Midwest Economic Theory |
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Summary of All Sessions |
| # | Date/Time | Location | Title | Papers |
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| 1 | November 2, 2007 14:15-15:45 | 2427 Mason | Incentive Contracts | 3 |
| 2 | November 2, 2007 14:15-15:45 | 2436 Mason | Signaling and Communicating Product Quality | 3 |
| 3 | November 2, 2007 16:15-17:45 | 2427 Mason | Decentralized Markets | 3 |
| 4 | November 2, 2007 16:15-17:45 | 2436 Mason | Cheap Talk and Communication | 3 |
| 5 | November 3, 2007 9:00-10:30 | 1230 Weill | Auctions | 3 |
| 6 | November 3, 2007 9:00-10:30 | 1220 Weill | Decision Making under Risk | 3 |
| 7 | November 3, 2007 11:00-12:30 | 1230 Weill | Experiments and their Interpretation | 3 |
| 8 | November 3, 2007 11:00-12:30 | 1220 Weill | Industrial Organization | 3 |
| 9 | November 3, 2007 14:15-15:45 | 1230 Weill | Game Theory | 3 |
| 10 | November 3, 2007 14:15-15:45 | 1220 Weill | Decision Theory I | 3 |
| 11 | November 3, 2007 16:15-17:45 | 1230 Weill | Applied Theory | 2 |
| 12 | November 3, 2007 16:15-17:45 | 1220 Weill | Economics of Information | 3 |
| 13 | November 4, 2007 8:30-10:00 | 1230 Weill | Decision Theory II | 3 |
| 14 | November 4, 2007 8:30-10:00 | 1220 Weill | Matching Markets | 2 |
| 15 | November 4, 2007 10:30-12:00 | 1230 Weill | Mechanism Design | 3 |
| 16 | November 4, 2007 10:30-12:00 | 1220 Weill | Theory of Financial and Currency Markets | 3 |
16 sessions, 46 papers |
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Midwest Economic Theory |
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Complete List of All Sessions |
Session 1: Incentive Contracts |
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| Session Chair: Jeroen Swinkels, Washington University |
| Date: November 2, 2007 |
| Time: 14:15 - 15:45 |
| Location: 2427 Mason |
| Unravelling in a Repeated Principal-Agent Game |
| By Madhav Chandrasekher Department of Economics University of California, Berkeley |
| Presented by: madhav chandrasekher, uc-berkeley |
| Efficient tournaments within teams |
| By Alex Gershkov, University of Bonn Jianpei Li, Humboldt University of Berlin Paul Schweinzer, University of Bonn |
| Presented by: Paul Schweinzer, University of Bonn |
| Incentive Contracts and Minimum Wages |
| By Ohad Kadan, Washington University in St. Louis Ian Jewitt, Oxford University Jeroen Swinkels, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Presented by: Jeroen Swinkels, Washington University |
Session 2: Signaling and Communicating Product Quality |
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| Session Chair: Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University |
| Date: November 2, 2007 |
| Time: 14:15 - 15:45 |
| Location: 2436 Mason |
| The Effect of Information on Prices |
| By Wassim Daher, Paris School of Economics, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CERMSEM) Leonard J. Mirman, University of Virginia Marc Santugini, HEC Montréal |
| Presented by: Leonard Mirman, University of Virginia |
| Signaling quality through prices in an oligopoly. |
| By Maarten Janssen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Santanu Roy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. |
| Presented by: Santanu Roy, Southern Methodist University |
| Communicating Quality: A Unified Model of Disclosure and Signaling |
| By Andrew Daughety, Department of Economics and Law School, Vanderbilt University Jennifer Reinganum, Department of Economics and Law School, Vanderbilt University |
| Presented by: Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University |
Session 3: Decentralized Markets |
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| Session Chair: Stephan Lauermann, University of Michigan |
| Date: November 2, 2007 |
| Time: 16:15 - 17:45 |
| Location: 2427 Mason |
| Two Essays on Foundations of Money in a Trading Post Model: (i) Mengerian Saleableness and Commodity Money in a Walrasian Trading Post Example (ii) Equilibrium and Media of Exchange in a Convex Trading Post Economy |
| By Ross M. Starr, University of California, San Diego |
| Presented by: Ross STARR, University of California, San Diego |
| Markets and Relationships in a Learning Economy |
| By Luis Araujo, Michigan State University Raoul Minetti, Michigan State University |
| Presented by: Luis Araujo, Michigan State University |
| Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Games: A General Approach |
| By Stephan Lauermann |
| Presented by: Stephan Lauermann, University of Michigan |
Session 4: Cheap Talk and Communication |
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| Session Chair: Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University |
| Date: November 2, 2007 |
| Time: 16:15 - 17:45 |
| Location: 2436 Mason |
| Persuasion with an Unkown Quantity of Signals |
| By Jared Lunsford - University of Pittsburgh |
