Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory

12th SAET Conference, June 30 - July 3, 2012
University of Queensland, Australia

June 30 - July 3, 2012: SAET will have its 12th conference at University of Queensland, Australia. The conference will feature three days of talks followed by a day-long excursion to Noosa. A description of the excursion may be found here. Registration for the trip is available on the University of Queensland's conference webpage.

Please note. If you have specific dietary requirements for the conference, please contact Jan Seery at j.seery1@uq.edu.au.

People interested in presenting a paper should send their work to one of the Session Organizers. Papers or long abstracts should be submitted by March 15th.

For more information, please contact Renea Jay at renea-jay[AtSymbol]uiowa.edu or Richard Hislop at rhislop2[AtSymbol]illinois.edu. Alternately, please see the University of Queensland's conference website.

online event registration
by Regonline

Registration is now open. Please use the link to the right. The registration fee is $300 USD per person. The Society offers an early registration discount. Registrations made on or before May 12 will cost $200 USD per person, and registrations made between May 13 and 31 will cost $250 USD per person. Student registrations are available at half price. These fees include lunches, a reception, refreshments during the conference, and a conference dinner.

Please note that Australia requires travel visas, even for American and European citizens. These visas may be obtained electronically for passport holders from Brunei, Canada, Hong Kong, the EU, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States via the Australian Government's Website.

Preliminary Program Committee

Local Organizing Committee

  • Fabrizio Carmignani (f.carmignani@griffith.edu.au) — Co-Chair
  • Rabee Tourky (rabeetourky@gmail.com) — Co-Chair
  • Juan Carlos Carbajal Ponce (j.carbajalponce@uq.edu.au)
  • Juyoung Cheong (j.cheong@uq.edu.au)
  • Marco Faravelli (m.faravelli@uq.edu.au)
  • Kenan Kalayci (k.kalayci@uq.edu.au)
  • Priscilla Man (t.man@uq.edu.au)
  • Stuart McDonald (s.mcdonald@uq.edu.au)
  • Carlos Oyarzun (c.oyarzun@uq.edu.au)
  • Idione Souza (i.souza@uq.edu.au)
  • Louise West (l.west@uq.edu.au) — Marketing

Local Academic Program Committee

  • Andrew McLennan (a.mclennan2@uq.edu.au) — Co-Chair
  • Flavio Menezes (f.menezes@uq.edu.au) — Co-Chair
  • Begona Dominguez (b.dominguez@uq.edu.au)
  • Heiko Gerlach (h.gerlach@uq.edu.au)
  • Simon Grant (simon.grant@uq.edu.au)
  • Jeffrey Kline (j.kline@uq.edu.au)
  • John Quiggin (j.quiggin@uq.edu.au)
  • Rabee Tourky (rabeetourky@gmail.com)

Preliminary List of Session Organizers

Plenary Speakers

  • Timothy Kehoe (University of Minnesota) — Lionel McKenzie Lecture
  • Herakles Polemarchakis (University of Warwick) — Gerard Debreu Lecture
  • Alvin Roth (Harvard University) — Sir John Hicks Lecture
  • Stephen Morris (Princeton University) — David Cass Lecture
  • Matt Elliot (Stanford University) and Ben Golub (Stanford University) — Aliprantis Prize Lecture

