12th Southwest Economic Theory Conference (SWET)
at Lake Arrowhead
February 27 - 28, 2010


Conference Program

February 26th, Friday

5:45pm Reception (Room Tavern) and 6:30pm Dinner.
Room Tavern is open for social time after the dinner.


February 27th, Saturday

8:00am Breakfast

8:35am Ying Chen (ASU) "Career Concerns, Project Choice, and Signaling"

9:05am Simon Board (UCLA) and Andrej Skrzypacz (Stanford) "Optimal Dynamic Auctions for Durable Goods: Posted Prices and Fire Sales"

9:35am break

9:45am Dirk Bergemann (Yale) "Robust Predictions in Games with Incomplete Information" (Plenary Talk)

10:45am break

10:55am Hector Chade and Natalia Kovrijnykh (ASU) "Paying for not Buying: Incentive Contracts with Endogenous Information Acquisition"

11:25am Matthew Van Essen, Natalia Lazzati, and Mark Walker (U of Arizona) "Out-of-Equilibrium Performance of Three Lindahl Mechanisms: Experimental Evidence"

12:00pm Lunch

1:45pm Pietro Ortoleva (CalTech) "Modeling the Change of Paradigm: Non-Bayesian Reactions to Unexpected News"

2:15pm Igor Kopylov (UCI) "Perfectionism and Choice"

2:45pm break

2:55pm Ayka Kaya (U. of Iowa) and Galina Vereshchagina (ASU) "Moral Hazard and Sorting in a Market for Partnerships"

3:25pm Christopher Chambers, Federico Echenique (CalTech) and Eran Shmaya (Kellogg) "The Axiomatic Structure of Empirical Content"

3:55pm Nageeb Ali and David Miller (UCSD) "Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies"

4:25pm break

4:40pm Ruben Juarez (U. of Hawaii) and Rajnish Kumar (Rice) "Implementing Efficient Graphs in Connection Networks"

5:10pm Florian Blochl (HZM), Eric O'N. Fisher (CalPoly) and Fabian Theis (HZM) "Which Sectors of a Modern Economy are Most Central"

5:45pm Reception (Room Tavern) and 6:30pm Dinner.
Room Tavern is open for social time after the dinner.


February 28th, Sunday

8:00am Breakfast

8:35am Perry Shapiro (UCSB), Jonathan Pincus (U. of Adelaide) and Zachary Grossman (UCSB)
"A Mechanism for Assembling Properties with Diverse Ownership: Application to the Anti-Commons Problem"

9:05am Kristy Buzard and Joel Watson (UCSD), "Contract, Renegotiation, and Hold up: General Results on the Technology of Trade and Investment"

9:35am break

9:45am Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern) “Torture” (Plenary Talk)

10:45pm break

10:55am Sylvain Chassang (Princeton), Gerardo Padro i Miquel (LSE), Erik Snowberg (CalTech) "Selective Trials, Information Production, and Technology Diffusion"

11:25am David Besanko (Northwestern) and Jianjun Wu (U. of Arizona) "Government Subsidies for Research Programs Facing "If" and "When" Uncertainty"