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European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (ESSET)
Studienzentrum Gerzensee, 4-15 July 2005
The meeting is generously hosted by Studienzentrum Gerzensee.
Organizers: Patrick Rey (University of Toulouse and CEPR) and Xavier Vives (INSEAD, ICREA-UPF and CEPR)
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| Monday 4 July |
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| 08:30 - 09:30 |
The Dynamics of Optimal Risk Sharing
Patrick Bolton (Princeton University and CEPR) |
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Evening Parallel Sessions
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Recursive Global Games
Chryssi Giannitsarou (University of Cambridge)
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Earnings Manipulation and Incentives in Firms
*Guido Friebel (IDEI, Toulouse and CEPR)
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Tuesday 5 July
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| 08:30 - 11:30 |
Focus Session: Organizations
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Wouter Dessein (University of Chicago and CEPR)
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Organizing for Synergies
*Wouter Dessein (University of Chicago and CEPR) TBC
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Too Motivated?
*Eric Van den Steen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Optimal Delegation
Ricardo Alonso (Northwestern University) *Niko Matouschek (Northwestern University and CEPR)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Downsizing, Job Insecurity, and Firm Reputation
*Doh Shin Jeon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) TBC
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Slotting Allowances and Conditional Payments
*Patrick Rey (University of Toulouse and CEPR)
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Wednesday 6 July
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| 08:30 - 09:30 |
Reputations in the Marketplace: Career Tournaments and Criticism
*Pablo Casas-Arce (University of Oxford)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
The Wisdom of the Minority
Steven Callander (Northwestern University) *Johannes Hörner (HEC School of Management, Northwestern University and CEPR)
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Estimating Market Power in a Two-sided Market: the Case of Newspapers
*Elena Argentesi (European University Institute, Florence and IDEI, Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse) |
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Thursday 7 July
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| 08:30 - 11:30 |
Focus Session: Two-Sided Markets
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Bruno Jullien (Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse and CEPR)
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Platform Ownership
Volker Nocke (University of Oxford and University of Pennsylvania) |
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Two-sided Markets, Competitive Bottlenecks and Exclusive Contracts
Part 1, Part 2
*Mark Armstrong (University College London and CEPR)
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Customer or Complementor? Intercarrier Compensation with Endogenous Network Architecture
*Ben Hermalin (University of California, Berkeley) |
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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Advertising, Competition and Media Diversity
Claude Crampes (Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse)
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Reputation and Collusion
Giacomo Calzolari (University of Bologna)
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Friday 8 July
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| 08:30 - 09:30 |
Content and Advertising in the Media: Pay-TV versus Free-to-Air
*Martin Peitz (Universidad de Alicante)
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Parallel Sessions
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Capital and Crises in Banking
*Lucy White (Harvard Business School and CEPR)
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Platform Competition and Welfare: Media Markets Reconsidered
Attila Ambrus (Harvard University)
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| Monday 11 July |
Week 2
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| 08:30 - 09:30 |
The Timing of Bets and the Favorite-Longshot Bias Part 1, Part 2
Marco Ottaviani (London Business School and CEPR)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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Equilibria in a Dynamic Global Game: The Role of Cohort Effects
Paul Heidhues (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) and CEPR)
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Non-Cooperative Foundations of Hedonic Equilibrium
*Michael Peters (University of British Columbia)
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| Tuesday 12 July |
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| 08:30 - 11:30 |
Focus Session: Complementarities and Games
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Xavier Vives (INSEAD, ICREA-UPF and CEPR)
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New Developments
*Xavier Vives (INSEAD, ICREA-UPF and CEPR)
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Strategic Complementarities: Some Macro Perspectives
*Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University)
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Testing Models with Multiple Equilibria by Quantile Methods
*Federico Echenique (California Institute of Technology)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Discounted Supermodular Stochastic Games
*Rabah Amir (University of Arizona)
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Efficient Compromising
*Tilman Börgers (Univresity College London)
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Wednesday 13 July
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| 08:30 - 9:30 |
Information Dynamics and Equilibrium Multiplicity in Global Games of Regime Change
George-Marios Angeletos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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The Comparative Statics of Constrained Optimization Problems
*John Quah (University of Oxford)
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Merger failures
*Albert Banal - Estañol (University of Western Ontario)
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Thursday 14 July
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| 08:30 - 11:30 |
Focus Session: The Empirics of Complementarities
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Xavier Vives (INSEAD, ICREA-UPF and CEPR)
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Inference Strategies in Discrete Games
*Elie Tamer (Northwestern University)
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Innovation, Complementarity and Scale of Production
Pernías
*Eugenio Miravete (University of Pennsylvania and CEPR)
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Coordination Games, Multiple Equilibria and the Timing of Radio Commercials
*Andrew Sweeting (Northwestern University)
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Evening Parallel Sessions:
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Dominance-Solvable Lattice Games with Monotonic Best Response Functions
*Alexander Zimper (Universität Mannheim)
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| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Measuring Strategic Uncertainty in Coordination Games
*Frank Heinemann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
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Friday 15 July
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| 08:30 - 09:30 |
Generic Uniqueness and Continuity of Rationalizable Strategies
*Muhamet Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Parallel Sessions:
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
On Information and Competition in Private Value Auctions
* Juan José Ganuza Fernandez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Dynamic Choice under Ambiguity
Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University)
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