STANFORD INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL ECONOMICS
2004 SUMMER WORKSHOP - FINAL PROGRAM
JUNE 28 - AUGUST 22, 2004

All seminars will take place in the Landau Economics Building. For a link of how to get there, go to the map.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

SEGMENT 1
SEGMENT 2
SEGMENT 3
SEGMENT 4
SEGMENT 5
SEGMENT 6
SEGMENT 7
SEGMENT 8

 

Segment 1:
Transitions and Dynamics in Development
June 28 - June 30, 2004
 

Organized by: Anjini Kochar, Stanford University, Ethan Ligon, University of California at Berkeley, David Mckenzie, Stanford University, and Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University
 
Monday 28 June
  Time: 9:00-10:15 A.M.
  Speaker: Ethan Ligon- University of California at Berkeley
  Title: "Dynamic Vulnerability "
   
  Time: 10:45 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Stefan Napel- University of Hamburg
  Title: "Intergenerational Mobility and Macroeconomic History Dependence" (joint with Dilip Mookherjee)
   
  Time: 2:00-3:15 P.M.
  Speaker: Sari Pekkala- Stanford University
  Title: "Abilities, Budgets and Age: Inter-Generational Economic Mobility in Finland" (with Robert E.B. Lucas)
   
  Time: 3:30-4:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Shanka Chakraborty - University of Oregon
  Title: "Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality "
 
Tuesday 29 June
  Time: 10:00-11:15 A.M.
  Speaker: Garth Frazer- University of Toronto
  Title: "Productivity and Manufacturing Firm Exit in Ghana "
   
  Time: 11:30 A.M.-12:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Matthias Schuendeln- Yale University
  Title: "Modeling Firm Dynamics to Identify the Cost of Financing Constraints in Ghanaian Manufacturing"
   
  Time: 2:15-3:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Hyeok Jeong- University of Southern California
  Title: "Discovering the Sources of TFP Growth: Occupation Choice, Capital Heterogeneity, and Financial Deepening" (with Robert M. Townsend)
   
  Time: 4:00-5:15 P.M.
  Speaker: David Levine - University of California at Berkeley
  Title: "Does Trade Affect Children?" (with Dov Rothman) [Word Document]
 
Wednesday 30 June
  Time: 9:00-10:15 A.M.
  Speaker: Elisabeth Sadoulet- University of California at Berkeley
  Title: "Dynamics of Schooling " [PDF file ]
   
  Time: 10:45 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
  Speaker: David McKenzie - Stanford University
  Title: "Buying Less, but Shoppiing More: Changes in Consumption Patterns During a Crisis" (joint with Ernesto Schargrodsky)
   
  Time: 1:00-2:15 P.M.
  Speaker: Mark Rosenzweig - Harvard University
  Titles: "Agricultural Development, Industrialization and Rural Inequality"
   
 

Segment 2:
Economics of Social Interaction
July 8 - 10, 2004

 

Organized by: Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University,
and Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 
Thursday 8 July: Empirics of Social Interactions
  Time: 9:30-10:45 A.M.
  Speaker: Giorgio Topa - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  Title: "Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes" (joint with Patrick Bayer and Stephen L. Ross)
   
  Time: 11:15 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Steven Durlauf - University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Title: "Identification of Binary Choice Models with Social Interactions"
   
  Time: 2:00-3:15 P.M.
  Speaker: Mary Burke - Florida State University
  Title: "Physician Social Networks and Geographical Variation in Medical Care" (with Gary M. Fournier and Kislaya Prasad)
   
 

Time: 3:45-5:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Lisa Cook - Hoover Institution
  Title: "Social Interaction and Innovation: Evidence from African American Patent Data, 1980-2000"
   
Friday 9 July: Equilibrium Effects of Social Interactions
  Time: 9:30-10:45 A.M.
  Speaker: Lawrence Blume - Cornell University
  Title:"The Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination"
   
