Eighth International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare

Summary of All Sessions

#Date/TimeLocationTitlePapers
114 July
8:30-8:45
SEDEF Welcome Address1
214 July
8:45-10:00
SEDEF Murat Sertel Lecture1
314 July
10:30-12:00
SEDEF 1 House Allocation I3
414 July
10:30-12:00
AVSA 2 Social Identity and Arrovian Ramifications4
514 July
10:30-12:00
SEDEF 3 Political Economy I4
614 July
10:30-12:00
AVSA 1 Voting Rules I4
714 July
10:30-12:00
BURGAZ Uncertainty and correlation4
814 July
10:30-12:00
SEDEF 2 Experiments I4
914 July
13:30-15:00
AVSA 1 Voting Rules II - Voting for Several Candidates4
1014 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 2 Experiments II4
1114 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 1 Coalition Formation I4
1214 July
13:30-15:00
AVSA 2 Aggregate Complexity4
1314 July
13:30-15:00
BURGAZ The Core4
1414 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 3 Decision Theory: Models and Evidence4
1514 July
15:30-17:00
AVSA 2 Paretian Rationality4
1614 July
15:30-17:00
BURGAZ Generalizations of the Shapley value4
1714 July
15:30-17:00
AVSA 1 Political Campaigns3
1814 July
15:30-17:00
SEDEF 1 Market Design3
1914 July
15:30-17:00
SEDEF 2 Distributive Justice and Equality4
2014 July
15:30-17:00
SEDEF 3 Political Economy II4
2115 July
8:45-10:00
SEDEF Condorcet Lecture1
2215 July
10:30-12:00
SEDEF Presidential Address and SSCW Members' Meeting1
2315 July
13:30-15:00
AVSA 1 Voting and Markets4
2415 July
13:30-15:00
BURGAZ Solutions for cooperative games4
2515 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 3 Utilitarianism and Utility4
2615 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 1 Coalition Formation II4
2715 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 2 Auctions4
2815 July
13:30-15:00
AVSA 2 Power Indices I4
2915 July
15:05-16:15
SEDEF 3 General Equilibrium3
3015 July
15:05-16:15
AVSA 1 Proportional Representation and Apportionment3
3115 July
15:05-16:15
SEDEF 2 Network Theory I3
3215 July
15:05-16:15
SEDEF 1 Matching: Implementability and Implementation3
3315 July
15:05-16:15
AVSA 2 Jury Problems I: The Discursive Dilemma3
3415 July
15:05-16:15
BURGAZ Fairness in games3
3515 July
16:30-17:40
AVSA 2 Power Indices II3
3615 July
16:30-17:40
AVSA 1 Conformity, Bias and Deliberation3
3715 July
16:30-17:40
SEDEF 2 Network Theory II3
3815 July
16:30-17:40
BURGAZ Strategic cooperation3
3915 July
16:30-17:40
SEDEF 1 Matching: Preference Revelation Games and Small Cores3
4015 July
17:45-18:55
AVSA 1 Opportunity and Capability3
4115 July
17:45-18:55
SEDEF 1 Matching: Stability Notions3
4215 July
17:45-18:55
BURGAZ Repeated and extensive form games3
4315 July
17:45-18:55
SEDEF 2 Network Theory III3
4416 July
8:45-10:00
SEDEF Social Choice and Welfare Prize Lecture1
4516 July
10:30-12:00
AVSA 2 Choice Theory4
4616 July
10:30-12:00
AVSA 1 Voting Rules III - Miscelaneous4
4716 July
10:30-12:00
SEDEF 3 Inequality4
4816 July
10:30-12:00
BURGAZ Public goods4
4916 July
10:30-12:00
SEDEF 1 Strategy-Proofness I3
5016 July
10:30-12:00
SEDEF 2 Fair Allocation4
5116 July
13:30-15:00
AVSA 1 Voting Rules IV - Discrepencies among Voting Rules4
5216 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 3 Measurement of Inequality4
5316 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 2 Cost Sharing and Assignment4
5416 July
13:30-15:00
BURGAZ Public Good Provision and Participation4
5516 July
13:30-15:00
AVSA 2 Jury Problems II: Judgment and Preference4
5616 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 1 Strategy-Proofness and Indivisibilities4
5716 July
15:30-17:00
AVSA 2 Preference Domains4
5816 July
15:30-17:00
SEDEF 1 Allocation and Fairness: Axioms I4
5916 July
15:30-17:00
AVSA 1 Voting Rules V - Election of Committees4
6016 July
15:30-17:00
SEDEF 3 Measuring Welfare and Poverty4
6116 July
15:30-17:00
BURGAZ Redistribution4
6216 July
15:30-17:00
SEDEF 2 Network Theory IV4
6317 July
8:45-10:00
SEDEF Arrow Lecture1
6417 July
10:30-12:00
BURGAZ Evolutionary models3
6517 July
10:30-12:00
SEDEF 1 Strategy-Proofness II4
6617 July
10:30-12:00
SEDEF 3 Incentives and Information4
6717 July
10:30-12:00
SEDEF 2 Group Decisions4
6817 July
10:30-12:00
AVSA 1 Voting Rules VI - Probability Models4
6917 July
10:30-12:00
AVSA 2 Parties and Voting4
7017 July
13:30-15:00
AVSA 1 Voting Rules VII - Axiomatizations and Probability Models4
7117 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 3 Decision Theory4
7217 July
13:30-15:00
BURGAZ Choice Functions and Preferences4
7317 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 2 Claims Problems4
7417 July
13:30-15:00
SEDEF 1 House Allocation II3
7517 July
13:30-15:00
AVSA 2 Political Competition4
7617 July
15:30-17:00
SEDEF 3 Social Welfare: Empirics4
7717 July
15:30-17:00
SEDEF 1 Allocation and Fairness: Axioms II4
7817 July
15:30-17:00
BURGAZ Noncooperative Bargaining3
7917 July
15:30-17:00
SEDEF 2 Network Theory V4
8017 July
15:30-17:00
AVSA 2 Implementation I3
8117 July
15:30-17:00
AVSA 1 Voting Rules VIII - Characterization of Voting Rules4
8217 July
17:05-18:15
BURGAZ Cooperative Bargaining3
8317 July
17:05-18:15
SEDEF 2 Land Division3
8417 July
17:05-18:15
AVSA 2 Implementation II2
8517 July
17:05-18:15
AVSA 1 Jury Problems III: Judgment Aggregation3
8617 July
17:05-18:15
SEDEF 1 Strategy-Proofness III3
 

86 sessions, 297 papers


 

Eighth International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare

Complete List of All Sessions


Session 1: Welcome Address

Session Chair: M. Remzi Sanver, Istanbul Bilgi University
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 8:30 - 8:45
Location: SEDEF
 

Welcome Address
By Aydın Ugur, Rector - Istanbul Bilgi University
   Presented by: Aydın Ugur, Rector - Istanbul Bilgi University

Session 2: Murat Sertel Lecture

Session Chair: M. Remzi Sanver, Istanbul Bilgi University
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 8:45 - 10:00
Location: SEDEF
 

A Theory of Voting and Ranking
By Michel Balinski, Ecole Polytechnique (based on joint work with Rida Laraki,Ecole Polytechnique)
   Presented by: Michel Balinski, CNRS

Session 3: House Allocation I

Session Chair: Onur Kesten,
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Probabilistic serial and top trading cycles from equal division for the random assignment problem
By Onur Kesten Harvard Business School
   Presented by: Onur Kesten,
 

House Allocation with Existing Tenants: A new solution
By Ozgur Yilmaz
   Presented by: Ozgur Yilmaz, University of Rochester
 

Revisiting Consistency in House Allocation Problems
By Rodrigo Velez-Cardona, University of Rochester
   Presented by: Rodrigo Velez-Cardona, University of Rochester

Session 4: Social Identity and Arrovian Ramifications

Session Chair: Murat Ali Cengelci, Istanbul Bilgi University
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: AVSA 2
 

Embracing Liberalism for Collective Identity Determination
By Murat Ali Cengelci (Istanbul Bilgi University) M. Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University)
   Presented by: Murat Ali Cengelci, Istanbul Bilgi University
 

Separation of Decisions in Group Identification
By Alan D. Miller, California Institute of Technology
   Presented by: Alan Miller, California Institute of Technology
 

Fuzzy versions of some Arrow's type results
By Louis Aimé Fono, Veronique Kommogne and Nicolas Gabriel Andjiga.
   Presented by: Louis Aimé FONO, University of Douala
 

Existence of Approximate Social Welfare
By Jack Stecher, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
   Presented by: Jack Stecher, Norwegian School of Economics

Session 5: Political Economy I

Session Chair: Shmuel Nitzan,
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SEDEF 3
 

Contest efforts in light of behavioral considerations
By Eyal Baharad Haifa University and Shmuel Nitzan Bar Ilan University
   Presented by: Shmuel Nitzan,
 

Political Budget Cycles and Fiscal Decentralization
By Paula González (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla) Jean Hindriks (CORE) Benjamin Lockwood (University of Warwick) Nicolás Porteiro (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla)
   Presented by: Paula González,
 

Ethical altruistic voting in a multi-ethnic developing country. Evidence from Ethiopia.
By Marie-Anne Valfort. Laboratoire d'Econométrie de l'Ecole Polytechnique
   Presented by: Marie-Anne Valfort, Laboratoire d'Econométrie/Polytechnique
 

