The 16th International Conference on Game Theory

Stony Brook, NY, July 11-15, 2005

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Monday, July 11

8:30 - 9:15

Breakfast

9:15 - 10:05

Philip J. Reny  (University of Chicago)
On the Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in Bayesian Games
Chair: Abraham Neyman

10:10 - 11:00

Matthew Jackson  (California Institute of Technology)
Social Games: Matching and the Play of Finitely Repeated Games
Chair: Abraham Neyman

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

 

Session A:
Contracts

Session B:
Auctions

Session C:
Incomplete Information

Session D:
Networks

Session E:
Repeated Games

11:30 - 11:55

Amrita Dhillon  (University of Warwick)
Games of Status and Discriminatory Contracts  

Luciano I. De Castro  (IMPA)
Pure Strategy Equilibria of Single and Double Auctions with Interdependent Values  

Elias Tsakas  (University of Göteborg)
Mixed Quantal Response Equilibria for Normal Form Games  

Virginie Masson  (University of Pittsburgh)
You and Your Neighbors: Stubborn or Altruistic?  

 

12:00 - 12:30

Harry French  
Property Defining and Property Defying Games (PD)  

Eiichiro Kazumori  (University of Tokyo)
Auctions with Package Bidding: An Experimental Study  

Nathanael Hyafil  (University of Toronto)
Regret Minimizing Equilibria of Games with Strict Type Uncertainty  

Sylvain Béal  (CREUSET, University of Saint-Etienne)
Bounded Rationality and Repeated Network Formation  

 

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch

 

Session A:
Cooperative Games

Session B:
Solution Concepts

Session C:
Voting

Session D:
Learning

 

2:00 - 2:25

Barry Feldman  (Prism Analytics and DePaul University)
Lost in Translation? Ex Ante Utility and Proportionality in Games  

Xiao Luo  (Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica)
Iterated Strict Dominance in General Games  

Jean-Francois Laslier  (Ecole Polytechnique)
Strategic approval voting in a large electorate  

Yuichi Noguchi  (Kanto Gakuin University)
Merging with a Set of Probability Measures  

 

2:30 - 2:55

Yuan Ju  (Keele University)
The Consensus Value for Games in Partition Function Form  

Marzena J. Rostek  (Yale University)
Fatalistic Choice Rules  

Eyal Beigman  (Hebrew University)
Characterizing Neutral Aggregation on Restricted Domains  

Jeff Shamma  (University of California, Los Angeles)
Calibrated forecasts: Efficiency versus Universality  

 

3:00 - 3:30

Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:20

Eric Maskin  (Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University)
Majority Rule and Strategic Voting
Chair: Amrita Dhillon

4:25 - 5:15

Shmuel Zamir  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
A Model of Bargaining with Incomplete Information
Chair: Amrita Dhillon

 

Tuesday, July 12

8:30 - 9:15

Breakfast

9:15 - 10:05

Stephen Morris  (Yale University)
Robust Mechanism Design
Chair: Jean-Francois Laslier

10:10 - 11:00

Oliver Hart  (Harvard University and LSE)
Contracts that Rule Out but do not Rule In
Chair: Jean-Francois Laslier

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

 

Session A:
Knowledge and Expectations

Session B:
Bargaining

Session C:
Incomplete Information

Session D:
Voting

Session E:
Finance and Market Games

11:30 - 11:55

Itai Arieli  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Towards a Characterization of Rational Expectations  

Francesca Flamini  (University of Glasgow)
Dynamic Accumulation in Bargaining Games  

Ming Li  (Concordia University)
Combining Expert Opinions  

Samer Salame  (City University of New York)
Some Results on Adjusted Winner  

Fan Wang  (Stony Brook University)
Adaptive Learning and Evolutionary Dynamics in Financial Market  

12:00 - 12:30

Dov Samet  (Tel Aviv University)
Deriving Knowledge from Belief  

Federico Valenciano  (Universida del Pais Vasco)
Noncooperative foundations of bargaining power in committees  

Jérôme Mathis  (Laboratoire THEMA-Univ. de Cergy-Pontoise)
Consulting an expert with potentially conflicting preferences  

Chun-Hsien Yeh  (Academia Sinica)
Reduction-consistency and the Condorcet principle in collective choice probelms  

Yutian Chen  (Stony Brook University)
Outsourcing Spurred by Strategic Competition  

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch

 

Session A:
Pie Cutting

Session B:
Voting

Session C:
Social and Political Models

Session D:
Complexity

Session E:
IO and Market Games

2:00 - 2:25

Michael A. Jones  (Montclair State University)
Proportional Pie Cutting  

Leonard Wantchekon  (New York University)
Does Ethnic Solidarity Facilitate Electoral Support for Nation-Building Policies?  

