Friday, April 2018
Columbia Market Design Conference
LOCATION: Deutsches Haus, Columbia University 420 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027 United States See map: Google Maps Register here Press here to RSVP by April 8, 2018. April 13, 2018 8:00-8:25 Breakfast & Registration 8:25-8:30 Introduction by Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University) Session 1: Chair: Guillaume Haeringer (Baruch College) 8:30-9:30 Yusuke Narita (Yale University), “Toward an Ethical Experiment” Slides. 9:30-10:30 Yinghua He (Rice University), "A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets," (joint with Thierry Magnac). 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break Session 2: Chair: Jay…
Find out more »PER Distinguished Lecture: Lars Peter Hansen
PER Distinguished Lecture: Lars Peter Hansen, "Pricing Uncertainty Induced by Climate Change" Friday, April 13, 2018 11:00am-12:30pm 1512 International Affairs Building Press here to RSVP for planning purposes. Climate science documents uncertainty induced by alternative emission scenarios and alternative models, and it constructs simplified approximations to complex models. This lecture examines the extent to which if these components of uncertainty matter in an economic setting and over what time horizons. To address this problem we pose a hypothetical social planning…
Find out more »PER Distinguished Lecture: Vincent P. Crawford
PER Distinguished Lecture: Vincent P. Crawford, “Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading” Friday, April 20, 2018 10:30am-12:00pm Deutsches Haus, Columbia University Press here to RSVP for planning purposes. Professor Vincent P. Crawford revisits Roger Myerson and Mark Satterthwaite’s (1983; “MS”) analysis of mechanism design for bilateral trading, replacing equilibrium with a non-equilibrium “level-k” model that predicts initial responses to games, and focusing on direct mechanisms. The revelation principle fails for level-k models. However, if only level-k- incentive-compatible mechanisms are feasible,…
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PER Mini-Course: Rajiv Vohra, “Coalitional Games and Farsightedness” (Part I)
PER Mini-Course: Rajiv Vohra, "Coalitional Games and Farsightedness" Part I: Thursday, May 3, 2018 2:00pm-4:00pm 1027 International Affairs Building Part II: Friday, May 4, 2018 2:00pm-4:00pm 1101 International Affairs Building RSVP here for planning purposes This course will explore recent developments that incorporate farsighted behavior in coalitional games, which are designed to model rational behavior when groups have the ability to make binding agreements. Applications include cartel formation, public goods provision and political party formation. In the presence of externalities this approach…
Find out more »PER Mini-Course: Rajiv Vohra, “Coalitional Games and Farsightedness” (Part II)
PER Mini-Course: Rajiv Vohra, "Coalitional Games and Farsightedness" Part I: Thursday, May 3, 2018 2:00pm-4:00pm 1027 International Affairs Building Part II: Friday, May 4, 2018 2:00pm-4:00pm 1101 International Affairs Building RSVP here for planning purposes This course will explore recent developments that incorporate farsighted behavior in coalitional games, which are designed to model rational behavior when groups have the ability to make binding agreements. Applications include cartel formation, public goods provision and political party formation. In the presence of externalities this approach…
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