CONFERENCE IN ECONOMIC THEORY:
"DYNAMIC MECHANISM DESIGN"
June 3 – 4, 2013

Location: YALE SOM, Watson Center, 60 Sachem St., Room A53
Organizers: Dirk Bergemann and Alessandro Pavan
Monday Morning Chair: Larry Samuelson, Yale University
8:00–9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:00 Tomasz Sadzik, UC Los Angeles, "Agency Models with Frequent Actions" (with Ennio Stacchetti, New York University)
    Discussant: Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University
10:00–11:00 Juuso Toikka, MIT, "Mechanism for Repeated Bargaining" (with Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University)
    Discussant: Ben Golub, MIT)
11:00–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:15 Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University, "Calibrated Incentive Contracts"
    Discussant: Xianwen Shi, University of Toronto
12:15–1:30 Lunch
Afternoon Chair: Eduardo Faingold, Yale University
1:30–2:30 Li Hao, University of British Columbia, "Discriminatory Information Disclosure" (with Xianwen Shi, University of Tornoto)
    Discussant: Philipp Strack, Bonn Graduate School of Economics
2:30–3:30 Daniel Krähmer, Universitat Bonn, "Ex Post Information Rents and Disclosure in Sequential Screening" (with Roland Strausz, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin)
    Discussant: R. Vijay Krishna, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
3:30–3:45 Coffee Break
3:45–4:45 Balazs Szentes, London School of Economics, "Dynamic Contracting with Adverse Selection: An Irrelevance Result" (with Peter Eso, Oxford University)
    Discussant: Scott Kominers, University of Chicago
4:45–5:45 Heng Liu, University of Rochester, "Efficient Dynamic Mechanism in Interdependent Valuation Environments"
    Discussant: Konrad Mierendorff, University of Zurich
Tuesday Morning Chair: Johannes Hörner, Yale University
8:00–9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:00 Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton University, "Moral Hazard and Long-Run Incentives"
    Discussant: David Rahman, University of Minnesota
10:00–11:00 Daniel Garrett, Toulouse School of Economics, "Dynamic Managerial Compensation: On the Optimality of Seniority Based Schemes" (with Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University)
    Discussant: Philip Bond, University of Minnesota [Slides]
11:00–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:15 Anqi Li, University of Pennsylvania, "Contracting with Disagreement on Reserved Performance Evaluation and Compensation"
    Discussant: Marina Halac, Columbia University
12:15–1:30 Lunch
Afternoon Chair: Ludovic Renou, University Essex
1:30–2:30 Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University, "A Foundation for Renegotiation-Proof Contracts"
    Discussant: Alexander Wolitzky, Stanford University
2:30–3:30 Maher Said, Washington University, St. Louis, "Dynamic Screening with Limited Commitment" (with Rahul Deb, University of Toronto)
    Discussant: Yuichiro Kamada, UC Berkeley
3:30–3:45 Coffee Break
3:45–4:45 Rohit Lamba, Princeton University,"Optimal Dynamic Contracting" (with Marco Battaglini, Princeton University)
    Discussant: Dezso Szalay, Bonn Graduate School of Economics
4:45–5:45 Simon Board, UC Los Angeles, "Revenue Management with Forward-Looking Buyers" (with Andrzej Skzypacz, Stanford University)
    Discussant: Fei Li, University of Pennsylvania

PARTICIPANTS
Daniel Barron, MIT
Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
Simon Board, UC Los Angeles
Peter Bogetoft, Visiting Professor SOM
Philip Bond, University of Minnesota
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University
Xiaohong Chen, Yale University
Rahul Deb, University of Toronto
Frances Dilme, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Eso, Oxford University
Eduardo Faingold, Yale University
Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University
Daniel Garrett, Toulouse School of Economics
George Georgiadis, UC Los Angeles
Ben Golub, MIT
Marina Halac, Columbia University
Li Hao, University of British Columbia
Johannes Hörner, Yale University
Yuhta Ishii, Harvard University
Yuichiro Kamada, UC Berkeley
Osman Kocas, Duke University
Scott Kominers, University of Chicago
Daniel Krähmer, Universitat Bonn
R. Vijay Krishna, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Rohit Lamba, Princeton University
Anqi Li, University of Pennsylvania
Fei Li, University of Pennsylvania
Heng Liu, University of Rochester		 Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania
Chiara Margaria, Yale University
Steven Matthews, University of Pennsylvania
Claudio Mezzetti, University of Melbourne
Konrad Mierendorff, University of Zurich
Tymofiy Mylovanov, University of Pennsylvania
Juan Ortner, Boston University
Mallesh M. Pai, University of Pennsylvania
Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University
Andrew Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania
David Rahman, University of Minnesota
Ludovic Renou, University Essex
Tomasz Sadzik, UC Los Angeles
Maher Said, Washington University, St. Louis
Larry Samuelson, Yale University
Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton University
Rene Saran, Yale-NUS College
Xianwen Shi, University of Toronto
Kyungchul (Kevin) Song, University of British Columbia
Takuo Sugaya, Stanford University
Philipp Strack, Bonn Graduate School of Economics
Roland Strausz, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University
Dezso Szalay, Bonn Graduate School of Economics
Balazs Szentes, London School of Economics
Curtis Taylor, Duke University
Juuso Toikka, MIT
Stephen Wolff, Rice University
Alexander Wolitzky, Stanford University
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