CONFERENCE 2006  
  April 6, 7 & 8
 
 
 
 
 
 


Program of the 2006 NSF/NBER Decentralization Conference
Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
April 6, 7, & 8
Organizers:
Frank H. Page, Jr. (C&BA, University of Alabama)
Jean-Marc Bonnisseau (Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, University Paris-1)
Hubert Kempf (Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, University Paris-1),
Sponsored by:
NSF, NBER, C&BA/EFLS University of Alabama,
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES, CNRS, ADRES
Sessions will be held in Room 1, 12 place du Pantheon
(on the Pantheon Square in the 5th arrondissement)


 Thursday, April 6
   
9-10 Coffee
   
10-10:15  Welcome remarks by Cuong Le Van,
Head of the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne
  
 Chair: Bernard Cornet (cornet@univ-paris1.fr, CERMSEM, Paris 1)
  
10:15-11 On Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in Bayesian Games
Phil Reny (preny@uchicago.edu, University of Chicago)
  
11-11:45 Existence of Nash Equilibrium in Competitive Nonlinear Pricing Games with Incomplete Information
Paulo K. Monteiro (pklm@fgv.br, EPGE/FGV)
  
11:45-12:30 Arbitrage Networks
Jean-Pierre Zigrand (j.p.zigrand@lse.ac.uk, LSE)
  
12:30-2 Lunch
  
 Chair: Frank H. Page, Jr. (Fhpagejr@cs.com, C&BA, Alabama)
  
2-2:45  Asset Pricing Implications of Social Networks
Han N. Ozsoylev (han.ozsoylev@said-business-school.oxford.ac.uk, Oxford)
  
2:45-3:30 Efficient Dynamic Allocation with Uncertain Valuations
Thomas Weber (webert@stanford.edu, Stanford University)
  
3:30-4  Coffee
  
 Chair: John Ledyard (jledyard@hss.caltech.edu, HSS, Caltech)
  
4-4:45  Auctions with a Buy Price
John Wooders (jwooders@eller.arizona.edu, University of Arizona)
  
4:45-5:30 Asymmetric Auctions with Resale
Isa Hafalir (isaemin@psu.edu, Pennsylvania State University)
  
6-8   Reception
  
 Friday, April 7
  
9-10:15 Coffee
  
 Chair: Hubert Kempf (Hubert.Kempf@univ-paris1.fr, EUREQua, Paris 1)
  
10:15-11 Consensus Building: How to Persuade a Group
Jean Tirole (tirole@cict.fr, Toulouse)
  
11-11:45 Long Persuasion Games
Francoise Forges (francoise.forges@dauphine.fr, Paris, Dauphine)
  
11:45-12:30 Sharing Information in Web Communities
Gabrielle Demange (demange@pse.ens.fr, EHESS, PSE)
  
12:30-2  Lunch
  
 Chair: Myrna H. Wooders (m.wooders@vanderbilt.edu, Economics, Vanderbilt)
  
2-2:45  Core and Periphery in Endogenous Networks
Daniel Hojman (Daniel_Hojman@harvard.edu, Harvard University)
  
2:45-3:30 Evolutionary Mechanisms in Infinite Horizon Pure Exchange Economies
Antonio Manresa (manresa@ub.edu, Universitat de Barcelona, CREB)
  
3:30-4  Coffee
  
 Chair: Lixin Ye (lixinye@econ.ohio-state.edu, Economics, Ohio State)
  
4-4:45  Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords
Michael Ostrovsky (Ostrovsky@gsb.stanford.edu, Stanford University)
  
4:45-5:30  The Effect of Affiliation on Equilibrium Strategies in k-Double Auctions
Thomas A. Gresik (tgresik@nd.edu, University of Notre Dame)
  
8  Reception and Conference Dinner
  
 Saturday, April 8
  
8:30-9  Coffee
  
 Chair: Jean-Marc Bonnisseau (jean-marc.bonnisseau@univ-paris1.fr, CERMSEM, Paris 1)
  
9-9:45  Veto Constraint in Mechanism Design: Inefficiency with Correlated Types
Philippe Jehiel (jehiel@pse.ens.fr, PSE and UCL)
  
9:45-10:30 Flexible Contracts
Jean-Marc Tallon (Jean-Marc.Tallon@univ-paris1.fr, EUREQua, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
  
10:30-11:15  Coffee
  
 Chair: Robert Becker (becker@indiana.edu, Economics, Indiana)
  
11:15-12 Decentralized Price Discovery
John Ledyard (jledyard@hss.caltech.edu, HSS, Caltech)
  
12:-12:45 Bargaining Collectively
Hulya Eraslan (eraslan@wharton.upenn.edu, University of Pennsylvania)