Session Details

Advancement of Economic Theory
Shino Takayama
Yuichiro Waki (University of Queensland, Australia; y.waki@uq.edu.au) A Polyhedral Approximation Approach to Concave Numerical Dynamic Programming
Terence Yeo (University of Queensland, Australia; cheng.yeo@uqconnect.edu.au), Juyoung Cheong (University of Queensland, Australia), and Shino Takayama (University of Queensland, Australia) Price, Trade Flows, and Free Trade Agreements
Chris Bidner (University of New South Wales, Australia); c.bidner@unsw.edu.au) A Gender-Based Theory of the Caste System of India
Shiko Maruyama (University of New South Wales, Australia; s.maruyama@unsw.edu.au), and Meliyanni Johar (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Externality and Strategic Interaction in the Location Choice of Siblings under Altruism toward Parents
Aggregative Games
Richard Cornes
Richard Cornes (Australian National University, Australia; richard.cornes@anu.edu.au), and Dirk Rubbelke (Basque Centre for Climate Change, Bilbao, Spain) On the Private Provision of Contentious Public Characteristics
Alex Possajennikov (University of Nottingham, UK; Alex.Possajennikov@nottingham.ac.uk) Aggregative Games and Conjectural variations: An Evolutionary Perspective
Jun-ichi Itaya (University of Hokkaido, Japan; itaya@econ.hokudai.ac.jp) Alternative Objectives of Oligopoly: An Aggregative Game Approach
Richard Cornes (Australian National University, Australia; richard.cornes@anu.edu.au), Roger Hartley (University of Manchester, UK), and Doug Nelson (Tulane University, USA) Groups with Intersecting Interests
Asset Accumulation and Consumption Over the Life Cycle
Stephen Turnovsky
Lucaiano G. Greco (University of Padova, Italy; luciano.greco@unipd.it) A Note on Social Security and Public Debt
Jack Die Ding (Macquarie University, Australia), and Geoffrey Kingston (Macquarie University, Australia; geoff.kingston@mq.edu.au) Asset Allocation when Bequests are Luxury Goods
Jochen O. Mierau (University of Groningen, Netherlands), and Stephen J. Turnovsky (University of Washington, USA; sturn@u.washington.edu) Demographic Structure: Consequences for Capital Accumulation and Consumption
Shino Takayama (University of Queensland, Australia; s.takayama1@uq.edu.au) Price Manipulation, Dynamic Informed Trading and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in a Sequential Trade Model
Asset Bubbles in Equilibrium Models
Takashi Kamihigashi
Lise Clain-Chamosset-Yvrard (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France), and Thomas Seegmuller (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France; Thomas.SEEGMULLER@univ-amu.fr) Rational Bubbles and Macroeconomic Fluctuations: The (De-)stablizing Role of Monetary Policy
Tomohiro Hirano (University of Tokyo, Japan; tomohih@gmail.com) and Noriyuki Yanagawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Asset Bubbles and Bailout
Cuong Le Van (CES, CNRS, University of Paris 1, Hanoi WRU; Cuong.Le-Van@univ-paris1.fr), and Yiannis Vailakis (University of Exeter, UK) Financial Markets with Secured Lending
Takashi Kamihigashi (Kobe University, Japan; tkamihig@rieb.kobe-u.ac.jp) Asset Bubbles in a Small Open Economy
Banking with Sequential Service
Paulo Klinger Monteiro
Paulo Klinger Monteiro (FGV/EPGE, Brazil; pklm@fgv.br), and Ricardo Cavalcanti (FGV/EPGE, Brazil) Convergence of Peck—Shell and Green—Lin Mechanisms in Diamond—Dybvig
Ricardo Cavalcanti (FGV/EPGE, Brazil; ricardoc@fgv.br), and Jefferson Bertolai (FGV/EPGE, Brazil) High Interest Rates: The Golden Rule for Bank Stability in the Diamond-Dybvig Model
Jefferson Bertolai (FGV/EPGE, Brazil; jbertolai@gmail.com), Paulo Klinger Monteiro (FGV/EPGE, Brazil), and Ricardo Cavalcanti (FGV/EPGE, Brazil) Transitions When the Distribution of Money Matters
Behavioral Economics
Wing-Keung Wong
Wing-Keung Wong (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; awong@hkbu.edu.hk), and Martín Egozcue (FCS Universidad de la Republica del Uruguay, Uruguay) Optimal Output for the Regret-Averse Competitive Firm Under Price Uncertainty
Frank N. Caliendo (Utah State University, USA; frank.caliendo@usu.edu), and Lei (Nick) Guo (Utah State University, USA) Time-Inconsistent Preferences and Time-Inconsistent Policies
