Canadian Economic Theory Conference

All sessions will be held in Bronfman Building,

1001 Sherbrooke Street West

Montreal, Quebec, H3A1G5

Canada

Room 151 at Bronfman Building.

Friday May 21, 2010

8:30 am Breakfast/Coffee
Chair: Takashi Kunimoto (McGill University)
9:00 am
Daniel Diermeier and Pohan Fong*, Legislative Bargaining with Reconsideration
9:30 am
Sambuddha Ghosh* and Vinayak Tripathi, Ideologues beat Idealists
10:00 am Break (15 minutes)
10:15 am
Yi-Chun Chen and Xiao Luo*, Rationalizability in General Settings
10:45 am
Paulo Barelli* and Spyros Galanis, Admissibility and Event-Rationality
11:15 am Break (15 minutes)
Chair: Elena Panova (Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM))
11:30 am
Ruqu Wang* and Jun Zhang, Signaling by Refund in Auctions
12:00 pm
Gabor Virag*, First-price auctions with resale: the case of many bidders
12:30 pm
Yuri Khoroshilov*, Jump Bidding in Takeover Auctions: An Experimental Study
1:00 pm Lunch (90 minutes)
Chair: Onur Ozgur (Universite de Montreal)
2:30 pm
Joyee Deb* and Julio González-Díaz, Community Enforcement Beyond the Prisoner's Dilemma
3:00 pm
Christoph Kuzmics*, Tom Palfrey, and Brian Rogers, Symmetric players in repeated games: Theory and evidence
3:30 pm
V. Bhaskar and Ichiro Obara*, Dynamic Games with Information Lag
4:00 pm Break (30 minutes)
Chair: Lars Ehlers (Universite de Montreal)
4:30 pm
Debraj Ray and Arthur Robson*, "Status, Intertemporal Choice, and Risk-Taking"
5:00 pm
Maxwell Pak*, Decentralized Price Adjustment in 2x2 Replica Economies
5:30 pm
Alberto Bisin and Emil Iantchev*, Evolutionary Selection of Modular Decision Architectures

Saturday May 22, 2010

8:30 am Breakfast/Coffee
Licun Xue (McGill University)
9:00 am
Jakub Steiner and Colin Stewart*, Communication, Timing, and Common Learning
9:30 am
József Sákovics and Jakub Steiner*, Who Matters in Coordination Problems?
10:00 am Break (15 minutes)
10:15 am
Benjamin Lester* and Braz Camargo, Trading Dynamics in Decentralized Markets with Adverse Selection
10:45 am
Rahul Deb*, Intertemporal Price Discrimination With Stochastic Values
11:15 am Break (15 minutes)
Chair: Alessandro Riboni (Universite de Montreal)
11:30 am
Ettore Damiano*, Hao Li, and Wing Suen, Optimal Deadlines for Agreements
12:00 pm
Jan Zabojnik*, Subjective Evaluations with Performance Feedback
12:30 pm
Heski Bar-Isaac*, Guillermo Caruana, and Vicente Cuñat, Search, Design and Market Structure
1:00 pm Lunch (90 minutes)
Chair: Arianna Degan (Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM))
2:30 pm
Jingang Zhao*, The Maximal Payoff and Coalition Formation in Coalitional Games
3:00 pm
Christian Trudeau*, Linking the Kar and Folk Solutions Through a Problem Separation Property
3:30 pm
Yaron Azrieli*, An axiomatic foundation for multidimensional spatial models of elections with a valence dimension
4:00 pm Break (30 minutes)
Chair: Dipjyoti (Dip) Majumdar (Concordia University)
4:30 pm
Larry G Epstein and Kyoungwon Seo*, A de Finetti Theorem for capacities: ambiguity about correlation
5:00 pm
Katherine Anne Baldiga* and Jerry R Green, Choice-based Measures of Conflict in Preferences
7:30 pm Conference Dinner at Restaurant Le Parchemin (1333 University Street)

Sunday May 23, 2010

8:30 am Breakfast/Coffee
Chair: Ming Li (Concordia University)
9:00 am
Svetlana Boyarchenko* and Sergei Levendorskii, Discounting when Income is Stochastic and Discounted Utility
9:30 am
Jawwad Noor*, Time Preference: Experiments and Foundations
10:00 am Break (15 minutes)
10:15 am
Sergei Severinov* and Joon Song, Ex-Post Individually Rational, Budget-Balanced Mechanisms
10:45 am
Gorkem Celik and Michael Peters*, Equilibrium Rejection of a Mechanism
11:15 am Break (15 minutes)
Chair: Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC Montreal)
11:30 am
Jun Zhang* and Ruqu Wang, Optimal Mechanism Design with Speculation and Resale
12:00 pm
Pei-yu Melody Lo*, Why Does New Hampshire Matter --- Sequential v.s. Simultaneous Election with Multiple Candidates
12:30 pm
David Ahn and Santiago Oliveros*, Combinatorial Voting

* Presenter of paper.