International Conference on Game Theory
Stony Brook, NY, July 20 - 24, 2015
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Monday, July 20
9:00 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:15
10:15 - 10:45
Hau Chan (Stony Brook University) Learning Game Parameters from MSNE: An Application to Learning IDS Games
Ziv Hellman (Bar Ilan University) Sex and Portfolio Investment
Liad Blumrosen (Hebrew U) Networks of Complements
Barna Bako (MTA TKI) Strategic segmentation: creating monopolies can increase welfare
Siddharth Pal (University of Maryland) A simple learning rule with monitoring leading to Nash Equilibrium under delays
Chiara Margaria (Yale University) Dynamic Coordination and Learning
10:45 - 11:15
Shikha Singh (Stony Brook University) Rational Proofs with Multiple Provers
Jean Paul Rabanal (Bates College) A simulation on the evolution of markets: Call Market, Decentralized and Posted Offer
Gaëtan FOURNIER (Paris 1) Hotelling Games on Networks: Efficiency of Equilibria
Gaurab Aryal (University of Chicago) Empirical Contest Models
Zhijian Wang (Zhejiang University) The social cycling in Fixed-Paired Matching Pennies Game
Marco Scarsini (LUISS) Atomic Dynamic Network Games
11:15 - 11:45
Richard E Stearns (University at Albany) Realization Plans for Extensive Form Games without Perfect Recall
Yong Chao (University of Louisville) Nonlinear Pricing with Asymmetric Competition In the Absence of Private Information
11:45 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:15
14:15 - 14:45
14:45 - 15:15
Abhinav Anand (University College Dublin) Foster-Hart Risk and the Too-big-to-Fail Banks
Yangguang Huang (University of Washington) Hybrid Mechanism: Structural Model and Empirical Analysis
Esat Doruk Cetemen (University of Rochester) Dynamic Revenue Maximization on a Network
Jooyong Jun (Bank of Korea) Entry of non-financial firm and competition in the retail payments market
Alex Smolin (Yale University) Optimal Feedback and Wage Policies
Jacopo Perego (New York University) Media Competition and the Source of Disagreement
15:15 - 15:45
Matthias Leiss (ETHZ - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) The Option-Implied Foster-Hart Riskiness
Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen (London School of Economics) Spying in Contests
Philip N. Brown (The University of Colorado at Boulder) Optimal Mechanisms for Robust Coordination in Congestion Games
Filomena Garcia (Indiana University and ISEG/UECE) Strategic Complementarities and substitutabilities in R&D networks
Alice Peng-Ju Su (National Taipei University) Information Revelation in the Property Right Theory of the Firms
Artyom Jelnov (Ariel University, Israel) Attacking the Unknown Weapons of a Possible Provocateur: How Intelligence Aects the Strategic Interaction
Ernest Lai (Lehigh University) Meaning and Credibility in Experimental Cheap-Talk Games
15:45 - 16:15
Zhe Wang (Stanford University) Initiation of Merger and Acquisition Negotiation with Two-Sided Private Information
Joyce Delnoij (Utrecht University) Competing first price and second price auctions
Venky Venkateswaran (NYU Stern School of Business) Screening and Adverse Selection in Frictional Markets
Jiabin Wu (University of Oregon) The Political Roots of Inequality and Inefficiency: An Evolutionary Model Under Political Institutions
Heinrich Harald Nax (ETH Zurich) Meritocracy Can Dissolve the Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff: the Case of Voluntary Contributions Games
16:15 - 16:45
16:45 - 17:30
Tuesday, July 21
Jin Yeub Kim (The University of Nebraska-Lincoln) The Economics of the Right To Be Forgotten
Stefan Terstiege (University of Bonn) Gathering information before signing a contract: the case of imperfect information
Dominik Karos (University of Oxford) Innovation Diffusion in Social Networks
Chang Zhao (Stony Brook University) Bargaining Over Property Right Sale with Credible Threat
Sneha Gaddam (University of Leicester) Delegation of Authority in Non-contractible Cost Setting
TAO Wang (SUNY Stony Brook) Information Acquisition, Signaling and Learning in Duopoly
Luis Ortiz (Stony Brook University) Graphical Potential Games
Moshe Hoffman (Harvard) Cooperate without looking: Why we care what people think and not just what they do
Thomas Edward Wiseman (University of Texas at Austin) Too Good to Fire: Non-Assortative Matching to Play a Dynamic Game
Christian Kellner (Uni Bonn) Endogenous ambiguity in cheap talk
Tobias Gesche (University of Zurich) De-biasing strategic communication?
