II.
SEGMENT #2: Financial Contracting
III.
SEGMENT #3: General Equilibrium and Related Topics
IV.
SEGMENT #4: Transition to Market Economies
V.
SEGMENT #5: Game Theory: Epistemic and Other Foundational Issues
VI.
SEGMENT #6: Structural Models in Regulatory, Industrial and Labor Economics (SMRILE)
I. SEGMENT #1: Computation of Dynamic Equilibrium
ORGANIZED BY:
Kenneth Judd,
DATE: July 8 -
12 , 1996
TUESDAY 9
JULY
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Bernardo Huberman - Xerox,
TITLE: "Clustered
Volatility in Multiagent Dynamics"
TIME: 3:45 -
5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Mario
Miranda - The
TITLE: "An
Empirical Reassessment of the Commodity Storage Model"
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Jenny
Li -
TITLE: "Numerical
Analysis of a Monetary Overlapping Generation Model"
TIME: 11:00 -
12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Wouter den Haan - University of
California at San Diego
TITLE: "Aggregate
Shocks and Cross-Sectional Dispersion"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Patrick de Fontnouvelle - Iowa State University
TITLE: "Stock
Returns and Trading Volume: A Structural Explanation of the Empirical
Regularities"
TIME: 3:45 -
5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Antonio Bernardo -
TITLE: "Volume
and Price Formation in an Asset Trading Model with Asymmetric Information"
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: James
Conklin -
TITLE: "An
Algorithm to Compute All Subgame-Perfect Equilibria of Dynamic Games"
TIME: 11:00 -
12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Mark Cronshaw - Economics Institute,
TITLE: "Algorithms
for Repeated Game Equilibria"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Gautam Gowrisankaran -
TITLE: "Computational
Feasibility of Models with Multi-Product Firms and Other
TIME: 3:45 -
5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Alex Anas - State
TITLE: "Computation
of Dynamic Housing Market Equilibrium"
TIME: 10:00 -
11:00 A.M.
SPEAKER: Karl Schmedders -
TITLE: "Solving
General Equilibrium with Incomplete Asset Markets"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Kenneth Judd -
TITLE: "Efficient
Integration and Differentiation Methods in Solving Rational Expectations Models
and Dynamic Games"
II. SEGMENT #2: Financial Contracting
ORGANIZED BY:
Darrell Duffie, Graduate Schoolof
Business
DATE: July 15
- 19 , 1996
MONDAY 15
JULY
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: David
Nachman -
TITLE: "Asymmetric
Information, Operating Discretion, and the Design of Securities"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: John Geanakoplos -
TITLE: "Promises,
Promises!"
TUESDAY 16
JULY
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Ulf Axelson - Carnegie-
TITLE: "Dynamic
Financial Innovation with Demand Uncertainty"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Robert Townsend -
TITLE: "The
Theory of the Firm: Applied Mechanism Design"
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Rohit Rahi -
TITLE: "Information
Revelation and Market Incompleteness"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Peter
DeMarzo - Northwestern University
TITLE: "Design
and Collateralization of Asset-Backed Securities"
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Andreas Lehnert -
TITLE: "Liquidity
Constraints and Incentive Contracts"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
William Zame -
TITLE: "Collateral,
Default and Market Crashes"
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Thomas Noe -
TITLE: "A
Theory of Priority Structure and Debt Renegotiation in the Absence of
Bankruptcy Protection"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Jesus
Santos -
TITLE: "Financial
Innovations with Endogenous Risk"
III. SEGMENT #3: General Equilibrium and Related Topics
ORGANIZED BY:
Mordecai Kurz, Department of Economics
DATE: July 22
- 26, 1996
MONDAY 22
JULY
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Nicholas Yannelis -
TITLE: "Cores
and Values in Differential Information Economies"
TIME: 11:00 -
12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Stefan Krasa -
TITLE: "Endogenous
Enforcement in Differential Informational Economies"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Ronel Elul -
TITLE: "Will
You Marry Me? A Perspective on the Gender Gap"
TUESDAY 23
JULY
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Ross
Starr -
TITLE: "Exchange
in a Network of Trading Posts"
TIME: 11:00 -
12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Carsten Nielsen - Institute of
TITLE: "Floating
Exchange Rates vs. a Monetary
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Joseph Ostroy -
TITLE: "Efficient
Incentive Compatible Economies are Perfectly
Competitive"
WEDNESDAY
24 JULY
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Susan
Snyder - Virginia Polytechnic Institute
TITLE: "Testable
Restrictions of Pareto Optimal Public Goods Provisions"
TIME: 11:00 -
12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Mordecai Kurz -
TITLE: "The
Equity Premium is No Puzzle"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Alberto Bisin - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: "General
Equilibrium with Asymmetric Information"
THURSDAY 25
JULY
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
William Zame -
TITLE: "Clubs
and the Market"
TIME: 11:00 -
12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Robert Anderson -
TITLE: "Genericity with Infinitely Many Parameters"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Christina Shannon -
TITLE: "Determinacy
of Competitive Equilibria in Economies with Many
Commodities"
FRIDAY 26
JULY
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Walter Heller -
TITLE: "Markets
with Set-Up Costs"
TIME: 11:00 -
12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Michael Magill -
TITLE: "Entrepreneurship,
Incentives and Ownership Structure"
IV. SEGMENT #4: Transition to Market Economies
ORGANIZED BY:
Masahiko Aoki and Yingyi Qian,
Department of Economics
DATE: July 29
- August 2, 1996
MONDAY 29
JULY
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Andrei Shleifer -
TITLE: "Law
and Finance"
TIME: 3:45 -
5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: John
McMillan -
TITLE: "Search
and Trust in Transition Economies"