Horizontal equity in a federal context
By M. Bordignon (University of Milan) A. Fontana (Ministry of economics, Italy) V. Peragine (University of Bari)
   Presented by: Vito Peragine, University of Bari

Session 6: Voting Rules I

Session Chair: Michel Balinski, CNRS
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: AVSA 1
 

A Theory of Voting and Ranking: Characterizations and Applications (1)
By Michel Balinski, Ecole Polytechnique
   Presented by: Michel Balinski, CNRS
 

A Theory of Voting and Ranking: Characterizations and Applications (2)
By Rida Laraki, Ecole Polytechnique
   Presented by: Rida Laraki,
 

Noncompensatory Rules, Voting, and Welfare
By Todd Davies Symbolic Systems Program Stanford University
   Presented by: Todd Davies, Stanford University
 

Some properties of STV in close and polarized elections
By Robert Norman, Darmouth College
   Presented by: Robert Norman,

Session 7: Uncertainty and correlation

Session Chair: Bhaskar Dutta,
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: BURGAZ
 

Correlated Equilibrium, Incomplete Information and Coalitional Deviations
By Francis Bloch, GREQAM. Bhaskar Dutta, University of Warwick.
   Presented by: Bhaskar Dutta,
 

Games with Subjective State Spaces
By Erkut Y Ozbay, New York University
   Presented by: Erkut Ozbay, New York University
 

A Detail-free mediator and the 3 player case
By Peter Vida, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
   Presented by: Peter Vida, public
 

Robust Deviations from Signaling Equilibria
By Peter Eso, MEDS, Kellogg, Northwestern University James Schummer, MEDS, Kellogg, Northwestern University
   Presented by: James Schummer,

Session 8: Experiments I

Session Chair: Stefan Traub,
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SEDEF 2
 

An Experimental Study on Individual Choice, Social Welfare, and Social Preferences
By Stefan Traub, Universitaet Kiel Christian Seidl, Universitaet Kiel Ulrich Schmidt, Universitaet Hannover
   Presented by: Stefan Traub,
 

Justice for All? An Experimental Study of Fairness in the US and Japan
By James Konow Loyola Marymount University Tatsuyoshi Saijo Institute of Social and Economic Research Kenju Akai Institute of Social and Economic Research
   Presented by: James Konow, Loyola Marymount University
 

Responsibility for what? An experimental approach to fairness and respons
By Alexander W. Cappelen, Norwegian School of Economics Erik Ø. Sørensen, Norwegian School of Economics Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics
   Presented by: Erik Sørensen, Norwegian School of Economics
 

Allocating an Indivisible Good. A questionnaire-experimental study of intercultural differences.
By Erik Schokkaert, K.U.Leuven Bart Capéau, K.U.Leuven Kurt Devooght, K.U.Leuven and EHsal Sara Lelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Piacenza
   Presented by: Kurt Devooght, Ehsal

Session 9: Voting Rules II - Voting for Several Candidates

Session Chair: Enriqueta Aragones, CSIC
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: AVSA 1
 

Making Statements and Approval Voting
By Enriqueta Aragones, Itzhak Gilboa, and Andrew Weiss
   Presented by: Enriqueta Aragones, CSIC
 

Would Letting People Vote for Several Candidates Yield Policy Moderation?
By Arnaud Dellis, University of Hawai'i - Manoa
   Presented by: Arnaud Dellis, University of Hawaii-Manoa
 

Voting Systems that Combine Approval and Preference
By Steven J. Brams, New York University M. Remzi Sanver, Bilgi University
   Presented by: M. Remzi Sanver, Istanbul Bilgi University
 

Sincere Voting with Cardinal Preferences: Approval Voting
By Miguel A. Ballester Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Pedro Rey-Biel Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
   Presented by: Pedro Rey-Biel, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona

Session 10: Experiments II

Session Chair: Meriem Bouamoud, Group for Economic Analysis and Theory
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Knowledge Transfer in Heterogeneous Teams: Experimental Evidence
By Meriem Bouamoud GATE - Group for Economic Analysis and Theory
   Presented by: Meriem Bouamoud, Group for Economic Analysis and Theory
 

Participation and Strength of Influence in a Power-to-Take Experiment
By Vanessa Mertins, Saarland University Max Albert, Saarland University
   Presented by: Vanessa Mertins, Saarland University
 

Disproving widespread myths about experimental results on the provision of public goods
By Tatsuyoshi Saijo Takafumi Yamakawa Takehiko Yamato
   Presented by: Takafumi Yamakawa, Institute of Social and Economic Researc
 

Investment Incentives in Auctions An Experiment
By Veronika Grimm. (University of Cologne) Friederike Mengel. (University of Alicante) Giovanni Ponti. (University of Alicante) Lari Arthur Viianto. (University of Alicante)
   Presented by: Lari Viianto, University of Alicante, Economic Faculty

Session 11: Coalition Formation I

Session Chair: Harrie De Swart,
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Graph Theory, RelVieW and Coalitions
By R. Berghammer, University of Kiel, Germany A. Rusinowska, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL H. de Swart, Tilburg University, NL
   Presented by: Harrie De Swart,
 

Strategy-Proof Coalition Formation
By Carmelo Rodríguez-�lvarez Universidad de Málaga
   Presented by: Carmelo Rodriguez-Alvarez, Universidad de Malaga
 

Stochastically Stable Recontracting with Multiple Indivisible Goods
By Olivier Bochet, Maastricht University Bettina Klaus, Maastricht University Markus Walzl, Maastricht University
   Presented by: Olivier Bochet, Maastricht University
 

Queueing Problems with Two Parallel Servers
By Eun Jeong Heo School of Economics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea Youngsub Chun School of Economics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
   Presented by: Eun Jeong Heo, Seoul National University

Session 12: Aggregate Complexity

Session Chair: Eyal Beigman, Northwestern University (KSM)
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: AVSA 2
 

How to construct alternatives: A computational voting model
By Luigi Marengo, Corrado Pasquali
   Presented by: Luigi Marengo, public
 

Economic Choice Semiautomata; Structure, Complexities and Aggregations
By Mark R. Johnson, Tulane University
   Presented by: Mark Johnson, private
 

Arrovian Impossibilities in Aggregating Preferences over Sets
By Emre Dogan (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) M. Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey)
   Presented by: Emre DoÄŸan, Isatnbul Bilgi University
 

Learnability of Aggregate Choice Functions
By Eyal Beigman, CMS-EMS, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
   Presented by: Eyal Beigman, Northwestern University (KSM)

Session 13: The Core

Session Chair: Pedro Calleja, University of Barcelona
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: BURGAZ
 

The Agregate-Monotonic Core
By Pedro Calleja. University of Barcelona. Carles Rafels. University of Barcelona. Stef Tijs. Tilburg University.
   Presented by: Pedro Calleja, University of Barcelona
 

Convex decomposition of games and axiomatizations of the core and the D-core
By Francesc Llerena, University Rovira i Virgili Carles Rafels, University of Barcelona
   Presented by: Carles Rafels, public
 

Equity core: nonemptiness and connectivity
By Francesc Llerena, Rovira i Virgili University, Carles Rafels, University of Barcelona, Cori Vilella, Rovira i Virgili University
   Presented by: Francesc Llerena, Rovira i Virgili University
 

A Natural Selection from the Core of a TU Game: The Core-Center
By Julio Gonzalez-Diaz, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Estela Sanchez-Rodriguez, Universidad de Vigo
   Presented by: Julio Gonzalez-Diaz, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Session 14: Decision Theory: Models and Evidence

Session Chair: Elif Incekara, Penn State University
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 3
 

Credit Card Competition and Naive Hyperbolic Consumers
By Elif Incekara Penn State University
   Presented by: Elif Incekara, Penn State University
 

Hyperbolic discounting and Political Preemptive Action
By Ronen Bar-El and Mordechai E. Schwarz The Open University of Israel
   Presented by: Mordechai Schwarz,
 

Voting over the Size and Type of Social Security when some Individuals are Myopic
By Helmuth Cremer, University of Toulouse Philippe De Donder, University of Toulouse Dario Maldonado, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota Pierre Pestieau, University of Liège
   Presented by: Philippe De Donder, public
 

EXIT FROM SHORT-TERM CONTRACT : A FRENCH EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS, 1990-2002
By Mohamed Ali BEN HALIMA,GATE (Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique),CNRS, University of Lyon 2
   Presented by: Ben Halima Mohamed Ali, GATE

Session 15: Paretian Rationality

Session Chair: maurice salles, public
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: AVSA 2
 

Limited rights as partial veto and Sen's impossibility theorm
By Maurice Salles, CREM, University of Caen and Insitute for SCW
   Presented by: maurice salles, public
 

More on Social Choice Theory without the Pareto Principle
By Herrade Igersheim, CODE (UAB)
   Presented by: Herrade Igersheim, CODE
 

Ranking infinite utility streams, ultrafilters and completeness
By Luc Lauwers, Center for economic studies, K.U.Leuven
   Presented by: Luc Lauwers, ETEW Leuven
 

The (Im)Possibility of a Paretian Rational
By Klaus Nehring, University of California, Davis
   Presented by: Klaus Nehring, public

Session 16: Generalizations of the Shapley value

Session Chair: Michel Grabisch, University of Paris I
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: BURGAZ
 

The Shapley value for games on ordered structures
By Michel GRABISCH, University of Paris I Fabien LANGE, University of Paris I
   Presented by: Michel Grabisch, University of Paris I
 

