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I. SEGMENT #1: STRUCTURAL ECONOMETRIC MODELS OF STRATEGIC
INTERACTION AND DYNAMIC DECISION-MAKING
ORGANIZED
BY: FRANK WOLAK,
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
DATE:
JUNE 28 - JULY 1, 1999
MONDAY
28 JUNE
TIME:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Phillip Leslie -
TITLE:
"Structural Econometric Analysis of Price Discrimination in Broadway
Theatre"
TIME:
1:30 - 2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
William Vogt -
TITLE:
"Competition in the
TIME:
3:00 - 4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Peter Davis -
TITLE:
"Spatial Competition in Retail Markets: Movie Theaters"
TIME:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Christopher Taber -
Northwestern University
TITLE:
"Tax Reform and Human Capital Accumation: Evidence from an Empirical
General Equilibrium Model of Skill Formation"
TIME:
1:30 - 2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Victor Aguirregabiria -
TITLE:
"Evaluating the Employment and Productivity Effects of Regulated Severance
Payments Using an Industry Equilibrium Model"
TIME:
3:00 - 4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
George J. Hall -
TITLE:
"An Empirical Model of Inventory Investment by Durable Commodity
Intermediaries"[Postscript file]
TIME:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Robert Porter -
Northwestern University
TITLE:
"Empirical Implications of Equilibrium Bidding in First Price, Symmetric,
Common Value Auctions" [PDF file]
TIME:
1:30 - 2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Matthew Shum -
TITLE:
"Structural Estimation of Parametric First-Price Auction Models"[Postscript file]
TIME:
3:00 - 4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Harry J. Paarsch -
TITLE:
"Identification, Estimation, and Testing in Empirical Models of Sequential
Ascending-Price Auctions with Multi-Unit Demand: An Application to Siberian
Timber-Export Permits"
TIME:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Patrick Bajari -
TITLE:
"Auction Econometrics When the Number of Bidders is Large"
TIME:
1:30 - 2:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Richard Blundell -
TITLE:
"Nonparametric Engel Curves and Revealed Preference"[PDF file]
TIME:
3:00 - 4:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Bernard Salanie - INSEE
TITLE:
"Breaking Down Married Female Non-Employment in
II. SEGMENT #2: COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS
AND ECONOMIC THEORY
ORGANIZED
BY: KENNETH L. JUDD,
DATE:
JULY 6 - 9, 1999
TUESDAY 6 JULY
TIME:
9:30 -10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Kenneth L. Judd -
TITLE:
"Mergers in Dynamic Oligopoly"
TIME:
11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Luke M. Froeb
-
TITLE:
"Mergers Among Capacity-Constrained Firms"[PDF
file]
TIME:
2:00 -3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Sarit Markovich -
TITLE:
"Snowball - The Evolution of Dynamic Oligopolies with Network
Externalities"[PDF file]
TIME:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Karl Schmedders -
TITLE:
"Recursive Equilibria in Economies with Incomplete Markets"
WEDNESDAY 7 JULY
TIME:
9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Bernhard von Stengel -
TITLE:
"Computing Equilibria for Two-Person Games"[Postscript
file]
TIME:
11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Ronald Peeters -
TITLE:
"A Differentiable Homotopy to Compute Nash Equilibria of n-Person
Games"[Postscript file]
TIME:
2:00 -3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Richard D.
McKelvey - California Institute of Technology
TITLE:
"Demonstration of Game-Solving Software"
TIME:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Mario J.
Miranda and Ani Katchova -
TITLE:
"Computational Solution of Constrained Dynamic Games with Application to
Commodity Markets"
THURSDAY 8 JULY
TIME:
9:30 -10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Sevin Yeltekin
-
TITLE:
"Computing Supergame Equilibria."
TIME:
11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Ennio S. Stacchetti -
TITLE:
"Sequential Equilibria in a Ramsey Taxes Model"
TIME:
2:00 - 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Harry J. Paarsch -
TITLE:
"Extending the Computational Horizon: Effective Distributed Resource-Bounded
Computation for Intractable Problems"[Postscript file]
SPEAKER:
Jacek B. Krawczyk -
TITLE:
"Approximated Numerical Solutions to a Portfolio Management Problem"[Postscript file]
TIME:
9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER:
Jinill Kim -
TITLE:
"Spurious Welfare Reversals in International Business Cycle Models"[PDF file]
TIME:
11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Yoav Shoham-
TITLE:
"Considerations of Computational Complexity and Incentive Compatibility in
Combinatorial Auctions"
III. SEGMENT #3: INTERGENERATIONAL ISSUES
IN PUBLIC ECONOMICS
ORGANIZED
BY: THOMAS NECHYBA AND
ANTONIO RANGEL
ECONOMICS
DEPARTMENT
DATE:
JULY 12 - JULY 16, 1999
TIME:
10:30 - 12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Douglas Bernheim -
TITLE:
"Bequests as Signals: Explanations for the Equal Division Puzzle,
Unigeniture, and Recardian Non-equivalence"
TIME:
1:30 - 3:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Henning Bohn -
TITLE:
"Risk Sharing in a Stochastic Overlapping Generations Economy"[Web site]
TIME:
3:50 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Jorge Soares -
TITLE:
"Beyond Serrano vs Priest: National Funding of Education"
TUESDAY 13JULY
TIME:
10:30 - 12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Prajit Dutta -
TITLE:
"A Strategic Analysis of Global Warming"
TIME:
1:30 - 3:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Laurence Kotlikoff -
TITLE:
"Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Via Bequests"
TIME:
3:30 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Casey Mulligan -
TITLE:
"Gerontocracy, Retirement, and Social Security"[PDF
file]
TIME:
9:00 - 10:30 A.M.
