Program

Friday May 13, 2011
All sessions are held at UBC Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2

8:30 am     Breakfast/Coffee
   
9:00 am     Tomasz Sadzik* & Ennio Stacchetti, Continuous Time    Contracting: Hidden Action and Hidden Information

9:30 am     Alberto Bisin* & Viral Acharya, Counterparty risk externality: Centralized versus over-the-counter markets

10:00 am     Break (15 minutes)
10:15 am     Vasiliki Skreta* & Ichiro Obara, A Foundation of Dynamic Bargaining with Incomplete Information

10:45 am     Thomas Wiseman*, A Partial Folk Theorem for Games with Private Learning

11:15 am     Break (15 minutes)
   
11:30 am     Benny Moldovanu & Xianwen Shi*, Search Committees

12:00 pm     Andras Niedermayer  & Artyom Shneyerov*,  Search brokers

12:30 pm     Lunch (90 minutes)
   
2:00 pm       H. Jerome Keisler & Byung Soo Lee*,  Common Assumption of Rationality

2:30 pm     Marciano Siniscalchi*,  Recursive vector expected utility

3:00 pm     Break (15 minutes)


3:15 pm     Peter Klibanoff*, Sujoy Mukerji & Kyoungwon Seo, Relevance and Symmetry

3:45 pm     Sandeep Baliga, Eran Hanany* & Peter Klibanoff, Polarization and Ambiguity

4:15 pm     Break (15 minutes)

4:30 pm     Maxim Ivanov*, Dynamic Informational Control

5:00 pm     Andrea Wilson*, Vasiliki Skreta, Mikhail Golosov & Aleh Tsyvinski, Dynamic Strategic Information Transmission

5:30 pm     Qiang Fu & Ming Li*,  Reputation-Concerned Policy Makers and Institution Design

Saturday May 14, 2011

8:30 am     Breakfast/Coffee
   
9:00 am     Itai Sher* & Rakesh Vohra, Price Discrimination Through Communication

9:30 am     Licun Xue*, Bidding, Renegotiation, and Coalition Formation with Externalities

10:00 am     Break (15 minutes)

10:15 am     Gorkem Celik* & Mike Peters, Reciprocal Relationships and Mechanism Design

10:45 am     Charles Zheng*,  Robust Collusion in Auctions


11:15 am     Break (15 minutes)

11:30 am     Jean Guillaume Forand*,  Keeping Your Options Open

12:00 pm     Nicolas Klein*, The Importance of Being Honest

12:30 pm     Lunch (90 minutes)
   
2:00 pm     Sean Horan*,  Sequential Search and Choice from Lists

2:30 pm     Willemien Kets*, Bounded reasoning and higher-order uncertainty

3:00 pm     Break (15 minutes)

3:15 pm     Ettore Damiano*, Li, Hao & Wing Suen, Sincere Voting in Large Elections

3:45 pm     Colin Stewart* & Jacob Steiner, Influential Opinion Leaders

4:15 pm     Break (15 minutes)

4:30 pm     Luke Boosey*, Salary Competition in Matching Markets with Private Information

5:00 pm     Simon Board* & Andy Skrzypacz, Revenue Management with Forward-Looking Buyers

   
7:30 pm    
Conference Dinner




Sunday May 15, 2011

8:30 am     Breakfast/Coffee
   
9:00 am     Roland Strausz*,  The Political Economy of Regulatory Risk

9:30 am     Nancy Carson & Carolyn Pitchik*, Fair Division in the Presence of Indivisible Goods and Widespread Externalities

10:00 am     Break (15 minutes)

10:15 am     Brian W. Rogers*,  Cooperation in Anonymous Dynamic Social Networks

10:45 am     Sidartha Gordon* and Etienne B. de Villemeur, Strategic Advice on a Timing Decision

11:15 am     Break (15 minutes)
   
11:30 am     Dotan Persitz*,  Power and Core-Periphery Networks

12:00 pm     Tymofiy Mylovanov* and Nicolas Klein,  Little White Lies

   
* Presenter of paper.