  Time: 11:15 A.M.-12:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Fernando Vega-Redondo - Universidad de Alicante
  Title: "Network Dynamics and Search in a Volatile Environment"
   
  Time: 2:00-3:15 P.M.
  Speaker: Nicholas Vriend - Queen Mary, University of London
  Title: "Schelling's Spatial Proximity Model of Segregation Revisited"
   
  Time: 3:34-5:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Eckhard Janeba - University of Colorado
  Title: "International Trade and Cultural Identity"
   
Saturday 10 July: Learning, Beliefs and Social Interactions
  Time: 9:30-10:45 A.M.
  Speaker: Shachar Kariv - University of California at Berkeley
  Title:"Learning in Social Networks - theory and experiments"
   
  Time: 11:15 A.M.-12:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Hiroyuki Nakata - University of Essex
  Title: "Communication, Correlation of Beliefs and Asset Price Fluctuations"
 
 

Segment 3:
Structural Econometric Models
July 12 - 15, 2004

 

Organized by: Philip A. Haile, Yale University, Aviv Nevo, University of California at Berkeley,
and Frank Wolak , Stanford University
 
Monday 12 July
  Time: 9:00-10:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Arie Beresteanu - Duke University
  Title: "The Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws on the Survival of Firms: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis" (with Paul Ellickson)
   
  Time: 10:30-11:30 A.M.
  Speaker: Moshe Buchinsky - University of California at Los Angeles
  Title: "The Dynamics of Educational Choices in the United States" (with Doug McKee)
   
  Time: 1:30-2:30 P.M.
  Speaker: James Heckman - University of Chicago
  Title: "Dynamic Treatment Effects" (with Salvador Lozano)
   
  Time: 3:00-4:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Maurizio Mazzocco - University of Wisconsin
  Title: "Individual Euler Equations Rather Than Household Euler Equations"
Tuesday 13 July
  Time: 9:00-10:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Jeremy Fox - University of Chicago
  Title: "Should Governments Auction Nationwide Spectrum Licenses? Estimating Bidder Valuations" (joint with Pat Bajari)
   
  Time: 10:30-11:30 A.M.
  Speaker: Victor Aguirregabria - Boston University
  Title: "Entry Survival and Growth in Oligopoly Retail Markets: An Application to Chilean Data"
   
  Time: 1:30-2:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Steve Berry - Yale University
  Title: "Confidence Regions for Parameters in Discrete Games with Multiple Equilibria, with Application to Chain Store Location"
   
  Time: 3:00-4:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Katja Seim - Stanford University
  Title: "Quantifying the Benefits of Entry in Local Phone Service" (with Nick Economides and Brian Viard)
   
Wednesday 14 July
  Time: 9:00-10:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Jay Bhattacharya - Stanford Medical School
  Title: "Competition in the Secondary Life Insurance Market"
   
  Time: 10:30-11:30 A.M.
  Speaker: Harry Paarsch - University of Iowa
  Title: "Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Multi-Unit, Sequential, Oral Ascending-Price Auctions with Asymmetric Bidders"
   
  Time: 1:30-2:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Frank Wolak - Stanford University
  Title: "Quantifying the Supply-Side Benefits to Forward Contracting in Wholesale Electricity Markets "
   
  Time: 3:00-4:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Liran Einav - Stanford University
  Title: "Estimating Risk Preferences from Deductible Choice" (with Alma Cohen)
   
Thursday 15 July
  Time: 9:00-10:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Donghoon Lee - New York University
  Title: "Intersectoral Labor Mobility and the Growth of the Service Sector" (with Ken Wolpin)
   
  Time: 10:30-11:30 A.M.
  Speaker: John Kennan - University of Wisconsin
  Title: "Migration Decisions of Young Men" (with James Walker)
   
 
 

Segment 4:
Computational Methods for Dynamic Economic Models
July 26 - 30, 2004

 

Organized by: Kenneth Judd, Hoover Institution,
and Karl Schmedders, Northwestern University