Capital and Efficiency, Money in Growth Models
Cuong Le Van
Jean-Pierre Drugeon (Ecole d'Economie de Paris -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Jean-Pierre.Drugeon@univ-paris1.fr) On Three-Period Lifespans, Capital & Efficiency for Overlapping Cohorts Economies
Hiroyuki Ozaki (Keio University, Japan; ozaki@econ.keio.ac.jp) and Eisei Ohtaki (Keio University, Japan) Monetary Equilibria and Knightian Uncertainty
Andrew Clausen (University of Pennsylvania, USA; andrew.p.clausen@gmail.com) Moral Hazard with Counterfeit Signals
Debasis Bandyopadhyay (University of Auckland, New Zealand; debasis@auckland.ac.nz) and Xueli Tang (Deakin University, Australia) Knowledge Spillover and Growth Disparity with Income Redistribution
Contests
D. Kovenock
J. Franke (University of Dortmund, Germany; Joerg.franke@tu-dortmund.de), W. Leininger (University of Dortmund, Germany), C. Kanzow (University of Würzburg, Germany), and A. Schwartz (University of Würzburg, Germany) Lottery vs. All-pay Auction Contests: A Revenue Dominance Theorem
J. Thomas (University of Edinburgh, UK), and Z. Wang (Shandong University, China; zheweiwang@sdu.edu.cn) Optimal Punishment in Contests with Endogenous Entry
M. Montero (University of Nottingham, UK; maria.montero@nottingham.ac.uk), A. Possajennikov (University of Nottingham, UK), M. Sefton (University of Nottingham, UK), and T. Turocy (University of East Anglia, UK) The Value of Votes in Weighted Voting Games: An Experiment
D. Kovenock (Chapman University and University of Iowa, USA; kovenock@chapman.edu), and B. Roberson (Purdue University, USA) TBA
Contests: Theory and Practice I
Luis Corchón
Jingfeng Lu (National University of Singapore, Singapore; ecsljf@nus.edu.sg), Qiang Fu (National University of Singapore, Singapore), and Zhewei Wang (Shandong University, China) “Reverse”-Nested-Lottery Contests: Microfoundation and Equilibrium
Maria Cubel (University of Barcelona, Spain; cubel@eco.ub.es), and Santi Sanchez-Pages (University of Barcelona, Spain) Inequality in Confl‡icts
Carmen Beviá (University Autònoma de Barcelona and Barcelona GSE, Spain; carmen.bevia@gmail.com), and Luis Corchón (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Relative Difference Contest Success Functions
Galina Zudenkova (University Rovira i Virgil, Spain; galina.zudenkova@gmail.com) Political Party, Political Factions, and the Party Line
Contests: Theory and Practice II
Luis Corchón
Chair: Carmen Bevia
Qiang Fu (National University of Singapore, Singapore; bizfq@nus.edu.sg), Jingfeng Lu (National University of Singapore, Singapore), and Yue Pan (IBM China Research Lab., China) Multi-Battle Contests Between Teams
Bettina Klose (University of Zurich, Switzerland); bettina.klose@econ.uzh.ch), and Dan Kovenock (University of Chapman and University of Iowa, USA) Moderating Alliances
Luis Corchón (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; lcorchon@eco.uc3m.es) TBA
Jörg Franke (Universität Dortmund, Germany); joerg.franke@tu-dortmund.de), and Tahir Öztürk (University of Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; tahirozturk@gmail.com) Conflict Networks
Directed Search
Gabriele Camera
Chair: Nejat Anbarci
Alain Delacroix (UQUAM, Canada; Delacroix.alain@uqam.ca), and Shouyong Shi (University of Toronto, Canada) Bargaining and Price Posting with Seller Private Information in a Frictional Environment
Pedro Gomis Porqueras (Monash University, Australia), Benoit Julien (University of New South Wales, Australia; benoit.julien@unsw.edu.au), and Chengsi Wang (University of New South Wales, Australia) Informative Advertising in Directed Search
Ian Paul King (University of Melbourne, Australia; ipking@unimelb.edu.au), and Frank Staehler (University of Otago, Australia) Growth and Unemployment: A Directed Search Approach
Nejat Anbarci (Deakin University, Australia; nejat.anbarci@deakin.edu.au), and Nick Feltovich (University of Aberdeen, UK) Directed Search, Coordination Failure and Seller Profits: an Experimental Comparison of Posted Pricing with Single and Multiple Prices
