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Canadian Economic Theory Conference > 2014 > Schedule

All sessions will be held in SFU Harbour Centre,

515 W Hastings St

Vancouver, BC

Labatt Hall

Room 1700

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Fri, Apr 25

8:30 am – 9:00 am

• Breakfast

9:00 am – 10:00 am

• Session 1 • Chair: Shih En Lu
  1. Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining, S. Nageeb Ali*, B. Douglas Bernheim, and Xiaochen Fan
  2. Political Bargaining in a Changing World, Juan Ortner*

10:15 am – 11:15 am

• Session 2 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Shih En Lu
  1. Manipulated Electorates and Information Aggregation, Mehmet Ekmekci and Stephan Lauermann*
  2. Informative Cheap Talk in Elections, Richard Van Weelden* and Navin Kartik

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

• Session 3 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Shih En Lu
  1. Multi-stage unmediated communication in a sender-receiver model, Gregory Pavlov*, Yi Chen, Maria Goltsman, and Johannes Horner
  2. Partitional Signals in Persuasion, Maxim Ivanov*

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

• Session 4 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Arthur Robson
  1. Aggregate uncertainty and the structure of utility functions, Nabil Al-Najjar* and Luciano Pomatto
  2. Robust Multiplicity with a Grain of Naiveté, Aviad Heifetz and Willemien Kets*
  3. Conditional Beliefs and Higher-order Preferences, Byung Soo Lee*

3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

• Session 5 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Arthur Robson
  1. Social Learning With Costly Search, Manuel Mueller Frank and Mallesh Pai*
  2. Costly Search with Adverse Selection: Solicitation Curse vs. Accelerating Blessing, Kyungmin Kim* and Marilyn Pease

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

• Session 6 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Arthur Robson
  1. Coordinating by Not Committing: Efficiency as the Unique Outcome, Rohan Dutta* and Ryosuke Ishii
  2. Coordination with independent private values: Why pedestrians sometimes bump into each other, Christoph Kuzmics*

Sat, Apr 26

8:30 am – 9:00 am

• Breakfast

9:00 am – 10:15 am

• Session 7 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: David Freeman
  1. A Characterization of Rationalizable Consumer Behavior, Philip J Reny*
  2. A Unified Approach to Revealed Preference Theory: The Case of Rational Choice, John K.-H. Quah*, Hiroki Nishimura, and Efe Ok

10:30 am – 11:30 am

• Session 8 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: David Freeman
  1. The Transitive Core: Inference of Welfare from Nontransitive Preference Relations, Hiroki Nishimura*
  2. Freedom as Control, Itai Sher*

11:45 am – 12:45 pm

• Session 9 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: David Freeman
  1. Preferences for Information and Ambiguity, Jian Li*
  2. Dynamic choice over menus, Alejandro Francetich*

2:15 pm – 3:45 pm

• Session 10 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Songzi Du
  1. Implementation with Contingent Contracts, Rahul Deb* and Debasis Mishra
  2. Mechanism Design with Ex-Post Verification and No Transfers, Tymofiy Mylovanov* and Andriy Zapechelnyuk
  3. The Prudent Principal, Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné* and Sandrine Spaeter

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

• Session 11 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Songzi Du
  1. On Asymmetric Reserve Prices, Maciej H. Kotowski*
  2. An Optimal Auction with Moral Hazard, Romans Pancs* and Arina Nikandrova

5:15 pm – 6:15 pm

• Session 12 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Songzi Du
  1. Consumers on a Leash: Advertised Sales and Intertemporal Price Discrimination, Aniko Oery*
  2. Strongly Symmetric Equilibria in Bandit Games, Nicolas Klein*, Johannes Hörner, and Sven Rady

Sun, Apr 27

8:30 am – 9:00 am

• Breakfast

9:00 am – 10:00 am

• Session 13 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Songzi Du
  1. Efficient dynamic mechanisms in environments with interdependent valuations, Heng Liu*
  2. Sense and Suspense: Implementation by Gradual Revelation, Gorkem Celik*

10:15 am – 11:15 am

• Session 14 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Songzi Du
  1. Arbitrage Pricing in Noncompetitive Markets, Andrés Carvajal* and Marek Weretka
  2. A Battle of Informed Traders and the Market Game Foundations for Rational Expectations Equilibrium, James Peck*

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

• Session 15 (SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall) • Chair: Songzi Du
  1. Discriminatory Information Disclosure, Hao Li and Xianwen Shi*
  2. Non-supermodular price-setting games, Gabor Virag* and Eray Cumbul

* Presenter of paper.