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 The Webmaster W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy 107 Harkness Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627-0158 Copyright © 1998 University of Rochester Wallis Institute. All Rights Reserved. |