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W. ALLEN WALLIS INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

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2002 Wallis Institute Summer Workshop

University of Rochester, 29^th and 30^th of May

Wednesday, May 29^th

9:00 a.m.             Breakfast

9:30 a.m.             “Self-Control in Peer Groups”

Marco Battaglini, Princeton University (joint work with Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole)

10:45 p.m.            Coffee break

11:15 a.m.             “Efficient Mechanisms for Public Goods with Use Exclusions”

Peter Norman, University of Wisconsin

12:30 p.m.             Lunch break

2:00 p.m.             “Unraveling of Dynamic Sorting”

Li Hao, University of Toronto (joint work with Ettore Damiano and Wing Suen)

3:15 p.m.             Coffee break

3:45 p.m.             “Inefficiency and Contracts in Multilateral Bargaining”

HongBin Cai, UCLA

Thursday, May 30^th

9:00 a.m.             Breakfast

9:30 a.m.             “Modeling the Interaction between Media and Politics”.
Links to Paper 1 and Paper 2

Andrea Prat, London School of Economics

10:45 p.m.            Coffee break

11:15 p.m.             “A Theory of Partnerships”

Jonathan Levin, Stanford University (joint work with Steve Tadelis)

12:30 p.m.             Lunch break

2:00 p.m.             “Rank-Order Contests” --- Link to related paper

Marco Ottaviani, London Business School (joint work with Peter Sorensen)

3:15 p.m.             Coffee break

3:45 p.m.             “Electoral Competition with Privately Informed Candidates”

Francesco Squintani, Rochester University (joint with Dan Bernhardt and John Duggan)