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Peter Hammond – Retirement & Beyond

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Peter Hammond – Retirement & Beyond

The conference is being organised by Robert Akerlof and Herakles Polemarchakis (Warwick) and the idea is to bring together a wide spectrum of people working in Economic theory broadly defined.

Date: Friday 2 – Sunday 4 December 2022

Friday 2 December

13.20 - 15.00

Lunch & Registration

15.00-15.45

Claude d’Aspremont (Universite Catholique de Louvain)

Title: Bayesian mechanism design revisited

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15.45-16.30

Françoise Forges (Université Paris-Dauphine)

Title: Fifty six years of cheap talk

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16.30-16.50

Coffee Break

16.50-17.35

Federica Liberini (QMUL)

Title: Covid and Electoral Accountability

17:35-18.20

Stefan Traub (HSU in Hamburg)

Title: Economic Inequality and Cooperation: The Role of Homophily

19:00

Evening Dinner (Speakers & invited participants only)

Saturday 3 December

09.30-10.00

Arrival Refreshments

10.00-10.45

Dimitri Migrow (University of Edinburgh)

Title: Petitions, Political Participation, and Government Responsiveness

10.45-11.30

Takashi Ui (Hitotsubashi University)

Title: Impacts of Public Information on Flexible Information Acquisition

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11.30-11.50

Coffee Break

11.50-12.35

Andres Carvajal (UC Davis)

Title: Memorable Events in Financial Markets

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12.35-13.20

Praveen Kumar (University of Houston)

Title: Strategic Information Transmission in Capital Markets and Investment Distortions

13.20-15.00

Lunch

15.00-15.45

Giovanni Facchini (Nottingham University)

Title: The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act" (2022)

15.45-16.30

Gerald Willmann (Bielefeld University)

Title: The Farsighted Stability of Global Trade Policy Arrangements

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16.30-16.50

Coffee Break

16:50-17:35

Jaume Sempere (El Colegio de México)

Title: A remark on the gains from migration with incentive compatible compensation

17:35-18:20

Debraj Ray (University of Warwick)

Title: Measuring upward mobility

19:00

Evening Dinner - Open to all

Sunday 4 December

10.45-11.30

Ganna Pogrebna (Sydney University)

Title: How to Change the World in Less than 50 Years: The Impact of Peter J. Hammond’s Work on Science and Practice from 1974 to 2022

11.30-11.50

Coffee Break

11.50-12.35

John Broome (University of Oxford)

Title: Temporal separability of value: its implications

12.35-13.20

Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics)

Will close the conference via Zoom

13.20-15:00

Lunch & Goodbye

Attendance is by invitation only for the time being. For any enquires, please contact Margaret Nash at M.J.Nash@warwick.ac.uk.