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All sessions will be held in John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270.

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Fri, May 10

8:00 am – 8:30 am

• Breakfast and registration-MB 2.130.

8:30 am – 10:00 am

• Session 1 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Effrosyni Diamantoudi (Concordia)
  1. Dynamic Mechanism Design for a Global Commons Problem, Roger Lagunoff* and Rodrigo Harrison
  2. Optimal Mechanism Design without Money, Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, and Xianwen Shi*
  3. Ex Post Equilibria in Double Auctions of Divisible Assets, Songzi Du* and Haoxiang Zhu

10:00 am – 10:15 am

• Coffee-MB 2.130.

10:15 am – 11:15 am

• Session 2 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Ming Li (Concordia)
  1. Hyperbole, Litotes and Irony: Noisy Communication with Lying Costs, Sidartha Gordon* and Georg Nöldeke
  2. Robust Almost Fully Revealing Equilibria in Multi-Sender Cheap Talk, Attila Ambrus and Shih En Lu*

11:15 am – 11:30 am

• Coffee-MB 2.130.

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

• Session 3 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Ming Li (Concordia)
  1. Entry Deterrence in Dynamic Auctions, Tilman Klumpp* and XiaoGang Che
  2. Symmetric Auctions, Mallesh Pai* and Rahul Deb

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

• Lunch

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

• Session 4 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Jian Li (McGill)
  1. Non-redundant Borel Space of Lexicographic Expected Utility Preferences, Byung Soo Lee*
  2. A Cognitive Basis for Adaptive Utility, Tatiana Kornienko*
  3. No two experiments are identical: an experiment, larry g epstein* and yoram halevy

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

• Coffee-MB 2.130.

3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

• Session 5 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC)
  1. A Model of Two-Party Representative Democracy: Endogenous Party Formation, Hideo Konishi* and Katsuya Kobayashi
  2. Mandatory Versus Discretionary Spending: the Status Quo Effect, Renee Bowen, Ying Chen, and Hulya Eraslan*

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm

• Coffee-MB 2.130.

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

• Session 6 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Licun Xue (McGill)
  1. Learning and Price Discovery in a Search Model, Gabor Virag* and Stephan Lauermann
  2. Targeted Search and the Long Tail Effect, Huanxing Yang*

Sat, May 11

8:00 am – 8:30 am

• Breakfast-MB 2.130.

8:30 am – 10:00 am

• Session 7 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Sean Horan (UQAM)
  1. Revealed Preference Foundations of Expectations-Based Reference-Dependence, David J Freeman*
  2. Parametric Recoverability of Preferences, Yoram Halevy*, Dotan Persitz, and Lanny Zrill
  3. A revealed preference test for weakly separable preferences, John K.-H. Quah*

10:00 am – 10:15 am

• Coffee-MB 2.130.

10:15 am – 11:15 am

• Session 8 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Artyom Shneyerov (Concordia)
  1. Price Distortions in High-Frequency Markets, Jakub Steiner and Colin Stewart*
  2. The Most Reasonable Solution for an Asymmetric Three-firm Oligopoly, Jingang Zhao*

11:15 am – 11:30 am

• Coffee-MB 2.130.

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

• Session 9 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Artyom Shneyerov (Concordia)
  1. Sequential Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders, Thomas D Jeitschko and Sergei Severinov*
  2. Trading Dynamics in the Market for Lemons, Ayca Kaya* and Kyungmin Kim

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

• Lunch

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

• Session 10 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Arianna Degan (UQAM)
  1. Dynamic Coalitions, David Baron and Renee Bowen*
  2. Markovian Elections, John Duggan and Jean Guillaume Forand*
  3. Predestination and the Protestant Ethic, Alvaro Sandroni* and Larbi Alaoui

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

• Coffee-MB 2.130.

3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

• Session 11 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Szilvia Papai (Concordia)
  1. Sincere and sophisticated players in the envy-free allocation problem, Rodrigo A. Velez*
  2. Consistency requirements and pattern methods in cost sharing problems with technological cooperation, Eric Bahel and Christian Trudeau*

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm

• Coffee-MB 2.130.

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

• Session 12 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Szilvia Papai (Concordia)
  1. Local Incentive Compatibility in Moral Hazard Problems: A Unifying Approach, Rene Kirkegaard*
  2. Prize and Punishment: Optimal Contest Design with Incomplete Information, Jun Zhang*, ruqu wang, jingfeng lu, and bin liu

7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

• Conference dinner-Restaurant Vertige: 
  540 Avenue Duluth Est  Montreal, QC H2L 1B3
  (514) 842-4443

Sun, May 12

8:00 am – 8:30 am

• Breakfast-MB 2.130.

8:30 am – 10:00 am

• Session 13 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Vikram Manjunath (U. Montréal)
  1. Stable Marriages and Search Frictions, Stephan Lauermann* and Georg Noldeke
  2. Sequential Search with Incomplete Information, Tymofiy Mylovanov*
  3. Matching by Search or Luck, Michael Peters*, Pai Xu, and Kun Li

10:00 am – 10:15 am

• Coffee-MB 2.130.

10:15 am – 11:15 am

• Session 14 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Nicolas Klein (U. Montréal)
  1. Inequality and Risk-Taking Behaviour, Ed Hopkins*
  2. Strategic Thinking and the Value of Reasoning: Theory and Applications to Five `Little Treasures' of Game Theory, Larbi Alaoui and Antonio Penta*

11:15 am – 11:30 am

• Coffee-MB 2.130.

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

• Session 15 (John Molson School of Business, MB 2.270) • Chair: Rohan Dutta (McGill)
  1. Probabilistic Sophistication and Reverse Bayesianism, Edi Karni and Marie-Louise Viero*
  2. Additive Plausibility Characterizes the Supports of Consistent Assessments, Peter Streufert*

* Presenter of paper.