Mini Conferences

2002 Wallis Institute Summer Workshop

May 29 and 30, 2002

Wednesday, May 29th

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 30th

9:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:30 a.m. “Modeling the Interaction between Media and Politics”.

Links toPaper 1andPaper 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”

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)