Claudia M. Landeo  (University of Alberta)
Deterrence, Lawsuits, and Litigation Outcomes under Court Errors  

Guillaume Lacôte  (Université Paris 6)
Boundedly complex Turing strategies play the repeated Prisoner's Dilemma: some results  

Sjaak Hurkens  (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Bayesian Nash Equilibrium in "Linear" Cournot Models with Private Information About Costs  

2:30 - 2:55

Steven Brams  (New York University)
Cutting a Pie Is Not a Piece of Cake  

Parikshit Ghosh  (University of British Columbia)
Efficient Equilibria and Information Aggregation in Common Interest Voting Games  

Tiberiu Dragu  (Stanford University)
Presidential Veto Power and its Consequences for Information  

Penelope Hernandez  (University of Alicante)
Secret correlation with pure automata  

Bertrand Gobillard  (University Paris 10 Nanterre)
Non-Walrasian Equilibria and the Law of One Price: The Wash-Sales Assumption  

3:00 - 3:25

Christian Klamler  (University of Graz)
Better ways to cut a cake  

Kfir Eliaz  (New York University)
A Decision Theoretic Basis for Choice Shifts in Groups  

 

Daijiro Okada  (Rutgers University)
Growth of Strategy Sets, Entropy and Nonstationary Bounded Recall  

 

3:30 - 4:00

Coffee Break

4:00 - 4:50

Abraham Neyman  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Optimal Use of Communication Resources
Chair: Sergiu Hart

4:55 - 5:15

Martin Shubik  (Yale University)
On Endogenizing Bureaucracy in a Strategic Market Game
Chair: Sergiu Hart

7:00 - 10:00

Reception Dinner at Three Village Inn

 

Wednesday, July 13

8:30 - 9:15

Breakfast

9:15 - 10:05

Andrew Postlewaite  (University of Pennsylvania)
Aggregation of Expert Opinions
Chair: Marilda Sotomayor

10:10 - 11:00

Tristan Tomala  (Université Paris Dauphine)
Measuring the value of monitoring in repeated decision problems and in repeated games
Chair: Marilda Sotomayor

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

 

Session A:
Solution Concepts

Session B:
Cognitive Models

Session C:
Networks

Session D:
Cooperative Games

Session E:
Repeated Games

11:30 - 11:55

Attila Ambrus  (Harvard University)
Theories of coalitional rationality  

Zhen Liu  (Stony Brook University)
Agreement of opinions and trade with unawareness  

Frank H. Page, Jr.  (University of Alabama)
Strategic Basins of Attraction, the Farsighted Core, and Network Formation Games  

Wei-Torng Juang  (Academia Sinica)
Learning through Aspiration to Play the Mixed Equilibrium in Zero-Sum Games  

Eduardo Faingold  (Univ of Pennsylvania)
Building a Reputation Under Frequent Decisions  

12:00 - 12:30

Stefano Demichelis  (University of Pavia)
On use and misuse of topology in game theory  

Giorgos Stamatopoulos  (University of Cyprus)
Cognitive hierarchy and two-stage location games  

Amparo Urbano  (University of Valencia)
Isolation and redundancy on information dissemination in dynamic networks  

Joachim Rosenmuller  (IMW, University of Bielefeld)
Convex Geometry and Superadditive Solutions  

Galit Ashkenazi-Golan  (Tel-Aviv University)
Confession and Pardon in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring and Communication  

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch

 

Session A:
Evolution and Learning

Session B:
Bounded Rationality

Session C:
Stochastic Games

Session D:
Mechanism Design

Session E:
Pricing

2:00 - 2:25

Peter Engseld  (Lund University)
Choosing Opponents in Games of Cooperation and Coordination  

Zafer Akin  (Pennsylvania State University)
Time Inconsistency And Learning In Bargaining Games  

Anthony C. Brooms  (Birkbeck College)
A stochastic game model for a FCFS queue with load-increasing service rate  

Juergen Bracht  (University of Aberdeen)
Relative performance of two simple incentive mechanisms in a public good experiment  

Karl H. Schlag  (European University Institute)
Robust Monopoly Pricing - The Case of Regret  

2:30 - 2:55

Sergiu Hart  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Uncoupled Dynamics and Nash Equilibrium  

Topi Miettinen  (University College London)
Agreeing on Play when Players are Prone to Guilt  

Krishna Ladha  (New York University)
The Paradox Of Unbiased Public Information  

David Wettstein  (Ben-Gurion University)
Efficient Bidding with Externalities  

Massimo A. De Francesco  (University of Siena)
Pricing and matching under duopoly with imperfect buyer mobility  

3:00 - 3:30

Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:20

Peyton Young  (Johns Hopkins University)
Learning and Equilibrium in Games
Chair: Philippe Jehiel

4:25 - 5:15

Robert John Aumann  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Consciousness
Chair: Philippe Jehiel

6:00 - 8:00

Soccer Game

 

Thursday, July 14

8:30 - 9:15

Breakfast

9:15 - 10:05

Philippe Jehiel  (University College London and PSE)
Towards a Theory of Deception
Chair: Tristan Tomala

10:10 - 11:00

Srihari Govindan  (University of Iowa)
Some Recent Results on Computing Equilibria
Chair: Tristan Tomala

