Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

ECONOMIC THEORY SUMMER CONFERENCE

June 13–14, 2011

Conference Location: Yale SOM, Watson Center, 60 Sachem St., Room A53

Organizer: Larry Samuelson

ATTENDEES

MONDAY 8:00–9:00 Continental Breakfast

SESSION 1

CHAIR: Donald Brown
9:00–10:00 Jeff Ely (Northwestern University), "Torture" (with Sandeep Baliga)
10:00–10:15 Coffee Break
10:15–11:15 Lones Smith (University of Wisconsin), "The Economics of Counterfeiting" (with Elena Quercioli)
11:15–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:30 Tomasz Strzalecki (Harvard University), "Behavioral Competitive Equilibrium" (with Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer)
12:30–2:30 Lunch

SESSION 2

CHAIR: Kareen Rozen
2:30–3:30 Chris Shannon (University of California, Berkeley), "Verifiability and Group Formation in Markets" (with Suzanne Scotchmer)
3:30–3:45 Coffee Break
3:45–4:45 Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford University), "Information Aggregation in Dynamic Markets with Strategic Traders"
4:45–5:00 Coffee Break
5:00–6:00 Olivier Gossner (Paris School of Economics and London School of Economics), "Simple Bounds on the Value of a Reputation"
7:00 Dinner, Barcelona, 155 Temple Street
TUESDAY 8:00–9:00 Continental Breakfast

SESSION 3

CHAIR: Larry Samuelson
9:00–10:00 Larry Blume (Cornell University), "Network Formation in the Presence of Contagious Risk" (with David Easley, Robert John Kleinberg,  Robert Kleinberg, and Eva Tardos)
10:00–10:15 Coffee Break
10:15–11:15 Nicole Immorlica (Northwestern University), "Dueling Algorithms" (with Adam Kalai, Bredan Lucier, Ankur Moitra, Andrew Postlewaite, and Moshe Tennenholz)
11:15–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:30 Glen Weyl (Harvard University), "Market Power Screens Willingness-to-Pay" (with Jean Tirole)
12:30–2:30 Lunch

SESSION 4

CHAIR: Dirk Bergemann
2:30–3:30 David Martimort (Paris School of Economics), "Public Contracting in Delegated Agency Games" (with Lars Stole)
3:30–3:45 Coffee Break
3:45–4:45 Nicola Perscio (New York University), "Task Juggling" (with Decio Coviello and Andrea Ichino)
4:45–5:00 Coffee Break
5:00–6:00 Jeroen Swinkels (Northwestern University), "Existence of Optimal Mechanisms in Principal-Agent Problems" (with Phil Reny and Ohad Kadan)


ATTENDEES

Baliga, Sandeep
Bergemann, Dirk
Blume, Lawrence
Brown, Donald (Yale)
Campbell, Arthur (Yale)
Coviello, Decio
Dang, Tri Vi
de Clippel, Geoffroy
Deb, Joyee
Dillenberger, David
Eliaz, Kfir
Ely, Jeffrey
Gossner, Olivier
Green, Jerry
Gul, Faruk
Halac, Marina
Immorlica, Nicole
Jaffe, Sonia
Kadan, Ohad
Kartik, Navin
Kazumori, Eiichiro
Lee, Jihong
Lipman, Bart
Liu, Qingmin
Mailath, George
Manea, Mihai
Martimort, David
Morris, Stephen
Mylovanov, Tymofiy
Narita, Yusuke
Ostrovsky, Michael
Persico, Nicola
Pesendorfer, Wolfgang
Postlewaite, Andrew
Rozen, Kareen (Yale)
Samuelson, Larry (Yale)
Sandholm, William
Shannon, Chris
Skreta, Vasiliki
Smith, Lones
Stole, Lars
Strzalecki, Tomasz
Swinkels, Jeroen
Takahashi, Satoru
Toikka, Juuso
Weyl, Glen
Wilson, Andrea
Yamamoto, Yuichi