Canadian Economic Theory Conference

All sessions will be held in Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver Scchool of Economics Room 533 533 room 533 vancouver school of Economics.

Fri, May 05

8:40 am – 9:00 am

  • Welcome and Coffee

9:00 am – 10:30 am

  • Session 1 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Li Wei, VSE
    1. Optimal Dynamic Matching, Maria Baccara*, SangMok Lee, and Leeat Yariv
    2. Dynamic common-value contests, Toomas Hinnosaar*
    3. Investment and Matching with Cheap Talk and Incomplete Information, Seungjin Han*

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

  • Session 2 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Vitor Farinha, VSE
    1. Communication and Cooperation in Repeated Games, Yu Awaya* and Vijay Krishna
    2. Maskin Meets Abreu and Matsushima, Takashi Kunimoto*, Yi-Chun Chen, Yifei Sun, and Siyang Xiong
    3. Structural rationality in dynamic games, Marciano Siniscalchi*

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

  • Lunch

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Session 3 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Sergei Severinov, VSE
    1. “LEARNING-BY-SHIRKING” IN RELATIONAL CONTRACTS, Arijit Mukherjee*, Jin Li, and Luis Vasconcelos
    2. Relational Contracts with Learning, Aditya V Kuvalekar* and Rumen Kostadinov
    3. Incentives in team contests, Nicolas Sahuguet*, Benoit Crutzen, and Sabine Flamand

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

  • Session 4 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Alvaro Parra, Sauder Business School
    1. Asymmetric Legislative Bargaining, Jernej Copic*
    2. A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Peace, Charles Zheng*
    3. A Complete Characterization of Equilibria in Common Agency Screening Games, Aggey Semenov*, David Martimort, and Lars Stole

Sat, May 06

9:00 am – 10:30 am

  • Session 5 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Hu Fu, UBC Computer Science
    1. Costly Advice, Protests and Nonbinding Voting, Mehmet Ekmekci* and Stephan Lauermann
    2. Bounded Rationality and Learning: A Framework and a Robustness Result, J. Aislinn Bohren and Daniel N Hauser*
    3. Random Inspections and Periodic Reviews: Optimal Dynamic Monitoring, Felipe Varas*, Ivan Marinovic, and Andrzej Skrzypacz

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

  • Session 6 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Arthur Robson, Simon Fraser University
    1. On Bayesian Persuasion with Multiple Senders, Peter Norman* and Fei Li
    2. The Interval Structure of Optimal Disclosure, Yingni Guo* and Eran Shmaya
    3. Cheap Talk with Fixed Agenda, Elliot Lipnowski* and Doron Ravid

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

  • Lunch

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Session 7 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: David Freeman, Simon Fraser University
    1. Truthful Continuous Implementation, Yi-Chun Chen, Manuel Mueller-Frank, and Mallesh Pai*
    2. Dominant Strategy Implementability, Zero Length Cycles, and Affine Maximizers, Paul H. Edelman and John A. Weymark*
    3. OPTIMAL ALLOCATION WITH EX-POST VERIFICATION AND LIMITED PENALTIES, Tymofiy Mylovanov*

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

  • Session 8 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Shih En Lu, Simon Fraser University
    1. Ambiguous Persuasion, Jian Li* and Ming Li
    2. The Dimensions of Consensus, Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, and Xianwen Shi*
    3. Incentives for quality with costly inspections, Peter A Wagner*

7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Sun, May 07

9:00 am – 10:30 am

  • Session 9 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Yoram Halevy, VSE
    1. A revealed preference theory of monotone choice and strategic complementarity, John Quah*, Natalia Lazzati, and Koji Shirai
    2. Framing and Salience: Regional Preference, Andrew Ellis* and Yusufcan Masatlioglu
    3. Dynamic (In)Consistency and the Value of Information, Alexander Jakobsen*

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

  • Session 10 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Li Hao, VSE
    1. Subjective utilitarianism: Decisions in a social context, Shiri Alon* and Ehud Lehrer
    2. Collusion Constrained Equilibrium, Rohan Dutta*, David Levine, and Salvatore Modica
    3. Revealed Price Preference: Theory and Stochastic Testing, John Quah*, Rahul Deb, Yuichi Kitamura, and Jorg Stoye

* Presenter of paper.