SPEAKER:
John Ledyard -
California Institute of Technology
TITLE:
"Repeated Implementation"[PDF file]
TIME:
11:00 - 12:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Antonio Rangel -
TITLE:
"Government Investment in Equity Markets"
TIME:
2:00 - 3:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Raquel Fernandez-
TITLE:
"Sorting and Long-run Inequality"[Scientific
Word file]
TIME:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Geoffrey Heal -
TITLE:
"National Income and the Environment"[PDF file ]
TIME:
10:30 - 12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Ken Shepsle -
TITLE:
"From Generation to Generation: A Formal Analysis of Intertemporal
Strategic Interaction"[PDF file]
TIME:
1:30 - 3:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Rowena Pecchenino -
TITLE:
"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise? A Macroeconomic Analysis of Publicly Funded
Healthcare"[PDF file]
TIME:
3:30 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Michele
Boldrin- Universidad Carlos III
TITLE:
"Intergenerational Transfer Institutions: Public Education and Public
Pensions"[PDF file]
TIME:
10:30 - 12:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
John Conley -
TITLE:
"Intergenerational Spillovers and Interjurisdictional Competition"
TIME:
1:30 - 3:00 P.M.
SPEAKER:
Christian Gollier -
GREMAQ
TITLE:
"Discounting an Uncertain Future"
TIME:
3:30 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Peter Hammond -
TITLE:
"History as a Widespread Externality"
IV. SEGMENT #4: THE THEORY OF CONTRACTS
AND ORGANIZATIONS
ORGANIZED BY: STEVE TADELIS,
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT AND JEFFREY ZWIEBEL,
DATE: JULY 19 - 22, 1999
MONDAY 19 JULY
TIME: 10:30 - 11:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Hongbin Cai -
UCLA
TITLE: "A Theory of Joint Asset Ownership"[PDF file]
TIME: 2:00 - 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Sandeep Baliga -
TITLE: "Not Invented Here"
TIME: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Andrew
Newman -
TITLE: "Interference: Contracting and Authority with Insecure
Channels of Communication"[PDF file]
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Ilya
Segal -
TITLE: "Coordination and Discrimination in Contracting With
Externalities: Divide and Conquer?"
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Steve Tadelis -
TITLE: "Incentives versus Transaction Costs: A Theory of
Procurement Contracts"[Web site]
TIME: 2:00 - 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Susan Athey -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: "Optimal Collusion with Private Information"[PDF file] and "Collusion and Price Rigidity"[PDF file]
TIME: 9:30- 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Suzanne
Scotchmer -
TITLE: "Delegating Investment in a Common-Value
Project"[PDF file]
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Zvika Neeman -
TITLE: "Corporate Vote-Trading as an Instrument of Corporate
Governance"
TIME: 2:00- 3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Hideo
Owan-
TITLE: "Specialization, Multiskilling and Human Capital:
Complementarity vs. Substitutability"
THURSDAY 22 JULY
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: James
Dana -
TITLE: "Revenue Sharing, Demand Uncertainty, and Vertical
Control of Competing Firms"[PDF file]
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Christopher
Snyder -
TITLE: "Property Rights, Incomplete Contracts and Social
Harm"[PDF file]
TIME: 2:00 -3:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Joel Watson -
TITLE: "Conditioning Institutions and Renegotiation"[PDF file]
V. SEGMENT #5: MICRO THEORY WITH EMPHASIS
ON GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM
ORGANIZED BY: MORDECAI KURZ,
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
DATE: JULY 26 - 30, 1999
MONDAY 26 JULY
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: William Brock joint
with S.N. Durlauf - University
of Wisconsin
TITLE: "Interaction-Based Modeling: Econometrics and
Theory"[Web site]
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Walter Heller -
TITLE: "Contagion in Market Formation"
TIME: 1:30 - 2:45 P.M.
SPEAKER: Nabil Al-Najjar joint
with R. Casadesus-Masanell and E. Ozdenoren -
Northwestern University
TITLE: "Probabilistic Models of Complexity"
TIME: 3:00 - 4:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Karl
Vind -
TITLE: "Preferences Over Time"[Scientific
Word file]
TUESDAY 27 JULY
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Dirk
Bergemann -
TITLE: "Dynamic Common Agency"[Web page]
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Nicholas
Yannelis -
TITLE: "On Bayesian Incentive Compatible Allocations"
TIME: 1:30 -2:45 P.M.
