2017 Program

May 5, 2017

Centennial Room, Kansas Memorial Union

Conference Program

Time/Session

8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

8:55 a.m.

Opening Remarks: Ted Juhl

Session Chair: Jianbo Zhang

9:00 a.m.

The Existence of Universal Knowledge Spaces

Presenter: Satoshi Fukuda, University of California at Berkeley

9:35 a.m.Centralized Assignment of Students to Majors: Evidence from the University of Costa Rica

Presenter: Allan Hernández, Arizona State University

10:10 a.m.

Refreshment Break

Session Chair: Ichiro Obara

10:30 a.m.

Pseudo-Bayesian Updating

Presenter: Chen Zhao, Princeton University

11:05 a.m.

Controlling Cultivation of Taste

Presenter: Ichiro Obara, University of California at Los Angeles

Lunch Break 

11:45 a.m.Tour of Spencer Museum of Art

12:30 p.m.Lunch, Malott Room, Kansas Memorial Union

Session Chair: Nicholas Yannelis

1:45 p.m.

Strategic complements in hedging securities with frictions

Presenter: Bernard Cornet, University of Kansas

2:20 p.m.

On Growing through Cycles: the M-map and Topological Chaos

Presenter: M. Ali Khan, Johns Hopkins University

2:55 p.m.

Refreshment break

Session Chair: Anne Villamil

3:15 p.m.

On the microeconomic foundations of linear demand for differentiated products

Presenter: Rabah Amir, University of Iowa

3:50 p.m.

Funding Employer-based Insurance: Regressive Taxation and Premium Exclusions

Presenter: Anne Villamil, University of Iowa

4:25 p.m.

Refreshment break

Session Chair: Tarun Sabarwal

4:45 p.m.

Supermodular correspondences

Presenter: Pawel Dziewulski, University of Oxford

5:20 p.m.

Strategic complementarities in two-stage extensive form games

Presenter: Yue Feng, University of Kansas

Closing Remarks: Bernard Cornet