Canadian Economic Theory Conference Program - 2017

Canadian Economic Theory Conference

Friday, May 05

8:40 am – 9:00 am

  • Welcome and Coffee

9:00 am – 10:30 am

  • Session 1 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Li Wei, VSE
    1. Optimal Dynamic Matching,
      Maria Baccara*, SangMok Lee, and Leeat Yariv
    2. Dynamic common-value contests,
      Toomas Hinnosaar*
    3. Investment and Matching with Cheap Talk and Incomplete Information,
      Seungjin Han*

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

  • Session 2 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Vitor Farinha, VSE
    1. Communication and Cooperation in Repeated Games,
      Yu Awaya* and Vijay Krishna
    2. Maskin Meets Abreu and Matsushima,
      Takashi Kunimoto*, Yi-Chun Chen, Yifei Sun, and Siyang Xiong
    3. Structural rationality in dynamic games,
      Marciano Siniscalchi*

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

  • Lunch

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Session 3 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Sergei Severinov, VSE
    1. “LEARNING-BY-SHIRKING” IN RELATIONAL CONTRACTS,
      Arijit Mukherjee*, Jin Li, and Luis Vasconcelos
    2. Relational Contracts with Learning,
      Aditya V Kuvalekar* and Rumen Kostadinov
    3. Incentives in team contests,
      Nicolas Sahuguet*, Benoit Crutzen, and Sabine Flamand

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

  • Session 4 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Alvaro Parra, Sauder Business School
    1. Asymmetric Legislative Bargaining,
      Jernej Copic*
    2. A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Peace,
      Charles Zheng*
    3. A Complete Characterization of Equilibria in Common Agency Screening Games,
      Aggey Semenov*, David Martimort, and Lars Stole

Saturday, May 06

9:00 am – 10:30 am

  • Session 5 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Hu Fu, UBC Computer Science
    1. Costly Advice, Protests and Nonbinding Voting,
      Mehmet Ekmekci* and Stephan Lauermann
    2. Bounded Rationality and Learning: A Framework and a Robustness Result,
      J. Aislinn Bohren and Daniel N Hauser*
    3. Random Inspections and Periodic Reviews: Optimal Dynamic Monitoring,
      Felipe Varas*, Ivan Marinovic, and Andrzej Skrzypacz

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

  • Session 6 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Arthur Robson, Simon Fraser University
    1. On Bayesian Persuasion with Multiple Senders,
      Peter Norman* and Fei Li
    2. The Interval Structure of Optimal Disclosure,
      Yingni Guo* and Eran Shmaya
    3. Cheap Talk with Fixed Agenda,
      Elliot Lipnowski* and Doron Ravid

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

  • Lunch

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Session 7 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: David Freeman, Simon Fraser University
    1. Truthful Continuous Implementation,
      Yi-Chun Chen, Manuel Mueller-Frank, and Mallesh Pai*
    2. Dominant Strategy Implementability, Zero Length Cycles, and Affine Maximizers,
      Paul H. Edelman and John A. Weymark*
    3. OPTIMAL ALLOCATION WITH EX-POST VERIFICATION AND LIMITED PENALTIES,
      Tymofiy Mylovanov*

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

  • Session 8 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Shih En Lu, Simon Fraser University
    1. Ambiguous Persuasion,
      Jian Li* and Ming Li
    2. The Dimensions of Consensus,
      Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, and Xianwen Shi*
    3. Incentives for quality with costly inspections,
      Peter A Wagner*

7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

  • Conference Dinner

Sunday, May 07

9:00 am – 10:30 am

  • Session 9 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Yoram Halevy, VSE
    1. A revealed preference theory of monotone choice and strategic complementarity,
      Koji Shirai*, Natalia Lazzati, and John Quah
    2. Framing and Salience: Regional Preference,
      Andrew Ellis* and Yusufcan Masatlioglu
    3. Dynamic (In)Consistency and the Value of Information,
      Alexander Jakobsen*

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

  • Session 10 (Vancouver School of Economics, 533) • Chair: Li Hao, VSE
    1. Subjective utilitarianism: Decisions in a social context,
      Shiri Alon* and Ehud Lehrer
    2. Collusion Constrained Equilibrium,
      Rohan Dutta*, David Levine, and Salvatore Modica
    3. Revealed Price Preference: Theory and Stochastic Testing,
      John Quah*, Rahul Deb, Yuichi Kitamura, and Jorg Stoye

* Presenter of paper.