Zibo Xu (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Best-response Dynamics in Zero-sum Stochastic Games
Eric Bahel (Virginia Tech) Stable cost sharing in production allocation games
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Yuke Li (Yale University) A Network Approach to International Relations
Younghwan In (KAIST) A new interpretation of the Nash bargaining solution: fictitious play
Russell Golman (Carnegie Mellon University) Good Manners: Signaling Social Preferences
Dai Zusai (Temple University) Best response dynamic in a multitask environment
Sneha Bakshi (University of Texas at Dallas) Cost Enabled Choice of Pricing Rule when Buyers' Information is Private
Dov Samet (Tel Aviv University) The sure thing principle
Eiichiro Kazumori (SUNY at Buffalo) Building the Auction Markets for the World's Premier Risk-Free Securities: A Structural Analysis of the Primary Dealer System in the United States Treasury Auctions.
Alia Gizatulina (University of St. Gallen) Betting on Others' Bets: Unions of Surplus Extraction Mechanisms
Johannes Meya (Goettingen University) Dynamics of Yardstick Regulation: Historical Cost Data and the Ratchet Effect
Yizhou Xiao (Stanford University) Information and Dynamic Trade
Yaron Azrieli (Ohio State University) On the self-(in)stability of weighted majority rules
Francesc Llerena (Rovira i Virgily University (Spain)) On the (in)compatibility of rationality, monotonicity and consistency for cooperative games
Mantas Radzvilas (London School of Economics and Political Science) Team Reasoning and a Rank-Based Function of Team's Interests
Adi Vardi (Tel Aviv University) Truthful Secretaries with Budgets
Yu Chen (Nanjing University) On Decentralizability of Multi-Agency Contracting with Bayesian Implementation
Ting Liu (Stony Brook University) Using clients' rejection to build trust
Till Florian Kauffeldt (University of Heidelberg (Germany)) Games with exogenous uncertainty played by ”Knightian” players
Christian Basteck (Technical University of Berlin) The Borda Count and dominance solvable voting games
Tamas Solymosi (Corvinus University of Budapest) Lexicographic allocations and extreme core payoffs in assignment games
Jun Xiao (University of Melbourne) Awarding Scarce Ideas in Innovation Contests
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Bruno Salcedo (Pennsylvania State University) Identification of solution concepts for semi-parametric discrete games with complete information
Peter Coughlin (University of Maryland) Probabilistic Voting in Models of Electoral Competition
Yuan Tian (University of Chicago) Strategy-proof and Efficient Fair Scheduling
Wednesday, July 22
Maxim Nikitin (Higher School of Economics) Financially Constrained Lawyers
Anna Rubinchik (University of Haifa) Impulsive decisions: nature or nurture? A stochastic approximation approach
Alexander Matros (University of South Carolina) Contests on Networks
Nicholas Arnosti (Stanford University) Short Lists In Centralized Clearinghouses
Jonas Hedlund (University of Heidelberg) Bayesian signaling
PULKIT KUMAR NIGAM (University of South Carolina) Optimal Lottery for Fundraising: The Organizer’s Problem
Igor Letina (University of Zurich) Designing Institutions for Diversity
Mark Schneider (University of Connecticut) Frame Dependent Utility Theory
Norma Olaizola (University of the Basque Country) A unifying model of strategic network formation
Ata Atay (University of Barcelona) Generalized three-sided assignment markets: core and competitive prices
Daeyoung Jeong (The Ohio State University) Cheap Talk and Collective Decision-Making: Voting Rules and Informed Decision Makers
Tomer Siedner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Risk of Monetary Gambles: An Axiomatic Approach
Ryan Scott Penning (Energid Technologies) Game Theory-Inspired Evaluation of Ground Vehicle Autonomy
Daniel Wood (Clemson University) Vague Messages in Biased Information Transmission: Experiments and Theory
Sophie Bade (Royal Holloway, U of London) Random Serial Dictatorship: The One and Only.
