Program

Friday, March 16

13:00 - 14:00 Registration and welcome
14:00 - 15:00 Augmenting Markets with Mechanisms
by Samuel Antill and Darrell Duffie
Discussant: Yunzhi Hu
15:15 - 16:15 The Interaction of Communities, Religion, and Governments in the Enforcement of Contracts and Social Norms
by Matthew O. Jackson and Yiqing Xing
Discussant: David McAdams
16:30 - 17:30 Dual Auctions for Assigning Winners and Compensating Losers
by Matt Van Essen and John Wooders
Discussant: Justin Burkett
18:00 - 20:00 Reception/dinner

Saturday, March 17

09:00 - 10:00 Robust Mechanism Design of Exchange
by Pavel Andreyanov and Tomasz Sadzik
Discussant: Luca Rigotti
10:15 - 11:15 Dominant Strategy Implementability and Zero Length Cycles
by Paul H. Edelman and John A. Weymark
Discussant: Sam Antill
11:30 - 12:30 Robust Persuasion of a Privately Informed Receiver
by Ju Hu and Xi Weng
Discussant: Jonas Hedlund
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Optimal Collateralized Contracts
by Dan Cao and Roger Lagunoff
Discussant: Felipe Varas
15:15 - 16:15 Managerial Compensation and Capital Allocation in Conglomerate Firms
by Sandro Brusco and Jaideep Roy
Discussant: Fei Li
16:30 - 17:30 Insurance as a Lemons Market: Coverage Denials and Pooling
by Hector Chade and Edward Schlee
Discussant: Peter Norman
19:00 - 21:00 Conference Dinner

Sunday, March 18

09:00 - 10:00 Contests for Revenue Share
by Uriel Feige, Ron Lavi, Moshe Tennenholtz
Discussant: In-Koo Cho
10:15 - 11:15 Sequential Persuasion
by Fei Li and Peter Norman
Discussant: Teddy Kim
11:30 - 12:30 Nonlinear Pricing Schedule under Competition for One Known Type Buyer
by Yong Chao, Guofu Tan, Adam Chi Leung Wong
Discussant: Sandro Brusco
12:30 Box lunch


(Each 60min slot consists of 45min presentation, followed by 15min discussion.)