Economic Growth
Aditya Goenka
Chong K. Yip (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; chongkeeyip@cuhk.edu.hk), and Jianpo Xue (Renmin University, China) Aggregate Elasticity of Substitution and Economic Growth: A Synthesis
Zhigang Feng (University of Zurich, Switzerland; z.feng2@gmail.com), and Begona Dominguez (University of Queensland, Australia) The Effect of Capital Taxation on Capital ccumulation
Timothy Kam (Australian National University, Australia; timothy.kam@anu.edu.au, and Yingying Lu (Australian National University, Australia) The Environment, Income and Inequality
Aditya Goenka (National University of Singapore, Singapore; goenka@nus.edu.sg), Saqib Jafarey (City University, London), and William Pouliot (University of Birmingham, UK) Pollution, Mortality and Optimal Environmental policy
Equilibrium Dynamics in Economic Growth Models I
Kazuo Nishimura
Chair: Jean-Pierre Drugeon
Wilfredo Leiva Maldonado (Australian National University, Australia; wilfredo.maldonado@anu.edu.au), and Luis Felipe V.N. Pereira (Universidade Católica de Brasilia, Brazil) Accuracy of Policy Function Approximations for Strongly Concave Recursive Problems
Eric W. Bond (Vanderbilt University, USA), Kazumichi Iwasa (Kyoto University, Japan; iwasa@kier.kyoto-u.ac.jp), and Kazuo Nishimura (Kyoto University, Japan) The Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Model: A Diagrammatic Analysis
Yasunobu Tomoda (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan; tomoda@inst.kobe-cufs.ac.jp), Kouichiro Sano (Hiroshima University, Japan), and Makoto Okamura (Hiroshima University, Japan) Optimal Public Education Policy With a Hierarchical Education System
Jean-Pierre Drugeon (Ecole d'Economie de Paris -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Jean-Pierre.Drugeon@univ-paris1.fr) On the Equilibrium Structure of Non-Homothetic Steady State Solutions for Competitive Growth Sequences
Equilibrium Dynamics in Economic Growth Models II
Kazuo Nishimura
Chair: Thomas Seegmuller
Oscar Pavlov (University of Adelaide, Australia; oscar.pavlov@adelaide.edu.au), and Mark Weder (University of Adelaide, Australia) Countercyclical Markups and News-Driven Business Cycles
Ken-Ichi Akao (Waseda University, Japan; akao@waseda.jp), Takashi Kamihigashi (Kobe University, Japan), and Kazuo Nishimura (Kyoto University, Japan) On the Critical Capital Stock in a Continuous Time Aggregate Growth Model with a Nonconcave Production Function
Carine Nourry (Université de la Méditerranée and GREQAM, France), Thomas Seegmuller (CNRS – GREQAM, France; Thomas.SEEGMULLER@univmed.fr), and Alain Venditty (CNRS - GREQAM and EDHEC, France) Aggregate Instability Under Balanced-budget　Consumption Taxes: A Re-examination
Katsumasa Fukuda (Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, Japan; 2katsufumi.fukuda@gmail.com) An Effect of Further Exposure to International Trade on Welfare in a Coe and Helpman Semi Endogenous Growth Model with Firm Heterogene
Experimental Economics
C. C. Yang
Li-Chen Hsu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan; lchsu@nccu.edu.tw), Kamhon Kan (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), C.C. Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), and Chun-Lei Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Experimentation on Dividing Gain Through Politics
Jie Zhang (Fudan University, China; jiezhang2002@fudan.edu.cn), Scott J. Savage (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), and Yongmin Chen (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) Consumer Uncertainty and Price Discrimination Through Online Coupons: An Empirical Study of Restaurants in Shanghai
Tsu-Tan Fu (Soochow University, China), Wei-Hsin Kong (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), and C.C. Yang ( Academia Sinica, National Chengchi University and Feng Chia University, Taiwan; ccyang@econ.sinica.edu.tw) Stakes in Ultimatum Games
Financial Economics
Chenghu Ma
Guangsug Hahn (POSTECH, Korea; econhahn@postech.ac.kr), and Dongchul Won (POSTECH, Korea) Survival Assumptions for Competitive Equilibrium in Constrained Asset Markets