 
Monday 26 July
  Time: 1:45-2:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Michel Juillard - CEPREMAP
  Title: "Description of the Krusell-Smith Model" [PDF file ]
   
  Time: 2:00-2:40 P.M.
  Speaker: Michael Reiter - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  Title: "Recursive Computation of Heterogeneous Agent Models" [ PDF file]
   
  Time: 2:40-3:20 P.M.
  Speaker: Eric Young - University of Virginia
  Title: "Solving the Krusell-Smith Model with Finite Forecasting Functions"
   
  Time: 3:50-4:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Yann Algan - Eurequa Université Paris 1
  Title: "Solving Heterogeneous Agent Models with Parameterized Approximation Approach" (with Olivier Allais and Wouter den Haan)
   
  Time: 4:30-5:10 P.M.
  Speaker: Christopher Carroll - Johns Hopkins University
  Title: "Solving the Krusell-Smith Problem Using the Method of Endogenous Gridpoints"
 
Tuesday 27 July
  Time: 9:30-10:10 A.M.
  Speaker: Serguei Maliar - University of Alicante
  Title: "Comparing Numerical Solutions of Models with Heterogeneous Agents: A Grid-Based Parameterized Expectation Algorithm" (with Lilia Maliar and Fernando Valli)
   
  Time: 10:10-10:50 A.M.
  Speaker: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania) and Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramirez
  Title: "Using a Mixture of Normals to Solve Heterogeneous Agents Models"
   
  Time: 11:15-11:30 A.M.
  Speaker: Michel Juillard - CEPREMAP
  Title: "Description of a Canonical Bond Market Model" [PDF file]
   
  Time: 11:30-11:50
  Speaker: Serguei Maliar - University of Alicante
  Title: "Comparing Numerical Solutions of Models with Heterogeneous Agents: A Grid-Based Parameterized Expectation Algorithm" (with Lilia Maliar and Fernando Valli)
   
  Time: 11:50 A.M.-12:10 P.M.
  Speaker: Michael Reiter - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  Title: "Recursive Computation of a Model with a Continuum of Agents and Fixed Capital"
   
  Time: 12:10-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Eric Young - University of Virginia
  Title: "Bond Pricing with Finite Forecasting Functions"
   
  Time: 2:00-2:40 P.M.
  Speaker: Sunghyun Henry Kim - Tufts University
  Title: "Applying Perturbation Methods to Incomplete Market Models with Exogenous Borrowing Constraints " (with Jinill Kim and Robert Kollmann) [ PDF file ]
   
  Time: 2:40-3:00 P.M.
  Title: "Discussion on the Computation of Heterogeneous Agent Models"
  Discussion Leaders: Michel Juillard and Kenneth Judd
   
  Time: 3:30-3:40 P.M.
  Speaker: Kenneth Judd - Hoover Institution
  Title: "Description of Complete Market RBC Models"
   
  Time: 3:40-4:20 P.M.
  Speaker: Ben Malin - Stanford University
  Title: "Using Smolyak's Algorithm for High-Dimensional Projection Methods" (with Dirk Krueger and Felix Kubler)
   
  Time: 4:20-4:40 P.M.
  Speaker: Serguei Maliar - University of Alicante
  Title: "Comparing Numerical Solutions of Models with Heterogeneous Agents: A Simulation-Based Parameterized Expectation Algorithm" (with Lilia Maliar)
 
Wednesday 28 July
  Time: 9:30-10:10 A.M.
  Speaker: Michael Juillard - CEPREMAP
  Title: "A k-order Perturbation Approach to Solve Complete Market RBC Models"
   
  Time: 10:10-10:50 A.M.
  Speaker: Kenneth Judd - Hoover Institution
  Title: "Applying PertSolv to Complete Market RBC Models" (with Hehui Jin)
   