Jeffrey Mensch (Northwestern University) Monotone Persuasion
Jose Francisco Tudon Maldonado (University of Chicago) Price dispersion with ex ante homogeneity: A reassessment of the Diamond paradox
Hau Chan (Stony Brook University) Resource Allocation with Budgets: Optimal Stable Allocations and Optimal Lotteries
Tomasz Michalak (University of Oxford) Spiteful Bidding in the Dollar Auction
Alia Gizatulina (University of St. Gallen) The Genericity of the McAfee-Reny Condition for Full Surplus Extraction in Models with a Continuum of Types
Can Baskent (University of Bath, England) Non-Classical Approaches to the Brandenburger-Keisler Paradox
Yonggyun Kim (Korea Military Academy) Stochastic Dominance of Signals and Reparametrization in Adverse Selection Model
Frank Huettner (HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management) Potential, voting, and power
Amy Greenwald (Brown University) Solving for Best-Responses and Equilibria in Extensive-Form Games with Reinforcement Learning Methods
Mariann Ollar (Univeristy of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics) Privacy Preserving Market Design
Nima Haghpanah (MIT) Reverse Mechanism Design
Pedro Jara-Moroni (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) Rationalizability and Mixed Strategies in Large Games
Wolfgang Kuhle Observing Each Other's Observations in the Electronic Mail Game
Ritesh Jain (The Ohio State University) On the (ir)relevance of anonymity constraints in mechanism design
Mohammad T. Irfan (Bowdoin College) Causal Inference in Game-Theoretic Settings with Applications to Microfinance Markets
Sergio Parreiras (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Drop-out in Small and Large Contests
Holger Herbst (University of Bonn) Pricing Heterogeneous Goods under Ex Post Private Information
Evan Piermont (University of Pittsburgh) Rationalization and Robustness in Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information
Yiming Liu (University of Pittsburgh) Is Reputation Bad?—Loyalty and Competence Trade-off
16:15 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:15
17:15 - 17:30
17:30 - 18:00
18:30 - 22:00
Thursday, July 23
Jorg Spenkuch (Northwestern University) Backward Induction in the Wild: Evidence from the U.S. Senate
Nora Szech (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Revenues and Welfare in Auctions with Information Release
Alexandros Rigos (University of Leicester) A Beauty Contest with Flexible Information Acquisition
Garth Baughman (Federal Reserve Board) Deadlines and Matching
Najmeh Rezaei Khavas (visiting graduate researcher at UCLA) The optimal group size in microcredit contracts
Kathleen Ngangoue (DIW Berlin) Learning from unrealized versus realized prices
Tsz Ning Wong (Pennsylvania State University) Free Riding and Duplication in R&D
Andrey Malenko (MIT Sloan School of Management) Auction Design with Advised Bidders
Federico Valenciano (University of the Basque Country) The impact of negotiable cost-paying on basic models of network formation
Patrick Harless (University of Rochester) The Importance of Learning in Market Design
Elliot Lipnowski (NYU Stern) Repeated Delegation
Tahereh Rezaei Khavas (Utrecht university) Cultural Differences in Prisoner's Dilemma Game Experiments: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis
Cagil Tasdemir (The Graduate Center of CUNY) The Strategy of Campaigning
Biligbaatar Tumendemberel (Hebrew University) Generalized Third-price Auctions
Aaron Bodoh-Creed (U. of California, Berkeley) Affirmative Action as a Large Contest
Hao Hong (The Pennsylvania State University) Authoritarian Election as an Incentive Scheme
Irina Kirysheva (Nazarbayev University) Optimal Prize Allocation in Contests with Sabotage
Ling Yang (University of Pittsburgh) When Monitoring Hurts: Endogenous Information Acquisition in a Game of Persuasion
Jean-Francois Mercier (McGill University) Rent-Seeking Group Contests with Private Information
Jörg Franke (TU Dortmund) Revenue Maximizing Head Starts in Contests
José Manuel Zarzuelo (The Basque Country University) An axiomatic characterization of the Owen-Shapley spatial power index
Justin Merrill Peterson (University of South Carolina) Blind Stealing Games
Roee Teper (University of Pittsburgh) Learning the Krepsian State: Exploration through Consumption
Lars Peter Metzger (Dortmund University) Alliance formation in contests with incomplete information
Guy Arie (University of Rochester) Intermediary Bargaining for Price-Insensitive Consumers
Xin Zhao (University of Toronto) Information Acquisition in Heterogeneous Committees
Benjamin Schickner (University of Bonn) Dynamic Formation of Teams: When Does Waiting for Good Matches Pay Off?
