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W. ALLEN WALLIS INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

"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 16th

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 17th

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


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