Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
       Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory

Spring 2008 Midwest Economic Theory and International Economics Meetings

All Session meet in Room 404, Illini Union

#Date/TimeTitlePapers
1May 2, 2008
8:45-10:30
Topics in IO4
2May 2, 2008
11:00-12:30
Allocation Mechanisms4
3May 2, 2008
14:00-15:30
Public Economics4
4May 2, 2008
16:00-17:00
Political Economy3
5May 2, 2008
17:30-18:30
Contracts3
6May 3, 2008
8:45-10:30
Monetary Theory5
7 May 3, 2008
11:00-12:30
Information and Efficiency4
8May 3, 2008
14:00-15:30
Contracts 24
9May 3, 2008
16:00-17:00
Adverse Selection and Insurance3
10May 3, 2008
17:30-18:30
Networks3
11May 4, 2008
8:45-10:30
Topics in Game Theory5
12May 4, 2008
11:00-12:45
Topics in Game Theory 24

 

Spring 2008 Midwest Economic Theory Meetings

Complete List of All Sessions

Room: 404 Illini Union


Session 1: Topics in IO

Date: May 2, 2008
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Chair: George Deltas, University of Illinois
 

Rousseauian Contracts
JEL codes: C73,D82,D86,E43
By Bart Taub, University of Illinois
   Presented by: Bart Taub, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 

Oligopolies with (Somewhat) Environmentally Conscious Consumers: Market Equilibrium and Regulatory Intervention
By George Deltas, University of Illinois Donna Harrington, University of Vermont Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois
   Presented by: George Deltas, University of Illinois
 

Trade, industrial location and environmental consciousness
By Sotiris Karkalakos, Keele University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Presented by: Sotiris Karkalakos, University of Illinois
 

Self-Employment and Labor Market Policies
By Dr. Alok Kumar, Deptt. of Economics, University of Victoria, Canada Dr. Herb Scheutze, Deptt. of Economics, University of Victoria, Canada
   Presented by: Alok Kumar, University of Victoria

Session 2: Allocation Mechanisms

Date: May 2, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Jamsheed Shorish, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna
 

Persuasion and Limited Communication
JEL codes: C61, D82, D83
By Itai Sher University of Minnesota
   Presented by: Itai Sher, University of Minnesota
 

Repeated Moral Hazard and Recursive Lagrangeans
By Antonio Mele, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
   Presented by: Antonio Mele, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
 

Cardinal Bayesian Allocation Mechanisms without Transfers
By Antonio Miralles, Boston University
   Presented by: Antonio Miralles, Boston University
 

Strongly Robust Equilibrium in Common Agency
By Seungjin Han Department of Economics McMaster University
   Presented by: Seungjin Han, McMaster University

Session 3: Public Economics

Date: May 2, 2008
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Chair: Alison Watts, Southern Illinois University
 

Financing vaccine research in developing countries - A public good approach
JEL codes: C72, H87
By Diana Sonntag, Department of Economics, Chemnitz University of Technology
   Presented by: Diana Sonntag, Chemnitz University of Technology
 

The poor, the rich and the enforcer: institutional choice and growth
By Thor Koeppl (Queen's University) Erwan Quintin (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
   Presented by: Cyril Monnet, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 

Do Income Taxes Say Anything About How Jealous Societies Are?
By Daniel Samano, University of Minnesota
   Presented by: Daniel Samano, University of Minnesota
 

Career and family choices in the presence of uncertainty
By Alison Watts, Southern Illinois University
   Presented by: Alison Watts, Southern Illinois University

Session 4: Political Economy

Date: May 2, 2008
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Chair: Mattias Polborn, University of Illinois
 

On the Informational Efficiency of Approval Voting
JEL codes: D72
By Johanna Goertz (University of Guelph) François Maniquet (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)
   Presented by: Johnna Goertz, University of Guelph
 

Competing Informed Principals and Representative Democracy
By Helena Poon (Georgetown University)
   Presented by: Helena Poon, Georgetown University
 

Enfranchisement from a Political Perspective
By Soumyanetra Munshi Rutgers University
   Presented by: Soumyanetra Munshi, Rutgers University

Session 5: Contracts

Date: May 2, 2008
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Chair: Itai Sher, University of Minnesota

 

Delegated Contracting, Information, and Internal Control
JEL codes: D23, D73, D82
By Wolfgang Gick, Harvard University
   Presented by: Wolfgang Gick, Harvard University
 

Secret Contracts for Efficient Partnerships
By David Rahman, University of Minnesota Ichiro Obara, University of Minnesota
   Presented by: David Rahman, University of Minnesota
 

Wait and See
By Peter Eso, Northwestern University Yuk-fai Fong, Northwestern University
   Presented by: Yuk-Fai Fong, Northwestern University

Special Lecture:

Date: May 2, 2008
Time: 21:00 - 22:00
Room: 210 Illini Union
 

W. Barnett on the book "Inside the Economist's Mind" with Paul Samuelson.

Session 6: Monetary Theory

Date: May 3, 2008
Time: 8:45 - 10:30
Chair: Bart Taub, University of Illinois
 

Dual Currency Acceptability and Information
JEL codes: E40, H20, H63
By Alessandro Marchesiani, University of Naples L'Orientale Pietro Senesi, University of Naples L'Orientale
   Presented by: Alessandro Marchesiani, University of Naples L'Orientale
 

Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy with Imperfect Taxation of Informal Labor
By Marcelo Arbex, University of Windsor Nurlan Turdaliev, University of Windsor
   Presented by: Marcelo Arbex, University of Windsor
 

