CIREQ Montreal Economic Theory Conference
Economics of Persuasion and Communication with Applications to Political Economics
October 4-5, 2013
Concordia University, 1455 Boul. de Maisonneuve West, Hall Building, 11th floor, H-1145
PROGRAM
Friday, October 4
14:15 – 14:30 Welcome Address : Lars Ehlers (Université de Montréal, CIREQ)
SESSION I – Chair : Lars Ehlers (Université de Montréal, CIREQ)
14:30 – 15:30
Matthew Jackson, Leeat YARIV (Caltech)
Collective Dynamic Choice : The Necessity of Time Inconsistency (pdf)
Discussant : Jian Li (McGill University, CIREQ)
15:30 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 16:45
Ming Li (Concordia University, CIREQ), Tymofiy MYLOVANOV (University of Pittsburgh), Andriy Zapechenlnyuk (University of Glasgow)
A Model of Formation of Mass Opinion
Discussant : Maxim Ivanov (McMaster University)
16:45 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 18:00
Matthew Gentzkow, Emir KAMENICA (University of Chicago)
Competition in Persuasion (pdf)
Discussant : Andriy Zapechenlnyuk (University of Glasgow)
Saturday, October 5
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and continental breakfast
SESSION II – Chair : Nicolas Klein (Université de Montréal, CIREQ)
9:00 – 10:00
Hao LI (University of British Columbia), Xianwen Shi
Discriminatory Information Disclosure (pdf)
Discussant : Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC Montréal)
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:15
Hector CHADE (Arizona State University), Eddie Schlee
Transaction Costs and Monopoly Insurance with Adverse Selection (pdf)
Discussant : Rohan Dutta (McGill University, CIREQ)
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30
Martin Cripps, Caroline THOMAS (University of Texas at Austin)
Queues and Strategic Experimentation
Discussant : Raphaël Godefroy (Université de Montréal, CIREQ)
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch (Le Pois Penché, 1230, boul. de Maisonneuve ouest)
SESSION III – Chair : Ming Li (Concordia University, CIREQ)
14:30 – 15:30
Sourav BHATTACHARYA (University of Pittsburgh), Maria Goltsman, Arijit Mukherjee
On the Optimality of Diverse Expert Panels in Persuasion Games
Discussant : Wei Li (University of British Columbia)
15:30 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 16:45
Sidartha GORDON (Sciences Po, Paris), Georg Nöldeke
Figures of Speech in Strategic Communication (pdf)
Discussant : Maria Goltsman (University of Western Ontario)
16:45 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 18:00 Keynote speaker
Nicolas Roux, Joel SOBEL (University of California at San Diego)
Group Polarization in a Model of Information Aggregation (pdf)
Discussant : Martin Osborne (University of Toronto)
