SATURDAY JULY 4, 2009

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MORNING SESSIONS

Political economy
Time: 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Chairperson: F. Squintani (U Essex, UK; fsquintani@yahoo.com)
 Room Pitecusa:

09:00 - 09:25
J. Horner (Yale U, USA; j-horner@kellogg.northwestern.edu), M. Morelli (Columbia U, USA), and F. Squintani (U Essex, UK): International conflict mediation
09:30 - 09:55
M. Morelli (Columbia U, USA; mm3331@columbia.edu) and D. Rohner ( York U, UK): Natural resource distribution and multiple forms of civil war
10:00 - 10:25
T. Palfrey (Caltech, USA; trp@hss.caltech.edu) and Marco Battaglini (Princeton U, USA): Building public infrastructure
10:30 - 10:55
A. Sandroni (Pennsylvania U, USA; sandroni@econ.upenn.edu), T. Feddersen (Northwestern U, USA), and S. Gailmard (Berkeley U, USA): Moral bias in large elections

Topics on economic growth and development
Time: 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Chairperson: T. Cavalcanti (U Cambridge, UK; tvdvc2@cam.ac.uk)
Room Primavera:

09:00 - 09:25
A. Antunes (Banco de Portugal, PORTUGAL) and T. Cavalcanti (U Cambridge, UK; tvdvc2@cam.ac.uk): The welfare gains of financial liberalization: capital accumulation and idiosyncratic risks
09:30 - 09:55
B. Herrendorf (Arizona State U, USA), J. A. Schmitz Jr. (Federal Reserve Bank Minneapolis, USA), and A. Teixeira (Capixaba Research Foundation, BRAZIL; arilton@fucape.br): Transportation and development: insights from the U.S. 1840-1860
10:00 - 10:25
E. Jaimovich (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, ITALY; esteban.jaimovich@carloalberto.org): Sectoral differentiation, allocation of talent, and financial development
10:30 - 10:55
P. Dasgupta (U Cambridge, UK; Partha.Dasgupta@econ.cam.ac.uk) and Erik Maskin (Social Science Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, USA): Time preferences and intergenerational discounting

Economic Theory
Time: 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Chairperson: F. Gozzi (U Luiss Rome, ITALY; fgozzi@luiss.it)
Room Nitrodi A:

09:00 - 09:25
S. Marchesi (U Milano Bicocca, ITALY), L. Sabani (U Firenze, ITALY; laura.sabani@unifi.it), and A. Dreher (U Goettinghen, GERMANY): Read my lips: the role of information transmission in multilateral reforms design
09:30 - 09:55
L. Balletta (Yale U, USA and U Palermo, ITALY; luigi.balletta@yale.edu) and G. Bimonte (U Salerno, ITALY): Stability in economies with differential information
10:00 - 10:25
L. Bossi (U Miami, USA; l.bossi@miami.edu), P. Calcott (Victoria U Wellington, NEW ZEALAND), and V. Petkov (Victoria U Wellington, NEW ZEALAND): Time-consistent taxation of addictive goods
10:30 - 10:55
M. Bambi (U York, UK), G. Fabbri (U Naples Parthenope, ITALY and UNSW, AUSTRALIA), and F. Gozzi (U Luiss Rome, ITALY; fgozzi@luiss.it): Optimal policy and consumption smoothing effects in the time-to-build AK model

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

Economic theory: applications, PART I
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Chairpersons: C. Herves-Beloso (U Vigo, SPAIN; cherves@uvigo.es) and E. Moreno-Garcia (U Salamanca, SPAIN; emmam@usal.es)
 Room Pitecusa:

11:30 - 11:55
J. Correia-da-Silva (Porto U, PORTUGAL) and J. Resende (Porto U, Portugal and CORE, BELGIUM; jresende@fep.up.pt): Free daily newspapers business models: are there too many incentives to print?
12:00 - 12:25
A. P. Borges (Porto U, PORTUGAL; 040421002@fep.up.pt), D. Laussel (GREQAM, FRANCE) and J. Correia-da-Silva (Porto U, PORTUGAL): Regulating a monopolist with unknown bureaucratic tendencies
12:30 - 12:55
E. Giménez (Vigo U, SPAIN; egimenez@uvigo.es) and M. Pérez Nievas (Santiago de Compostela U, SPAIN): Welfare improvement under financial constraints
01:00 - 01:25
Conde-Ruiz (Complutense U, SPAIN), E. Giménez (Vigo U, SPAIN), and M. Pérez-Nievas (Santiago de Compostela U, SPAIN; aepmikel@usc.es): On the notion of efficiency with endogenous population growth

