SWET 08 Schedule
All sessions are in the McCune Room, 6020 HSSB, University of California, Santa Barbara

Saturday March 1, 2008

8:15-8:30 Coffee and pastries

8:30-8:55 Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg (UCR)
Profit-maximizing sale of a discrete public good: linear equilibria in the private-information subscription game

8:55-9:20 Ran Shao (ASU) and Lin Zhou
Optimal allocation of an indivisible good

9:20-9:45 Todd Swarthout and Mark Walker (U of A)
Discrete implementation of the Groves-Ledyard mechanism

9:45-10:00 Break

10:00-10:25 David Miller (UCSD) and Joel Watson
A theory of disagreement in repeated games with renegotiation

10:25-10:50 Kata Bognar, Lones Smith, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (UCLA)
We can't argue forever - But we should argue as long as possible

10:50-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 David Levine (Wash. Univ. in St. Louis)
Self control, risk aversion and the Allais paradox

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-1:55 Martin Dufwenberg, Paul Heidhues, Georg
Kirchsteiger, Frank Riedel, and Joel Sobel (UCSD)
Other-regarding preferences in general equilibrium

1:55-2:20 Leda Cosmides and John Tooby (UCSB)
How cue-theoretic approaches explain some notable economic anomalies: or, How to merge economics and evolutionary psychology, or: How to replace the concepts of knowledge and preferences with something more precise

2:20-2:40 Break

2:40-3:05 Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA) and Ivan Werning
Equilibrium default

3:05-3:30 Diego Moreno and John Wooders (U of A)
Auctions with heterogeneous entry costs

3:30-3:55 Simon Board (UCLA)
Relational contracts and on-the-job search

3:55-4:10 Break

4:10-5:10 Hal Varian (UCB)
Game theory at Google

7:00-8:30 Dinner
Cafe Buenos Aires
1316 State Street

8:30-8:45 Coffee and pastries

8:45-9:10 Alan D. Miller (Cal Tech) and Preston McAfee
Unscheduled Appointments

9:10-9:35 Wan-Jue Franz (UCI)
Grade inflation under the threats of student nuisance: theory and
evidence

9:35-10:00 Hector Chade and Edward Schlee (ASU)
Optimal insurance with adverse selection

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-10:40 Jeanne Hagenbach (Stanford) and Frederic Koessler
Strategic coordination networks

10:40-11:05 Andrea Galeotti and Andrea Mattozzi (Cal Tech)
Personal influence: social context and political competition

11:05-11:20 Break

11:20-11:45 Javier Birchenall (UCSB)
Demand theory without preferences

11:45-12:10 Harrison Cheng (USC) and Guofo Tan
Asymmetric common value auctions with applications to resale