FINAL PROGRAM:
1999 NSF/NBER DECENTRALIZATION CONFERENCE

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Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Henry Kaufman Management Center, Room 2-70
New York University
44 West Fourth Street
New York, NY  10012
April 16-18, 1999

Co-Organizers and Contact for Information:

Professors Roy Radner and Theodore Groves
Email: rradner@stern.nyu.edu (Roy Radner)
tgroves@ucsd.edu (Ted Groves)
cjlarson@stern.nyu.edu (Carole Larson, Administrative Assistant)

PROGRAM

Friday, April 16

9:45 am

  • Opening Remarks

  • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Session I

  • "Complementarities and Collusion in Auctions with Multiple Objects"

  • Giuseppe Lopomo (New York University) and Sandro Brusco (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

  • "The Effectiveness of Simple Auctions"

  • Zvika Neeman (Boston University)

    12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

  • Lunch

  • 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Session II

  • "Managerial Allocation of Time and Effort"

  • Sridhar Seshadri (New York University) and Zur Shapira (New York University)

  • "Cooperation, Corporate Culture and Incentive Intensity"

  • Rafael Rob (University of Pennsylvania) and Peter Zemsky (INSEAD)

    3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

  •  Break

  • 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm Session III

  • "Not Invented Here"

  • Sandeep Baliga (Northwestern University) and Tomas Sjostrom (Pennsylvania State University)

  • "Career Paths in Organizations"

  • Katerina Sherstyuk (University of Melbourne) and Peter Bardsley (University of Melbourne)


    Saturday, April 17

    8:30 am - 10:30 am Session IV

  • "Computability, Definability, and Bounded Rationality"

  • Ket Richter (University of Minnesota) and Kam-Chau Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

  • "Subjective Representation of Complexity"

  • Nabil Al-Najjar (Northwestern University), Ramon Casadesus-Masanell (Northwestern University),
    and Emre Ozdenoren (Northwestern University)

    10:30 am - 10:45 am

  •  Break

  • 10:45 am - 11:45 am Session V

  • "Interim Design of Core Mechanisms"

  • Roger Guesnerie (Ecole Normale Superieure)

    11:45 pm - 1:00 pm

  •  Lunch

  • 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Session VI

  • "Dynamic Stability of Nash-Efficient Public Goods Mechanisms: Reconciling Theory and Experiments"

  • Yan Chen (University of Michigan)

  • "Coordinating Economic Activity: An Example"

  • Stanley Reiter (Northwestern University)

    3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

  • Break

  • 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm Session VII

  • "The Optimality of a Simple Market Mechanism"

  • Steven Williams (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Mark Satterthwaite (Northwestern University)

  • "Prices, Delays, and the Dynamics of Trade "

  • John Wooders (University of Arizona) and Diego Moreno (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

    7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

  • Cocktail Party: No Host Bar

  • 7:30 pm

  • Conference Banquet



  • Sunday, April 18

    8:30 am - 10:30 am Session VIII

  • "Reinforcement Behavior in Repeated Games"

  • Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University), Jonathan Bendor (Stanford University),
    and Debraj Ray (Boston University)

  • "Genetic Drift in Tacit Coordination Games"

  • Jasmina Arifovic (Simon Fraser University)

    10:30 am - 10:45 am

  •  Break

  • 10:45 am - 11:45 am Session IX

  • "An Experimental Study of Belief Learning Using Real Beliefs"

  • Yaw Nyarko (New York University) and Andrew Schotter (New York University)

     

     

    NOTE: Continental breakfast will be available Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings before the first session


    NOTE: Catered lunch will be served on Friday and Saturday

    NOTE: Breakfast and Lunch will be served outside of Conference room 2-70.
    Saturday Banquet will be held in the Surdna Lounge North in Tisch Hall 320n..

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