Fifth Transatlantic Theory Workshop

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Sponsored by: Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Sciences

Location: James Allen Center, Evanston Campus

 

Thursday, September 6, 2012

7:00pm Dinner at Stained Glass (invitation only)

 

Friday, September 7, 2012

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome

9:15 - 10:05 Tai-Wei Hu (Northwestern University), "Optimality in a large two-stage market game"

10:05 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:05 Olivier Tercieux (Paris School of Economics), "Robust Equilibrium Outcomes in Sequential Games under Almost Common Certainty of Payoffs"

11:05 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University), "A Revealed-Preference Theory of Sequential Rationality"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 2:50 Yuval Salant (Northwestern University), "Reallocation Costs and Efficiency" (with Ron Siegel)

2:50 - 3:20 Coffee Break

3:20 - 4:10 Tom Norman (University of Oxford), "Almost-Rational Learning of Nash Equilibrium without Absolute Continuity"

4:10 - 4:40 Coffee Break

4:40 - 5:10 Laurent Lamy (Paris School of Economics), "Equilibria in two-stage sequential second-price auctions with multi-unit demands"

5:10 - 5:40 Coffee Break

5:40 - 6:30 Nicolas Jacquemet (Paris School of Economics), "The power of words, monetary incentives and commitment to improve coordination: an experimental comparison"

7:00 Dinner at Allen Center (invitation only)

 

Saturday, September 8, 2012

9:15 - 10:05 Itai Arieli and Manuel Mueller-Frank (University of Oxford), "Generic Outcomes of Observational Learning"

10:05 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:05 Jonathan Lewis Weinstein (Northwestern University), "Robust predictions in infinite-horizon games---An unrefinable folk theorem"

11:05 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Yuval Heller (University of Oxford), "Three Steps Ahead"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 2:50 Jeanne Hagenbach (CNRS - École Polytechnique), "Pre-play certifiable communication"

2:50 - 3:00 Coffee Break

3:00 - 3:50 Olivier Gossner (Paris School of Economics), "Decision-Theoretic Underpinnings of Information Orderings"

3:50 - 4:20 Coffee Break

4:20 - 5:10 Gaël Giraud (Paris School of Economics), "Unemployment and Inflation in a Monetary General Equilibrium Model: The Philips Curve reformulated"

5:10 - 5:20 Coffee Break

5:20 - 6:10 David Gill and Victoria Prowse (University of Oxford), "Cognitive Ability and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis"

7:30 Dinner at Quince (invitation only)

 

Sunday, September 9, 2012

9:15 - 10:05 David Frankel (University of Chicago), "Delegating Multiple Decisions"

10:05 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:05 Pierre Fleckinger (Paris School of Economics), "Incentives for quality in friendly and hostile informational environments"

11:05 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Bernard Cornet (Paris School of Economics), "Asset pricing with risk-neutral capacity in financial models with Bid/Ask"

12:30 - 1:45 Lunch

1:45 - 2:35 Olivier Compte and Andrew Postelwaite (Paris School of Economics), "Strategy restrictions and limited knowledge: application to auctions and reputation"

2:35 - 2:45 Coffee Break

2:45 - 3:35 Eric Budish (University of Chicago), "An Experimental Test of a Complex Market Design: Changing the Course Allocation System at Wharton"

3:35 - 3:45 Coffee Break

3:45 - 4:35 Luciano Pomatto (Northwestern University), "Induction and Refutation"