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European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (ESSET)
Studienzentrum Gerzensee
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5/16 July 2004
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| Monday 5 July |
Week 1
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| 08:30 - 09:30 |
The Impact of Leniency Programs on Cartels
Cecile Aubert (Univ. Paris IX Dauphine) |
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| 09:50 - 10:50 |
Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?
*Volker Nocke (University of Pennsylvania)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Equilibrium in Scoring Auctions
John Asker (Harvard University)
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Competitive Experimentation with Private Information
Guiseppe Moscarini (Yale University) *Francesco Squintani (University College London)
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Tuesday 6 July
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| 08:30 - 11:30 | Focus Session: Law and Economics
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Andrew Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania)
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The Appeals Process and Adjudicator Incentives
*Steven Shavell (Harvard University)
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Legal Applications of Contract Theory
*Alan Schwartz (Yale University)
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Courts and Contracts
Luca Anderlini (Georgetown University)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Design and Enforcement of Legal Standards
*Giovanni Immordino (Universita di Salerno)
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Contracting in the Shadow of the Law
*Nicola Gennaioli (Harvard University)
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Wednesday 7 July
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08:30 - 09:30 |
Firm-Specific Training
Leonardo Felli (London School of Economics and CEPR)
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| 09:50 - 10:50 |
Employer Learning and General Human Capital
*Jan Eeckhout (University of Pennsylvania)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Flexible Contracts
Paolo Ghirardato (University of Turin)
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
A Smooth Model of Decision Making Under Ambiguity
Peter Klibanoff (Nothwestern University)
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Thursday 8 July
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| 08:30 - 11:30 |
Focus Session: Allocation Mechanisms without Prices
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Michele Piccione (London School of Economics)
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Social Assets
*George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania)
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Better Mechanism Design and Implementation
*Atila Abdulkadiroglu (Columbia University)
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Equilibria in the Jungle
*Michele Piccione (London School of Economics)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Qualitative Voting
*Rafael Hortala-Vallve (London School of Economics)
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
A Model of the Origins of Basic Property Rights
*Abhinay Muthoo (University of Essex)
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Friday 9 July
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| 08:30 - 09:30 |
Multidimensional Cheap Talk
*Gilat Levy (London School of Economics and CEPR) *Ronny Razin (New York University and CEPR)
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| 09:50 - 10:50 |
Competition over Non-Bayesian Agents
*Ran Spiegler (Tel-Aviv University)
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Parallel Session:
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| 11.10 - 12.10 |
Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders
*Winand Emons (Universität Bern and CEPR)
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| 11.10 - 12.10 |
Discretion and Partisans
*Elisabetta Iossa (Brunel University)
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Week 2
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Monday 12 July
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| 8:30 - 09:30 |
Building Rational Cooperation
James Andreoni (University of Wisconsin)
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| 9:50 - 10:50 |
Media as Watchdogs: The Role of News Media in Electoral Competition
*Jimmy Chan (John Hopkins University)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Hierarchies of Belief and Interim Rationalizability
Jeffrey Ely (Boston University)
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Purification in the Infinitely-Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma
*Venkataraman Bhaskar (University of Essex)
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Tuesday 13 July
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| 08:30 - 11:30 |
Focus Session: Models of Reputation
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Jeffrey Ely (Boston University)
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Reputational Cheap Talk
*Marco Ottaviani (London Business School and CEPR)
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Career Concerns in Financial Markets
Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics)
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Disappearing Private Reputations in Long-Run Relationships
*Martin Cripps (Washington University, St. Louis)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Static Efficiency and Dynamic Incentives
*Heski Bar-Isaac (New York University)
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Revisiting Games of Incomplete Information with Analogy-Based Expectations
Philippe Jehiel (CERAS-ENPC, University College London and CEPR)
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Wednesday 14 July
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| 08:30 - 9:30 |
Information Acquisition and Disclosure in Auctions
*Ian Jewitt (Nuffield College, Oxford and CEPR)
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| 09:50 - 10:50 |
Towards a Theory of Deception
*David Ettinger (THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Principal and Expert Agent
*James Malcomson (University of Oxford)
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Dynamic Aspects of Unstructured Bargaining
*Christopher Tyson (Nuffield College, Oxford)
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Thursday 15 July
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| 08:30 - 11:30 |
Focus Session: Strategic Behavior and Educational Outcomes
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Christopher Avery (Harvard University)
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School Choice : An Experimental Study
Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
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Games of School Choice under the Boston Mechanism
Haluk Ergin (MIT)
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Categorical Redistribution in Winner-Take-All Markets
*Roland Fryer (Harvard University)
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Equilibrium Information Disclosure: Grade Inflation and Unraveling
Michael Ostrovsky (Harvard University)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Contracts with Endogenous Information
*Dezso Szalay (Université de Lausanne)
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Party Governance and Political Competition
Micael Castanheira (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
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Friday 16 July
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| 08:30 - 09:30 |
Post-Schooling Wage Growth: Investment, Search, and Learning
*Yona Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv University)
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| 9:50 - 10:50 |
Reverse Discrimination and Efficiency in Education
*Gianni de Fraja (University of York and CEPR
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