  Time: 11:30 A.M.-12:10 P.M.
  Speaker: Gary Anderson - Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
  Title: "Some Practical Considerations for Applying Perturbation Methods to Dynamic Economic Models: Computational Issues Associated with Moderate to Large Scale Models" (with Andrew Levin, Jinil Kim and Eric Swanson) [ PDF file ]
   
  Time: 12:10-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Robert Kollmann - University of Bonn
  Title: "Using Perturbation Methods to Solve a Multi-Country RBC Model with Complete Markets" (with Jinill Kim and Sunghyun Kim)
   
  Time: 2:00-3:15 P.M.
  Speaker: Daniela Pucci de Farias - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Title: "The Linear Programming Approach to Approximate Dynamic Programming"
   
  Time: 3:45-5:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Eva Carceles Poveda - SUNY at Stony Brook
  Title: "Adaptive Learning in Practice"
 
Thursday 29 July
  Time: 9:30-10:15 A.M.
  Speaker: Felix Kubler - Stanford University
  Title: "Approximate Generalizations and Applied Equilibrium Analysis " [ PDF file ]
   
  Time: 10:45 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Volker Wieland (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University) and David Kendrick (University of Texas)
  Title: "Numerical Approaches to Adaptive Control and Optimal Learning Problems"
   
  Time: 2:00-3:15 P.M.
  Speaker: Arpad Abraham -Duke University
  Title: "Endogenous Trading Constraints in Incomplete Asset Markets" (with Eva Carceles-Poveda)
   
  Time: 3:45-5:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Karl Schmedders - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  Title: "Approximate versus Exact Equilibria in Dynamic Economies" (with Felix Kubler) [ PDF file ]
 
Friday 30 July
  Time: 9:30-10:45 A.M.
  Speaker: Ulrich Doraszelski - Hoover Institution
  Title: "Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality with Continuous-time, Finite-State Stochastic Games" (with Kenneth Judd) [ PDF file]
   
  Time: 11:15 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Gabriel Weintraub - Stanford University
  Title: "Approximations for Analysis of Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics with Large Numbers of Heterogeneous Firms" (with Lanier Benkard and Ben Van Roy)
 
 

Segment 5:
Heterogeneity and Aggregation in Macroeconomics
August 4 - 7, 2004

 

Organized by: Pete Klenow, Stanford University,
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Stanford University,
Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University,
Michele Tertilt, Stanford University, and
Mark Wright, Stanford University
 
Wednesday 4 August
  Time: 9:45-11:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Gilles Saint-Paul - GREMAQ-IDEI
  Title: "Cumulative Innovation and Information Sharing in Business Networks"
   
  Time: 11:15 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Maurizio Mazzocco -University of Wisconsin
  Title: "Saving, Risk Sharing and Preferences for Risk"
   
  Time: 2:00-3:15 P.M.
  Speaker: Iourii Manovskii - University of Pennsylvania
  Title: "Accounting for a Changing Life-Cycle Profile of Earnings"
   
  Time: 3:30-4:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Jeremy Greenwood - University of Rochester
  Title: "Marriage and Divorce Since World War II" (with Nezih Guner)
   
Thursday 5 August
  Time: 9:45-11:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Diego Restuccia - University of Toronto
  Title:"Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants" (with Richard Rogerson)
   
  Time: 11:15 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Mark Wright - Stanford University
  Title: "Firm Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy"
   
  Time: 2:00-3:15 P.M.
  Speaker: Gianluca Violante - New York University
  Title: The Welfare Analysis of Labor Market Inequality: Inspecting the Mechanism" (joint with Jonathan Heathcote and Kjetil Storesletten)"
   
  Time: 3:30-4:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Boyan Jovanovic - New York University
  Title: "Specific Capital and the Division of Rents" (with Peter L. Rousseau)
   
Friday 6 August
  Time: 9:45-11:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Ricardo Lagos - New York University
  Title:"A Model of Job and Worker Flows" (joint with Nobu Kiyotaki)
   
  Time: 11:15 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Berthold Herrendorf - W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
  Title: "Barriers to Entry and Development" (with Arilton Teixeira)
   
