Communication and Incentives Conference
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Friday April 20    
8:30 am   Shuttle van picks up guests at South Coast Inn for transport to UCSB. All sessions are in the UCEN Harbor Room.
8:45 am   coffee and pastries
9:00 – 10:40   “Auctions with Resale - The Role of Risk Aversion and Secondary Market Structure.”
Andreas Lange (University of Maryland)

“The eBay Market as Sequential Second Price Auctions--- Theory and Experiments.”
Joseph Tao-yi Wang (Caltech)
    Break
11:00-11:50   “Second Chance Offers”
Tim Salmon (Florida State University)
12:00-1:30   Lunch (served in the Harbor room)
1:30-3:10   “First and Second Price Auctions with Resale”
Bernard Lebrun (York University)

“Nonlinear Pricing with Resale”
Isa Hafalir (Penn State)
3:10-3:40   Afternoon snack
3:40-4:30   “Speculative Equilibria and Collusion in English Auctions with Resale”
Thomas Troger (Bonn)
5:00   shuttle van transports guests to South Coast Inn
7:00   shuttle van departs from South Coast Inn for conference dinner
7:30   Conference dinner, Louie’s Restaurant (in the Upham Hotel, 1404 De La Vina St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101)
     
Saturday April 21    
8:30 am   Shuttle van picks up guests at South Coast Inn for transport to UCSB. All sessions are in the UCEN Harbor Room.
8:45 am   coffee and pastries
9:00 – 10:40   “Getty Effects vs Lowball Strategies”
Harrison Cheng (University of Southern California)

“Should Speculators Be Welcomed
in Auctions?”

Marco Pagnozzi (Universita’ di Napoli Federico II)
    Break
11:00-11:50   “Exclusive Versus Non-exclusive Dealing in Auctions with Resale”
Subir Bose (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
12:00-1:00   Lunch (served in the Harbor room)
1:00-2:00   Beach and Campus Walk
2:00-2:50   “Asymmetric Auctions with Resale”
Vijay Krishna (Penn State)
2:50-3:20   afternoon snack
3:20-4:45   Round Table discussion lead by Charles Zheng (Iowa State University).
5:00   shuttle bus departs UCSB for South Coast Inn