[June 23-25, 2011] Conference in honor of Claude d'Aspremont and Jean-François Mertens

CHOICES, GAMES AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS
A tribute in honor of Claude D'ASPREMONT and Jean-François MERTENS

An ARC - ECORE - IMMAQ - PAI Event

Claude d’Aspremont and Jean-François Mertens will retire after this academic year. To celebrate two of its most prominent members, CORE organizes a three-day conference from Thursday June 23 to Saturday June 25, 2011.

Programme

Thursday, June 23: Industrial Organization (and related topics)

9:30 - 10:10	Jacques THISSE and Mathieu PARENTI Do firms exploit their market power in the presence of a monopolistically competitive fringe? (with S. Kokovin and E. Zhelobodko)

10:10 - 10:50	Jean-Pierre PONSSARD Short term entry barriers may be good for long term competition

10:50 - 11:30	Michel LE BRETON and Shlomo WEBER Gale Nikaido and Milgrom-Shannon: Existence of Nash location equilibria (with D. Musatov and A. Savvateev)

11:30 - 11:55	Coffee break

11:55 - 12:35	Jacques CREMER The value of incumbency in heterogeneous networks (with G. Biglaiser)

12:35 - 13:15	Hervé MOULIN The price of imperfect competition on a network (with R. Velez)

13:15 - 14:15	Lunch break

14:15 - 14:55	Rabah AMIR and David ENCAOUA Per-unit royalty vs fixed fee: the case of weak patents (with Y. Lefouilli)

14:55 - 15:35	Massimo MOTTA A theory of predation

15:35 - 16:00	Coffee break

16:00 - 16:40	Bernard CORNET Bid/Ask spread markets representable by the core of a capacity (with A. Chateauneuf)

16:40 - 17:20	Bernard de MEYER Price dynamics on a stock market with asymmetric information

17:20 - 18:00	Peter HAMMOND Remodelling financial markets: constrained efficiency with adverse selection

19:30	Conference dinner

Friday, June 24: Welfare Theory and Political Economy (and related topics)

9:30 - 10:10	Jean TIROLE Laws and norms (with R. Benabou)

10:10 - 10:50	John WEYMARK (with W. Bossert and X. Qi)

10:50 - 11:30	Philippe MONGIN (with M. Fleurbaey)

11:30 - 11:55	Coffee break

11:55 - 12:35	Francesco DE SINOPOLI Electing a parliament

12:35 - 13:15	Bezalel PELEG Condorcet's jury theorem: the dependent case

13:15 - 14:15	Lunch break

14:15 - 14:55	Herakles POLEMARCHAKIS

14:55 - 15:35	Anna RUBINCHIK Regularity and stability of equilibria in an overlapping generations growth model (with J.-F. Mertens)

15:35 - 16:00	Coffee break

16:00 - 16:40	Yair TAUMANN Proper welfare weights for social optimization problems

16:40 - 17:20	Claude d'ASPREMONT and Rodolphe DOS SANTOS FERREIRA Household behavior and individual autonomy: a Lindahl approach

18:00	Conference Cocktail

Saturday, June 25: Game Theory (and related topics)

9:30 - 10:10	Geoffroy DE CLIPPEL (with K. Eliaz)

10:10 - 10:50	Françoise FORGES Implementation of communication equilibria by correlated cheap talk: the two player case (with P. Vida)

10:50 - 11:30	Ehud KALAI Stability in Bayesian games with many heterogeneous players (with J. Deb)

11:30 - 11:55	Coffee break

11:55 - 12:35	Sylvain SORIN Continuous time approach to asymptotic value of repeated games

12:35 - 13:15	Hari GOVINDAN Towards an axiomatic theory of equilibrium selection

13:15 - 14:15	Lunch break

14:15 - 14:55	Salvador BARBERA Rules of k names

14:55 - 15:35	Pradeep DUBEY The allocation of a prize

15:35 - 16:00	Coffee break

16:00 - 16:40	Abraham NEYMAN Stochastic games

16:40 - 17:20	John Hillas and Elon KOHLBERG Correlated equilibrium of Nash equilibrium as an Observer's assessment of the game (with John Pratt)

17:20 - 18:00	Jean-François MERTENS Welfare analysis in overlapping generations models

18:30	Farewell drink at Hôtel Mercure

Scientific committee
François Maniquet (CORE-UCL)
Erik Schokkaert (CES-KUL and CORE-UCL)

Sponsors
Communauté Française de Belgique
Politique Scientifique Fédérale
Université catholique de Louvain, IMMAQ

Registration
Participation is free but registration mandatory with before May 27, 2011

Accommodation (by yourself and at your own cost)

Hotel Mercure
Boulevard de Lauzelle 61
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Tel: (+32)10/450751
@: h2200@accor.com
Hotel Leonardo (more difficult public transportation to LLN)
Rue de la Wastinne 45
B-1301 Wavre
Tel: (+32)10/411363
@: info.wavre@leonardo-hotels.com
At Home Hotel (more difficult public transportation to LLN)
Place Bosch 33
B-1300 Wavre
Tel: (+32)10/228383
@: contact@at-homehotel.be
Hotels in Brussels (30km/45' by train)

Location of Meeting
Aula Magna
Terrasse de l'Aula 4
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

How to arrive:
- if you are coming by car, free parking is available (follow the road signs from Exit 8a on E411)
- if you are coming by train or flight, check website (road signs from train station)

Contact & information
Fabienne Henry
CORE
34 voie du Roman Pays
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Email :
Phone : (+32)10/474340
Fax: (+32)10/434301

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