TUESDAY 30
JULY
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Michael Kremer - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: "Disorganization"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Chenggang Xu -
TITLE: "Coordination
and Experimentation in M-form and U-form Organizations"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: John
Earle -
TITLE: "Post-Privatization
Political Economy in the
TIME: 3:45 -
5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Erik Berglof - Universite Libre de Bruxelles
TITLE: "Optimal
Decentralization Under Soft Budget Constraints"
WEDNESDAY
31 JULY
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Klaus
Schmidt -
TITLE: "The
Political Economy of Mass Privatization and the Threat of Expropriation"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Yingyi Qian -
TITLE: "Insecure
Property Rights and Government Ownership of Firms"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Barry
Naughton -
TITLE: "Institutional
Improvisation in the Making of Market Economies"
TIME: 3:45 -
5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
TITLE: "Pareto-Improving
Reforms"
THURSDAY 1
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Mark Schankerman -
TITLE: "Infrastructure,
Learning and Competitive Environment"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Jiahua Che -
TITLE: "Governance
of Firms and Market Contracting: With an Application to
V. SEGMENT #5: Game Theory: Epistemic and Other Foundational Issues
ORGANIZED BY:
Peter Hammond, Department of Economics & Robert Aumann,
DATE: August 5
- 16, 1996
TUESDAY 6
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Peter
Hammond -
TITLE: "Rationality
in
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Dov Samet -
TITLE: "What
is an Epistemic Type?"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Aviad Heifetz -
TITLE: "Iterative
and Fixed-Point Common Belief"
WEDNESDAY 7
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Pierpaolo Battigalli -
TITLE: "Non-Equilibrium
Analysis of Incomplete Information Games"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Giacomo Bonanno -
TITLE: "Fundamental
Agreement: A New Foundation for the Harsanyi
Doctrine"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Yossi Feinberg -
TITLE: "Characterizing
the Existence of a Common Prior via the Notion of Disagreement"
THURSDAY 8
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Cristina Bicchieri - Carnegie-
TITLE: "Common
Reasoning About Admissibility"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Geir Asheim -
TITLE: "Admissibility
and Common Knowledge"
FRIDAY 9
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Charles Holt -
TITLE: "Minimum
Effort Coordination Games: An Equilibrium Analysis of Bounded Rationality"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Paolo
Ghirardato - California Institute of Technology
TITLE: "Coping
with Ignorance: Unforeseen Contingencies and Non-Additive Certainty"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Klaus
Nehring -
TITLE: "Expected
Utility Maximization in the Presence of Unforeseen Contingencies"
TUESDAY 13
AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Joseph Halpern - IBM Research Division,
TITLE: "On
Ambiguities in the Interpretation of Game Trees"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Stephen Morris -
TITLE: "The
Delicate Structure of Almost Common Knowledge"
WEDNESDAY
14 AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Mamoru Kaneko -
TITLE: "Infinite
Regress of the Knowledge of the Final Decision Axioms and Its Proof-Theoretical
Evaluations"
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Philippe Mongin - CORE,
TITLE: "The
Logic of Probabilistic Type Spaces"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Hans
Krogh Hvide - Norwegian
TITLE: "Bounds
to Memory Loss"
THURSDAY 15
AUGUST
TIME: 11:15 -
12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Robert Aumann -
TITLE: "Deriving
Backward Induction in the Centipede Game Without
Assuming Rationality at Unreached Vertices"
VI. SEGMENT #6: Structural Models in Regulatory, Industrial and Labor
Economics (SMRILE)
ORGANIZED BY:
Frank Wolak, Department of Economics
DATE: August
19 - 23, 1996
MONDAY 19
AUGUST
TIME: 10:30 -
11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Jean-Jacques Laffont - Institut
d'�conomie Industrielle
TITLE: "Network
Competition and Interconnection"
TIME: 1:30 -
2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Patrick Rey -
TITLE: "A
Primer on Foreclosure"
TIME: 3:00 -
4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Peter
Reiss -
TITLE: "A
Model of Inter-dealer Trades"
TUESDAY 20
AUGUST
TIME: 10:30 -
11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER: Donna
Gilleskie -
TITLE: "Health
Insurance and Retirement in the 1990s: A Dynamic Structure Analysis"
TIME: 1:30 -
2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Harry
Paarsch -
TITLE: "Piece
Rates, Fixed Wages, and Incentive Effects: Statistical Evidence from Payroll
Records"
TIME: 3:00 -
4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Scott
Stern - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: "Testing
for Complementarity: A Structural Approach"
WEDNESDAY
21 AUGUST
TIME: 10:30 -
11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER: David
Green -
TITLE: "The
Impact of the Minimum Wage on the Wage Distribution"
TIME: 1:30 -
2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Bernard Salanie - INSEE/CREST
TITLE: "Early
Starters vs. Late Beginners"
TIME: 3:00 -
4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Robert Porter - Northwestern University
TITLE: "Joint
Bidding and Entry in Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Auction"
THURSDAY 22
AUGUST
TIME: 10:30 -
11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Kenneth Wolpin -
TITLE: "Eliminating
Race Differences in School Attainment and Labor Market Success"
TIME: 1:30 -
2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Ariel
Pakes -
TITLE: "Stochastic
Algorithms for Dynamic Models: Markov-Perfect Equilibrium and the Curse of
Dimensionality"
TIME: 3:00 -
4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Orazio Attanasio -
TITLE: "On
the Relevance of Liquidity Constraints for Household Behavior: Evidence from
the Demand for Automobile Loans"