Population Monotonic Path Schemes for Simple TU-Games
By Peter Borm, Tilburg University Herbert Hamers, Tilburg University
   Presented by: Baris Ciftci, private
 

Two extensions of Young's axiomatization for the Shapley value
By Anna Khmelnitskaya, St.Petersburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics Russian Academy of Sciences
   Presented by: Anna Khmelnitskaya, private
 

Multilinear extension values for convex TU games
By Elena Yanovskaya, St.Peterburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences
   Presented by: Elena Yanovskaya, St.Peterburg Institute for Economics and

Session 17: Political Campaigns

Session Chair: Matthew Jackson, California Institute of Technology
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: AVSA 1
 

Vote Buying I: General Elections
By Eddie Dekel, Northwestern University Matthew O. Jackson, Caltech Asher Wolinsky, Northestern University
   Presented by: Matthew Jackson, California Institute of Technology
 

Ambiguous Political Power and Contest Efforts
By Gil S. Epstein, Bar-Ilan University, CEPR and IZA Igal Milchtaich, Bar-Ilan University Shmuel Nitzan, Bar-Ilan University Mordechai E. Schwarz, Open University of Israel
   Presented by: Igal Milchtaich, Bar-Ilan University
 

Campaign Activities and Polarization in the Electorate
By Deborah Fletcher, Department of Economics, Miami University Uri Possen, Department of Economics, Cornell University Steven Slutsky, Department of Economics, University of Florida
   Presented by: Steven Slutsky, University of Florida

Session 18: Market Design

Session Chair: Lars Ehlers, Universite de Montreal
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Respecting Priorities when Assigning Students to Schools
By Lars Ehlers (U de Montréal)
   Presented by: Lars Ehlers, Universite de Montreal
 

A Modest Proposal for a Two Sided Market Clearing Institution Under Asymmetric Supply Constraints with Skewed Pricing: The Market for Adoption and Abortion in the United States
By Christopher Balding University of California, Irvine
   Presented by: Christopher Balding, University of California, Irvine
 

Signaling in Matching Markets
By Peter Coles Muriel Niederle
   Presented by: Peter Coles, public

Session 19: Distributive Justice and Equality

Session Chair: Serge Kolm, public
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Equal social and real economic freedoms
By Serge Kolm CREM
   Presented by: Serge Kolm, public
 

Moral Sentiments and Social Choice
By Edi Karni Johns Hopkins University Zvi Safra Tel Aviv University
   Presented by: Edi Karni, Johns Hopkins University
 

Decentralizing Equality of Opportunity
By Caterina Calsamiglia
   Presented by: Caterina Calsamiglia, public
 

Redistribution and responsibility
By Leclerc Julien, CREM University of Caen
   Presented by: Julien Leclerc, Université de Caen, CREM

Session 20: Political Economy II

Session Chair: Oren Sussman,
Date: July 14, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: SEDEF 3
 

Sovereign Debt Without Default Penalties
By Alex Guembel and Oren Sussman Said Business School University of Oxford
   Presented by: Oren Sussman,
 

Reliability and Responsibility: A Theory of Endogenous Commitment
By Matteo Triossi, Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III
   Presented by: Matteo Triossi, Universidad Carlos III
 

Optimal Income Taxation, Public Good Provision and Informative Voting
By Felix Bierbrauer, MPI Bonn Marco Sahm, LMU Munich
   Presented by: Marco Sahm, LMU Muenchen
 

Informational Lobbying under the Shadow of Political Pressure
By Matthias Dahm (U. Carlos III, Madrid) Nicolás Porteiro (U. Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla)
   Presented by: Nicolás Porteiro, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Session 21: Condorcet Lecture

Session Chair: Vincent Merlin, CNRS
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 8:45 - 10:00
Location: SEDEF
 

So many voting paradoxes! Why do they occur?
By Donald G. Saari, University of California Irvine
   Presented by: Donald Saari, University of California, Irvine

Session 22: Presidential Address and SSCW Members' Meeting

Session Chair: William Thomson, University of Rochester
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SEDEF
 

Presidential Address
By Prasanta Pattanaik, University of California Riverside
   Presented by: PK Pattanaik, University of California

Session 23: Voting and Markets

Session Chair: Amrita Dhillon,
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: AVSA 1
 

Corporate Control and Multiple Large Shareholders
By Amrita Dhillon, Economics, University of Warwick Silvia Rossetto, Warwick Business School
   Presented by: Amrita Dhillon,
 

On the Political Economy of Adverse Selection
By Herve Cres, HEC School of Management Paris Mich Tvede, University of Copenhagen
   Presented by: Mich Tvede,
 

Existence of Competitive and Majority Rule Equilibria
By S. Sadik Gokturk Department of Economics St. John's University Jamaica, New York, 11439
   Presented by: Sadik Gokturk, St. John's University
 

Ideology and Existence of 50%-Majority Equilibria in Multidimensional Spatial Voting Models
By Herve Cres (HEC Paris) M. Utku Unver (University of Pittsburgh)
   Presented by: Utku Unver, University of Pittsburgh

Session 24: Solutions for cooperative games

Session Chair: Yukihiko Funaki, public
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: BURGAZ
 

Consistency and Monotonicity of alpha-Egalitarian Solutions for Cooperative Games with Transferable Utility
By Yukihiko Funaki, Waseda University Rene van den Brink, Free University Yuan Ju, Keele University
   Presented by: Yukihiko Funaki, public
 

Equivalence of consistency and bilateral consistency through converse consistency
By Theo Driessen University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
   Presented by: Theo Driessen, public
 

Merging and splitting in cooperative games: some (im)possibility results
By Peter Holch Knudsen, Lars Peter Østerdal
   Presented by: Lars Peter Østerdal, University of Copenhagen
 

The Consensus Value for Cooperative Games
By Yuan Ju, Keel University, UK Peter Borm Tilburg University, NL Pieter Ruys, Tilburg University, NL
   Presented by: Pieter Ruys, public

Session 25: Utilitarianism and Utility

Session Chair: Kaushik Basu, Cornell University
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 3
 

Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility: An algebraic characterization of projective preorders and some welfare implications
By Juan C. Candeal*, Esteban Induráin** and José A. Molina*, *Department of Economic Analysis, University of Zaragoza (Spain) **Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Public University of Navarre (Spain)
   Presented by: José Alberto Molina, University of Zaragoza
 

Generalized utilitarianism: accidents of birth, life chances and Harsanyi's imipartial observer theorem
By Simon Grant, Rice university Atsushi Kajii, Kyoto university Ben Polak, Yale university Zvi Safra, Tel Aviv university and the academic college of Tel Aviv Yaffo
   Presented by: Zvi Safra, Tel Aviv University
 

On Basu-Mitra utilitarian maximal programs for some aggregative growth models
By Kuntal Banerjee, Cornell University.
   Presented by: Kuntal Banerjee, public
 

Possibility Theorems for Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams Equitably
By Kaushik Basu and Tapan Mitra
   Presented by: Kaushik Basu, Cornell University

Session 26: Coalition Formation II

Session Chair: Anna Bogomolnaia, Rice University
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Stability under unanimous consent, free mobility and core
By Anna Bogomolnaia, Rice University, USA. Michel Le Breton, Université de Toulouse I, France. Alexei Savvateev, New Economic School, Moscow. Shlomo Weber, SMU, Dallas, USA, and CORE, Belgium.
   Presented by: Anna Bogomolnaia, Rice University
 

Noncooperative Formation of Coalitions in Hedonic Games
By Francis Bloch, GREQAM Effrosyni Diamantoudi, Concordia University
   Presented by: Francis Bloch, GREQAM
 

Individual Stability in Hedonic Coalition Formation
By Szilvia Pápai Concordia University
   Presented by: Szilvia Papai, Concordia University
 

On the Formation of Voting Blocs, Coalitions and Parties
By Jon X Eguia, California Institute of Technology.
   Presented by: Jon Eguia, California Institute of Technology

Session 27: Auctions

Session Chair: John Ledyard, public
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Optimal Combinatorial Auctions
By Levent Ulku, Rutgers University Department of Economics
   Presented by: Levent Ulku, Rutgers University
 

Optimal Auctions with Participation Costs
By Gorkem Celik, Department of Economics, UBC Okan Yilankaya, Department of Economics, UBC
   Presented by: Okan Yilankaya,
 

Asymmetric Auctions with Resale
By Isa Hafalir, Penn State University Vijay Krishna, Penn State University
   Presented by: Isa Hafalir,
 

The Ex-post Inefficiency of Optimal Combinatoric Auctions with Single-minded Bidders
By john o ledyard, Caltech
   Presented by: John Ledyard, public

Session 28: Power Indices I

Session Chair: Fuad Aleskerov, State University Higher School of Economics
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: AVSA 2
 

Power indices taking into account agents' preferences
By Fuad Aleskerov, Higher School of Economics
   Presented by: Fuad Aleskerov, State University Higher School of Economics
 

Strategic power indices
By László �. Kóczy, Maastricht University
   Presented by: László Kóczy,
 

The Exact Bias of the Banzhaf Measure of Voting Power when Votes are Correlated Pairwise
By Serguei Kaniovski, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
   Presented by: Serguei Kaniovski, Austrian Institute of Economic Research
 