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

 

Session A:
Auctions

Session B:
Coalition Formation

Session C:
Equilibrium Computation I

Session D:
Networks

Session E:
Social and Political Models

11:30 - 11:55

Alexander Matros  (University of Pittsburgh)
Contests with Thresholds  

Isa Emin Hafalir  (Pennsylvania State University)
Stability of Marriage with Externalities  

Andrew G. Gilpin  (Carnegie Mellon University)
Mixed-Integer Programming Methods for Finding Nash Equilibria  

Coralio Ballester  (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Optimal Targets in Peer Networks  

Jamele Rigolini  (University of Warwick)
On the Role of Formal and Informal Institutions in Development  

12:00 - 12:30

Andriy Zapechelnyuk  (Stony Brook University)
Internet Auctions: Sellers, Bidders, and Auction Houses  

Elena Iñarra  (Basque Country University)
Admissible Hierarchic Sets  

Vincent Conitzer  (Carnegie Mellon University)
A Generalized Strategy Eliminability Criterion and Computational Methods for Applying It  

Juan Miguel Benito  (Universidad Pública de Navarra)
Neighborhood Segregation: Schelling-CA Model  

Anna Rubinchik-Pessach  (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Does it Take a Tyrant to Implement a Good Reform?  

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch

 

Session A:
Cooperative Games

Session B:
Complexity

Session C:
Equilibrium Computation II

Session D:
Industrial Organization

Session E:
Implementation

2:00 - 2:25

Marilda Sotomayor  (Universidade de São Paulo)
An Elementary Non-Constructive Proof of the Non-Emptiness of the Core of the Housing Market of Shapley and Scarf  

 

Peter Bro Miltersen  (University of Aarhus)
Finding Sequential Equilibria Using Lemke's Algorithm  

Elif Incekara  (Pennsylvania State University)
Time Inconsistency of Consumers and Excessive Upgrades in the Software Market  

Kurt Annen  (University of Guelph)
Lies and Slander: The Implementation of Truth-telling in Repeated Matching Games with Private Monitoring  

2:30 - 2:55

Johannes Rene Van den Brink  (Free University Amsterdam)
Harsanyi power solutions for graph-restricted games  

 

Mark R. Johnson  (Tulane University)
A complexity partial order for strategy implementing automata  

Christopher Cotton  (Cornell University)
Seller preferences for risk seeking and limited information in an evolutionary price demand game  

Sergio Parreiras  (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Smooth Ex-Post Implementation with Multi-Dimensional Information  

3:00 - 3:30

Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:20

Myrna Wooders  (Vanderbilt University and University of Warwick)
Market games, inequality and the equal treatment property of the core of a game
Chair: Bernhard Von Stengel

4:25 - 5:15

Lloyd Shapley  (University of California, Los Angeles)
Stable Sets Revisited: Some Reduction Theorems
Chair: Bernhard Von Stengel

 

Friday, July 15

8:30 - 9:15

Breakfast

9:15 - 10:05

Drew Fudenberg  (Harvard University)
Superstition and Rational Learning
Chair: Srihari Govindan

10:10 - 11:00

Bernhard Von Stengel  (London School of Economics)
Geometry of Nash equilibria for two-player games
Chair: Srihari Govindan

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

 

Session A:
Mechanisms and the Chinese Postman

Session B:
Applications

Session C:
Equilibrium Computation III

Session D:
Information Transmission

Session E:
Cooperative Games

11:30 - 11:55

Michael Maschler  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Recent results concerning the core and the nucleolus on a class of the Chinese Postman game  

Timothy Mathews  (California State University - Northridge)
Participation Incentives in Rank Order Tournaments with Endogenous Entry  

Gabriel Darren Rosenberg  (London School of Economics)
Computation of Nash Equilibria for Bimatrix Games with Integer Pivoting  

Frederic Koessler  (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise)
Long Persuasion in Sender-Receiver Games  

Marco Scarsini  (Universita di Torino)
Large Newsvendor Games  

12:00 - 12:30

Thomas Gresik  (University of Notre Dame)
The Economics of Yardstick Regulations without External Benchmarks  

Andrey Garnaev  (Saint Petersburg State University)
The Kuhn-Tucker Theorem and Resource Allocation Games  

Rahul Savani  (London School of Economics)
Challenge Games for Computing a Nash Equilibrium  

Dragan Filipovich  (El Colegio de Mexico)
Cheap Talk on the Circle  

Debasis Mishra  (Universite Catholique de Louvain)
Cost Sharing in a Job Scheduling Problem  

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch

3:30 - 4:20

David G. Pearce  (New York University)
Reputational Wars of Attrition with Complex Bargaining Postures
Chair: Shmuel Zamir

4:25 - 5:15

John Nash  (Princeton University)
Results from Studies on the Reduction of Cooperative Games to Non-Cooperative Form (Using the Agencies Method) and Project Plans for Further Study
Chair: Shmuel Zamir

 

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