  Time: 2:00-3:15 P.M.
  Speaker: Jim MacGee - University of Western Ontario
  Title: "Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies in the US and Canada"
   
  Time: 3:30-4:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Xavier Gabaix - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Title: "Power Laws and the Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations"
   
Saturday 7 August
  Time: 9:45-11:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Andrea Eisfeldt and Adriano Rampini - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  Title:"New or Used? Investment with Credit Constraints"
   
  Time: 11:15 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Sam Kortum - University of Minnesota
  Title: "An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms" (joint with Jonathan Eaton and Francis Kramarz)
   
  Time: 2:00-3:15 P.M.
  Speaker: Thomas Holmes - University of Minnesota
  Title: "A Theory of Factor Allocation and Plant Size" (with Matthew F. Mitchell)
   
  Time: 3:30-4:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Hugo Hopenhayn - University of California at Los Angeles
  Title: "Risk Takiing by Entrepreneurs" (joint with Galina Vereshchagina)
 
 

Segment 6:
Experimental Economics
August 11 - 13, 2004

 

Organized by: Muriel Niederle, Stanford University and
Lise Vesterlund, University of Pittsburg
 
Wednesday 11 August
  Time: 9:00-9:45 A.M.
  Speaker: Uri Gneezy - University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
  Title: "Are the Disabled Discriminated Against in Product Markets? Evidence from Field Experiments" (joint with John A. List)
   
  Time: 9:45-10:30 A.M.
  Speaker: Robert Slonim - Case Western Reserve University
  Title: "Partner Selection: Evidence from a Trust Game"
   
  Time: 11:00-11:45 A.M.
  Speaker: Muriel Niederle - Stanford University
  Title: "Do Women Shy Away from Competition" (joint with Lise Vesterlund) and "Should I Choose the Harder Path? Gender Differences" (joint with Alexandra H.Yestrumskas)
   
  Time: 11:45 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Lise Vesterlund - University of Pittsburgh
  Title: "The Effect of Status on Charitable Giving" (joint with Cagry Kumru)
   
  Time: 2:00-2:45 P.M.
  Speaker: John List - University of Maryland
  Title: "The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions"
   
  Time: 3:15-4:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Rachel Croson - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  Title: "Social Comparisons and Social Dilemmas: Field Experiments in Nonprofit Fundraising"
   
  Time: 4:00-4:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Yan Chen - University of Michigan
  Title: "School Choice: An Experimental Study" (joint with Tayfun Sonmez)
 
Thursday 12 August
  Time: 9:00-9:45 A.M.
  Speaker: David Cooper - Case Western Reserve University
  Title: "A Change Would Do You Good . . . An Experimental Study on How to Overcome Coordination Failure in Organizations" (joint with Jordi Brandts)
   
  Time: 9:45-10:30 A.M.
  Speaker: Martin Dufwenberg - University of Arizona
  Title: "Contract & Communication" (joint with Gary Charness)
   
  Time: 11:00-11:45 A.M.
  Speaker: Guillaume Frechette - New York University
  Title: "An Experimental Study of Information in Bargaining" (joint with Uri Gneezy and Muriel Niederle)
   
  Time: 11:45 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Jim Andreoni - University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Title: "Taking Utility Seriously in Ultimatum Bargaining: Parametric and Non-Parametric Estimates of Preferences" (joint with Marco Castillo and Ragan Petrie)
   
  Time: 2:00-2:45 P.M.
  Speaker: John Kagel - Ohio State University
  Title: "Section Bias, Demographic Effects and Ability Effects in Common Value Auction Experiments" (with Marco Casari, John C. Ham)
   
  Time: 3:15-4:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Miguel Costa-Gomes - ISER, Osaka University and University of York
  Title: "Stated Beliefs and Play in Normal-form Games" (joint with Georg Weizsacker)
   
