META 8 - Warwick (October 20th, 2017)

Date: Friday 20th October 2017

Local organiser: Herakles Polemarchakis

Location: Radcliffe House
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Programme:

10.30 - 11.00 - Arrival refreshments & Registration

11.00 - 11.45 - Ángel Hernando-Veciana (University Carlos III de Madrid)
Title: Cheap Talk and Strategic Rounding in Libor Submissions

11.45 - 12.00 - Tea/Coffee break

12.00 - 12.45 - Rui Luo (University of Leicester)
Title: Remittances, Institutions and Poverty: A Theoretical Approach

13.00 - 15.00 - Lunch break (Registered participants only)

15.00 - 15.45 - Costas Cavounidis (University of Warwick)
Title: When Does Information Determine Market Size? Search and Rational Inattention

15.45 - 16.30 - Tea/Coffee break

16.30 - 17.15 - Conrado Cuevas (University of Warwick)
Title: The social value of information in economies with mandatory savings

17.15 - 18.30 - Michael Mandler (Royal Holloway College, University of London)
Title: The benefits of risk with and without competitive markets’

META 7 - Birmingham (March 17th, 2017)

Date: Friday 17th March 2017

Local organisers: Jayasri Dutta j.dutta@bham.ac.uk & Aditya Goenka A.Goenka@bham.ac.uk

Location: Room: G11 Alan Walters Building
(The building is next to JG Smith Building which is the Economics Department (J20 on map).

The map is http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-social-sciences/business/campus-map-alan-walters.pdf

Programme:

1:00-2:00 Registration/Lunch

2:00 – 2:45 Afrasiab Mirza (Birmingham): Securitization and Aggregate Investment Efficiency

2:45-3:30 Facundo Albornoz (Nottingham) Antisocial Brexit

3:30-3:45 Tea/Coffee Break

3:45-4:30 Indrajit Ray (Cardiff) Testable Restrictions in Market Games

4:30-5:15 Amrita Dhillon (King’s College) Electoral Competition and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India

6:00 Dinner at al-Faisal, Birmingham

META 6 - Manchester (December 16th, 2016)

Local Organiser: Leonidas Koutsogeras / leonidas at manchester dot ac dot uk

Date Friday December 16th 2016

Programme:

12.00-13.00 - Welcome (Arthur Lewis Building ground floor

13.00-14.00 Lunch (Christie's Bistro)

Presentations at University Palace 5.206

Session 1.

Chair

14:00-14:30 Mich Tvede (Newcastle) (TBA)

14:30-15:00 Peter Hammond (Warwick) Efficiently Regulated Insurance Markets with Adverse Selection and Many Goods

15:00-15:30 Rui Luo (Leicester) Skill Premium and Technological Change in the very Long Run: 1350-1914

15:30-16:00 Waseem Taurabally (Manchester) (TBA)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

Chair tba

16:30-17:00 Thanos Andrikopoulos (Hull) Show me your competitors and I will tell you if you are exposed: Market Structure and Foreign Exchange Exposure (with Xenia Dassiou)

17:00-17:30 G. Charles-Cadogan (Leicester) A Regulator’s Exercise of Career Option To Quit and Join A Regulated Firm’s Management with Applications to Financial Institutions (with J. Cole).

17:30-18:00 Fei Xu (Manchester) (TBA)

META 5 - Cardiff (July 8th, 2016)

Date: Friday 8th July 2016

Local organiser: RayI1 at cardiff dot ac dot uk

Here is the link, please click on the registration page to indicate your attendance :

https://www.eventsforce.net/cbs/225/home

programme:

11:00 – Welcome

11:30-12:10 – Ezgi Kaya (Cardiff): Heterogeneous Couples, Household Interactions and Labor Supply Elasticities of Married Women

12:10-12:50 – Maria Kozlovskaya (Huddersfield): Social Value of Information Espionage

12:50-13:45 – Lunch

13:45-14:25 – Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay (Birmingham): Manufacturing Extremism: Political Consequences of Profit-Seeking Media (joint work with Kalyan Chatterjee and Jaideep Roy)

