Wallis Institute Annual Conference

17^th Annual Conference

October 22^th and 23^th, 2010

held at the Schlegel Hall, Wm. E. Simon Graduate School of Business, UR

Detail Schedule

Program:

• Faruk Gul (with Wolfgang Pesendorfer), “Media and Policy”
  Discussant: Tasos Kalandrakis
• Michael Peress (with Mitch Lovett), “Targeting Political Advertising on Television”
  Discussant: Erik Snowberg
• Santiago Oliveros, “Abstention, Ideology, and Information Acquisition”
  Discussant: Sourav Bhattacharya
• Marianne Bertrand (with Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi), “Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process”
  Discussant: Alex Hirsch
• Francesco Squintani (with Johannes Horner and Massimo Morelli), “Mediation and Peace”
  Discussant: Robert Powell
• Attila Ambrus (with Shih En Lu), “A Continuous Time Model of Multilateral Bargaining”
  Discussant: Clara Ponsati
• Neil Malhotra (with Andrew Healy and Cecilia Mo), “Do Irrelevant Events Affect Voters’ Decisions? Evidence from the Field”, Appendix 
  Discussant: Brian Knight