IV ASIAN GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY WORKSHOP (GETA2007) NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 18-19 August, 2007 AS 7, Seminar Room A-B-C, Level 1 Time Day 1: Saturday, August 18 8:45 Registration opens Public Economics – Chair: CC Yang 9:10-9:15 Opening Note by Parkash Chander (Head, Department of Economics, NUS) 9:30-10:00 Ted Bergstrom (UCSB), Rod Garratt (UCSB, f" One Chance in a Million: Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry” Discussant: Aggey Semonov 10:00-10:30 Fan Chin Kung (City HKU and Academia Sinica, " Voluntary Contributions to Multiple Public Goods in a Production Economy with Widespread Externalities” Discussant: C C Yang 10:30:11:00 Tea Break General Equilibrium – Chair: Aditya Goenka 11:00-11:30 Bernard Cornet (Paris I PantheonSorbonne and Kansas, “Spatial economies: a general equilibrium approach” 11:30-12:00 Andrea Loi (Cagliari) and Stefano Matta (Cagliari) " A note on the Riemannian metric on the equilibrium manifold.” Discussant: Atsushi Kajii 12:00-12:30 Atsushi Kajii (Kyoto) “Welfare gains and losses in sunspot equilibria” Discussant: Aditya Goenka 12:30-:2:00 Lunch Break Asset Markets – Chair: Atsushi Kajii 2:00-2:30 Kazuya Kamiya (Tokyo) " Dynamic Auction Markets in a Large Economy” Discussant: Wei-Torng Juang 2:30-3:00 Guangsug Hahn (POSTECH) and Dong Chul Won (Ajou), " Constrained Asset Markets.” Discussant: Stefano Matta 3:00-3:30 Patrick Leoni (NUI)" Market crashes, speculation and learning in financial markets.” Discussant: Guillaume Rochteau 3:30-4:00 Tea Break Economic Growth Chair: Cuong Le Van 4:00-4:30 Basant Kapur (NUS) " Structural change and endogenous growth.” Discussant: Tomoo Kikuchi 4:30-5:00 Aditya Goenka (NUS) and Liu Lin (NUS): “Epidemiology of human diseases and economic growth.” Discussant: Cuong Le Van 5:00-5:30 Volker Bohm (Bielefeld), Tomoo Kikuchi (NUS) and George Vachadze (Bielefeld): " On the role of assets for dynamics of capital accumulation.” Discussant: Partha Chatterjee 5:30-5:45 Break Plenary Talk – Chair: Parkash Chander 5:45-6:45 Plenary Speaker: J. Geanakoplos (Yale) 7:30 Dinner Reception Time Day 2: Sunday, August 19 Decision Theory Chair: Yeneng Sun 9:30-10:00 Siyang Xiong (Northwestern)" Unawareness and the Standard State Space Revisited" Discussant: Xiao Luo 10:00-10:30 Yi-Chun Chen (Northwestern) and Xiao Luo (Academia Sinica and NUS) f" Belief Operator in a Universal Space.” Discussant: Sudhir Shah Tea Break 10:30-11:00 Decisions under uncertainty Chair: Chiaki Hara 11:00-11:30 R.A. Dana (CEREMADE, Universite Paris-Dauphine) and Cuong Le Van (Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne) "Overlapping expectations and the existence of risk sharing rules and equilibria for variational preferences.” Discussant: Chiaki Hara 11:30-12:00 Phelim Boyle (Wilfred Laurier University) and Chenghu Ma (WISE, Xiamen)" MPS-riskaversion and the CAPM.” Discussant: Patrick Leoni 12:00-12:30 Sudhir Shah (Delhi School Economics)" Duality Mappings for the theory of risk aversion with vector outcomes.” Discussant: Murali Agastya 12:30-2:00 Lunch Break Economic Theory Chair: Xiao Luo 2:00-2:30 2:30-3:00 Chiaki Hara (Kyoto) "Heterogeneous impatience in a continuous time model.” Discussant: Chenghu Ma Chi-Shang Liu (National Chengchi) and Wei-Torng Juang (Academia Sinica " Stochastic Stability in Evolutionary Models” Discussant: Younghwan In 3 :00-3 :30 Pham Quang Ngoc (DEPOCEN) " Factor endowments and regional location of production: Evidence from Vietnam” Discussant: Shreekant Gupta 3:30-4:00 Tea Break Public Economics Chair: Kazuya Kamiya 4:00-4:30 Chun-Hsien Yeh (National Central University) " Secured lower bound, composition up, and minimal rights for bankruptcy problems.” Discussant: ManChung Ng 4:30-5:00 Charles Blackory (Warwick) and Sushama Murty (Warwick), HYPERLINK " Unit versus ad valorem taxes: The private ownership of monopoly in general equilibrium.” Discussant: Fan Chin Kung 5:00-5:30 Tomoki Inoue (Kyoto, HYPERLINK "mailto:tomoki.inoue@gmail.com" \t "_blank" tomoki.inoue@gmail.com): “ HYPERLINK "http://nt2.fas.nus.edu.sg/ecs/wks hop/geta/papers/inoue.pdf" Indivisible commodities and Decentralization of Strong Core Allocations.” Discussant: Kazuya Kamiya