magnolia
1. Could Schools Compete for Better Students by Choosing Entrance Examination Dates?
Presented by: Yi-Cheng Kao, Chung Yuan Christian University
2. Yet Another Walrasian Solution to the Random Matching Problem
Presented by: Vikram Manjunath, Université de Montréal
3. College Admissions with Multiple Applications and Observable Effort
Presented by: Antonio Romero-Medina, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Session 43: Axiomatic Measurement 5
Session Chair: Marek Kośny, Wrocław University of Economics
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Casuarina
1. Measuring Consistently the Inequality among the Poor
Presented by: Oihana Aristondo, Universidad del País Vasco
2. Measures of Relative Income Change with Application to the Luxembourg Income Study Data
Presented by: Marek Kośny, Wrocław University of Economics
Session 44: Incentives 2
Session Chair: Arieh Gavious, Ben Gurion University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 19, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Amaltas
1. Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline
Presented by: Amrita Dhillon, University of Warwick
2. Incentives' Effect In Influenza Vaccination Policy
Presented by: Arieh Gavious, Ben Gurion University
Session 45: Matching 4
Session Chair: Utku Unver, Boston College
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Magnolia
1. College Admission with Stable Score-Limits
Presented by: Sofya Kiselgof, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2. Tuition Exchange
Presented by: Utku Unver, Boston College
Session 46: Strategic Social Choice 3
Session Chair: Anup Pramanik, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Casuarina
1. Non Fixed-price Trading Rules in Single-crossing Classical Exchange Economies
Presented by: Mridu Goswami, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
2. Strategy-Proofness under Two Dimensional Single-Dipped Preferences
Presented by: Murat Ozturk, Maastricht University
3. Strategy-proof Social Choice with Exogenous Indifference Classes Revisited
Presented by: Anup Pramanik, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Session 47: Political Economy 1
Session Chair: Florian Schuett, Tilburg University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Amaltas
1. Evolution of the Party System
Presented by: Sandro Brusco, Stony Brook University
2. Media Persuasion and Voter Welfare
Presented by: Jaideep Roy, University of Birmingham
3. Ethical Voters and the Demand for Political News
Presented by: Florian Schuett, Tilburg University
Session 48: Aggregation 1
Session Chair: Kohei Kamaga, Sophia University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Maple
1. Rank-Discounted Utilitarianism with Variable Population
Presented by: Geir Asheim, University of Oslo
2. Life Quantity, Life Quality and Longevity: An Intertemporal Social Evaluation Framework
Presented by: Bouba Housseini, Université Laval
3. Infinite-Horizon Social Evaluation with Variable Population Size
Presented by: Kohei Kamaga, Sophia University
Session 49: Empty Session
Session Chair: Arunava Sen, Indian Statistical Institute
Session type: invited
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 8:30 - 10:00
Location: Willow
Session 50: Mechanism Design 4
Session Chair: Sonal Yadav, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Magnolia
1. Implementation in Undominated Strategies with a Prior
Presented by: Saptarshi Mukherjee, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
2. Implementation in Undominated Strategies by Bounded and Covered Mechanisms
Presented by: Eve Ramaekers, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain
3. Whose Opinion Counts? Implementation by Sortition
Presented by: Rene Saran, Maastricht University
4. Selecting Winners with Partially Honest Jurors
Presented by: Sonal Yadav, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Session 51: Strategic Social Choice 4
Session Chair: Alexander Reffgen, Lund University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Casuarina
1. On Manipulation from an Unacceptable Social Choice to an Acceptable One
Presented by: Bora Erdamar, Istanbul Bilgi University
2. Representation of Sequential Allotment Rule as Generalized Median Voter Scheme with Tie-Breaking Rule
Presented by: Nikolay Korgin, Institute of Control Sciences RAS
3. Threats, Counter-Threats and Candidacy Games
Presented by: Jérémy Picot, Université de Strasbourg
4. Strategy-Proof Social Choice on Multiple Single-Peaked Domains and Preferences for Parties
Presented by: Alexander Reffgen, Lund University
Session 52: Voting 6
Session Chair: Llorenc Rosello, ESADE - Ramon Llull University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Willow
1. Voting under Temptation
Presented by: Monisankar Bishnu, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
2. Modified Weighted Voting Systems Based on Preferential Positions
Presented by: Robert Bystricky, Slovak University of Technology and Comenius University
3. Choosing a Committee with a Non-Fixed Size
Presented by: Adrian Miroiu, National School of Political Studies
4. Allowing Voters to be Imprecise: A Proposal Using Multiple Linguistic Terms
Presented by: Llorenc Rosello, ESADE - Ramon Llull University
Session 53: Political Economy 2
Session Chair: Simge Tarhan, University of the Pacific
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Amaltas
1. Constituencies, Regions, and Policy Outcomes
Presented by: Mihir Bhattacharya, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