Chih-Chun Yang (Academia Sinica) Strong belief and weak assumption
Miklos Pinter (Corvinus University of Budapest) A new epistemic model
Friday, July 24
Steven Brams (New York University) How to Divide Things Fairly
Nicholas Arnosti (Stanford University) Auctions, Adverse Selection, and Internet Display Advertising
Josune Albizuri (Basque Country University) A common axiom for classical division rules for claims problems
Jack Anthony Fanning (Brown University) Polarization and delay: uncertainty in reputational bargaining
Britta Hoyer (University of Paderborn) Matching Strategies of Heterogeneous Agents in a University Clearinghouse
Pere Timoner (Universitat de Barcelona) Rationing problems with ex-ante conditions
Wiroy Shin (The Pennsylvania State University) Discrimination in Organizations
Brian Baisa (Amherst College ) A Detail-Free and Efficient Auction for Budget Constrained Bidders
Gabriela Delgadillo (National Polytechnic Institute (I.P.N.)) Computing the Strong Nash Equilibrium For Conforming Coalitions
Ilwoo Hwang (University of Miami) A Theory of Bargaining Deadlock
Francisco Robles (Universitat de Barcelona) One-seller assignment market with multi-unit demands
Jorge Alcalde-Unzu (Public University of Navarre, Spain.) Strategy-proof location of public facilities
XiaoGang Che (Durham University Business School, UK) Auctions versus Sequential Mechanism When Resale is Allowed
Josep M. Izquierdo (Universitat de Barcelona) The core and the bargaining set for convex games
Dongkyu Chang (Yale University) The Role of Commitment and Outside Options in Bargaining
Yannai Aharon Gonczarowski (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Microsoft Research) Cascading to Equilibrium: Hydraulic Computation of Equilibria in Resource Selection Games
Albert Xin Jiang (Trinity University) Resource Graph Games: A Compact Representation for Games with Structured Strategy Spaces (Extended Abstract)
Holly Borowski (University of Colorado) Understanding the Influence of Adversaries in Distributed Systems
Thomas Joseph Rivera (HEC Paris) Regulation and the Structure of Information: The Effects of Peer Monitoring on Capital Adequacy Regulation
Ayca Kaya (University of Miami) Trading dynamics in the market for lemons
Yehuda Levy (University of Oxford) Projections and Functions of Nash Equilibria
Ran Shorrer (Harvard University) A Model of Mechanism Design in the Presence of a Pre-Existing Game
Svetlana Boyarchenko (University of Texas, Austin) Strategic exit with random observations
Jiemai Wu (Washington University in St. Louis) Learning in Persuasion with Multiple Advisors
Yi Chen (Yale University) Strategic Experimentation On A Common Threshold
Anna Zseleva (Maastricht University) Zero-sum games with charges
Cedric Wasser (University of Bonn) Dissolving Partnerships Optimally
Liwen Chen (University of South Carolina) Equilibrium Selection of Public Good Provision Mechanisms
Peter Orman (UNC Chapel Hill) On Bayesian Persuasion with Multiple Senders
Daria Khromenkova (University of Mannheim) Collective Experimentation with Breakdowns and Breakthroughs