| Presented by: Jared Lunsford, University of Pittsburgh |
| Competitive Cheap Talk |
| By Paan Jindapon, University of Alabama Carlos Oyarzun, Universidad de Alicante |
| Presented by: Paan Jindapon, University of Alabama |
| Multidimensional Cheap Talk with Transparent Motives |
| By Archishman Chakraborty, Baruch College, CUNY Rick Harbaugh, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University |
| Presented by: Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University |
Session 5: Auctions |
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| Session Chair: Harrison Cheng, University of Southern California |
| Date: November 3, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: 1230 Weill |
| Collusion via Resale |
| By Rod Garratt, Santa Barbara Thomas Troger, Bonn Charles Zheng, Iowa State |
| Presented by: Charles Z. Zheng, Iowa State University |
| Revenue and Efficiency Effects of Resale in First-Price Auctions |
| By Isa E. Hafalir, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Vijay Krishna, Penn State University |
| Presented by: Isa Hafalir, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Asymmetric Common Value Auctions with Applications to Auctions with Resale |
| By Harrison Cheng, USC Guofu Tan, USC |
| Presented by: Harrison Cheng, University of Southern California |
Session 6: Decision Making under Risk |
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| Session Chair: William Neilson, University of Tennessee |
| Date: November 3, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: 1220 Weill |
| Consistent Beliefs from the Perspective of Additive Representation |
| By Peter A Streufert, University of Western Ontario |
| Presented by: Peter Streufert, University of Western Ontario |
| Updating Smooth Ambiguity Preferences |
| By Eran Hanany, Tel Aviv University Peter Klibanoff, Northwestern University |
| Presented by: Peter Klibanoff, Northwestern University |
| Ambiguity aversion and hedging |
| By William S. Neilson, University of Tennessee |
| Presented by: William Neilson, University of Tennessee |
Session 7: Experiments and their Interpretation |
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| Session Chair: Yoram Halevy, University of British Columbia |
| Date: November 3, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: 1230 Weill |
| Preferences over Consumption and Status |
| By Alexander Vostroknutov, University of Minnesota |
| Presented by: Alexander Vostroknutov, University of Minnesota |
| An Experiment on the Core |
| By 1st Author: Huibin Yan, UCSC Dan Friedman, UCSC |
| Presented by: Huibin Yan, UC-Santa Cruz |
| Is the Ultimatum Game the Ultimate Experiment? |
| By Yoram Halevy, UBC Mike Peters, UBC |
| Presented by: Yoram Halevy, University of British Columbia |
Session 8: Industrial Organization |
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| Session Chair: Thomas Jeitschko, Michigan State University |
| Date: November 3, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: 1220 Weill |
| Dynamic Entry and Exit with Uncertain Cost Positions |
| By Makoto Hanazono, Nagoya University Huanxing Yang, Ohio State University |
| Presented by: Makoto Hanazono, Nagoya University |
| The Groucho Effect of Uncertain Standards |
| By Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University John Maxwell, Indiana University Beatrice Rousillon, University of Lyon |
| Presented by: John Maxwell, Kelley School of Business |
| Adverse Selection in Markets with Endogenous Entry |
| By Creane, Anthony J.; Michigan State University, Economics Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Michigan State University |
| Presented by: Thomas Jeitschko, Michigan State University |
Session 9: Game Theory |
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| Session Chair: Hans Haller, Virginia Tech |
| Date: November 3, 2007 |
| Time: 14:15 - 15:45 |
| Location: 1230 Weill |
| Refutable Potential Games |
| By Rahul Deb, Yale |
| Presented by: Rahul Deb, Yale University |
| Monotone Comparative Statics for Games With Strategic Substitutes |
| By Sunanda Roy, Drake University Tarun Sabarwal, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Presented by: Tarun Sabarwal, |
| Pairwise Interaction on Random Graphs |
| By Siegfried Berninghaus, University Karlsruhe Hans Haller, Virginia Tech |
| Presented by: Hans Haller, Virginia Tech |
Session 10: Decision Theory I |
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| Session Chair: Yusufcan Masatlioglu, University of Michigan |
| Date: November 3, 2007 |
| Time: 14:15 - 15:45 |
| Location: 1220 Weill |
| The Epistemic Value of a Menu and Subjective States |
| By Asen Kochov Department of Economics, University of Rochester |
| Presented by: Asen Kochov, University of Rochester |
| Object-Based Unawareness |
| By Oliver Board, University of Pittsburgh Kim-Sau Chung, University of Minnesota |
| Presented by: Oliver Board, University of Pittsburgh |
