“Economic Design: The Economist as an Engineer”
14th-15th July 2015
PROGRAMME
Tuesday 14th July
Time
09.15 - 09.30
Detail
Arrival refreshments and Registration
09.30 - 09.45
Welcome from Brit Grosskopf/Robin Mason
09.45 - 10.30
Bradley Ruffle (Wilfrid Laurier University)
“Waiting to Cooperate? Cooperation in one-stage and twostage games”
10.30 - 11.15
Joana Pais (University of Lisbon)
“Affirmative action through minority reserves: An
experimental study”
11.15 - 11.30
Refreshment break
11.30 - 12.15
Surajeet Chakravarty (University of Exeter)
“Communicating with an ignorant agent”
12.15 - 13.00
Lunch
13.00 - 13.45
Burak Can (Maastricht University)
“Comparing Orders, Rankings, Queues, Tournaments and
Lists”
14.00 - 15.30
Al Roth (Stanford University)
“Who Gets What and Why: The New Economics of
Matchmaking and Market Design”
15.30 - 16.00
Refreshment break – afternoon tea
17.00 - 17.45
Cathedral tour
18.30
Venue
Streatham Court Lecture
Theatres corridor
Streatham Court B
Streatham Court Lecture
Theatres corridor
Streatham Court B
Streatham Court Lecture
Theatres corridor
Streatham Court B
Streatham Court A
Streatham Court Lecture
Theatres corridor
Dinner
Supported by the SWDTC
“Economic Design: The Economist as an Engineer”
14th-15th July 2015
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 15th July
Time
08.45 - 09.00
Arrival refreshments and Registration
Detail
09.00 - 09.45
Dorothea Kuebler (WZB Berlin)
Venue
Streatham Court Lecture
Theatres corridor
Streatham Court B
“College Admissions with Entrance Exams: Centralized
versus Decentralized”
09.45 - 10.30
Luke Lindsay (University of Exeter)
“How to organise a conference: A market design approach”
10.30 - 11.15
Dirk Engelmann (University of Mannheim)
“Does a Buyer Benefit from Bad Reputation? Theory and
Experiments on Auctions with Default”
11.15 - 11.30
Refreshment break
11.30 - 12.30
Al Roth (Stanford University)
“Kidney Exchange”
12.30 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 15.00
Vince Crawford (University of Oxford)
“Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading”
15.00 - 15.45
Elizabeth Baldwin (LSE)
“Understanding Preferences: "Demand Types", and the
Existence of Equilibrium with Indivisibilities”
16.00 - 18.30
Dartmoor hike
Streatham Court Lecture
Theatres corridor
Streatham Court B
Streatham Court Lecture
Theatres corridor
Streatham Court B
Coach collection from bus stop on Rennes Drive
19.00
Dinner
Supported by the SWDTC