Decision-making Power in Hierarchies
By Renè van den Brink Free University Amsterdam Frank Steffen Tilburg University & University of Liverpool
   Presented by: Frank Steffen, private

Session 29: General Equilibrium

Session Chair: Unal Zenginobuz, Bogazici University
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 15:5 - 16:15
Location: SEDEF 3
 

Optimal Fiscal Policy in Romer Model
By Abuzer BAKIS, Galatasaray University Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (Université Paris1)
   Presented by: Abuzer BAKIS, Galatasaray University
 

Consumption Externalities: Can Price Flexibility Eliminate Inefficiencies and Instability?
By Emanuela Randon-University of Bologna (Italy) Peter Simmons-University of York (UK)
   Presented by: emanuela randon, University of Bologna
 

Subscription Equilibrium with Production: Neutrality and Constrained Suboptimality of Equilibria
By Unal Zenginobuz, Bogazici University Antonio Villanacci, University of Florence
   Presented by: Unal Zenginobuz, Bogazici University

Session 30: Proportional Representation and Apportionment

Session Chair: Friedrich Pukelsheim, public
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 15:5 - 16:15
Location: AVSA 1
 

Divisor methods for proportional representation systems: An optimization approach to vector and matrix problems
By Norbert Gaffke, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet, Magdeburg, Germany Friedrich Pukelsheim, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany
   Presented by: Friedrich Pukelsheim, public
 

On the manipulability of proportional representation
By Arkadii Slinko The University of Auckland Shaun White The University of Auckland
   Presented by: Arkadii Slinko, The University of Auckland
 

Discrete alternating scaling for biproportional apportionment
By Sebastian Maier, University of Augsburg
   Presented by: Sebastian Maier, University of Augsburg

Session 31: Network Theory I

Session Chair: Robert Gilles, Virginia Tech
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 15:5 - 16:15
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Network Potentials
By Subhadip Chakrabarti, Queens University, Belfast, UK Robert P. Gilles, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA
   Presented by: Robert Gilles, Virginia Tech
 

Power base and pressure in a network of cooperating positions
By Herman Monsuur, Netherlands Defense Academy, P.O. Box 10.000, 1780 CA Den Helder, The Netherlands
   Presented by: Herman Monsuur, private
 

Network Intermediaries
By Robert P. Gilles, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Subhadip Chakrabarti, Queen's University Belfast Sudipta Sarangi, Louisiana State University Narine Badasyan, Murray State University
   Presented by: Subhadip Chakabarti, Queen's University Belfast

Session 32: Matching: Implementability and Implementation

Session Chair: Bettina Klaus, Maastricht University
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 15:5 - 16:15
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Monotonicity and Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Contracts
By Claus-Jochen Haake, Institute of Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University, Germany Bettina Klaus, Department of Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
   Presented by: Bettina Klaus, Maastricht University
 

Consistency and Monotonicity in Matching Markets with Contracts
By Cagatay Kayi, University of Rochester Eve Ramaekers, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Duygu Yengin, University of Rochester
   Presented by: Cagatay Kayi, University of Rochester
 

Decentralized Matching: The Role of Commitment
By Effrosyni Diamantoudi, Concordia University Eiichi Miyagawa, Columbia University Licun Xue, McGill University (Presenter)
   Presented by: Effrosyni Diamantoudi, public

Session 33: Jury Problems I: The Discursive Dilemma

Session Chair: Eyal Beigman, Northwestern University (KSM)
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 15:5 - 16:15
Location: AVSA 2
 

Consistent Judgement Aggregation
By Klaus Nehring Clemens Puppe
   Presented by: Clemens Puppe,
 

Collective Economic Decisions and the Discursive Dilemma
By Carl Andreas Claussen, Norges Bank Øistein Røisland, Norges Bank
   Presented by: Carl Claussen, Norges Bank
 

Judgment Aggregation in Monetary Policy Committees: The Advantage of Premise-Based Decisions
By Carl Andreas Claussen Central Bank of Norway Øistein Røisland Central Bank of Norway
   Presented by: Oistein Roisland, Norges Bank-Central Bank of Norway

Session 34: Fairness in games

Session Chair: Ryo-Ichi Nagahisa, Kansai University
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 15:5 - 16:15
Location: BURGAZ
 

Fair play equilibria with mixed strategies
By Ryo-Ichi Nagahisa Department Economics Kansai University
   Presented by: Ryo-Ichi Nagahisa, Kansai University
 

Ultimatum: Evolution of Heterogeneous Preferences for Fairness
By Wei-Torng Juang Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
   Presented by: Wei-Torng Juang,
 

A Theory of Fairness
By Xiangyu QU The Insititute of Social and Economic Research Osaka University
   Presented by: Xiangyu Qu, private

Session 35: Power Indices II

Session Chair: Charles Barrett, Birmingham University
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 16:30 - 17:40
Location: AVSA 2
 

On Influence and Power Indices
By Michel Grabisch Universite Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne, France Agnieszka Rusinowska Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
   Presented by: Agnieszka Rusinowska, Radboud University Nijmegen
 

Power Indices and Paradoxes of Voting Power for Games with r Alternatives
By Justyna Kowalska Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
   Presented by: Justyna Kowalska, Warsaw School of Economics
 

Small Creditors' Power in Civil Rehabilitation - A Compound Game of a Simple Majority and a Weighted Majority -
By Midori Hirokawa Faculty of Economics, Hosei University Peng Xu Faculty of Economics, Hosei University and RIETI
   Presented by: MIDORI HIROKAWA, HOSEI UNIVERSITY

Session 36: Conformity, Bias and Deliberation

Session Chair: PAOLO BALDUZZI, UNIVERSITY OF MILANO-BICOCCA
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 16:30 - 17:40
Location: AVSA 1
 

Optimal use of scarce information. When partisan voters are socially useful
By Paolo Balduzzi University of Milan-Bicocca and Edinburgh School of Economics
   Presented by: PAOLO BALDUZZI, UNIVERSITY OF MILANO-BICOCCA
 

Social Conformity in the Behavior of Russian Voters.
By Alexander Borodine, Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
   Presented by: Alex Borodine, Higher School of Economics
 

Deliberation with Partially Verifiable Information
By Jérôme Mathis THEMA-Université de Cergy-Pontoise
   Presented by: Jérôme Mathis, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise

Session 37: Network Theory II

Session Chair: Sergio Currarini, Università di Venezia
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 16:30 - 17:40
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Information Sharing Networks
By Sergio Currarini, University of Venice Francesco Feri, University of Venice
   Presented by: Sergio Currarini, Università di Venezia
 

Social Network Formation with Consent: Nash Equilibria and Pairwise Refinements
By Robert P. Gilles, Virginia Tech Subhadip Chakrabarti, Queens University Sudipta Sarangi, Louisiana State University
   Presented by: Sudipta Sarangi, Louisiana State University
 

On Acquiring Information Through Networks
By Maria Gallego, Wilfrid Laurier University Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University
   Presented by: Maria Gallego, Wilfrid Laurier University

Session 38: Strategic cooperation

Session Chair: Emanuele Gerratana, Columbia University
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 16:30 - 17:40
Location: BURGAZ
 

Common Agency and Delegation
By Emanuele Gerratana, Koc University
   Presented by: Emanuele Gerratana, Columbia University
 

Nash consistent representation of effectivity functions through lottery models
By Bezalel Peleg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hans Peters, University of Maastricht
   Presented by: Hans Peters, University of Maastricht
 

The Harsanyi paradox and the 'right to talk' in bargaining among coalitions
By Juan Vidal-Puga, University of Vigo
   Presented by: Juan Vidal-Puga, University of Vigo

Session 39: Matching: Preference Revelation Games and Small Cores

Session Chair: Jordi Masso, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 16:30 - 17:40
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Incomplete Information and Small Cores in Matching Markets
By Lars Ehlers, Université de Montréal Jordi Massó, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
   Presented by: Jordi Masso, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
 

An Impossibility Theorem in matching problems
By Shohei Takagi,Osaka University Shigehiro Serizawa,Osaka University
   Presented by: Shohei Takagi, Osaka University
 

Matching with truncated preferences
By Guillaume Haeringer, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Flip Klijn, CSIC - Instituto de Analisis Economico
   Presented by: Guillaume Haeringer, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Session 40: Opportunity and Capability

Session Chair: Rebeca Echavarri, Public University of Navarra
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 17:45 - 18:55
Location: AVSA 1
 

Ranking Profiles of Capability Sets
By Autor: Rebeca A. Echávarri Affiliation: Universidad Pública de Navarra Autor: Iñaki Permanyer Affiliation: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
   Presented by: Rebeca Echavarri, Public University of Navarra
 

Opportunity and equity in economic environment
By Antoinette Baujard, CREM, Université de Caen Frédéric Garspart, ECRU, Université de Louvain-la-neuve
   Presented by: Antoinette Baujard, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
 

On the Volume-Ranking of Opportunity Sets in Economic Enviroments
By Ernesto Savaglio, DMQTE - University of Pescara (I) Stefano Vannucci, DEP - University of Siena, (I)
   Presented by: Ernesto Savaglio, University of Pescara

Session 41: Matching: Stability Notions

Session Chair: David Cantala,
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 17:45 - 18:55
Location: SEDEF 1
 

welfare and stability in senior matching markets
By David Cantala- El Colegio de Mexico Francisco Sanchez- CIMAT
   Presented by: David Cantala,
 

