June 8th, 2015
IDGP 2015 Workshop "Institutions, Decisions and Governmental Practices: Theory, Simulations and Applications" Date: June 2‐6, 2015 Venue: Campus de Bellaterra‐UAB. B Building, Sala de Graus (B3/012) Organizers: Salvador Barberà, Miguel Ángel Ballester, Carmen Beviá, Caterina Calsamiglia, Jordi Massó, Antonio Miralles, Tomás Rodríguez‐Barraquer and Xavier Vilà. Tuesday 2 Welcome and Introduction 9:00 ‐ 9:30 Salvador Barberà (MOVE, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Barcelona GSE) 9:30 ‐ 11:00 Economics of Information Giacomo de Giorgi (Federal Reserve Bank of New York and MOVE) 9:30 ‐ 10:00 10:00 ‐ 10:30 10:30 ‐ 11:00 “Moral Hazard in the Credit Market” Inés Moreno de Barreda (Oxford University) “Persuasion without Commitment” Antonio Nicolò (The University of Manchester) “Information Disclosure and Strategy‐proofness” Coffee break 11:00 ‐ 11:30 11:30 ‐ 13:00 Mechanisms and Incentives 11:30 ‐ 12:00 12:00 – 12:30 12:30 ‐ 13:00 Sabine Flamand (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) “Collective Contests with Multiple Prizes” Marc Vorsatz (UNED) “Static vs Dynamic Deferred Acceptance in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment” Huaxia Zeng (Singapur Management University) “Local Strategy‐proofness Revisited” 13:00 ‐ 15:00 Lunch 15:00 ‐ 16:15 MICROECONOMICS Seminar (Sala de Graus) Liran EINAV (Stanford University) “Sales Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions?” June 8th, 2015
16:30 ‐ 18:30 Voting 16:30 ‐ 17:00 17:00 – 17:30 Mikel Álvarez (Universitat de Barcelona) “Banzhaf and Deegan‐Packel Indices in the Presence of Externalities” Grisel Ayllón (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) “Acyclicty and Condorcet Winners” Carmen Herrero (Universidad de Alicante) 17:30 – 18:00 “An Endogeneous Scoring Rule” 18:00 ‐ 18:30 Xavier Mora (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “Choosing by Means of Approval‐preferential Voting. The Revised Approval Choice” Wednesday 3 9:30 ‐ 11:00 Implementation and Mechanisms Helmuts Azacis (Cardiff University) 9:30 ‐ 10:00 10:00 ‐ 10:30 10:30 ‐ 11:00 “Repeated Implementation” Anna Bogomolnaia (University of Glasgow) “Egalitarian Random Mechanisms with Ordinal Input” Hervé Moulin (University of Glasgow) “One Dimensional Mechanism Design” Coffee break 11:00 ‐ 11:30 11:30 ‐ 13:00 Social Choice 11:30 ‐ 12:00 12:00 – 12:30 12:30 ‐ 13:00 Anke Gerber (University of Hamburg) “Sequential Voting and Agenda Manipulation” Nicolas Gravel (Aix‐Marseille University, CNRS and EHESS) “Ranking Distributions of an Ordinal Attribute” Carmelo Rodríguez‐Álvarez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) “Deliberation, Leadership and Information Aggregation” 13:00 ‐ 15:00 Lunch 15:00 ‐ 16:30 Voting and Incentives 15:00 ‐ 15:30 15:30 – 16:00 Pablo Arribillaga (Universidad Nacional de San Luis) “Comparing Generalized Median Voter Schemes According to their Manipulability” Shurojit Chatterji (Singapore Management University) “On Strategy‐proofness and the Salience of Single‐Peakedness” June 8th, 2015
16:00 – 16:30 Shigehiro Serizawa (Osaka University, ISER) “When are Strategy‐proof and Efficient Rules Possible in Objects Allocation with Money?” 16:30 ‐ 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 ‐ 18:00 Simulated Models 17:00 ‐ 17:30 17:30 – 18:00 Segismundo Izquierdo (Universidad de Valladolid) “The 'Win Continue, Lose‐reverse' Rule in Oligopolies: Robustness of Collusive Outcomes” Francesc J. Miguel‐Quesada (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “ABM Simulation as a Tool for Tax Compliance Policies” Thursday 4 9:30 ‐ 11:00 Networks (I) Manuel Mueller‐Frank (IESE) 9:30 ‐ 10:00 10:00 ‐ 10:30 10:30 ‐ 11:00 “Robust and Negligible Properties of Boundedly Rational Observational Learning” Yves Zenou (Stockholm University) “Networks and Activities” Matthew Jackson (Stanford University) “Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets” Coffee break 11:00 ‐ 11:30 11:30 ‐ 13:00 Networks (II) 11:30 ‐ 12:00 12:00 – 12:30 12:30 ‐ 13:00 Dunia López‐Pintado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) “Influence Networks and Public Goods” Xu Tan (University of Washington) “A Dynamic Model of Opinion and Network Formation” Fernando Vega‐Redondo (Università Bocconi) “Bargaining and Arbitrage in Endogenous Trading Networks” 13:00 ‐ 15:00 Lunch 15:00 ‐ 16:30 Decision Theory (I) 15:00 ‐ 15:30 15:30 – 16:00 Salvador Barberà (MOVE, Universitat Autònoma de Bacelona and Barcelona GSE) “Ordinal Relative Satisficing Behavior” Tugce Cuhadaroglu (University of St. Andrews) “Adaptation as a Battle of the Selves” June 8th, 2015
