Canadian Economic Theory Conference

All sessions will be held in Rotman School of Management, 105 St George St, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E6 Room 1060 (directions).

Friday May 11, 2018

8:55 am Opening remarks: Marcin Pęski
Session chair: Marcin Pęski
9:00 am
Yingni Guo* and Eran Shmaya, Costly Miscalibration in Communication
9:30 am
Jesse Bull and Joel Watson*, Statistical Evidence and the Problem of Robust Litigation
10:00 am Break
10:15 am
Ali Kamranzadeh* and Charles Zheng, A Neutral Mediator's Favoritism between Symmetric Potential Adversaries
10:45 am
Inga Deimen* and Dezso Szalay, Delegated Expertise, Authority, and Communication
11:15 am Break
11:30 am
Sofia Moroni*, Multi-dimensional communication with limited commitment
12:00 pm
Shih En Lu*, Monotonic Cheap Talk
12:30 pm Lunch
Session chair: Carolyn Pitchik
2:00 pm
Wojciech Olszewski*, A theory of citations
2:30 pm
Doron Ravid*, Bargaining with Rational Inattention
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm
Evan Sadler*, Dead Ends
3:45 pm
Ting Liu*, Yuk-fai Fong, and Xiaoxuan Meng, Trust Building in Credence Goods Markets
4:15 pm Break
4:30 pm
V Bhaskar and Caroline D Thomas*, Community Enforcement of Trust
5:00 pm
Hugo Hopenhayn* and Maryam Saeedi, Reputation Signals and Market Outcomes

Saturday May 12, 2018

Session chair: Matt Mitchell
9:30 am
Romans Pancs* and Patrick Harless, A Social-Status Rationale for Repugnant and Protected Market Transactions
10:00 am Break
10:15 am
Ivan Balbuzanov and Maciej H. Kotowski*, Endowments, Exclusion, and Exchange
10:45 am
Sean Horan*, Extended Luce Rules
11:15 am Break
11:30 am
Tangren Feng and Shaowei Ke*, Social Discounting and Intergenerational Pareto
12:00 pm
S. Nageeb Ali, Maximilian Mihm, and Lucas Siga*, The Perverse Politics of Polarization
12:30 pm Lunch
Session chair: Martin J. Osborne
2:00 pm
Rohan Dutta*, David Levine, and Salvatore Modica, Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't: Two Masters
2:30 pm
Pierre Fleckinger and Rene Kirkegaard*, Endogenous Correlation and Moral Hazard
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm
Dimitri Migrow* and Francesco Squintani, Multi Agent Information Acquisition and Sharing
3:45 pm
George Georgiadis* and Balazs Szentes, Optimal Monitoring Design
4:15 pm Break
4:30 pm
Venkataraman Bhaskar* and Caroline Thomas, The culture of overconfidence
5:00 pm
Elliot Lipnowski*, Doron Ravid, and Denis Shishkin, Persuasion via Weak Institutions
7:00 pm Conference dinner

Sunday May 13, 2018

Session chair: Xianwen Shi
9:00 am
Qingmin Liu*, Rational Expectations, Asymmetric Information, and Stable Matching
9:30 am
Deniz Dizdar*, Benny Moldovanu, and Nora Szech, The Multiplier Effect in Two-Sided Markets with Bilateral Investments
10:00 am Break
10:15 am
Gorkem Celik and Sergei Severinov*, Bilalteral Communication and Joint Decision-Making
10:45 am
Alexander Jakobsen*, A Model of Complex Contracts
11:15 am Break
11:30 am
Benjamin Brooks and Songzi Du*, Optimal auction design with common values: An informationally-robust approach
12:00 pm
Juan Ortner*, Missing Bids

* Presenter of paper.