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THE SECOND SINGAPORE ECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP
Day 1: Monday, August 11
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08:30 |
Registrations Open |
Session 1. Chair: Parkash Chander
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09:10-09:15 |
Opening Note by Parkash Chander (Head, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore) |
09:15-10:00 |
Parkash Chander (NUS): Coalitional Equilibria |
10:00-10:30 |
Jihong Lee (Yonsei): Reputation in repeated settlement bargaining |
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10:30-10:45 |
Tea Break |
Session 2. Chair: Parkash Chander
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10:45-11:15 |
John Quah (Oxford): Emissions trading with profit-neutral permit allocations |
11:15-11:45 |
Stephen Chiu (Hong Kong): Endogenous preferential treatment in centralized admissions |
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11:45-14:15 |
Lunch Break |
Session 3. Chair: Xiao Luo
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14:15-15:00 |
Andy McLennan (Queensland): Manipulation in Elections with Uncertain Preferences |
15:00-15:30 |
Chih-Chun Yang (Rochester): Epistemic foundation of Bayesian coalitional rationalizability |
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15:30-15:45 |
Tea Break |
Session 4. Chair: Xiao Luo
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15:45-16:15 |
Vald Mares (Washington_St. Louis): First and second price mechanisms in procurement and other asymmetric auctions |
16:15-16:45 |
Jingfeng Lu (NUS): On the value of an additional bidder |
16:45-17:15 |
Aggey Semenov (NUS): Common agency with risk-aversion |
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17:15-17:30 |
Tea Break |
Plenary Session. Chair: Parkash Chander
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17:30-18:30 |
Larry Samuelson (Yale): The Economics of Favors |
Day 2: Tuesday, August 12
Session 1. Chair: Indranil Chakraborty
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09:30-10:15 |
Satoru Takahashi (Princeton): Robustness to incomplete information in repeated and dynamic games |
10:15-10:45 |
Qiang Fu (NUS): Unifying contests: from noisy ranking to ratio-Form contest success functions |
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10:45-11:00 |
Tea Break |
Session 2. Chair: Indranil Chakraborty
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11:00-11:30 |
Younghwan In (NUS): Signaling with endogenous “types” |
11:30-12:00 |
Sugata Bag (Jawaharlal Nehru): Incomplete contracts, self-investments, asymmetric information, breach of contract and the legal remedies |
12:00-12:30 |
Yi Zhang (SMU): Sequential hold-up, input control, and outsourcing |
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12:30-14:30 |
Lunch Break |
Session 3. Chair: Murali Agastya
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14:30-15:15 |
Motty Perry (Hebrew U): Why Sex? And Why Only in Pairs? |
15:15-15:45 |
Murali Agastya: On Communication and Authority with Multiple Sources of Uncertainty |
15:45-16:45 |
Julian Wright (NUS): Vertical limit pricing |
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