2. Policy Convergence in a Two-Candidate Probabilistic Voting Model
Presented by: Constantine Sorokin, National Research University Higher School of Economics
3. Campaign Contributions and Political Polarization
Presented by: Simge Tarhan, University of the Pacific
Session 54: Aggregation 2
Session Chair: Hirofumi Yamamura, Kobe University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Maple
1. Inequality Aversion and Separability in Social Risk Evaluation
Presented by: Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton University
2. Social Choice Theory with Collectively Qualified Agendas: The Case Where There Exist Voting Agenda Setters
Presented by: Yukinori Iwata, Nishogakusha University
3. Interpersonal Comparison Necessary for Fair Collective Choice
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Presented by: Hirofumi Yamamura, Kobe University
Session 55: Networks
Session Chair: Rohith Vallam, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Casuarina
1. Allocation Rules for Fixed and Flexible Networks: The Role of Players and their Links
Presented by: Surajit Borkotokey, Dibrugarh University
2. On Rent Extraction and Efficient Allocation over Social Networks
Presented by: Neelanjan Sircar, Columbia University
3. Topologies and Price of Stability of Complex Strategic Networks with Localized Payoffs: Analytical and Simulation Studies
Presented by: Rohith Vallam, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Session 56: Mechanism Design 5
Session Chair: Shrutivandana Sharma, Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Magnolia
1. VCG Mechanisms for the Implementation of Efficient Patterns of Communication
Presented by: Efthymios Athanasiou, Carnegie Mellon University
2. Mechanism Design for Evolutionary Games in Special Interest Groups
Presented by: Srijan Dubey, University of Pune
3. Mechanisms for Crowdsourcing an Atomic Task under Optimal Resources
Presented by: Swaprava Nath, Indian Institute of Science
4. Auctions for Social Advertising
Presented by: Shrutivandana Sharma, Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore
Session 57: Voting 7
Session Chair: Vyacheslav Yakuba, Institute of Control Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Willow
1. Nash Equilibrium and Manipulation in a Mean Rule Experiment
Presented by: Veronica Block, Karlsruhe Institut of Technology
2. Positional Voting Systems Generated by Aggregation Functions
Presented by: José Luis García-Lapresta, University of Valladolid
3. The Coalitional Manipulability of the Positional Social Choice Rules
Presented by: Alexander Ivanov, National Research University Higher School of Economics
4. Weak Manipulability of Voting Rules
Presented by: Daniel Karabekyan, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Session 58: Political Economy 3
Session Chair: Paolo Roberti, Università degli studi di Padova
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Amaltas
1. Proximity and Directional Theory Compared: Taking Discriminant Positions Seriously in Multi-Party Systems
Presented by: Zsombor Méder, Maastricht University
2. Wooing the Voters: Economic Performance and Regime Change
Presented by: Diganta Mukherjee, Indian Statistical Institute
3. Income Redistribution and Stable Institutions
Presented by: Paolo Roberti, Università degli studi di Padova
Session 59: Aggregation 3
Session Chair: Ilan Nehama, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Location: Maple
1. Scoring Rules for Judgment Aggregation
Presented by: Franz Dietrich, CNRS (France) & UEA (U.K.)
2. An Impossibility of Expert Rights in Abstract Argumentation
Presented by: Nan Li, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
3. Approximate Judgement Aggregation
Presented by: Ilan Nehama, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Session 60: Decision Theory 3
Session Chair: Debabrata Pal, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Magnolia
1. Relative Equality of Opportunity: A Statistical Approach
Presented by: Carmen Herrero, University of Alicante
2. The Virtues of Hesitation
Presented by: Urmee Khan, University of California, Riverside
3. Rationalizability of Choice Functions: Domain Conditions
Presented by: Debabrata Pal, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Session 61: Experiments 3
Session Chair: Gianluca Grimalda, Jaume I Universty
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Willow
1. Experiment of Approval Voting and Range Voting during the 2012 French Presidential Elections. First Results
[slides]
Presented by: Antoinette Baujard, University Jean Monnet
2. Preferences for Redistribution in the US, Italy, Norway: An Experimental Study
Presented by: Gianluca Grimalda, Jaume I Universty
Session 62: Equilibrium and Welfare
Session Chair: John Roemer, Yale University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Maple
1. Kantian equilibrium, social ethos, and Pareto efficiency
Presented by: John Roemer, Yale University
2. Strategic Choice of Lifestyle and Procreation: Asymmetric Equilibria in the Presence of Partial Social Insurance
Presented by: Anindya Bhattacharya, University of York
Session 63: Axiomatic Measurement 6
Session Chair: Burak Can, Maastricht University
Session type: contributed
Date: August 20, 2012
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Casuarina
1. What do normative indices of multidimensional inequality really measure?
Presented by: Kristof Bosmans, Maastricht University
2. Weighted Distances Between Preferences
Presented by: Burak Can, Maastricht University

 

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