SPEAKER: Ross Starr-
TITLE: "Monetizing Trade: A Tatonnement Example"[PDF file]
TIME: 3:00 - 4:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: John
Wooders -
TITLE: "Prices, Delay, and the Dynamics of Trade"[PDF file]
WEDNESDAY 28 JULY
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Mordecai
Kurz joint with Maurizio Motolese -
TITLE: "Endogenous Uncertainty and Market Volatility"[Web site]
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Ho-Mou Wu -
National Taiwan University joint with Wen-Chung Guo - Yuan-Ze
University
TITLE: "Asset Pricing with Speculative Trading"[PDF file]
TIME: 1:30 - 2:45 P.M.
SPEAKER: Alberto
Bisin -
TITLE: "On Decentralization Incentive Constraint Optima"
TIME: 3:00 - 4:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Michael
Magill-
TITLE: "Efficiency of the Stock Market in the OLG Model with
Production"
THURSDAY 29 JULY
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Alvaro Sandroni -
Northwestern University
TITLE: "Calibration with Many Checking Rules"[Scientific Word file]
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Lawrence Blume -
TITLE: "The Market Selection Hypothesis"[Web page]
TIME: 1:30 - 2:45 P.M.
SPEAKER: William Zame -
TITLE: "Quadratic Concavity and Determinacy of
Equilibrium"[PDF file]
TIME: 3:00 - 4:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Tarun Sabarwal -
TITLE: "Default and Bankruptcy in General Equilibrium"
FRIDAY 30 JULY
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Beth
Allen- University of Minnesota
TITLE: "On the Definition of Differentiated Products in the
Real World"
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Kenneth
L. Judd -
TITLE: "Bifucation Methods for Asset Market Equilibrium
Analysis"
TIME: 1:30 - 2:45 P.M.
SPEAKER: Rabee Tourkey -
TITLE: "Does Differential Information Cause Market
Incomleteness?"
I. SEGMENT #6: DYNAMICS, INCENTIVES AND
EXPECTATIONS
ORGANIZED BY: THOMAS SARGENT,
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
DATE: AUGUST 2 - 6, 1999
MONDAY 2 AUGUST
TIME: 2:15 - 3:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Mordecai
Kurz and Maurizio Motolese -
TITLE: "Endogenous Uncertainty and Market Volatility"[Web site]
TIME: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: In-Koo
Cho -
TITLE: "Escaping Nash Inflation"[Postscript
file][PDF file]
TUESDAY 3 AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Ted
Temzelides - University of Iowa, co-authored by D. Corbae and R. Wright
TITLE: "A Model of Matching and Money"[PDF file]
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Naryana
Kocherlakota -
TITLE: "The Two-Money Theorem"[PDF
file]
TIME: 2:15 - 3:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Stephen
Williamson -
TITLE: "Payments Systems, Settlement, and Risk"[PDF file]
TIME: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Ethan
Ligon -
TITLE: "Lending in Hierarchies"[PDF
file]
WEDNESDAY 4 AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Cheng
Wang - Carnegie-
TITLE: "Dynamic Costly State Verification (I)"
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Per Krusell -
TITLE: "Consumption and Savings Decisions with
Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting"[PDF file]
TIME: 2:15 - 3:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Marco
Bassetto - Northwestern University
TITLE: "Political Economy of Taxation in an
Overlapping-Generations Economy"[PDF
file]
THURSDAY 5 AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 A.M.
SPEAKER: Anthony
A. Smith, Jr., with Cheng
Wang -
TITLE: "Dynamic Contracts, Firms' Borrowing and Lending, and
Equilibrium Investment"[Web
page]
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Amir
Yaron - Carnegie-
TITLE: "Risk Sharing Over the Life Cycle: Genes or Labor
Market Rick?"[PDF file ]
TIME: 2:15 - 3:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Marcelo
Veracierto - Federal Reserve Bank of
TITLE: "Firing Taxes and Temporary Contracts in an
Equilibrium Search Model"
TIME: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Adriano Rampini -
Northwestern University
TITLE: "Endogenous Risk, Incentives and Aggregate
Fluctuations"[PDF file]
FRIDAY 6 AUGUST
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 P.M.
SPEAKER: Lars
Peter Hansen -
TITLE: "Robustness in General Equilibrium"[PDF
file][Postscript
file]
TIME: 11:00 - 12:15 P.M.
SPEAKER: Harold Cole -
Federal Reserve Bank of
TITLE: "The Great Depression and the Weak Recovery"[Article]
TIME: 2:15 - 3:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Andrew
Atkeson -
TITLE: "Exchange-rate Based versus Money-based Policy: a
Model of Transparency versus Control" [PDF file]
TIME: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M.
SPEAKER: Edward J. Green -
Federal Reserve Bank of
TITLE: "Sharing the Cost of Settlement Failure" [PDF file]