14:25-15:15 – Daniel Seidman (Nottingham): Campaign Tactics (joint work with Vincent Anesi)

15:15-15:40 – Coffee

15:40-16:20 – Ricardo Goncalves (Porto): Revenue Sharing Agreements in Regulated Sectors (joint work with Mariana Cunha)

16:20-17:00 – Chris Wallace (Leicester): Persuasion and Pricing: Dynamic Trading with Hard Evidence (joint work with Peter Eso)

18:00-20:00 – Dinner

META 4 - York (March 18th, 2016)

Date: Friday 18 March 2016

Location: Room W/222, Wentworth College, Heslington (directions and maps)
Please note: Wentworth College is a fifteen minute walk from the Department of Economics and Related Studies which is in Alcuin College.

Local organiser: subir dot chatt at york dot ac dot uk

Provisional programme:

12.30 - 1.30pm	Lunch in the Peter Lee Dining Room, The Edge restaurant, Wentworth College
1.30 - 2.00pm	Matteo Foschi "Contracting with Type-Dependent Naïveté"
2.00 - 2.30pm	Rafael Rossi Silveira "Auction Theory Meets General Equilibrium Effects: Solving a Vickrey Auction Embedded in an Economy"
2.30 - 3.00pm	Sanna Laksa "Information and the Value of a Game"
3.00 - 3.30pm	Coffee at the Edge bar
3.30 - 4.00pm	Makoto Shimoji "Rationalizable Persuasion"
4.00 - 4.30pm	Zaifu Yang "Decentralized Random Competitive Dynamic Market Processes"
4.30 - 5.15pm	Mauro Bambi "Time Varying Consumption Tax, Productive Government Spending and Aggregate Instability"
5.15 - 6.15pm	Jayasri Dutta and Herakles Polemarchakis "Common Knowledge in a Gaussian Model"

META 3 - Leicester

Astley Clarke building

Programme:

12.00 - 1.00pm	Lunch
1.00 - 2.00pm	Subir Bose, Leicester	“Eliciting Ambiguous Beliefs"” (joint work with Arup Daripa)
2.00 - 3.00pm	Ludovic Renou, Essex	“Commitment in Repeated Games with Incomplete Information” (joint work with Tristan Tomala and Claudio Mezzetti)
3.00 - 3.30pm	Coffee
3.30 - 4.00pm	Herakles Polemarchakis, Warwick	“Rational Dialogs”
4.00 - 5.00pm	Hiroyuki Nakata, Leicester	“Loan monitoring and bank risk” (joint work with Norvald Instefjord)

META 2 - Nottingham (June 22nd, 2015)

June 22, Sir Clive Granger Building

Programme:

12.00 - 1.00pm	Lunch
1.00 - 2.00pm	Niall Hughes, Warwick	“How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment”
2.00 - 3.00pm	Maria Montero, Nottingham	“Focality and Equality-Efficiency Tradeoffs in Bargaining: Experimental Evidence”
3.00 - 3.30pm	Coffee
3.30 - 4.30pm	Matthias Dahm, Nottingham	“Credence Goods, Costly Diagnosis, and Subjective Evaluation”

META 1 - Warwick (March 23rd, 2015)

Radcliffe House, Monday 23 March 2015

Programme:

12.30 - 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00 - 3.00pm	Giulio Trigilia ,Warwick	“Optimal Leverage under Asymmetric Information”
3.00 - 4.00pm	Indrajit Ray, Cardiff	“Equilibria in a Japanese English Auction with Discrete Bid Levels” (joint work with Ricardo Gonçalves)
4.00 - 4.15pm	Tea and coffee
4.15 - 5.45pm	Herakles Polemarchakis & Xinxi Song, Warwick	“Identification of Beliefs”
5.45pm	Meeting for organisers

META 0 - Birmingham (December, 2014)

The first meeting was was an informal set-up discussion that took place in December 2014.