CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS, CRETA

SUMMER CONFERENCE, 2008

PROGRAM

All sessions will take place in classroom A0.23, Social Studies Building, University of Warwick (Map)

(Funded by Marie Curie Project 41121 - "Adapting to the Entirely Unpredictable and other aspects of Dynamic Behaviour: beyond von Neumann's standard paradigm in games and economics" Marie Curie Professorial Fellowship: Peter Hammond)

 

September 1st:

12:30 – 2:00PM: Lunch and Registration (Social Studies A0.23)

2:00 – 4:00PM: Session 1

• Stefan Traub ( Bremen) “Attention, revealed preferences, and consequentialist behaviour.”
  
• Carmit Segal (Pompeu Fabra) “How costly is diversity? Affirmative action in light of gender differences in competitiveness” (joint with Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund).

4:30 – 6:30PM: PANEL: Can experimental economics have normative significance?

• Ken Binmore ( UCL) “Experimental economics: where next?”
• Discussants: Stefan Traub ( Bremen) and Sayantan Ghosal (Warwick).
• Chairperson: Peter Hammond (Warwick).

7:30PM: Dinner (Sutherland Suite, Rootes Building)

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September 2nd

9:00 – 10:00AM: Session 2

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  Antonio Guarino (UCL) “No trade in the laboratory” (joint with Marco Angrisani, Nathan Larson and Steffen Huck).
  

10:30AM – 12:30PM: Session 3

• Chris Tyson (Queen Mary) “Satisficing and salience.”
• Patricio Dalton (Warwick) “Behavioral decisions and welfare” (joint with Sayantan Ghosal).

12:30 – 2:00PM: Lunch (Rootes Building, Main Dining Room)

2:00 – 4:00PM: Session 4

• David Kelsey (Exeter) “Are the treasures of game theory ambiguous?”
• Jayasri Dutta (Birmingham) “Fiscal federalisms and electoral accountability” (joint with Toke Aidt).

4:30 – 5:30PM: Session 5

• Hiroyuki Nakata (Essex) “Equivalent comparisons of information channels.”

7:30PM: Dinner (The Cross, in Kenilworth)

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September 3rd:

 

9:00 – 10:00AM: Session 6

• John Quah (Oxford) “Comparative statics, informativeness, and the interval dominance order” (joint with Bruno Strulovici).

10:30AM – 12:30PM: Session 7

• Ludovic Renou (Leicester) “Mechanism design and communication networks” (joint with Tristan Tomala).
  
• Indrajit Ray (Birmingham) “Coordination and implementation.”

12:30 – 2PM: Lunch (Rootes Building, Main Dining Room)

2 – 4PM: Session 8

• Felix Kübler (Zurich) “Robust equilibria in dynamic economies.”
• Jean-François Mertens (CORE) “Regularity and stability of equilibria in an overlapping generations model with exogenous growth” (joint with A. Rubinchik).

4:30 – 5:30PM: Session 9

• Michael Mandler (Royal Holloway) “Indecisiveness in behavioral welfare economics.”

7:30PM: Dinner (Rootes Building, Main Dining Room)

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September 4th:

 

9 – 10AM: Session 10

• Carlos Hervés-Beloso (Vigo) “Core, equilibria and two player games" (joint with Emma Moreno-García).

10:30AM – 12:30PM: Session 11

• Pablo Beker (Warwick) "The Dynamics of Efficient Asset Trading with Heterogeneous Beliefs"
• Yiannis Vailakis (Exeter) “Belief formation and the information revealed by endogenous borrowing constraints” (joint with V. Filipe Martins-da-Rocha).
  

12:30 – 2PM: Lunch (Rootes Building, Main Dining Room)

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List of Participants

 

• Beker, Pablo (Warwick, www)
• Binmore, Ken (UCL, www)
• Bochet, Olivier (Bern, www)
• Bose, Subir (Leicester, www)
• Carvajal, Andrés (Warwick, www)
• Dalton, Patricio (Warwick, www)
• Dobson, Alex (Warwick, email)
• Dutta, Jayasri (Birmingham, www)
• Ghosal, Sayantan (Warwick, www)
• González, Natalia (Warwick, e-mail)
• Guarino, Antonio (UCL, www)
• Hammond, Peter (Warwick, www)
• Hervés-Beloso, Carlos (Vigo, www)
• Kelsey, David (Exeter, www)
• Kübler, Felix (Zurich, www)
• Mandler, Michael (Royal Holloway, www)
• Mertens, Jean-François (CORE, www)
• Mezzetti, Claudio (Warwick, www)
• Muthoo, Abhinay (Warwick, www)
  
• Nakata, Hiroyuki (Essex, www)
• Polemarchakis, Herakles (Warwick, www)
• Postl, Peter (Birmingham, www)
• Quah, John (Oxford, www)
• Ray, Indrajit (Birmingham, www)
• Renou, Ludovic (Leicester, www)
• Rousakis, Michail (Warwick, www)
• Segal, Carmit (Pompeu Fabra, www)
• Sgroi, Daniel (Warwick, www)
• Traub, Stefan ( Bremen, www)
  
• Tsuri, Masao (Warwick, e-mail
• Tyson, Chris (Queen Mary, www)
• Vailakis, Yiannis (Exeter, www)
• Worrall, Tim (Keele, www)