Stable Many-to-Many Matchings With Contracts
By Bettina Klaus, Maastricht University Markus Walzl, Maastricht University
   Presented by: Markus Walzl, University of Maastricht
 

Order Stable Solutions for Two-Sided Matching Problems
By Zbigniew Switalski Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Econometrics, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
   Presented by: Zbigniew Switalski, University of Zielona Gora

Session 42: Repeated and extensive form games

Session Chair: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Columbia University
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 17:45 - 18:55
Location: BURGAZ
 

Trust, Reciprocity and Favors in Cooperative Relationships
By Atila Abdulkadiroglu (Columbia University) Kyle Bagwell (Columbia University)
   Presented by: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Columbia University
 

Repeated Games with Forgetful Players
By Selcuk Ozyurt
   Presented by: Selcuk Ozyurt, New York University
 

On the Equivalence Between Subgame Perfection and Sequentiality
By José Carlos González-Pimienta, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Cristian Litan, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
   Presented by: J. Carlos Gonzalez-Pimienta, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Session 43: Network Theory III

Session Chair: Youngsub Chun, Seoul National University
Date: July 15, 2006
Time: 17:45 - 18:55
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Pareto Efficiency and Interdependent Utilities: A Characterization through Network Effects
By Joan de Marti Beltran (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
   Presented by: Joan de Marti Beltran, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
 

Cost Sharing on Networks
By Etienne Billette de Villemeur, University of Toulouse (IDEI & GREMAQ) Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
   Presented by: Etienne Billette de Villemeu, University of Toulouse
 

Population Sustainability of Social and Economic Networks
By Bong Chan Koh, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Youngsub Chun, School of Economics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-746, Korea.
   Presented by: Youngsub Chun, Seoul National University

Session 44: Social Choice and Welfare Prize Lecture

Session Chair: François Maniquet, Univ. Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 8:45 - 10:00
Location: SEDEF
 

Dynamic Social Choice
By John Duggan, University of Rochester Tasos Kalandrakis, University of Rochester
   Presented by: John Duggan, University of Rochester

Session 45: Choice Theory

Session Chair: Efe Ok, New York University
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: AVSA 2
 

Reference-Dependent Procedural Decision Making
By Yusufcan Masatlioglu, University of Michigan Ann Arbor Efe Ok, New York University
   Presented by: Efe Ok, New York University
 

Total monotonicity and randomized preference
By Shasikanta Nandeibam Department of Economics and International Development University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY U.K.
   Presented by: Shasikanta Nandeibam, University of Bath
 

A Simple Test of Richter-Rationality
By Marc-Arthur DIAYE, CEE-Cnrs Michal WONG, CERMSEM (university of Paris I)
   Presented by: WONG Michal, public
 

Rational Choice Procedures
By Taradas Bandyopadhyay, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, USA Kunal Sengupta, Department of Economics, University of Sydney, Australia
   Presented by: Taradas Bandyopadhyay,

Session 46: Voting Rules III - Miscelaneous

Session Chair: Eyal Baharad,
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: AVSA 1
 

Condorcet vs. Borda in Light of a Dual Majoritarian Approach
By Eyal Baharad,Department of Economics, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel Shmuel Nitzan,Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
   Presented by: Eyal Baharad,
 

Is approval voting prefered by the Polish society? Observations from a representative sample.
By Krzysztof Przybyszewski Center for Economic Psychology and Decision Sciences, LKAEM, Warsaw, Poland Honorata Sosnowska Center for Economic Psychology and Decision Sciences, LKAEM, Warsaw, Poland and Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
   Presented by: Honorata Sosnowska,
 

String Search Accuracy Comparison Using Known Social Choice Rules
By Ahmet Kutsi Nircan, Bogazici University, School of Engineering, PhD. Student
   Presented by: Ahmet Nircan, public
 

A Characterization of Rational Voting with Private Values and Cost Uncertainty
By Curtis R. Taylor, Duke University Huseyin Yildirim, Duke University
   Presented by: Huseyin Yildirim,

Session 47: Inequality

Session Chair: UDO EBERT, UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SEDEF 3
 

Distribution-neutral provision of public goods
By Udo Ebert, University of Oldenburg Georg Tillmann, University of Mainz
   Presented by: UDO EBERT, UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG
 

Measuring lifetime poverty
By Buhong Zheng/University of Colorado at Denver Mike Hoy/University of Guelph
   Presented by: Buhong Zheng, University of Colorado at Denver
 

A Generalized Index of Fractionalization
By Walter Bossert (Université de Montréal) Conchita D'Ambrosio (Università di Milano-Bicocca and DIW Berlin) Eliana La Ferrara (Università Bocconi)
   Presented by: Conchita D'Ambrosio, public
 

Common Property and Wealth
By Asha Sadanand, University of Guelph Clive Southey, University of Guelph
   Presented by: Asha Sadanand, University of Guelph

Session 48: Public goods

Session Chair: François Maniquet, Univ. Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: BURGAZ
 

Public Good Menus and Feature Complementarity
By Christian Roessler, U Melbourne
   Presented by: Christian Roessler, University of Melbourne
 

Priority Rules in the Assignment of Multiple Public Facilities
By Olivier Bochet, University of Maastricht and CORE Sidartha Gordon, University of Montreal
   Presented by: Sidartha Gordon, Universite de Montreal
 

A voluntary participation game through a unit-by-unit cost share mechanism of a non-excludable public good
By Ryusuke Shinohara, Shinshu University Yukihiro Nishimura, Yokohama National University
   Presented by: Ryusuke Shinohara, Shinshu University
 

Sharing the cost of a non-rival good: an incentive-constrained axiomatic approach
By F. Maniquet, CORE, UCL. Y. Sprumont, CIRIEQ, Univ. of Montreal.
   Presented by: François Maniquet, Univ. Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve

Session 49: Strategy-Proofness I

Session Chair: William Zwicker, Union College
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SEDEF 1
 

"One-way" monotonicity
By M. Remzi Sanver, Bilgi University William S. Zwicker, Union College
   Presented by: William Zwicker, Union College
 

Maximal Domains for Maskin monotone and Anonymous Choice Rules
By Olivier Bochet, Maastricht University Ton Storcken, Maastricht University (presenting auther)
   Presented by: Ton Storcken, Maastricht University
 

Monotonicity and Candidate Stable Voting Correspondences
By Yuelan Chen Department of Economics The University of Melbourne
   Presented by: Yuelan Chen, The University of Melbourne

Session 50: Fair Allocation

Session Chair: Carmen Herrero, University of Alicante
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Allocation problems with indivisibilities when preferences are single-peaked
By Carmen Herrero, University of Alicante Ricardo Martinez, University of Alicante
   Presented by: Carmen Herrero, University of Alicante
 

Discrete Allocation of a Divisible Good - Allocation of Chances
By Marlies Ahlert, Martin-Luther-University Halle
   Presented by: Marlies Ahlert, public
 

A Fair Solution To The Compensation Problem
By Giacomo Valletta; Core, Université Catholique de Louvain , Belgium and Dip. di Matematica e Statistica, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
   Presented by: Giacomo Valletta, Un. Catholique de Louvain
 

Allocations most realizable through strategic manipulation
By Yuji Fujinaka, Kobe University Toyotaka Sakai, Yokohama National University
   Presented by: Yuji Fujinaka, Kobe University

Session 51: Voting Rules IV - Discrepencies among Voting Rules

Session Chair: Christian Klamler, private
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: AVSA 1
 

The Traveling Group Problem
By Christian Klamler, Graz University Ulrich Pferschy, Graz University
   Presented by: Christian Klamler, private
 

Comparison of the unique prudent order with the Borda, Copeland, Slater and Kemeny ranking
By Claude Lamboray Université Libre de Bruxelles
   Presented by: Claude Lamboray, Université Libre de Bruxelles
 

Approximability of Dodgson's Rule
By John McCabe-Dansted, Department of Mathematics, Dr Geoffrey Pritchard, Department of Statistics, Auckland University Dr Arkadii Slinko, Department of Mathematics, Auckland University
   Presented by: John McCabe-Dansted, Auckland University
 

Properties of Majoritarian Compromise, Efficient Compromise and Related Compromise Rules
By Vincent Merlin, CREM and University of Caen Ipek Ozkal Sanver, Bilgi University, Departement of Economics Remzi Sanver, Bilgi University, Departement of Economics
   Presented by: Vincent Merlin, CNRS

Session 52: Measurement of Inequality

Session Chair: Lucio Esposito, University of East Anglia
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 3
 

MEASURING RELATIVE DEPRIVATION AND ECONOMIC ILL-BEING
By Lucio ESPOSITO University of East Anglia
   Presented by: Lucio Esposito, University of East Anglia
 

Mobility as distributional difference
By Christian Schluter, University of Southampton Dirk Van de gaer, Ghent University
   Presented by: Dirk Van de gaer, public
 

Poverty orderings with symmetric and asymmetric attributes
By Rocio Garcia Diaz University of York
   Presented by: Rocio Garcia, University of York
 

Measuring PPP biases by estimating Engel curves for food
By Ingvild Almås Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
   Presented by: Ingvild AlmÃ¥s, Norwegian School of Economics and Busine

Session 53: Cost Sharing and Assignment

Session Chair: Ruben Juarez, Rice University
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 2
 

The worst absolute surplus loss in the problem of commons: random priority vs. average cost
By Ruben Juarez (Rice University)
   Presented by: Ruben Juarez, Rice University
 

