I. SEGMENT #1: GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM WITH ENDOGENOUS FINANCIAL ASSETS
ORGANIZED BY:
PETER HAMMOND AND MARCOS LISBOA,
ECONOMICS
DEPARTMENT
DATE: JUNE 29
- JULY 3 , 1998
MONDAY 29
JUNE
TIME: 11:00 -
12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Alberto Bennardo -
TITLE: "Multi-Commodity
Competitive Equilibrium with Moral Hazard"
TIME: 2:00 -
3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Maria-Belen Jerez - UCLA
TITLE: "Incentive
Compatibility and Pricing with Asymmetric Information: A Duality Approach"
TIME: 3:30 -
4:45 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Christian Ghiglino -
TITLE: "Moral
Hazard and the Core"
TIME: 9:30 -
10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
TITLE: "Informational
Rent versus Deductible Contract: The Case of Adverse Selection"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Adriano Rampini -
TITLE:
"Default Correlation and Systemic Risk in Economies with Private
Information"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Ronel Elul -
TITLE: "Collateral,
Credit-History and the Financial Decelerator"
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Rohit Rahi -
TITLE:
"A Welfare Analysis of Rational Expectations Equilibria
with Asymmetric Information"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Alvaro Sandroni - Northwestern University
TITLE:
"Inefficient Prices: Financial Institutions and the Incentive to Gather
Information"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Tito Pietra - Universita' di Modena
TITLE:
"Partially Revealing Rational Expectations Equilibria:
The Higher Dimensional Case"
TIME: 3:30
- 4:45 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Douglas Gale -
TITLE:
"General Equilibrium in Markets with Incomplete Information"
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Yeneng Sun -
TITLE:
"Understanding Randomness in Large Economics Systems via Bigger
Measure-theoretic Framework"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Peter Hammond and Marcos Lisboa -
TITLE:
"Statistical Games and General Equilibrium"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: M.
Ali Khan -
TITLE:
"Non-Cooperative Games with Many Players"
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Karl Vind - Institute of
TITLE: "Equilibrium
with Arbitrary Market Structure"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Carsten Nielsen - Institute of
TITLE:
"Endogenous Uncertainty and Incomplete Markets"
II. SEGMENT #2: COMPETITION IN PUBLIC AND URBAN
ECONOMICS
ORGANIZED
BY: THOMAS NECHYBA, ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
DATE: JULY
6 - 17, 1998
WEEK I:
PUBLIC ECONOMICS - July 6-10
MONDAY 6
JULY
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Kangoh Lee -
TITLE:
"Individual Actions and Governmental Strategic Interactions: An Efficient
Nash Equilibrium"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Paul Rothstein -
TITLE:
"A Positive Model of the Permission to Tax in Regional Public
Finance"
TIME: 3:30 -
4:45 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Gordon Myers -
TITLE:
"Equilibirum Constitutions in a Federal
System"
TIME: 9:00
- 10:15 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Ignatius Horstmann -
TITLE: "The
New Federalism: Voting, Voluntarism and Devolution"
TIME: 10:30
- 11:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Thomas Nechyba -
TITLE:
"Mobility, Targeting and Private School Vouchers"
TIME: 2:45
- 4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Gregory Besharov -
TITLE:
"Interjurisdictional Regulatory Spillovers Under IRS Production"
TIME: 4:15
- 5:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Holger Sieg -
TITLE:
"The Tiebout Hypothesis and Majority Rule"
TIME: 9:00
- 10:15 A.M.
SPEAKER: Emilson Silva -
TITLE:
"Federal Public Goods, Interregional Transfers and Labor Mobility"
TIME: 10:30
- 11:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Nobuo Akai -
TITLE:
"The Optimal Provision of Public Goods by Local and Central
Governments"
TIME: 2:45
- 4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
David Wildasin -
TITLE:
"State Corporation Income Taxation: A Normative Approach"
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Jay Wilson -
TITLE:
"Expenditure Competition"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Eckhard Janeba -
TITLE:
"Tax Competition when Governments Lack Commitment: The 'Great Game' over
the Caspian Oil"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Jan Brueckner -
TITLE:
"Do Local Governments Engage in Strategic Property Tax Competition?"