Hyeng Keun Koo (Ajou University, Korea; hkoo@ajou.ac.kr) Friedman-Savage Revisited: Implications for Intertemporal Consumption and Portfolio Selection
Chenghu Ma (Fudan University, China; machenghu@fudan.edu.cn) Uncertainty Aversion and A Theory of Incomplete Contract
Zhiyong Yao (Fudan University, China; yzy@fudan.edu.cn) A Theory of Credit Rating Cycle
Foundational Issues in Game Theory
Mamoru Kaneko
Tai-Wei Hu (Northwestern University, USA; t-hu@kellogg.northwestern.edu), and Mamoru Kaneko (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Critical Comparisons between the Nash Noncooperative Theory and Rationalizability
J. Jude Kline (University of Queensland, Australia; j.kline@uq.edu.au) Evaluations of the Epistemic Depths for Resolving the Muddy Children Puzzle
Mamoru Kaneko (University of Tsukuba, Japan; kaneko@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp), and J. Jude Kline (University of Queensland, Australia) Transpersonal Understanding through Social Roles, and Emergence of Cooperation
Arkadii Slinko (University of Auckland, New Zealand; a.slinko@auckland.ac.nz), Nadja Betzler (Technical University of Berlin, Germany), and Johannes Uhlmann (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) On the Computation of Fully Proportional Representation
Game Theoretic Approaches to Policy
D. Kovenock
P. Fong (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; phfong@cityu.edu.hk), and J. Deng(City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Dynamic Legislative Bargaining with Endogenous Proposers
G. Zudenkova (University Rovira i Virgili, Spain); galina.zudenkova@gmail.com) A Model of Party Discipline in Congress
J. Choi (University of New South Wales and Michigan State University, Australia and USA), and H. Gerlach (University of Queensland, Australia; h.gerlach@uq.edu.au) Global Cartels, Leniency Programs, and International Antitrust Cooperation
I. Chatterjee (University of Western Australia, Australia; Ishita.Chatterjee@uwa.edu.au) Costly Reporting, Ex-post Monitoring, and Commercial Piracy: A Game Theoretic Analysis
Games and Dynamics
Rabah Amir
Diego Moreno (University Carlos III-Madrid, Spain; diego.moreno@uc3m.es), and John Wooders (UTS-Sydney, Australia) Equilibrium Dynamics in Markets for Lemons?
Svetlana Boyarchenko (University of Texas, USA); sboyarch@eco.utexas.edu) and Sergei Levendorskii (University of Leicester, UK) Preemption Games Under Lévy Uncertainty
Mohamad Alghamdi (The University of Queensland, Australia; mohamad.alghamdi@uq.edu.au), Stuart McDonald (The University of Queensland, Australia), and Bernard Pailthorpe (The University of Queensland, Australia) The Effect of Connectivity, Proximity and Market Structure on R&D Networks
Rabah Amir (University of Arizona, USA; ramir@email.arizona.edu) Supermodular Stochastic Games
Games on Networks
Rabah Amir and Nizar Allouch
David Seim (Stockholm University, Sweden; david.seim@iies.su.se), and Andreas Nordvall Lageras (Stockholm University, Sweden) Strategic Complementarities, Network Games and Endogenous Network Formation
Keizo Mizuno (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan); kmizuno@kwansei.ac.jp) and Yasunori Okumura (Han-nan University, Japan) Strategic Location Choice and Network Formation for Entry
Gizem Korkmazy (European University Institute, Italy; gizem.korkmaz@eui.eu) R&D Collaboration in Collusive Networks
Mandar Oak (University of Adelaide, Australia; mandar.oak@adelaide.edu.au) Network Structure and Favor Exchange Under Stochastic Costs
General Equilibrium and Asset Markets
Chiaki Hara
Chiaki Hara (Kyoto University, Japan; hara.chiaki.7x@kyoto-u.ac.jp) Heterogeneous Impatience and Dynamic Inconsistency
Hisashi Nakamura (Hitotsubashi University, Japan; hisashi.nakamura@r.hit-u.ac.jp), and Koichiro Takaoka (Hitotsubashi University, Japan) A Continuous-Time Optimal Insurance Design with Costly Monitoring
Jose Fajardo (Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Brazil; jose.fajardo@fgv.br) Effectiveness of Enforcement Mechanisms with Collateral Requirements
Renginar Dayangac (Galatasaray University, Turkey; rdayangac@gsu.edu.tr), and Bilge Ozturk Goktuna (Galatasaray University, Turkey) Informal Employment and Retirement: Family Support as a Substitute for Pension
