CETC 2006

May 12 - May 14, 2006

Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Conference Location: Room BA B024

The Bahen Center for Information Technology, University of Toronto. 40 St. George Street (map location):

Friday May 12

8:30-9:00         BREAKFAST

9:00-9:30: Nicolas Sahuguet, ``Redistributive Politics with Distortionary Taxation,'' (with Benoit Crutzen)

9:30-10:00: Pohan Fong, ``Dynamics of Government and Policy Choice,''

10:00-10:30: Stefan Krasa, ``Political Polarization and the Electoral Effects of Media Bias,'' (with Dan Bernhardt and Mattias Polborn)

10:30-11:00         COFFEE BREAK

11:00-11:30: Yoram Halevy, ``Uncertainty and Compound Lotteries: Calibration''

11:30-12:00: Pino Lopomo, ``Uncertainty in Mechanism Design,'' (with Luca Rigotti and Chris Shannon)

12:00-12:30: Daniel Monte, ``Reputation and Bounded Memory''

12:30-2:00:         LUNCH BREAK

2:00-2:30: Jawwad Noor, ``Menu-Dependent Self-Control''

2:30-3:00: Takashi Kunimoto, ``On the Non-Robustness of Nash Implementation''

3:00-3:30: Daniel Vincent, ``Dominant Strategy Implementation of Reduced Form Allocations,'' (with Alejandro Manelli)

3:30-4:00:          COFFEE BREAK

4:00-4:30: Yves Sprumont, ``Sharing the cost of a non-rival good: An incentive-constrained axiomatic approach,'' (with Francois Maniquet)

4:30-5:00: Bernard Caillaud, ``Consensus Building: How to persuade a group,'' (with Jean Tirole)

5:00-5:30: Sergei Severinov, ``On the Value of Legal Representation,'' (with Yeon-Koo Che)

5:30-6:00: Kyoungwon Seo, ``Ambiguity and Second-Order Belief''

8:30-9:00         BREAKFAST

9:00-9:30: Ted Temzelides, ``Evolution and Walrasian Behavior in Market Games,'' (with Alexander Matros)

9:30-10:00: Kazuya Hyogo, ``Subjective Random Discounting and Intertemporal Choice,'' (with Youchiro Higashi and Norio Takeoka)

10:00-10:30: Pauli Murto, ``Learning in a Model of Exit,'' (with Juuso Valimaki)

10:30-11:00         COFFEE BREAK

11:00-11:30: Ruqu Wang, ``Market Design with Correlated Valuations,'' (with Yongmin Chen)

11:30-12:00: Massimiliano Amarante, ``(Choquet-) Integarting over Priors: alpha(f)-MEU''

12:00-12:30: Larry Epstein, ``Cognitive Dissonance and Choice,'' (with Igor Kopylov)

12:30-2:00:         LUNCH BREAK

2:00-2:30: Mike Peters, ``Truncated Hedonic Equilibrium''

2:30-3:00: Licun Xue, ``Decentralized Matching: The Role of Commitment,'' (with Effrosyni Diamantoudi and Eiichi Miyagawa)

3:00-3:30: Quan Wen, ``Perfect Equilibria in a Negotiation Model with Different Time Preferences,'' (with Harold Houba)

3:30-4:00:        COFFEE BREAK

4:00-4:30: Effrosyni Diamantoudi, ``Noncoopeartive formation of coalitions in hedonic games,'' (with Francis Bloch)

4:30-5:00: Yuk-Fai Fong, ``Long-Lived Consumers, Intertemporal Bundling, and Tacit Collusion,'' (with James Dana)

5:00-5:30: Alexander Matros, ``Internet Auctions: Sellers, Bidders and Auction Houses,'' (with Andriy Zapechelnyuk)

5:30-6:00: Okan Yilankaya, ``Ratifiability of Efficient Collusive Mechanism in Second-Price Auctions with Participation Costs,''(with Guofu Tan)

8:00-               CONFERENCE DINNER at 93 Harbord

8:30-9:00         BREAKFAST

9:00-9:30: Sidartha Gordon, ``Cheap Talk with a State-Dependent Conflict,''

9:30-10:00: Oliver Board, ``Noisy Talk,'' (with Andreas Blume)

10:00-10:30: Ming Li, ``To Disclose or Not to Disclose: Cheap Talk with Uncertain Biases''

10:30-11:00         COFFEE BREAK

11:00-11:30: Heski Bar-Isaac, ``Diversity and Demand Externalities in Assessing a Multidimensional Good,'' (with Guillermo Caruana and Vicente Cunat)

11:30-12:00: Rod Garratt, ``Asymmertic Equilibria of English and Second-Price Auctions with Resale,'' (with Thomas Troger and Charles Zheng)

12:00-12:30: Rene Kirkegaard, ``A Simple Approach to Analyzing First Price Auctions''