| A Theory of Choice by Elimination |
| By Yusufcan Masatlioglu, University of Michigan Daisuke Nakajima, University of Michigan |
| Presented by: Yusufcan Masatlioglu, University of Michigan |
Session 11: Applied Theory |
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| Session Chair: Andrew Newman, Boston University and CEPR |
| Date: November 3, 2007 |
| Time: 16:15 - 17:45 |
| Location: 1230 Weill |
| Can Information Asymmetry Cause Agglomeration? |
| By Marcus Berliant, Washington University in St. Louis Fan-chin Kung, City University of Hong Kong |
| Presented by: Marcus Berliant, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Managerial Firms, Organizational Choice, and Consumer Welfare |
| By Patrick Legros, ECARES, Univ Brussels; and CEPR Andrew F. Newman, Boston University and CEPR |
| Presented by: Andrew Newman, Boston University and CEPR |
Session 12: Economics of Information |
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| Session Chair: John Quah, Oxford University |
| Date: November 3, 2007 |
| Time: 16:15 - 17:45 |
| Location: 1220 Weill |
| Optimal Insurance with Adverse Selection |
| By Hector Chade, Arizona State University Edward Schlee, Arizona State University |
| Presented by: Edward Schlee, Arizona State University |
| Updating Toward the Signal |
| By Christopher P. Chambers, Caltech Paul J. Healy, Ohio State |
| Presented by: Paul Healy, The Ohio State University |
| Comparative Statics, Informativeness, and the Interval Dominance Order |
| By John K.-H. Quah Oxford University Bruno Strulovici Oxford University |
| Presented by: John Quah, Oxford University |
Session 13: Decision Theory II |
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| Session Chair: Mallesh Pai, Kellogg School Of Management |
| Date: November 4, 2007 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:00 |
| Location: 1230 Weill |
| Temptation and Self-control as Duals |
| By John E. Stovall, University of Rochester |
| Presented by: John Stovall, University of Rochester |
| Learning Self-Control |
| By S. Nageeb Ali, University of California, San Diego, Department of Economics |
| Presented by: Syed Ali, UC-San Diego |
| Language and Commitment in Retrospective Reasoning |
| By Nabil Al-Najjar, Northwestern University Mallesh Pai, Northwestern University |
| Presented by: Mallesh Pai, Kellogg School Of Management |
Session 14: Matching Markets |
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| Session Chair: Michael Peters, University of British Columbia |
| Date: November 4, 2007 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:00 |
| Location: 1220 Weill |
| The Sorting Effect of Price Competition |
| By Jan Eeckhout, University of Pennsylvania Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania |
| Presented by: Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania |
| Truncated Hedonic Equilibrium |
| By Michael Peters, University of British Columbia |
| Presented by: Michael Peters, University of British Columbia |
Session 15: Mechanism Design |
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| Session Chair: Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, UCLA |
| Date: November 4, 2007 |
| Time: 10:30 - 12:00 |
| Location: 1230 Weill |
| Buyer heterogeneity and competing mechanisms |
| By Gabor Virag University of Rochester |
| Presented by: Gabor Virag, University of Rochester |
| Efficient, ex post mechanism design: a differentiable approach |
| By J.C. Carbajal-Ponce Department of Economics, Washington University. |
| Presented by: Juan Carbajal-Ponce, Washington University in St Louis |
| Mechanism Design with Fixed Participation Costs |
| By Katalin Bognar, Michigan Tilman Borgers, Michigan Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, UCLA |
| Presented by: Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, UCLA |
Session 16: Theory of Financial and Currency Markets |
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| Session Chair: Emre Ozdenoren, University of Michigan |
| Date: November 4, 2007 |
| Time: 10:30 - 12:00 |
| Location: 1220 Weill |
| Frequent Trading and Price Impact in Thin Markets |
| By Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Oxford University Marek Weretka, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Oxford University |
| Presented by: Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Communication and Confidence in Financial Networks |
| By Chun Xia University of Minnesota |
| Presented by: Chun Xia, University of Minnesota |
| Learning and Complementarities: Implications for Speculative Attacks |
| By Itay Goldstein, Department of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Emre Ozdenoren, Department of Economics, University of Michigan Ksthy Yuan, Department of Finance, Ross School, University of Michigan |
| Presented by: Emre Ozdenoren, University of Michigan |
This program was last updated on 2007-10-26 14:36:57 EDT