Canadian Economic Theory Conference

Conference locations

  • Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, room 1210 (Friday)

  • Rotman South, 149 College Street, room 209 (Saturday and Sunday)

Conference schedule

Friday May 4, 2012

All sessions on Friday are in room 1210, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street
8:30 am Breakfast
Chair of morning sessions: Martin Osborne
9:00 am
Tilman Borgers* and Doug Smith, Robust Mechanism Design and Dominant Strategy Voting Rules
9:30 am
Tymofiy Mylovanov* and Thomas Troeger, Mechanism Design by an Informed Principal: The private values quasilinear case
10:00 am Break
10:15 am
Ben Lester*, Ludo Visschers, and Ronald Wolthoff, Asking Prices and Inspection Goods
10:45 am
Artyom Shneyerov*, Revenue Management by a Patient Seller
11:15 am Break
11:30 am
Luciano Pomatto*, Alvaro Sandroni, and Nabil Al-Najjar, Manipulable Tests and the Axioms of Probability.
12:00 pm
Alvaro Sandroni*, At Least Do No Harm
12:30 pm Lunch
Chair of afternoon sessions: Ettore Damiano
2:00 pm
Michael Peters*, Reciprocal Contracting
2:30 pm
Martin Szydlowski*, Incentives, Project Choice and Dynamic Multitasking
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm
Hao Li*, Ettore Damiano, and Wing Suen, Optimal Delay in Committees
3:45 pm
Maciej Kotowski* and Matthew Leister, Trading Networks and Equilibrium Intermediation
4:15 pm Break
4:30 pm
Santiago Oliveros and Felix Vardy*, Demand for Slant: How Abstention Shapes Voters' Choice of News Media
5:00 pm
Sergei Severinov*, Rossella Argenziano, and Francesco Squintani, Strategic Information Transmission
5:30 pm
Maria Goltsman* and Gregory Pavlov, Communication in Cournot Oligopoly

Saturday May 5, 2012

All sessions on Saturday are in room 209, Rotman South, 149 College St.
8:30 am Breakfast
Chair of morning sessions: Marcin Peski
9:00 am
Tai-Wei Hu* and Mamoru Kaneko, Critical Comparisons between the Nash Noncooperative Theory and Rationalizability
9:30 am
Wojciech Olszewski* and Rakesh Vohra, Team selection problem
10:00 am Break
10:15 am
Edward Schlee*, Surplus Maximization and Optimality
10:45 am
Simon Board* and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Competitive Insurance Markets with Limited Commitment
11:15 am Break
11:30 am
Licun Xue*, Effrosyni Diamantoudi, Inés Macho-Stadler, and David Pérez-Castrillo, Sharing the surplus in games with externalities within and across issues
12:00 pm
Rene Kirkegaard*, Ranking Asymmetric Auctions: Filling the Gap between a Distributional Shift and Stretch
12:30 pm Lunch
Chair of afternoon sessions: Carolyn Pitchik
2:00 pm
Marcin Peski and Thomas Wiseman*, A Folk Theorem for Stochastic Games with Infrequent State Changes
2:30 pm
Jimmy Chan and Wenzhang Zhang*, Collusion Enforcement with Private Information and Private Monitoring
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm
Charles Zheng*, Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in First-Price Auctions with Resale
3:45 pm
Wei Li*, Hao Li, and Anton Kolotilin, Optimal Limited Authority for Principal
4:15 pm Break
4:30 pm
Nabil Al-Najjar* and Jonathan Weinstein, A Bayesian Model of Risk and Uncertainty
5:00 pm
Sean Horan*, A Simple Model of Two-Stage Maximization
7:30 pm Conference dinner (by invitation)

Sunday May 6, 2012

All sessions on Sunday are in room 209, Rotman South, 149 College St.
8:30 am Breakfast
Chair of morning sessions: Gabor Virag
9:00 am
Vikram Manjunath*, A market approach to fractional matching
9:30 am
Norovsambuu Tumennasan*, John Kennes, and Daniel Monte, The Daycare Assignment: A Dynamic Matching Problem
10:00 am Break
10:15 am
Stephan Lauermann* and Asher Wolinsky, Common Values Procurement Auctions with Bidder Solicitation
10:45 am
Ming Li* and Arianna Degan, Information transmission in political campaigns.
11:15 am
Massimo Morelli and Richard Van Weelden*, Ideology and Information in Policymaking

* Presenter of paper.