Dynamic games
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Chairperson: H. Sabourian (U Cambridge, UK; Hamid.Sabourian@econ.cam.ac.uk)
Room Primavera:

11:30 - 11:55
J. Deb (New York U, USA; joyee.deb@nyu.edu): Community enforcement beyond the prisoner's dilemma
12:00 - 12:25
M. Barlo (Sabanci U, TURKEY), G. Carmona (Nova U Lisbon and U Cambridge, UK; gcarmona@fe.unl.pt), and H. Sabourian (U Cambridge, UK): Bounded memory in repeated games
12:30 - 12:55
J. Horner (Yale U, USA; johannes.horner@yale.edu), S. Lovo (HEC School of Management, FRANCE), and T. Tomala (HEC School of Management, FRANCE): Belie-free equilibria in games with incomplete information: the n-player case
01:00 - 01:25
M. Manea (MIT, USA): TBA

Limited cognitive-inferential abilities and their behavioral consequences
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Chairperson: M. Kaneko (U Tsukuba, JAPAN; kaneko@sk.tsukuba.ac.jo)
Room Nitrodi A:

11:30 - 11:55
M. Kaneko (U Tsukuba, JAPAN; kaneko@sk.tsukuba.ac.jo) and N.-Y. Suzuki (Shizuoka U, JAPAN): Contentwise complexity of inferences: an evaluation of Arrow's impossibility theorem
12:00 - 12:25
J. J. Kline (Bond U, AUSTRALIA; jekline@bond.edu.au) and A. Trandafira (SNSPA, ROMANIA): Evaluation of the epistemic depth for resolving the muddy children puzzle
12:30 - 12:55
N.-Y. Suzuki (Shizuoka U, JAPAN; smnsuzu@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp): Semantics for intuitionistic epistemic logics of shallow depths for game theory
01:00 - 01:25
 

1:30 - 3:00 LUNCH BREAK

EVENING SESSIONS

The subprime lending crisis
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Chairperson: M. Pagano (U Naples Federico II and CSEF, ITALY; mrpagano@tin.it)
Room Pitecusa:

03:00 - 03:25
U. Rajan (U Michigan Ann Arbor, USA; urajan@umich.edu), Amit Seru (U Chicago, USA), and Vikrant Vig (London Business School, UK): The failure of models that predict failure: distance, incentives and defaults
03:30 - 03:55
P. Bolton (Columbia U, USA), X. Freixas (U Pompeu Fabra, SPAIN), and J. Shapiro (U Pompeu Fabra, SPAIN; joel.shapiro@upf.edu): The credit ratings game
04:00 - 04:25
M. Pagano (U Naples Federico II and CSEF, ITALY; mrpagano@tin.it) and P. Volpin (London Business School, UK): Securitization, transparency and liquidity
04:30 - 04:55
 

Economic theory: applications, Part II
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Chairpersons: C. Herves-Beloso (U Vigo, SPAIN; cherves@uvigo.es) and E. Moreno-Garcia (U Salamanca, SPAIN; emmam@usal.es)
Room Primavera:

03:00 - 03:25
J. C. R. Alcantud (Salamanca U, SPAIN; jcr@usal.es) and M. D. García-Sanz (Salamanca U, SPAIN): Pareto-efficient and egalitarian evaluations of infinite utility streams: possibility and impossibility results
03:30 - 03:55
O. Gossner (PSE, FRANCE; gossner@lse.ac.uk) and E. Tsakas (U Maastricht, NETHERLANDS): A reasoning approach to knowledge
04:00 - 04:25
V. F. Martins-Da-Rocha (Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, BRAZIL) and Y. Vailakis (Exeter U, UK; Y.Vailakis@exeter.ac.uk): Existence and uniqueness of a fixed-point for local contractions
04:30 - 04:55
J. P. Rincón-Zapatero (Carlos III U, SPAIN; jrincon@eco.uc3m.es) and M. S. Santos (Miami U, USA): Differentiability of the value function in continuous-time economic models with saturated constraints

Networks (networks, externalities, and dependence)
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Chairperson: B. W. Rogers (Northwestern U, USA; b-rogers@kellogg.northwestern.edu)
Room Nitrodi A:

