CRETA - Marie Curie Conference in Honour of Peter Hammond
Department of Economics, University of Warwick
March 22 - 26, 2010

VENUE: Lecture Room 9, Radcliffe

Program

 

Monday, March 22

14:00 - 15:00: Y. Sun (National University, Singapore), "On the characterization of individual risks and Fubini extension".
15:00 - 16:00: M. Wooders (Vanderbilt), "Market games with many players and the f-core".

Tea Break

16:30 - 17:30: P. Kumar (Houston), "Noisy revelation and investment bubbles".
17:30 - 18:30: A. Carvajal (Warwick), "Idiosyncratic risk and economic policy".

Tuesday, March 23

9:00 - 10:00: R. Guesnerie (College de France and PSE), Keynote Lecture: "Financial markets failures".

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:30: F. Kubler (Zurich), "A general equilibrium model of life-cycle portfolios".
11:30 - 12:30: T. Ui (Yokohama), "Ambiguity and risk in global games".

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00: M. Le Breton (Toulouse), "Sequential legislative lobbying".
15:00 - 16:00: F. Maniquet (CORE and Warwick), "A study of strategic voting under proportional representation: why vote for centre parties?".

Tea Break

16:30 - 17:30: M. Fleurbaey (Paris Descartes), "On the utilitarian theorem".
17:30 - 18:30: A. Gerber (Hamburg), "Preference Reversals in Intertemporal Choice".

Wednesday, March 24

9:00 - 10:00: C. D'Aspremont (CORE), Keynote Lecture: "The Lindahl approach to household behaviour".

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30: P. Hammond (Warwick), F. Peter (Warwick) and M. Salles (Caen), Roundtable Discussion: "Ethics and economic policy with limited rationality".

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00: J. Moore (Edinburgh and LSE), Keynote Lecture: "Contagious illiquidity".
15:00 - 16:00: H. Polemarchakis (Warwick), Keynote Lecture: "Perils of quantitative easing".

Tea Break

16:30 - 17:30: S. Barbera (Autonoma Barcelona), Keynote Lecture: "Domains and ranges in social choice theory and mechanism design".
17:30 - 18:30: P. Pattanaik (Riverside), Keynote Lecture: "Choice, internal consistency, and rationality".

19:30 - 21:00: Dinner.

 
Thursday, March 25

9:00 - 10:00: K. Binmore (UCL), Keynote Lecture: "Rational decisions on large worlds".

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:30: G. Facchini (Erasmus - Rotterdam), "Electoral concerns, pressure groups and illegal immigration".
11:30 - 12:30: J. Sempere (El Colegio de Mexico), "Migration with efficient public goods".

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00: G. Myles (Exeter), "Growth and infrastructural externalities".
15:00 - 16:00: G. Willmann (Leuven), "Escaping a protectionist rut: Policy mechanisms for trade reform in a democracy".

Tea Break

16:30 - 17:30: K. Patel (Cambridge), "The supply-side credit system explosion".

Friday, March 26

9:00 - 10:00: K. Nyborg (Oslo): "I dont want to hear about it: Rational ignorance among duty-oriented consumers".

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:30: C. Seidl (Kiel), "Tax progression: International and intertemporal comparisons using LIS data".
11:30 - 12:30: S. Traub (Bremen), "Resistance to reform: An experimental test of status quo bias".