Conference in Economic Theory in Honor of Jerry Green

The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development Tel Aviv University

CONFERENCE IN ECONOMIC THEORY IN HONOR OF JERRY GREEN

Hosted by The Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University

Supported by The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development, Tel Aviv University Harvard Business School The Rilin Enterprises Fund for Economic Theory at Harvard University Tel-Aviv University

Tel Aviv; 13-15 June 2012

Program

Wednesday 13 June

08.50 – 09.00 Opening Remarks

9:00-10:00 – Elections and Strategic Voting: Condorcet and Borda Eric Maskin (Harvard)

10:00-11:00 – Optimal Contracts and Money Burning Attila Ambrus (Harvard)

11:00-11:20 - Coffee Break

11:20-12:20 - Behavioral Competitive Equilibrium and Extreme Prices Tomasz Strzalecki (Harvard)

12:20-13:50 - Lunch

13:50-14:50 – TBA Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA)

14:50-15:50 - A Search Story of the Peacock's Tail Balazs Szentes (Chicago)

15:50-16:10 - Coffee Break

16:10-17:10 – Random Choice Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton )

17:20 - Bus departs from the university to the hotel

18:40 - Bus departs from the hotel to "Shalvata" for an informal buffet-style dinner the port overlooking the sea. Dinner at 19:00.

Thursday, June 14th

9:00-10:00 - Concurrent Discovery Joel Sobel (UCSD)

10:00-11:00 - Multidimensional Product Design Glen Weyl (Chicago)

11:00-11:20 - Coffee Break

11:20-12:20 – Two(!) Good To Be True Sergiu Hart (Hebrew University)

12:20-13:50 - Lunch

13:50-14:50 – Decision-Theoretic Underpinnings of Informativeness Orderings Roberto Serrano (Brown)

14:50-15:50 - Communication and Money in Repeated Games on Networks Alex Wolitzky (MIT)

15:50-16:10 - Coffee Break

16:10-17:10 - Impartial Decision Making Herve Moulin (Rice)

17:20 - Bus departs from the university to the hotel

19:10 - Bus departs from the hotel to "Liliot" for the main conference dinner. Dinner at 19:30.

Friday, June 15th

9:00-10:00 - Robustness Stephen Morris (Princeton)

10:00-11:00 – Strategic Tournaments Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University and New York University)

11:00-11:20 - Coffee Break

11:20-12:20 - TBA John Geanakoplos (Yale)

12:20-13:50 - Lunch

14:00 - Tour of Tel Aviv's White City (a World Cultural Heritage site) departs from the university (see local information for more information)

Saturday, June 16th

8:30 - Bus departs from the hotel for a tour of Jerusalem (see local information for more information).

Organizer

Eddie Dekel (Tel Aviv University)