TIME: 3:30
- 4:45 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Jonathan Hamilton -
TITLE:
"Optimal Domestic Redistribution and Multinational Monopoly"
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
John Conley -
TITLE:
"The Tiebout Theorem: On the Existence of
Asymptotically Efficient Migration-Proof Equilibria"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Myrna Wooders -
TITLE:
"Perfect Competition in Economies with Clubs and Local Public Goods"
WEEK II:
URBAN ECONOMICS - July 13-17
MONDAY
13 JULY
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Yves Zenou -
TITLE:
"Job Matching and Urban Location: von Thunen and
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Alex Anas - SUNY at
TITLE:
"Predujice, Discrimination and Spatial
Mismatch"
TIME: 3:30
- 4:45 P.M.
SPEAKER:
CANCELED
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Tomoya Mori -
TITLE:
"Bulk Economies in Transportation and Industrial Localization"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Ed
Glaeser -
TITLE:
"Why do Poor People Live in Cities?"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Marcus Berliant -
TITLE:
"Increasing Returns and Perfect Competition: The Role of Land"
TIME: 3:30
- 4:45 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Dan O'Flaherty -
TITLE:
"City Limits: Why Cities are Very Big, but Still
Smaller than Metropolitan Areas"
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Hideo Konishi - Southern
TITLE:
"Geography, Transportation Costs and the Growth of Cities"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
William Strange -
TITLE:
"Gated Communities"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Elizabeth Newlon - Carnegie-
TITLE:
"Law Enforcement by Competing Jurisdictions when Criminals are
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
TITLE:
"A Theory of Urban Growth"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Thomas
Holmes -
TITLE:
"Step-by-Step Migration to Efficient Agglomeration"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Hesham M. Abdel-Rahman -
TITLE:
"Infrastructure and City Formation"
TIME: 3:30
- 4:45 P.M.
SPEAKER: Gianmarco Ottaviano - Universita' di Bologna
TITLE:
"Agglomeration and Trade Revisited"
NO SESSIONS
SCHEDULED FOR TODAY!!
ORGANIZED
BY: FRANK WOLAK, ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
DATE: JULY
20 - 24, 1998
MONDAY
20 JULY
TIME: 10:30
- 11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Aviv Nevo - UC/Berkeley
TITLE:
"Mergers with Differentiated Products: The Case of the Ready-to-Eat Cereal
Industry"
TIME: 1:30
- 2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Steve Stern -
TITLE:
"Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce in a Model of Match Quality"
TIME: 3:00
- 4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Ariel Pakes -
TITLE: "Some
Simple Collusive Markov Perfect Models: Numerical Results"
TUESDAY
21 JULY
TIME: 9:30
- 10:30 A.M.
SPEAKER: Gautam Gowrisankaran -
TITLE:
"Who Pays Too Much for Bypass Surgery? Evidence from Hospital Entry
Behavior"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Nadia Soboleva -
TITLE:
"Foreign Direct Investment: A Dynamic Model of a Firm's Location
Choice"
TIME: 1:30
- 2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
James Levinsohn -
TITLE:
"Evaluating Models of Productivity Dynamics"
TIME: 3:00
- 4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Christopher Timmins -
TITLE:
"Measuring the Dynamic Efficiency Costs of Regulators' Preferences"
WEDNESDAY
22 JULY
TIME: 10:30
- 11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Patrick Bajari -
TITLE:
"Structural Estimation of Games of Incomplete Information"
TIME: 1:30
- 2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Quang Vuong -
TITLE:
"Conditionally Independent Private Values in OCS Wildcat Auctions"
TIME: 3:00
- 4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Bernard Salanie - INSEE
TITLE:
"Estimating Preferences under Risk: The Case of Racetrack Bettors"
THURSDAY
23 JULY
TIME: 10:30
- 11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Frank Wolak -
TITLE: "An
Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Hedge Contracts on Bidding Behavior in a
Competitive Electricity Market"
TIME: 1:30
- 2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Gregory Crawford -
TITLE:
"An Empirical Model of Matching Between Patients and Drugs"
TIME: 3:00
- 4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Costas Meghir -
TITLE:
"Collective Labor Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation"
IV. SEGMENT #4: FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF
CONTRACTUAL INCOMPLETENESS
ORGANIZED
BY: STEVE TADELIS, ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT AND JEFFREY ZWIEBEL,
DATE: JULY
27 - 31, 1998
MONDAY
27 JULY
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Yeon-Koo Che -
TITLE:
"Cooperative Investments and the Value of Contracting"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Aaron Edlin -
TITLE:
"Contract Renegotiation in Agency Problems"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Eric Maskin -
TITLE:
"Unforeseen Contingencies, Property Rights, and Incomplete Contracts"
TUESDAY
28 JULY
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Oliver Hart -
TITLE:
"Foundations of Incomplete Contracts"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Ilya Segal -
TITLE:
"The Mirrlees Approach to Implementation and
Renegotiation: Theory and Applications to Hold-Up and Risk Sharing"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Leonardo Felli -
TITLE:
"Costly Bargaining and Renegotiation"
WEDNESDAY
29 JULY
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
John Roberts -
TITLE:
"The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Andrew Newman -
TITLE: "Monotone
Matching in Perfect and Imperfect Worlds"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: W.