Realizing fair outcomes in cost spanning tree problems through non-cooperative mechanisms
By G. Bergantiños, Universidade de Vigo. J.J. Vidal-Puga, Universidade de Vigo.
   Presented by: Gustavo Bergantinos,
 

A canonical representation for the assignment game: the kernel and the nucleolus.
By Josep M. Izquierdo, University of Barcelona Marina Nunez, University of Barcelona Carles Rafels, University of Barcelona
   Presented by: Marina Núñez, Universitat de Barcelona
 

A new characterization of the extreme core allocations of the assignment game.
By Josep M Izquierdo, University of Barcelona Marina Nunez, University of Barcelona Carles Rafels, University of Barcelona
   Presented by: Josep M Izquierdo, University of Barcelona

Session 54: Public Good Provision and Participation

Session Chair: Gabrielle Demange,
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: BURGAZ
 

Sharing information in web communities
By Demange Gabrielle EHESS PSE
   Presented by: Gabrielle Demange,
 

Capital Accumulation, Interest Rate, and the Income-Pollution Pattern. A Simple Model.
By Di Vita Giuseppe University of Catania
   Presented by: Giuseppe Di Vita, University of Catania
 

Opting out of Public Insurance
By Catarina Goulão (CORE)
   Presented by: Catarina Goulão, CORE
 

Incorporating Behavioral Effects in the Valuation of Medical Research and Improvments to Public Safety
By Michael Hoy, University of Guelph Mattias K. Polborn, University of Illinois
   Presented by: Mike Hoy,

Session 55: Jury Problems II: Judgment and Preference

Session Chair: Christian List, London School of Economics
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: AVSA 2
 

Two aggregation paradoxes in social decision making: the Ostrogorski paradox and the discursive dilemma
By Gabriella Pigozzi, Department of Computer Science, King's College London, gabriella.pigozzi@kcl.ac.uk
   Presented by: Gabriella Pigozzi, King's College London
 

Aggregation of Binary Evaluations
By Elad Dokow Ron Holzman
   Presented by: Elad Dokow, non
 

Preference compliance of judgements
By Jan Adriaenssens, LSE
   Presented by: Jan Adriaenssens, LSE
 

Arrow's theorem in judgment aggregation
By Franz Dietrich, University of Maastricht Christian List, London School of Economics
   Presented by: Christian List, London School of Economics

Session 56: Strategy-Proofness and Indivisibilities

Session Chair: Shigehiro Serizawa,
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Strategy-Proof and Anonymous Allocation Rules
By Shigehiro Serizawa Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, 6-1, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, JAPAN
   Presented by: Shigehiro Serizawa,
 

Efficient Allocation of Commodities with Balanced Transfers
By Manipushpak Mitra Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Arunava Sen Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India
   Presented by: Arunava Sen, Indian Statistical Institute
 

Non-manipulable Assignment of Individuals to Positions
By Tommy Andersson, Lund University Lars-Gunnar Svensson, Lund University
   Presented by: Tommy Andersson, Lund University
 

Strategy-proof exchange on the quasi-linear domain
By Hiroki Saitoh Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University Shigehiro Serizawa Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
   Presented by: Hiroki Saitoh, Osaka University

Session 57: Preference Domains

Session Chair: Ugur Ozdemir, Penn State
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: AVSA 2
 

Consequences, opportunities, and Arrovian theorems with consequentialist domains
By Yukinori Iwata
   Presented by: Yukinori Iwata, Hitotsubashi University
 

Non-Dictatorial Social Choice Through Delegation
By Pierfrancesco La Mura, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Guido Olschewski, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
   Presented by: Guido Olschewski, Handelshochschule Leipzig
 

A characterization of Single-Peaked Preferences
By Miguel A. Ballester Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Guillaume Haeringer Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
   Presented by: Miguel Ballester, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
 

Dictatorial Domains in Preference Aggregation
By Ugur Ozdemir Penn State University M.Remzi Sanver Istanbul Bilgi University
   Presented by: Ugur Ozdemir, Penn State

Session 58: Allocation and Fairness: Axioms I

Session Chair: Geir Asheim, University of Oslo
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Sustainable recursive social welfare functions
By Geir B. Asheim, University of Oslo Tapan Mitra, Cornell University Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
   Presented by: Geir Asheim, University of Oslo
 

Lorenz Dominance Relationships between Rules for Solving Claims Problems: Characterizations and Rankings
By Kristof Bosmans, Catholic University of Leuven Luc Lauwers, Catholic University of Leuven
   Presented by: Kristof Bosmans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
 

Scholarship problems
By Jorge L. Garcia-Ramirez, Dept. of Economics, University of Rochester
   Presented by: Jorge Garcia Ramirez, University of Rochester
 

On Equity-First and Efficiency-First Principles in Production Economies and Its Application to Optimal Taxation
By Yukihiro Nishimura, Department of Economics, Yokohama National University
   Presented by: Yukihiro Nishimura, Yokohama National University

Session 59: Voting Rules V - Election of Committees

Session Chair: Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: AVSA 1
 

How to Elect A Representative Committee using Approval Balloting
By D. Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University Steven J. Brams, New York University M. Remzi Sanver, Istanbul Bilgi University
   Presented by: Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University
 

How to choose a non-controversial list with k names
By Salvador Barberà - Departament d’Economia i d’Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Danilo Coelho - Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada.
   Presented by: Danilo Coelho, public
 

Consistent Committee Choice
By Anirban Kar, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Dipjyoti Majumdar, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
   Presented by: Dipjyoti Majumdar, Concordia University
 

Mathematical model of Athenian democracy
By Andranik Tangian, Hans Boeckler Foundation, 40476 Duesseldorf, Germany andranik-tangian@boeckler.de
   Presented by: Andranik Tangian, Hans Boeckler Stiftung

Session 60: Measuring Welfare and Poverty

Session Chair: John Weymark, Vanderbilt University
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: SEDEF 3
 

Consistent Measures of Individual Welfare Change for Expected Utility Maximizers
By Charles Blackorby (University of Warwick) David Donaldson (University of British Columbia) John A. Weymark (Vanderbilt University)
   Presented by: John Weymark, Vanderbilt University
 

Measuring Economic Growth and Social Welfare with Lebesgue Integrals
By Kari Saukkonen University of Turku IASM FI-20014 TURKU FINLAND
   Presented by: Kari Saukkonen, University of Turku
 

A dual-regime utility model for poverty analysis
By Claudia Biancotti, Bank of Italy
   Presented by: Claudia Biancotti, Bank of Italy
 

Reconsidering the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis: the trade off between environment and welfare
By Nicola Cantore University of York Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
   Presented by: Nicola Cantore, University of York

Session 61: Redistribution

Session Chair: Christian Seidl, public
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: BURGAZ
 

Hotelling Tax Competition
By Valeska Groenert, Vanderbilt University Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University Ben Zissimos, Vanderbilt University
   Presented by: Valeska Groenert, Vanderbilt University
 

Interjurisdictional Competition for Higher Education and Firms
By Marcel GERARD, Catholic university of Mons, Belgium Fernando RUIZ, Catholic University of Mons, Belgium
   Presented by: Fernando Ruiz, FUCaM
 

The Shadowing Role of Redistributive Institutions in the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Redistribution
By Ahmet Faruk Aysan Bogazici University, Dept. of Economics 34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey Phone: 90-212-359 76 39 Fax: 90-212-287 24 53 ahmet.aysan@boun.edu.tr
   Presented by: Ahmet Aysan, private
 

Comprehensive Tax and Social Security Reform in Germany:
By Christian Seidl, University of Kiel
   Presented by: Christian Seidl, public

Session 62: Network Theory IV

Session Chair: Rahmi Ilkiliç, UAB
Date: July 16, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Pairwise Stability and Nash Equilibria in Network Formation
By Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Rahmi Ilkiliç, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
   Presented by: Rahmi Ilkiliç, UAB
 

Dynamic Models of Social Interactions: Identification and Characterization
By Alberto Bisin (New York University) Onur Ozgur (University of Montreal)
   Presented by: Onur Ozgur, University of Montreal
 

Existence of Nash Networks in One-Way Flow Models
By Pascal Billand CREUSET, Jean Monnet University, Christophe Bravard CREUSET, Jean Monnet University, Sudipta Sarangi, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
   Presented by: BRAVARD Christophe, public
 

Dutta-Jackson-Le Breton Equilibria as Solution for Farsighted Stability of Bilateral Networks
By Anindya Bhattacharya, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, UK
   Presented by: Anindya Bhattacharya, University of York, UK

Session 63: Arrow Lecture

Session Chair: Arunava Sen, Indian Statistical Institute
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 8:45 - 10:00
Location: SEDEF
 

Recent Developments in Implementation/Mechanism Design Theory
By Eric Maskin, Institute of Advanced Study
   Presented by: Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study

Session 64: Evolutionary models

Session Chair: Jose Uriarte, University of the Basque Country
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: BURGAZ
 

A Model of Immigration, Integration and Cultural Transmission of Social Norms
By Friederike Mengel University of Alicante
   Presented by: Friederike Mengel, Universidad de Alicante
 

A Welfare Analysis of a Spatial Prisoners’ Dilemma Game
By Xuefei Sophie Wang Department of Economics Simon Fraser University Canada
   Presented by: Xuefei Sophie Wang, Simon Fraser University
 

From Procedural Preferences to Selection Dynamic Models
By Antonio Cabrales, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona José Ramón Uriarte, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
   Presented by: Jose Uriarte, University of the Basque Country

