Contract Theory

Organized by Steven Matthews

July 26 to July 28, 2001

Stony Brook, New York

OFFICIAL PROGRAM

  THURSDAY, JULY 26

Social and Behavioral Sciences, Room N603
9:00-10:30 P. Dubey: Competitive prizes: When less scrutiny induces more effort.
co-authors: O. Haimanko and C-W Wu
11:00-12:30 S. Matthews: A simple dynamic theory of capital structure:Renegotiating debt with observable effects.
co-authors: M. Dewatripont, P. Legros.
2:00-3:30 L. Felli: In complete contracts in a complex world.
co-authors: N. Al-Najjar, L. Anderlini.
3:45-5:15

6:00-9:30

A. Postlewaite: Courts of law and unforseen contingencies. co-authors: L. Felli and L. Anderlini
Reception Dinner
  FRIDAY, JULY 27

Social and Behavioral Sciences, Room N603
9:00-10:30 J. Ely: Ex-post incentive compatible mechanism design.
11:00-12:30 D. Bergemann: Information structures in optimal auctions.
co-author: M. Pesendorfer
2:00-3:30 I. Segal: Coordination and discrimination in contracting with externalities: Divide and conquer?
3:45-5:00 L. Marx: Upfront payments and exclusion in vertical contracting.
co-author: G. Schaffer

  SATURDAY, JULY 28

Social and Behavioral Sciences, Room N603
9:00-10:30 C. Snyder: A symptotic solution to the hold up problem.
co-author: R. Pitchford
11:00-12:30 S. Reiche: Sequential screening, renegotiation and incompleteness of contracts.
2:00-3:30 J. Levin: Career concerns and collective reputation.
 
 
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