  Time: 4:00-4:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Markus Mobius - Harvard University
  Title: "Experimental Evidence on Trading Favors in Networks" (joint with Tanya Rosenblatt)
 
Friday 13 August
  Time: 9:00-9:45 A.M.
  Speaker: Dan Ariely - Massachusetts Institute of Technologoy
  Title: "Effects of O"
   
  Time: 9:45-10:30 A.M.
  Speaker: Gary Charness - University of California at Santa Barbara
  Title: "Group Play in Games and the Role of Consent in Network Formation" (joint with Matthew O. Jackson)
   
  Time: 11:00-11:45 A.M.
  Speaker: Andy Schotter - New York University
  Title: "Workaholics and Drop Outs in Ooptimal Organizations: An Experimental Study" (with Wieland Mullër)
   
  Time: 11:45 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Jacob Goeree - University of Amsterdam
  Title: "Self-correcting Information Cascade" (joint with Thomas R. Palfrey, Brian W. Rogers, and Richard D. McKelvey)
   
  Time: 2:00-2:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Bogaçhan Çelen - Columbia University
  Title: "The Advice Puzzle: An Experimental Study of Social Learning where Words Speak Louder than Actions" (joint with Shachar Kariv and Andrew Schotter)
 
 

Segment 7:
Psychology and Economics 4.0
August 15 - 17, 2004

 

Organized by: B. Douglas Bernheim, Stanford University, David Laibson, Harvard University, Ulrike M. Malmendier, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Antonio Rangel, Stanford University
 
Sunday 15 August
  Time: 9:15 A.M.
 
Speaker: John Kagel - Ohio State University
  Title: "Are Two Heads Better than One? Team versus Individual Play in Signaling Games" (David J. Cooper)
   
  Time: 10:45 A.M.
  Speaker: Gary Charness - University of California at Santa Barbara
  Title: "When Optimal Choices Feel Wrong: A Laboratory Study of Updating, Complexity, and Affect" (with Dan Levin)
   
  Time: 1:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Piotr Winkielman - University of California at San Diego
  Title: "Preferences with and without Inferences"
   
  Time: 3:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Michael Kosfeld - University of Zurich
  Title: "Distruct - The Hidden Cost of Control" (with Armin Falk)
   
  Time: 4:45 P.M.
  Speaker: Stefano DelaVigna - University of California at Berkeley
  Title: "Strategic Release of Information on Fridays: Evidence from Earnings Announcements" (with Joshua Pollet)
 
Monday 16 August
  Time: 9:15 A.M.
 
Speaker: Raymond Fisman (Columbia Business School) and Emir Kamenica (National Bureau of Economic Research)
  Title: "Searching for a Mate: Theory and Experimental Evidence" (with Emir Kamenica, Sheena Sethi-Iyengar, Itamar Simonson)
   
  Time: 10:45 A.M.
 
Speaker: Colin Camerer - California Institute of Technology
  Title: "Neural Foundations of Decisions and Games" (with Ming Hsu and Meghana Bhatt)
   
  Time: 1:30 P.M.
 
Speaker: James Gross - Department of Psychology, Stanford University
   
  Time: 3:30 P.M.
 
Speaker: Marianne Bertrand - University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
  Title: "Pricing Psychology: A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market" (joint with Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Jonathan Zinman)
   
  Time: 4:45 P.M.
 
Speaker: Roberto Weber - Carnegie Mellon University
  Title: "Favorable Interpretations of Ambiguity and Unstable Preferences for Fairness" (with Emily Haisley)
 
Tuesday 17 August
  Time: 9:15 A.M.
 
Speaker: Terrance Odean - University of California at Berkeley
  Title: "All that Glitters: The Effect of Attention and News on the Buying Behavior of Individual and Institutional Investors" (with Brad Barber)
   
  Time: 10:45 A.M.
 
Speaker: John Morgan - University of California at Berkeley
  Title: "A Test of the Revenue Equivalence Theorem using Field Experiments on eBay" (with Tanjim Hossain)
   
  Time: 1:30 P.M.
 