Bentley MacLeod -
TITLE:
"Complexity, Contract and the Employment Relationship"
THURSDAY
30 JULY
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Klaus Schmidt -
TITLE:
"Sequential Investments and Options to Own"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
David de Meza - Exeter University
TITLE:
"When Will Capitalists Meet Their Match? The Property Rights Theory of the
Firm with Endogenous Timing"
TIME: 2:00
- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Jeffrey Zwiebel -
TITLE:
"Mergers, Employee Hold-Up and the Scope of the Firm: An Intrafirm Bargaining Approach to Mergers"
FRIDAY
31 JULY
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Robin
Wells - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE:
"Information, Authority and Internal Governance of the Firm"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Hongbin Cai
-
TITLE:
"Heterogeneity, Influence Activities and Organizational Design"
I. SEGMENT #5: RECURSIVE MECHANISM DESIGN
ORGANIZED
BY: THOMAS SARGENT, ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
DATE:
AUGUST 3 - 7, 1998
MONDAY 3
AUGUST
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Neil Wallace - Pennsylvania State Univ. and Federal Reserve Bank of
TITLE:
"An Optimal, Monetary Impulse-Response Function"
TIME: 2:15
- 3:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Ruilin Zhou - Federal Reserve Bank of
TITLE:
"Money and the Law of One Price: A Progress Report"
TIME: 3:45
- 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Stephen D. Williamson -
TITLE:
"Unemployment Insurance and Experience Rating"
TUESDAY
4 AUGUST
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Eric Bond -
TITLE:
"Gradualism in Trade Agreements with Asymmetric Countries"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Kenneth Kletzer -
TITLE:
"Intertemporal Barter"
TIME: 2:15
- 3:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Brian Wright -
TITLE:
"A Model of Supply of Storage and Backwardation with Apparent 'Convenience
Yield'"
WEDNESDAY
5 AUGUST
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Edward J. Green - Federal Reserve Bank of
TITLE:
"Implementing Efficient Allocations in a Model of Financial
Intermediation"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Harold Cole and Narayana Kocherlakota
- Federal Reserve Bank of
TITLE:
"Dynamic Games with Hidden Actions and Hidden States"
TIME: 2:15
- 3:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: B.
Ravikumar -
TITLE:
"Enduring Relationships in an Economy with Capital"
TIME: 3:45
- 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Christopher Phelan - Northwestern University
TITLE:
"A Recursive Formulation for Repeated Agency with History Dependence"
THURSDAY
6 AUGUST
TIME: 9:30
- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Evan W. Anderson -
TITLE:
"Uncertainty and the Dynamics of Pareto Optimal Allocations"
TIME: 11:00
- 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Ethan Ligon -
TITLE: "Implementation
in Village Economies"
TIME: 2:15
- 3:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Edward S. Prescott - Federal Reserve Bank of
TITLE:
"Computing Private Information Problems with Dynamic Programming
Methods"
TIME: 3:45
- 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Sevin Yeltekin -
TITLE:
"Dynamic Principal-Multiple Agent Contracts"