Session 65: Strategy-Proofness II

Session Chair: Kentaro Hatsumi, Osaka University
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Coalitionally Strategy-Proof Rules in Allotment Economies of Homogeneous Indivisible Objects
By Kentaro Hatsumi, Osaka University, Japan Shigehiro Serizawa, Osaka University, Japan
   Presented by: Kentaro Hatsumi, Osaka University
 

A note on strategy-proofness and single-plateaued preferences
By Dolors Berga, Departament d'Economia, Universitat de Girona, Spain
   Presented by: Dolors berga, Universitat de Girona
 

Ordered Value Restriction
By Salvador Barberà, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona Bernardo Moreno, Universidad de Málaga
   Presented by: Bernardo Moreno, public
 

Strategy-proofness versus efficiency on Cobb-Douglas domain of exchange economies
By Kazuhiko Hashimoto, Osaka University
   Presented by: Kazuhiko Hashimoto, Osaka University

Session 66: Incentives and Information

Session Chair: Sinan Sarpca, public
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SEDEF 3
 

Black Market, Labor Demand and Tax Evasion
By Marc-Arthur DIAYE, Centre d'Etude de l'Emploi Gleb KOSHEVOY, CEMI
   Presented by: DIAYE Marc-Arthur, public
 

Poverty Alleviation Programs: Monitoring vs. Workfare
By Márcia Oliveira, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1099-032 Lisboa, Portugal. E-mail: marcia@esaelvas.pt Paulo P. Côrte-Real, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1099-032 Lisboa, Portugal. E-mail: ppc@fe.unl.pt.
   Presented by: Paulo Côrte-Real,
 

Incentives under Collusion in a Two-Agent Hidden-Action Model of a Financial Enterprize
By Mehmet Barlo - Sabanci University Ayca Ozdogan - University of Minnesota
   Presented by: Mehmet Barlo, public
 

Specialization in Higher Education
By Sinan Sarpca, Koc University
   Presented by: Sinan Sarpca, public

Session 67: Group Decisions

Session Chair: Miguel Ginés-Vilar, public
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SEDEF 2
 

A bargaining approach to the provision of public goods
By Miguel Ginés-Vilar University Jaume I of Castello Dpt. Economics
   Presented by: Miguel Ginés-Vilar, public
 

Rewarding Effort
By Alexander Cappelen, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
   Presented by: Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Ec. and Bus. Adm.
 

The Composition of Compensation Policy: From Cash to Fringe Benefits
By Patricia Crifo, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique Laboratoire d'Econometrie and IRES, Cath. u. of Louvain Marc-Arthur Diaye, Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi and EPEE, Univ. of Evry
   Presented by: Patricia Crifo, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique
 

Minimal rights based solidarity
By Roland Iwan Luttens SHERPPA, Ghent University
   Presented by: Roland Luttens, public

Session 68: Voting Rules VI - Probability Models

Session Chair: Boniface Mbih, Université de Caen
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: AVSA 1
 

Why so much Pareto stability under parliamentary and committee voting procedures?
By Boniface Mbih, CREM, Université de Caen Issofa Moyouwou, CREAM, Université de Yaoundé 1 Jérémy Picot, CREM, Université de Caen
   Presented by: Jérémy PICOT, Université de Caen
 

The likelihood of 'no-show' and 'positive association' paradoxes under two parliamentary voting procedures
By Boniface Mbih Université de Caen Issofa Moyouwou Université de Yaoundé Xingyu Zhao Université de Caen
   Presented by: xingyu zhao, university of caen
 

Social Choice Rules and Level of Conflict in a Society
By Aris Daniilidis Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Ayça Ebru Giritligil Institute for Economic Analysis
   Presented by: Ayca Giritligil, Spanish Council for Scientific Research
 

THE LIKELIHOOD OF CHOOSING THE BORDA-WINNER WITH PARTIAL PREFERENCE RANKINGS OF THE ELECTORATE
By Omer Egecioglu, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Ayca Ebru Giritligil, Institute for Economic Analysis, Campus UAB Bellaterra, Spain
   Presented by: Omer Egecioglu, University of California

Session 69: Parties and Voting

Session Chair: Carmen Bevia,
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Location: AVSA 2
 

The Informational Value of Incumbency
By Carmen Beviá (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Humberto Llavador (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
   Presented by: Carmen Bevia,
 

Strategic Voting in Multi-Office Elections
By Michael Peress Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University University of Rochester
   Presented by: Michael Peress,
 

Nomination Processes and Policy Outcomes
By Matthew O. Jackson, Social Sciences, Caltech Laurent Mathevet, Social Sciences, Caltech Kyle Mattes, Social Sciences, Caltech
   Presented by: Kyle Mattes, California Institute of Technology
 

Should rational voters rely only on candidates'Â’ characteristics?
By Sergio Vicente, IDEA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
   Presented by: Sergio Vicente, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Session 70: Voting Rules VII - Axiomatizations and Probability Models

Session Chair: Miguel Martínez-Panero, Universidad de Valladolid
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: AVSA 1
 

Best-worst voting rules: An axiomatization
By J.L. García-Lapresta, Universidad de Valladolid. A.A.J. Marley, Universiy of Victoria. M. Martínez-Panero, Universidad de Valladolid.
   Presented by: Miguel Martínez-Panero, Universidad de Valladolid
 

A Characterization of Plurality Rule with an Infinite Set of Voters
By Mark Fey Univ. of Rochester
   Presented by: Mark Fey,
 

On Ehrhart Polynomials and Probability Calculations in Voting Theory
By -Dominique LEPELLEY, CERESUR, Université de La Réunion. -Ahmed LOUICHI, CREM, Université de Caen. -Hatem SMAOUI, CREM, Université de Caen.
   Presented by: hatem smaoui, private
 

On the Justice of Voting Systems
By Jose Apesteguia, Miguel A. Ballester and Rosa Ferrer
   Presented by: Rosa Ferrer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Session 71: Decision Theory

Session Chair: Christopher Chambers, California Institute of Technology
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 3
 

Bayesian Consistent Prior Selection
By Christopher P. Chambers, Caltech Takashi Hayashi, University of Texas at Austin
   Presented by: Christopher Chambers, California Institute of Technology
 

Deriving Rank-dependent utility through probabilistic consistency
By Horst Zank
   Presented by: Horst Zank,
 

Uncertainty with ordinal likelihood information
By Jorge Alcalde-Unzu (Universidad Pública de Navarra) Ricardo Arlegi (Universidad Pública de Navarra)
   Presented by: Jorge Alcalde-Unzu, Universidad Pública de Navarra
 

Revealed Incomplete Preferences under Status-quo Bias
By Ipek Gursel Tapki Sabanci University
   Presented by: Ipek Gursel Tapki, public

Session 72: Choice Functions and Preferences

Session Chair: Nicholas Baigent, public
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: BURGAZ
 

On Uncertainty Aversion under Complete Ignorance
By Nicholas Baigent, QMUL Rucin Gekker, National University, Galway
   Presented by: Nicholas Baigent, public
 

Ranking sets additively in decisional contexts: An axiomatic characterization
By J.C.R. Alcantud, Universidad de Salamanca R. Arlegi, Public University of Navarre
   Presented by: Ricardo Arlegi, Public University of Navarre
 

Expected Utility Consistent Extensions of Preferences
By Burak Can, Bora Erdamar and M. Remzi Sanver
   Presented by: Bora Erdamar, Bilgi University
 

Consistency indicators for fuzzy choice functions
By Irina Georgescu, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
   Presented by: Irina Georgescu, Academy of Economic Studies

Session 73: Claims Problems

Session Chair: Diego Dominguez, University of Rochester
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Lower bounds and recursive methods for the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims
By Diego A. Dominguez, University of Rochester
   Presented by: Diego Dominguez, University of Rochester
 

Progressivity, Inequality Reduction and Merging-Proofness in Taxation
By Biung-Ghi Ju, University of Kansas Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, Universidad de Málaga and CORE, Université catholique de Louvain
   Presented by: Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, Université Catholique de Louvain
 

Impartiality principles in claims problems with indivisibilities
By Ricardo Martinez (University of Alicante)
   Presented by: Ricardo Martinez, University of Alicante
 

Independence conditions for adjudicating conflicting claims
By William Thomson University of Rochester
   Presented by: William Thomson, University of Rochester

Session 74: House Allocation II

Session Chair: Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Kidney Exchange with Good Samaritan Donors: A Characterization
By Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College Utku Unver, U. of Pittsburgh
   Presented by: Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College
 

The Proportionality Principle, Shapley value and the Assignment of Heterogenous Objects.
By Anna Bogomolnaia Rice University Rajat Deb Southern methodist University Lars Ehlers Universite de Montreal
   Presented by: Rajat Deb, Southern Methodist University
 

Love, Distances and the Job Market
By LAFFOND, Gilbert Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France LAINE, Jean Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information, Rennes, France, and CREM, Université de Caen, France
   Presented by: Jean Laine,

Session 75: Political Competition

Session Chair: Jean-Francois Laslier, Ecole Polytechnique
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location: AVSA 2
 

One-dimension party competition under Approval Voting
By Jean-Francois Laslier, Ecole POlytechnique, Paris, France Francois Maniquet, CORE, LOuvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
   Presented by: Jean-Francois Laslier, Ecole Polytechnique
 