Speaker: Laura Carstensen - Department of Psychology, Stanford University
  Title: "Aging and the Perception of Time: Implications for Cognitive Processing"
   
  Time: 3:30 P.M.
 
Speaker: Charles R. Plott (California Institute of Technology) and Kathryn Zeiler (Georgetown University Law Center)
 

Title: "Willingness to Pay/Willingness to Accept Gap, the 'endowment Effect,' Subject Misconceptions and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations"

   
  Time: 4:45 P.M.
 
Speaker: Geoffrey Tate - University of Pennsylvania
  Title: "Superstar CEOs" (joint with Ulrike Malmendier)
 
 

Segment 8:
Bounded Rationality in the Design of Markets and Organizations
August 20 - 22, 2004

 

Organized by: Ilya Segal, Stanford University, Yoav Shoham, Stanford University, Timothy Van Zandt, INSEAD
 
Friday 20 August
  Lunch: 12:30-2:00 PM
   
  Time: 2:00-3:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Amir Ronen - Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
  Title: "Optimal Auctions - A Theoretical Computer Science based Approach"
  Discussant: John Ledyard - California Institute of Technology
   
  Time: 3:00-4:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Liad Blumrosen - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Title: "On the Computational Power of Ascending Auctions " (joint with Noam Nisan)
  Discussant: Ilya Segal, Stanford University
   
  Time: 4:30-5:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Tuomas Sandholm - Carnegie Mellon University
  Title: "Mechanism Design for Computationally Bounded Agents" [Postscript File]
  Discussant: Jacques Cremer - Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Toulouse
 
Saturday 21 August
  Continental Breakfast: 8:00-9:00 A.M.
   
  Time: 9:00-10:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Stanley Reiter - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  Title: "Informationally Efficient Decentralized Mechanisms" (joint with Leo Hurwicz)
  Discussant: Steven R. Williams - University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign
   
  Time: 10:00-11:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Ilya Segal - Stanford University
  Title: "The Communication Requirements of Social Choice Rules"
  Discussant: In-Koo Cho - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   
  Time: 11:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Steven R. Williams - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Title: "Properties of the Initial Endowment Competitive Equilibrium Price Correspondence in an Arrow-Debreu Exchange Economy"
  Discussant: Emre Ozdenoren - University of Michigan
   
  Lunch: 12:30-2:00 P.M.
   
  Time: 2:00-3:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Sebastien Lahaie - Harvard University
  Title: "Applying Learning Algorithms to Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions" (joint with David Parkes)
  Discussant: Michael Wellman - University of Michigan
   
  Time: 3:00-4:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Thomas Marschak - Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
  Title: "Information Technology and Organizational Structure"
  Discussant: Tuomas Sandholm - Carnegie Mellon University
   
  Time: 4:30-5:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Andrea Pratt - London School of Economics
  Title: "Codes in Organizations" (with Jacques Cremer and Luis Garicano)
  Discussant: Amir Ronen - Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
 
Sunday 22 August
  Continental Breakfast: 8:00-9:00 A.M.
   
  Time: 9:00-10:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason - University of Michigan
  Title: "Empirical Analysis of Market Games Played by Constrained Agents" (joint with Michael Wellman)
  Discussant: Arun Sundararajan - New York University
   
  Time: 10:00-11:00 A.M.
  Speaker: Dov Monderer - Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
  Title: "The Shapley Value and Congestion Games"
   
  Time: 11:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
  Speaker: Luis Garicano - University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
  Title: "Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy" (joint with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg)
  Discussant: Timothy van Zandt - INSEAD
   
  Lunch: 12:30-2:00 P.M.
   
  Time: 2:00-3:00 P.M.
  Speaker: Kieron Meagher - University of New South Wales
  Title: "Market Contingent Managerial Hierarchies" (joint with Hakan Orbay and Timothy Van Zandt)
   
 
 

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