General Equilibrium, Asymmetric Information, and Ambiguity I
Nicholas C. Yannelis
Patrick Beißner (Bielefeld University, Germany; pbeissne@math.uni.bielefeld.de) Coherent Price Systems and Uncertainty-Neutral Valuation
Anuj Bhowmik (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; anuj.bhowmik@aut.ac.nz), and Jiling Cao (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) Blocking Efficiency in an Economy with Asymmetric Information
Yi-Chun Chen (Rice University, USA) and Siyang Xiong (National University of Singapore, Singapore; xiong@rice.edu) Genericity and Robustness of Full Surplus Extraction
Vina Liu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Implementability Under Ambiguity
General Equilibrium, Asymmetric Information, and Ambiguity II
Nicholas C. Yannelis
Chair: Walter Trockel
Uwe Dulleck (Queensland University of Technology, Australia; uwe.dulleck@qut.edu.au), and Berthold U. Wigger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Expert Politicians, Electoral Control, and Fiscal Restraints
Richard Hislop (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; rhislop2@illinois.edu) TBA
Pavlo Prokopovych (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine; prokopo@gmail.com), and Nicholas C. Yannelis (University of Iowa and University of Manchester, US and UK) On Uniform Conditions for the Existence of Mixed Strategy Equilibria
Walter Trockel (Universität Bielefeld, Germany; wtrockel@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de) An Axiomatic Foundation of the Discrete Raiffa Solution
Information, Learning, and Implementation
Andrew McLennan
Sven Feldman (University of Melbourne, Australia; s@svenfeldman.com) Relying on Non-selfserving Statement: Full Information Revelation in Cheap-talk Games with Multiple Senders
Simon Loertscher (University of Melbourne, Australia; simonl@unimelb.edu.au) Optimal Term Limits
Andy McLennan (University of Queensland, Australia; a.mclennan@economics.uq.edu.au), and Simon Loertscher (University of Melbourne, Australia) The Mathematics of Bayesian Learning Traps
Akira Yokotani (Maastricht University and University of Queensland, Netherlands and Australia; a.yokotani@maastrichtuniversity.nl) Knowledge-Belief Space Approach to Robust Implementation
Information and Uncertainty, Theory and Applications
Jack Stecher
Maria Chaderina (Carnegie Mellon University, USA; mchaderi@andrew.cmu.edu) The Pre-Borrowing Motive: A Model of the Coexistence of Debt and Cash Holdings
Simona Fabrizi (Massey University, New Zealand; S.Fabrizi@massey.ac.nz) and Steffen Lippert (University of Otago, New Zealand) Corruption and Public Display of Wealth
Patrick O'Callaghan (University of Warwick, UK; patrickocal@gmail.com) Context and Decision: A Topological Approach
Jack Stecher (Carnegie Mellon University, USA; jstecher@cmu.edu) and Elif Incekara Hafalir (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Allais Paradox and Presentation Effect
International Business Cycles
Luciana Juvenal
Alexandre Dmitriev (University of New South Wales, Australia; a.dmitriev@unsw.edu.au), and Ivan Roberts (Reserve Bank of Australia, Australia) Time-Separability, Wealth Effects and International Business Cycles
Kanda Naknoi (Purdue University, USA; knaknoi@purdue.edu) and YiLi Chien (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, USA) The Risk Premium and Long Run Imbalances
Silvio Contessi (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, USA; silvio.contessi@stls.frb.org), and Pierangelo De Pace (Pomona College, USA) How does Multinational Production Change Comovement?
Luciana Juvenal (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, USA; Luciana.Juvenal@stls.frb.org), and Paulo Santos Monteiro (University of Warwick, UK) Trade and Synchronization in a Multi-Country Economy
Market Design I
Fuhito Kojima
Ning Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; ningc@ntu.edu.sg) Ties Matter: Improving Efficiency in Class Registration by Introducing Ties
Takashi Akahoshi (Waseda University, Japan; akahoshi@suou.waseda.jp) A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Stable Matching Rules to be Strategy-Proof