16:00 – 16:30 Daniel Martin (Northwestern University‐Kellogg) “Consumer Theory with Inattention to Prices” 16:30 ‐ 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 ‐ 18:30 Decision Theory (II) 17:00 ‐ 17:30 17:30 – 18:00 18:00 – 18:30 Jose Apesteguia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE) “Well‐defined Stochastic Choice Models. The Case of Risk and Time Preferences” Yusufcan Masatlioglu (University of Michigan) “A Random Attention Model” Isabel Melguizo (IDEA‐Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “When Positions Harden: Endogenous Homphily and the Long‐run Persistence of Disagreement” 20:00 – 22:30 Guided visit Barcelona “Barri Gòtic” Friday 5 9:30 ‐ 10:30 Decision Theory (III) Larbi Alaui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE) 9:30 ‐ 10:00 10:00 ‐ 10:30 “Cost‐benefit Analysis in Reasoning” Miguel Ángel Ballester (MOVE, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Barcelona GSE) “Single‐crossing Random Preference Models” Coffee break 10:30 ‐ 11:00 11:00 ‐ 12:00 Decision Theory (IV) 11:00 ‐ 11:30 11:30 – 12:00 Francesco Cerigioni (IDEA‐Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “Separating the Sheep from the Goats: Retrieving Preferences when some Choices are Intuitive” Stefania Minardi (HEC Paris) “Subjective Contingencies and Limited Bayesian Updating” 12:15 ‐ 13:00 Presentation: “The ‘Institutional Design and Good Governmental Practice’ Project: Six Years of Cooperative Work” 13:00 – 15:00 Lunch 15:00 ‐ 16:30 Mechanisms 15:00 ‐ 15:30 Pablo Amorós (Universidad de Málaga) “Conditions on the Jury for the Natural Implementation of the Deserving Winner of a Competition” June 8th, 2015
15:30 – 16:00 16:00 – 16:30 Bernardo Moreno (Universidad de Málaga) “Group Strategy‐proofness in Private good Economies” Lars Elhers (Université de Montréal) “Object Allocation via Deferred‐acceptance: Strategy‐proofness and Competitive Statics” 16:30 ‐ 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 ‐ 18:30 Social Economics 17:00 ‐ 17:30 17:30 – 18:00 18:00 – 18:30 20:30 ‐ ……… Walter Bossert (Université de Montréal) “Measuring Rank Mobility with Variable Population Size” Yves Sprumont (Université de Montréal) “Welfare Criteria from Choice: the Sequential Solution” Yosuke Yasuda (Osaka University) “Economics of the Rich and the Poor” Conference dinner at “Restaurant El Gran Café” (Avinyó, 9 ‐Barcelona) Saturday 6 9:30 ‐ 11:00 Economics of Education Pau Balart (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) 9:30 ‐ 10:00 10:00 ‐ 10:30 10:30 ‐ 11:00 “Which Skills are Important for Economic Growth? Cognitive versus Non‐cognitive Skills” Isa Hafalir (Carnegie Mellon University) “Welfare‐Maximizing Assignment of Agents to hierarchical Positions” Francisco Martínez‐Mora (University of Leicester) “The Political Economy of Higher Public Education Admission Tests” Coffee break 11:00 ‐ 11:30 11:30 ‐ 13:00 Matching and Markets 11:30 ‐ 12:00 12:00 – 12:30 12:30 ‐ 13:00 13:00 ‐ 15:00 Joana Pais (ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa) “Affirmative Action through Minority Reserves: An Experimental Study” Eduardo Azevedo (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) “Perfect Competition in Markets with Adverse Selection” Guillaume Haeringer (Baruch College) “Two‐sided Matching with One‐sided Preferences” Lunch June 8th, 2015
15:00 ‐ 16:30 Sharing and Public Goods 15:00 ‐ 15:30 15:30 – 16:00 16:00 – 16:30 Juan de Dios Moreno‐Ternero (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) “Sharing the Proceeds from a Hierarchical Venture” Markus Kinateder (Universidad de Navarra) “Public Goods in Endogenous Networks” Jorge Alcalde‐Unzu (Universidad Pública de Navarra) “Strategy‐proof Location of Public Facilities” 16:30 ‐ 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 ‐ 18:30 Matching and Assignments 17:00 ‐ 17:30 17:30 – 18:00 18:00 – 18:30 Dolors Berga (Universitat de Girona) “Impartial Assignment of m Prizes” David Cantalá (Colegio de México) “Matching through Institutions” Antonio Romero‐Medina (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) “A Decentralized non‐Revelation Mechanism for Many‐to‐Many Matching Markets with Contracts” Workshop held with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness with the grant: ECO2008‐
04756 and FEDER "Diseño institucional y buenas prácticas de gobierno: Teoría, aplicaciones y simulación" hosted by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.