II.
SEGMENT #2: Empirical Analysis of Game-Theoretic Models
III.
SEGMENT #3: Endogenous Coalitions and Mixed Cooperative/Non-Cooperative Games
IV.
SEGMENT #4: Micro-Economic Modeling of Economic Fluctuations with Heterogeneous
Agents
I. SEGMENT #1: Political Economy
ORGANIZED BY:
David Baron,
DATE: July 5 -
8 , 1995
WEDNESDAY 5
JULY
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: David
Austen-Smith -
TITLE: "Cheap
Talk and Burned Money"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Daniel Diermeier -
TITLE: "Cohesion
in Legislatures: Procedural and Policy Coalitions"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Roger
Myerson - Northwestern University
TITLE: "Lobbying
and the Internal Organization of Legislatures"
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Stephen Coate -
TITLE: "An
Economic Model of Representative Democracy"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Boaz Moselle -
TITLE: "Anarchy,
Organized Crime and Extortion: A Cynical Theory of the State"
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Thomas Palfrey - California Institute of Technology
TITLE: "Preemptive
Spending in Congressional Campaigns: Theory and Evidence"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Timothy Groseclose - Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
TITLE: "A
Model and Test of Blame-Game Politics"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Nolan
McCarty -
TITLE: "Veto
Power and Legislation: An Empirical Analysis of Executive and Legislative
Bargaining from 1961-1968"
TIME: 9:30 -
12:30 P.M.
Informal
Session
II. SEGMENT #2: Empirical Analysis of Game-Theoretic Models
ORGANIZED BY:
Frank Wolak, Department of Economics
DATE: July 10
- 15 , 1995
TUESDAY 11
JULY
TIME: 10:30 -
11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Christopher Ferrall -
TITLE: "Incentives,
Team Production, Transaction Costs, and the Optimal Contract: Estimates of an
Agency Model Using Payroll Records"
TIME: 1:30 -
2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Christopher
Flinn -
TITLE: "Matching,
Bargaining, and Labor Market Equilibrium"
TIME: 3:00 -
4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: John
Kennan -
TIME: 10:30 -
11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER: Costas Meghir -
TITLE: "Intertemporal Non-Separability or
Liquidity Constraints: A Disaggregate Analysis Using the
TIME: 1:30 -
2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Michael Keane -
TITLE: "An
Empirical Analysis of Income Dynamics in the PSID:
1968-1989"
TIME: 3:00 -
4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Donna
Gilleskie -
TITLE: "A
Dynamic Model of Medical Care Consumption During the
Health Insurance Year"
TIME: 10:30 -
11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER: Ariel
Pakes -
TITLE: "Computing
Markov-Perfect Equilibria When There are Many
Characteristics per Firm and Many Firms"
TIME: 1:30 -
2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: John
Rust -
TITLE: "Optimal
Dynamic Response to Regulation: The Case of the
TIME: 3:00 -
4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: James
Levinsohn -
TIME: 10:30 -
11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Robert Porter - Northwestern University
TITLE: "
TIME: 1:30 -
2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Harry
Paarsch -
III. SEGMENT #3: Endogenous Coalitions and Mixed
Cooperative/Non-Cooperative Games
DATE: July 17
- 28, 1995
MONDAY 17
JULY
SPEAKER:
Michael Chwe -
TITLE: "Game
Theory and Global Rituals: Media, MacDonald's, and Madonna"
TIME: 10:40 -
12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Jinpeng Ma -
TUESDAY 18
JULY
TIME: 9:00 -
10:20 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Cheng-Zhong Qin -
TITLE: "Endogenous
Formation of Cooperation Structures"
TIME: 10:40 -
12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Patrick Legros -
TIME: 9:00 -
10:20 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Francis Bloch - Groupe HEC
TITLE: "Stable
Trading Structures in Bilateral Oligopolies"
TIME: 10:40 -
12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Sang-Seung Yi -
TIME: 9:00 -
12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Debraj Ray -
TITLE: "Endogenous
Coalition Formation"
MONDAY 24
JULY
TIME: 9:00 -
10:20 A.M.
SPEAKER: Tayfun Sonmez -
TITLE: "Strategy-Proofness and Singleton Cores in Generalized Matching
Problems"
TIME: 10:40 -
12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Matt
Jackson - California Institute of Technology and Asher Wolinsky
- Northwestern University
TITLE: "A
Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks"
TUESDAY 25
JULY
TIME: 9:00 -
10:20 A.M.
SPEAKER: Phil Reny -
TITLE: "The
Partnered Core of a Game Without Side Payments"
TIME: 10:40 -
12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Kalyan Chatterjee -
TITLE: "Rubinstein
Auctions: On Competition for Bargaining Partners"
WEDNESDAY
26 JULY
TIME: 9:00 -
10:20 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Roberto Serrano -
TITLE: "Reinterpreting
the Kernal"
TIME: 10:40 -
12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Benny
Moldovanu -
TITLE: "Resale
Markets and the Assignment of Property Rights"
THURSDAY 27
JULY
TIME: 9:00 -
10:20 A.M.
SPEAKER: Joel
Watson -
TITLE: "Building
a Relationship"
TIME: 10:40 -
12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: David
Martimort - Institut d'�conomie Industrielle
TITLE: "Collusion
Under Asymmetric Information"
IV. SEGMENT #4: Micro-Economic Modeling of Economic Fluctuations with Heterogenous Agents
DATE: July 31
- August 10, 1995
TUESDAY 1
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: In-Ho
Lee -
TITLE: "Asymmetric
Business Cycles"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Andrew Caplin -
TITLE: "Trade
Information and Inertia"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: John
Leahy -
TITLE: "Information
and Trade"
WEDNESDAY 2
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: John Haltiwanger -
TITLE: "Labor
Productivity: Structural Change and Cyclical Dynamics"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Russell Cooper -
TITLE: "Machine
Replacement and the Business Cycle: Lumps and Bumps"
THURSDAY 3
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Eduardo Engel -
TITLE: "Heterogeneity,
Dynamics and Aggregation: The Adjustment Hazards Approach"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Anthony Smith - Carnegie-
TITLE: "Income
and Wealth Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
George Evans -
TITLE: "Convergence
in Monetary Models with Heterogeneous Learning Rules"
MONDAY 7
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Bruce
Smith -
TITLE: "Financial
Intermediation and Regime Switching in Business Cycles"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Alvaro Sandroni -
TITLE: "The
Risk Premium and the Interest Rate Puzzles: The Role of Heterogeneous
Agents"
TUESDAY 8
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Mordecai Kurz -
TITLE: "Characterization
of Rational Beliefs in Markov Models"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Carsten Nielsen - Institute of
TITLE: "Floating
Versus Fixed Exchange Rates Under Rational
Beliefs"
WEDNESDAY 9
AUGUST
TIME: 10:00 -
12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Philippe Henrotte - Groupe HEC
TITLE: "Construction
of a
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
TITLE: "Endowments,
Stability and Fluctuations in OG Models"
THURSDAY 10
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Hans Follmer -
TITLE: "Stochastic
Price Dynamics Induced by Interacting Agents"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
William Brock -
TITLE: "Dynamical
Systems Theory and Social Interaction Theory: Variations on Two Themes with an
Empirical CODA"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Ann
Bell -
TITLE: "Dynamically
Interdependent Preferences in a General Equilibrium Environment"