2008
COWLES SUMMER CONFERENCE

Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

"CHOICE, CONTRACTS & COMPUTATION"

June 9 - 10, 2008

Organizers: Dirk Bergemann & Larry Samuelson

Location: Yale School of Management, Room A51

List of Attendees

MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2008

SESSION 1: Mechanism Design
9:00-10:00 Alex Gershkov, (University of Bonn), Dynamic Revenue Maximization with Heterogeneous Objects: A Mechanism Design Approach” (joint with Benny Moldovanu)
"The Trade-off Between Fast Learning and Dynamic Efficiency"
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:15 Ilya Segal, (Stanford University)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Susan Athey, (Harvard University)
12:30-2:30 Lunch
SE2SION 2: Decision Theory
2:30-3:30 Bart Lipman, (Boston University) "Costly Self Control vs. Overwhelming Temptation"
(joint with Eddie Dekel)
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-4:45 Haluk Ergin, (Washington University, St. Louis)
4:45-5:00 Coffee Break
5:00-6:00 Larry Blume, David Easley and Joe Halpern, (Cornell University), "Constructive Decision Theory"
7:00 Dinner, Bentara, 76 Orange Street, New Haven

TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2008

SESSION 3: Computability
9:00-10:00 Tim Roughgarden, (Stanford University), "Potentials and Approximation"
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:15 Shanghua Teng, (Boston University), "Game and Market Equilibria: Approximation and Smoothed Analysis"
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Christos Papademitriou, (Berkeley)
12:30-2:30 Lunch
SESSION 4: Dynamic Contracting
2:30-3:30 Yulie Sannikov, (Berkeley)
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-4:45 Noah Williams, (Princeton University)
4:45-5:00 Coffee Break
5:00-6:00 Thomas Mariotti, (Toulouse),
7:00 Dinner, Sabor, 266 College Street, New Haven
ATTENDEES

David Ahn (University of California-Berkely)
Susan Athey (Harvard University)
Larry Blume (Cornell University)
Luciano de Castro (University of Illinois)
Martin Cripps (University College London)
David Easely (Cornell University)
Haluk Ergin (Washington University, St. Louis)
Kyna Fong (Stanford University)
Alex Gershkov (University of Bonn)
Olivier Gossner (Paris School of Economics)
Joe Halpern (Cornell University)
Jason Hartline (Microsoft)
Bart Lipman (Boston University)
George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania)
Thomas Mariotti (Toulouse)
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (University of California-Los Angeles)
Steven Morris (Princeton University)

Christos Papademitriou (Berkeley)
David Parkes (Harvard University)
Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University)
Andrew Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania)
James Powell (University of California-Berkely)
Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University)
Bill Sandholm (University of WI-Madison)
Yulie Sannikov (Berkeley)
Todd Sarver (Northwestern)
Ilya Segal (Stanford University
Bruno Strulovici (University of Oxford)
Shanghua Teng (Boston University)
Xianwen Shi (University of Toronto)
Tomasz Strzalecki (Northwestern University)
Rakesh Vohra (Northwestern University)
Jonathan Weinstein (Kellogg School of Management)
Noah Williams (Princeton University)
Steve Williams (University of Illinois)
Muhamet Yildiz (MIT)