Peter Troyan (Stanford University, USA; petetroyan@gmail.com), Daniel Fragiadakis (Stanford University, USA), Atsushi Iwasaki (Kyushu University, Japan), Surugu Ueda (Kyushu University, Japan), and Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu University, Japan) Strategyproof Matching with Minimum Quotas
Vitalijs A. Butenko (Center of Economic Research, Switzerland; vbutenko@ethz.ch) and Hans Gersbach (Center of Economic Research, Switzerland) Experimentation in Democracy
Market Design II
Fuhito Kojima
Georgy Artemov (University of Melbourne, Australia; georgy@gmail.com) College Admission Problem with Clear-In Ranks
Alexandru Nichifor (University of St. Andrews, UK; alexandru.nichifor@gmail.com) Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks
Tayfun Sonmez (Boston College, USA; tayfun.sonmez@bc.edu) Matching with (Branch-of-Choice) Contracts at United States Military Academy
Matching, Group Formation, and Evolutionary Games
Takako Fujiwara-Greve
Michihiro Kandori (University of Tokyo, Japan), Fuhito Kojima (Stanford University, USA), and Yosuke Yasuda (GRIPS, Japan; yyasuda@grips.ac.jp) Understanding Stable Matchings: A Non-Cooperative Approach
Toshimasa Maruta (Nihon University, Japan; maruta.toshimasa@nihon-u.ac.jp) and Akira Okada (Hitotsubashi University, Japan) Group Formation and Heterogeneity in Collective Action Games
Kenichi Amaya (Kagawa University, Japan; amaya@ec.kagawa-u.ac.jp) Perfect Foresight Equilibrium Selection in Signaling Games
Takako Fujiwara-Greve (Keio University, Japan; takakofg@econ.keio.ac.jp), and Masashiro Okuno-Fujiwara (Ryutu Keizai University and University of Tokyo, Japan) Behavioral Diversity in Voluntarily Separable Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Mathematical Economics
Jiling Cao
Andrei Barbos (University of South Florida, USA; andreibarbos@gmail.com) Project-Screening Allocation
Anne van den Nouweland (University of Oregon, USA; annev@uoregon.edu), and Francis Bloch (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Defining the Core of Partition Function Form Games: An Axiomatic Approach
Ronald Stauber (Australian National University, Australia; ronald.stauber@anu.edu.au) Framework for Robustness to Ambiguity of Higher-Order Beliefs
Anuj Bhowmik (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand), and Jiling Cao (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, jiling.cao@aut.ac.nz) Robust Efficiency in Mixed Economies with Asymmetric Information
Mechanism Design: Theory and Applications
Claudio Mezzetti
Jose Rodrigues-Neto (Australian National University, Australia; Jose.Neto@anu.edu.au) Consistency, Self-Consistency and Cycles
Jun Xiao (University of Melbourne, Australia; jux103@psu.edu) Asymmetric All-Pay Contests with Heterogeneous Prizes
Daniel Garret (Toulouse School of Economics, France; danielgarrett2013@u.northwestern.edu) Durable Goods Sales with Dynamic Arrivals and Changing Values
Claudio Mezzetti (University of Melbourne, Australia; cmez@unimelb.edu.au Repeated Nash Implementation
Methods for Dynamic General Equilibrium Models
Kevin Reffett
Yiyong Cal (Australian National University and CSIRO, Australia; yiyong.cai@anu.edu.au) Stochastic Optimal Growth with Endogenous Labor Supply
Kei Kawakami (University of Melbourne, Australia; keik@unimelb.edu.au) Limited Commitment in Financial Markets
Matthew Hoelle (Purdue University, USA; mhoelle@purdue.edu) Bankruptcy and Access to Credit in General Equilibrium
Antonio Mele (Nuffield College, Oxford, UK; antonio.mele@economics.ox.ac.uk Repeated Moral Hazard and Recursive Lagrangian
Money and Macro
Gabriele Camera
Chair: Young Sik Kim
Gaetano Antinolfi (Board of Governors, USA; gaetano@wustl.edu), and Francesco Carli (Washington University in Saint Louis, USA) Costly Monitoring, Dynamic Incentives, and Default
Zhe Li (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China; lizhezhe@hotmail.com), and Jianfei Sun (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Bank Competition, Securitization, and Risky Investment
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