Evaluating Structural Vector Autoregression Models in Monetary Economies
By Bin Li Department of Economics University of Chicago
   Presented by: Bin Li, University of Chicago
 

Information, Trade, and the Origins of Banks
By Luis Araujo - Michigan State University Raoul Minetti - Michigan State University
   Presented by: Luis Araujo, Michigan State University
 

Endogenous Financial Development and Inflation Thresholds
By Edgar Ghossoub, The University of Texas at San Antonio Robert R. Reed III, The University of Alabama
   Presented by: Edgar Ghossoub, University of Texas

Session 7: Information and Efficiency

Date: May 3, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Rabah Amir, University of Arizona
 

Information Aggregation in Common Value Asset Markets and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis
By Ricardo Serrano-Padial, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   Presented by: Ricardo Serrano-Padial, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Speculative Trading with Bayesian Learning
By Adam Slawski University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
   Presented by: Adam Slawski, University of Minnesota
 

Span of Control in Production Hierarchies
By Jan Eeckhout, University of Pennsylvania Roberto Pinheiro, University of Pennsylvania
   Presented by: Roberto Pinheiro, University of Pennsylvania
 

Cournot Oligopoly with Network Effects
By Rabah Amir and Natalia Lazzati, University of Arizona
   Presented by: Rabah Amir, University of Arizona

Session 8: Contracts 2

Date: May 3, 2008
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Chair: David Rahman, University of Minnesota
 

Sharing Risk Efficiently Under Suboptimal Punishments for Defection
JEL codes: D61, E21
By Drew Saunders, Purdue University
   Presented by: Drew Saunders, Krannert School of Mgmt, Purdue Univ.
 

Counterparty Risk in Insurance Contracts: Should the Insured Worry about the Insurer?
By James Thompson, Queen's University
   Presented by: James Thompson, Queen's University
 

Risk Sharing and Adverse Selection with Asymmetric Information on Risk Preference
By Chifeng Dai, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
   Presented by: Chifeng Dai, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
 

Functional Rational Expectations Equilibria in Market Games
By Jamsheed Shorish, Department of Economics and Finance, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
   Presented by: Jamsheed Shorish, Institute for Advanced Studies

Session 9: Adverse Selection and Insurance

Date: May 3, 2008
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Chair: Pamela Labadie, George Washington University
 

Explaining the Size Distribution of Cities: X-treme Economies
By Marcus Berliant, Washington University in St. Louis Hiroki Watanabe, Washington University in St. Louis
   Presented by: Marcus Berliant, Washington University in St. Louis
 

Disclosure as a Tool for Building Trust and Stimulating Investment
By Radhika Lunawat, University of Minnesota
   Presented by: Radhika Lunawat, University of Minnesota
 

Retrading in Competitive Equilibria with Adverse Selection
JEL codes: E44
By Pamela Labadie, Dept. of Economics, George Washington University
   Presented by: Pamela Labadie, George Washington University

Session 10: Networks

Date: May 3, 2008
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Chair: Ping Wang, Washington University

 

Knowledge Spillovers and the Formation of Spatial Networks
JEL codes: D20, C71, O33
By Fan-chin Kung, City University of Hong Kong Ping Wang, Washington University in St. Louis
   Presented by: Ping Wang, Washington University
 

The Core and Coalition Formation in an N-person Network Game
By Jingang Zhao University of Saskatchewan
   Presented by: Jingang Zhao, U Saskatchewan
 

Networks and Stability
By Frank Page, Indiana University Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt
   Presented by: Frank Page, Indiana University

Session 11: Topics in Game Theory

Date: May 4, 2008
Time: 8:45 - 10:30
Chair: Robert Molzon, University of Kentucky
 

Spatial Equilibria in a Social Interaction Model
JEL codes: R12, R13
By Pascal Mossay, University of Reading & University of Alicante Pierre Picard, University of Manchester
   Presented by: Pascal Mossay, University of Reading
 

Oligopolistic Competition in Two-Sided Markets
By Alexei Alexandrov (University of Rochester) George Deltas (University of Illinois) Daniel Spulber (Northwestern University)
   Presented by: Alexei Alexandrov, University of Rochester
 

Communication and Efficiency in Auctions
By Nenad Kos, Northwestern University
   Presented by: Nenad Kos, Northwestern
 

Learning Across Games
By Friederike Mengel, University of Alicante
   Presented by: Friederike Mengel, Universidad de Alicante
 

Subgame Perfect Implementation of the Nash Rationing Solution
By Marco Mariotti, Queen Mary, University of London Quan Wen, Vanderbilt University
   Presented by: Quan Wen, Vanderbilt University

Session 12: Topics in Game Theory 2

Date: May 4, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Subir Chakrabarti, IUPUI
 

Capacity Constraints and Imperfect Information: Demand- and Supply-Sided Remedies
By Bing Jing, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Yuxin Chen, Stern School of Business, NYU
   Presented by: Bing Jing, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
 

Does Corporate Misconduct Lead to Financial Anomalies? - An Analysis of Asset Returns with Earnings Management
By Bo Sun University of Virginia
   Presented by: Bo Sun, University of Virginia
 

Time to think and the negative effect of competition
By Toru Suzuki Boston University
   Presented by: Toru Suzuki, Boston University
 

Pue Strategy Markov Equilibrium in Stochastic Games with Concave Transition Probabilities
By Subir Chakrabarti Indiana University Purdue University Indianaolis (IUPUI)
   Presented by: Subir Chakrabarti, Indiana Univeristy Purdue University Ind