Conference on Economic Theory, June 14-15, 2012

CONFERENCE ON
ECONOMIC THEORY

June 14-15, 2012
Yale SOM, Watson Center, 60 Sachem St., Room A53

Organizer: Johannes Hörner

THURSDAY	8:00 - 8:55	Continental Breakfast
	Session 1	Chair: Johannes Hörner
	9:00 - 10:00	Philipp Kircher (LSE): "Assortative Matching with Large Firms: Span of Control over More vs Better Workers" (with J. Eeckhout)
	10:00 - 10:15	Coffee Break
	10:15 - 11:15	Patrick Rey (Toulouse): "Vertical Integration and Foreclosure in Multilateral Relations" (with V. Nocke)
	11:30-12:30	Kark Schmedders (Zürich): "The Polynomial First-Order Approach to Principal-Agent Problems" (with Phillip Renner) [Slides]
	12:30 - 2:30	Lunch
	Session 2	Chair: Eduard Faingold
	2:30 - 3:30	Penelope Hernandez (U. of Valencia): "Strategic Sharing of a Costly Network Joint" (with J. Peris and J. Silva)
	3:30 - 3:45	Coffee Break
	3:45 - 4:45	Steven Callander (Stanford GSB): "Experimentation in Federal Systems" (with B. Harstad)
	5:00 - 6:00	David Ahn (Berkeley): "Preference for Flexibility and Random Choice" (with T. Sarver)
	7:30	Dinner, Union League Cafe, 1032 Chapel Street
FRIDAY	8:00 - 8:30	Continental Breakfast
	Session 3	Chair: Dirk Bergemann
	9:00 - 10:00	Andrzej Skrzypacz (Stanford GSB): "Costs and Benefits of Dynamic Trading in a Lemons Market" (with William Fuchs)
	10:00 - 10:15	Coffee Break
	10:15 - 11:15	Simon Board (UCLA): "Competitive Insurance Markets with Limited Commitment" (with M. Meyer-ter-Vehn) [Abstact] [Slides]
	11:30 - 12:30	Rakesh Vohra (Kellogg): "Auction Design with Fairness Concerns: Subsidies vs. Set-asides" (with Mallesh Pai)
	12:30 - 2:30	Lunch
	Session 4	Chair: Kareen Rozen
	2:30 - 3:30	Rida Laraki (CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique): "A Unified Approach to Equilibrium Existence in Discontinuous Strategic Games" (with P. Bich)
	3:30 - 3:45	Coffee Break
	3:45 - 4:45	Marcin Peski (Toronto): "Discounted Repeated Games with General Incomplete Information"
	5:00 - 6:00	Pedro Dal Bó (Brown): "The Evolutionary Robustness of Forgiveness and Cooperation" (with Enrique Pujals)

ATTENDEES
Ahn, David Bergemann, Dirk Bich, Philippe Board, Simon Bonatti, Alessandro Callander, Steven Carroll, Gabriel Dal Bo, Pedro de Clippel, Geoffroy Deb, Joyee Dillenberger, David Faingold, Eduardo Fuchs, William Gandhi, Amit Hernandez, Penelope Horner, Johannes Kamada, Yuichiro Kazumori, Eiichiro Kircher, Philipp Klevorick, Alvin K. Kos, Nenad Laclau, Marie	Laraki, Rida Li, Anqi Lipman, Bart Mailath, George Manea, Mihai Matthews, Steven Meyer-ter-Vehn, Moritz Pai, Mallesh Peski, Marcin Postlewaite, Andrew Rey, Patrick Rozen, Kareen Said, Maher Sarver, Todd Schmedders, Karl Skreta, Vasiliki Skrzypacz, Andrzej Takahashi, Satoru Toikka, Juuso Vohra, Rakesh von Stengel, Bernhard Wilson, Andrea You, Jung Sook