Mini Conferences
"Game Theory and Social Choice mini conference" Organized by Prof. William Thomson
April 16-17 , 2004
To be held at Harkness 208.
Click on titles for (available) papers in pdf format.
Friday, April 16, 2004
Session Chair : Tasos Kalandrakis
9:00 am
James E. Foster, Vanderbilt University :
"Is Economic Growth Good for the Poor ? Tracking Low Incomes Using General Means" (with Miguel Szekely)
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Michel Truchon, CIRANO, CIRPEE and Departement Universite Laval :
"Aggregation of Rankings in Figure Skating"
11:15 am
William S. Zwicker, Union College (Schenectady, NY):
"The Role of the Mean and the Median in Social Choice Theory"
12:15 pm
Lunch
Session Chair : Mark Fey
1:15 pm
Christopher P. Chambers, California Institute of Technology:
"Additive Rules for the Quasi-Linear Bargaining Problem" (with Jerry Green)
2:15 pm
Jay Sethuraman, Columbia University :
"A Solution to the Random Assignment Problem over the Complete Domain" (with Akshay-Kumar Katta)
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Roberto Serrano, Brown University :
"Mistakes in Cooperation: the Stochastic Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting" (with Oscar Volij)
5:00 pm
Transport to hotel
Saturday, April 17, 2004
Session Chair : Pablo Revilla
9:00 am
John A. Weymark, Vanderbilt University :
"Strategy-Proofness and the Tops-Only Property"
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Biung-Ghi Ju: University of Kansas
"Coalitional Manipulation on Communication Network"
11:15 am
Lin Zhou, Arizona State University :
"Rationalization of Collective Choice Functions by Games with Perfect Information" (with Yongsheng Xu)
12:15 pm
Lunch
Session Chair : Sholmo Weber
1:15 pm
Lars Ehlers, Université de Montréal :
"Efficient Priority Rules" (with Bettina Klaus)
2:15 pm
Onur Kesten, University of Rochester :
"Student placement to public schools in US: Two new solutions "
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Youngsub Chun, Seoul National University:
"No-envy in Queueing Problems "
5:00 pm
Transport to hotel