03:00 - 03:25
M. Mihm (Cornell U, USA; maximilian.mihm@web.de), R. Toth (Cornell U, USA), and C. Lang (Cornell U, USA): What goes around comes around: a theory of indirect reciprocity in networks
03:30 - 03:55
R. Cavallo (Harvard U, USA; cavallo@post.harvard.edu): Strongly budget-balanced auctions with semi-altruistic agents
04:00 - 04:25
S. Currarini (U Ca’ Foscari Venezia, ITALY; s.currarini@unive.it): Information-sharing neworks in oligopolistic settings
04:30 - 04:55
B. W. Rogers (Northwestern U, USA; b-rogers@kellogg.northwestern.edu) and A. Galeotti (U Essex, UK): Immunizations and group-dependent contact structures

Consistency problems in decision making
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Chairperson: M. Squillante (U Sannio, ITALY; squillan@unisannio.it)
Room Nitrodi B:

03:00 - 03:25
S. Greco (U Catania, ITALY), B. Matarazzo (U Catania, ITALY; matarazz@unict.it), and S. Slowinski (Poznań U, POLAND): Interactive multiobjective optimization using dominance-based decision rules
03:30 - 03:55
B. Cavallo (U Napoli Federico II, ITALY; bice.cavallo@unina.it) and L. D’Apuzzo (U Napoli Federico II, ITALY): Pairwise comparisons: ordinal and cardinal preference representations
04:00 - 04:25
A. Maturo (U Chieti – Pescara, ITALY; amaturo@unich.it), M. Squillante (U Sannio, ITALY), and A. G. S. Ventre (U Napoli II, ITALY): Consistency for decomposable measures
04:30 - 04:55
M. Brunelli (U Trento, ITALY), L. Canal (U Trento, ITALY), and M. Fedrizzi (U Trento, ITALY; michele.fedrizzi@unitn.it): The agreement evaluation of consistency indices in pairwise comparison

5:00-5:30 COFFEE BREAK

Credit markets
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Chairperson: W. R. Zame (UCLA, USA; zame@econ.ucla.edu)
Room Pitecusa:

05:30 - 05:55
S. Boyarchenko (U Texas, USA; sboyarch@eco.utexas.edu): Credit risk, credit crunch and capital structure
06:30 - 06:55
J. Krainer (FRB, USA; john.krainer@sf.frb.org) and S. LeRoy (UC Santa Barbara, USA): Mortgage default and mortgage valuation
06:30 - 06:55
K. Gerardi (FRB Atlanta, USA), A. H. Shapiro (Bureau of Economic Analysis, Washington, USA), and P. S. Willen (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, USA; Paul.Willen@bos.frb.org): Subprime outcomes: risky mortgages, homeownership experiences, and foreclosures
07:00 - 07:30
 

Game theory
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Chairpersons: K. Ritzberger (Institute for Advanced Studies, AUSTRIA; ritzbe@ihs.ac.at) and C. Alós-Ferrer (U Konstanz, GERMANY; carlos.alos-ferrer@uni-konstanz.de)
Room Primavera:

05:30 - 05:55
D. Balkenborg (U Exeter, UK), S. Demichelis (U Pavia, IT), and D. Vermeulen (U Maastricht, NL; d.vermeulen@ke.unimaas.nl): Where strategic and evolutionary stability depart – a study of minimal diversity games
06:30 - 06:55
W. Leininger (TU Dortmund, GERMANY; wolfgang.leininger@udo.edu): Evolutionarily stable preferences in contests
06:30 - 06:55
S. Demichelis (U Pavia, IT; sdm.golem@gmail.com), J.-J. Herings (U Maastricht, NL), and D. Vermeulen (U Maastricht, NL): Some preliminary remarks on the relevance of topological essentiality in general equilibrium theory and game theory
07:00 - 07:30
C. Alós-Ferrer (U Konstanz, GERMANY; carlos.alos-ferrer@uni-konstanz.de) and K. Ritzberger (Institute for Advanced Studies, AUT): Discrete trees and extensive form games

Networks (diffusion and pricing in social networks)
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Chairperson: J. Corbo (Wharton U, USA; jacomo@wharton.upenn.edu)
Room Nitrodi A:

05:30 - 05:55
R. Chuhay (U Alicante, SPAIN; rchuhay@merlin.fae.ua.es): Maximizing sales through word of mouth communication in multi-type network with homophily
06:30 - 06:55
S. Aral (NYU, USA; sinan@stern.nyu.edu): Peer influence dynamics in large social networks
06:30 - 06:55
J. Corbo (Wharton U, USA; jacomo@wharton.upenn.edu): When and how to discriminate: profit-maximizing pricing strategies in social networks
07:00 - 07:30
 

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