On the existence of Nash equilibrium in electoral competition games: The hybrid case
By Alejandro Saporiti, University of Manchester
   Presented by: Alejandro Saporiti,
 

Electoral competition over non-linear income tax schedules
By Georges Casamatta, GREMAQ-CNRS, university of Toulouse and CEPR Helmuth Cremer, GREMAQ and IDEI, university of Toulouse and CEPR Philippe De Donder, GREMAQ-CNRS and IDEI, university of Toulouse and CEPR
   Presented by: Georges Casamatta,
 

The meanvoter theorem: necessary and sufficient conditions for convergent equilibrium
By norman schofield, washington university in saint louis
   Presented by: Norman Schofield, washington university in st louis

Session 76: Social Welfare: Empirics

Session Chair: Koen Decancq, Catholic University of Leuven
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: SEDEF 3
 

The Evolution of Inequality in Well-being across Countries
By Decancq Koen, Catholic University Leuven Decoster André, Catholic University Leuven Schokkaert Erik, Catholic University Leuven
   Presented by: Koen Decancq, Catholic University of Leuven
 

The Impact of SPS Measures upon Social Choice and Welfare
By Ceyhun Elci, London South Bank University
   Presented by: Ceyhun Elci, London South Bank University
 

Income inequality and Intra-household allocation: theory and evidence from French data
By Hélène Couprie, Gremaq Université de Toulouse Eugenio Peluso DSE Università di Verona Alain Trannoy EHESS GREQAM Marseille
   Presented by: Eugenio Peluso,
 

Social exclusion, poverty and cash social transfers in the European Union in a longitudinal perspective
By Panos TSAKLOGLOU, Athens University of Economics and Business, IZA and IMOP Fotis PAPADOPOULOS, Athens University of Economics and Business
   Presented by: Panos Tsakloglou, Athens University of Economics and Busin

Session 77: Allocation and Fairness: Axioms II

Session Chair: duygu yengin, university of rochester
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: SEDEF 1
 

Solidarity,Monotonicity, and Fairness Properties of the Groves Mechanisms
By Duygu Yengin, Department of Economics, University of Rochester
   Presented by: duygu yengin, university of rochester
 

Fair waste pricing: an axiomatic analysis to the NIMBY problem
By Toyotaka Sakai Yokohama National University
   Presented by: Toyotaka Sakai, Yokohama National University
 

Fairness and Strategy-proofness in Queueing Problems
By Cagatay Kayi, University of Rochester Eve Ramaekers, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
   Presented by: Eve Ramaekers, F.N.R.S. - University of Namur
 

Borrowing-proofness in economies with indivisible goods
By Murat Atlamaz, University of Rochester William L. Thomson, University of Rochester
   Presented by: Murat Atlamaz, private

Session 78: Noncooperative Bargaining

Session Chair: Walter Trockel, Bielefeld University
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: BURGAZ
 

The Welfare Effects of International Strategic Alliances
By Burcin Unel, University of Florida
   Presented by: Burcin Unel, University of Florida
 

War and Incomplete Information
By Bahar Leventoglu (SUNY-Stonybrook) Ahmer Tarar (Texas A&M University)
   Presented by: Bahar Leventoglu, Stony Brook University
 

The bargaining model with non-selfish preferences
By Robert Golanski, Warsaw School of Economics
   Presented by: Robert Golanski, Warsaw School of Economics

Session 79: Network Theory V

Session Chair: Nejat Anbarci, Florida International University
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Division Rules, Network Formation, and the Evolution of Wealth
By Nejat Anbarci, Department of Economics, Florida International University John Boyd, Department of Economics, Florida International University
   Presented by: Nejat Anbarci, Florida International University
 

A note on allocation rules for network games
By Hyunchul Kim, Seoul National University Youngsub Chun, Seoul National university
   Presented by: Hyunchul Kim, Seoul National University
 

Contractually Stable Networks
By Jean-François Caulier Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis Ana Mauleon FNRS, Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis and CORE, UCL. Jose Sempere-Monerris University of Valencia Vincent Vannetelbosch FNRS and CORE, UCL
   Presented by: Jean-Francois Caulier, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis
 

Spatial Wireless Networks
By Sunghoon Hong, Seoul National University Youngsub Chun, Seoul National University
   Presented by: Sunghoon Hong, Seoul National University

Session 80: Implementation I

Session Chair: Luis C. Corchon,
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: AVSA 2
 

Implementation with State Dependent Feasible Sets and Preferences: A Renegotiation Approach
By Luis C. Corchon. U. Carlos III, Dpt. of Economics Matteo triossi. U. carlos III, Dpt. of Economics
   Presented by: Luis C. Corchon,
 

On Monotonic Extensions
By Ipek Ozkal-Sanver Bilgi University Remzi Sanver Bilgi Universaity
   Presented by: Ipek Ozkal Sanver, Istanbul Bilgi University
 

How monotonic is the Nash equilibrium notion?
By Semih Koray, Bilkent University
   Presented by: Semih Koray, Bilkent University

Session 81: Voting Rules VIII - Characterization of Voting Rules

Session Chair: Walter Bossert, Universite de Montreal
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Location: AVSA 1
 

Consistent collective choice rules
By Walter Bossert, University of Montreal Kotaro Suzumura, Hitotsubashi University
   Presented by: Walter Bossert, Universite de Montreal
 

Non-Neutral Approval Voting
By Jordi Masso Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Marc Vorsatz Maastricht University
   Presented by: Marc Vorsatz, Maastricht Universoty
 

Stability and Manipulation in Representative Democracies
By Bervoets Sebastian - Departament d'Economia i d'Historia Economica, CODE and IDEP Merlin Vincent - CREM, CNRS and Universite de Caen
   Presented by: sebastian bervoets, CODE
 

Gerrymandering-proof social welfare functions
By Juan Perote-Peña Universidad de Zaragoza
   Presented by: Juan Perote-Peña, Universidad de Zaragoza

Session 82: Cooperative Bargaining

Session Chair: Ozgur Kibris, Sabanci University
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 17:5 - 18:15
Location: BURGAZ
 

Bargaining with Nonanonymous Disagreement: Decomposable Rules
By Ozgur Kibris, Sabanci University Ipek Gursel Tapki, Sabanci University
   Presented by: Ozgur Kibris, Sabanci University
 

Axiomatic bargaining theory on opportunity assignments
By Yongsheng Xu, Department of Economics Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303, U.S.A. Naoki Yoshihara Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-0004 Japan
   Presented by: noki yashihara,
 

Implementability and Axioms of Bargaining Theory
By Hideki Mizukami, Faculty of Economics, University of Toyama Takuma Wakayama, ISER, Osaka University
   Presented by: Takuma Wakayama, Osaka Univeristy

Session 83: Land Division

Session Chair: Steven Brams, New York University
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 17:5 - 18:15
Location: SEDEF 2
 

Better Ways to Cut a Cake
By Steven J. Brams, New York University Michael A. Jones, Montclair State University Christian Klamler, Graz University
   Presented by: Steven Brams, New York University
 

Efficient Egalitarian Equivalent Allocations over a Single Good
By Antonio Nicolo' Department of Economics, University of Padua Marco LiCalzi Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Venice
   Presented by: Antonio Nicolo, University of Padua
 

Strong consistency in cost-sharing
By Justin Leroux, HEC-Montréal
   Presented by: Justin Leroux, HEC Montreal

Session 84: Implementation II

Session Chair: Pablo Amoros, Universidad de Malaga
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 17:5 - 18:15
Location: AVSA 2
 

Eliciting socially optimal rankings from unfair jurors
By Pablo Amoros, Universidad de Malaga
   Presented by: Pablo Amoros, Universidad de Malaga
 

Perfect Repeated Implementation
By Jihong Lee Birkbeck College, London
   Presented by: Jihong Lee, Birkbeck College, University of London

Session 85: Jury Problems III: Judgment Aggregation

Session Chair: Herve Moulin,
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 17:5 - 18:15
Location: AVSA 1
 

The Impossibility of Unbiased Judgment Aggregation
By Franz Dietrich, Maastricht University, Netherlands Christian List, London School of Economics, U. K.
   Presented by: Franz Dietrich, Maastricht University
 

Model-based aggregation and Pareto consistency
By Gabriella Pigozzi, Department of Computer Science, King's College London, gabriella.pigozzi@kcl.ac.uk Daniel Eckert, Institute of Public Economics, University of Graz, daniel.eckert@uni-graz.at
   Presented by: Daniel Eckert, University of Graz
 

Impartial division of a dollar
By Geoffroy de Clippel, Rice University Herve Moulin, Rice University Nicolaus Tideman, Virginia Tech
   Presented by: Herve Moulin,

Session 86: Strategy-Proofness III

Session Chair: olfa meddeb, LARODEC
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 17:5 - 18:15
Location: SEDEF 1
 

On The Manipulability of The Fuzzy Social Choice Functions
By Fouad Ben Abdelaziz, LARODEC, Tunisia. José Rui Figueira, CEG-IST, Portugal. Olfa Meddeb, LARODEC, Tunisia.
   Presented by: olfa meddeb, LARODEC
 

Minimal Unanimity and OBIC: An extension of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem
By Matias Nunez, Laboratoire d'Econometrie, Ecole Polytechnique
   Presented by: Matias Nunez Rodriguez, Ecole Polytechnique
 

Manipulating An Ordering
By Ashley Piggins, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Juan Perote-Pena, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
   Presented by: Ashley Piggins, public