Workshop on Contracts, Incentives and Information

Workshop on Contracts, Incentives and Information

joint with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

 

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2ND

9:00-9:15	Giorgio Barba Navaretti (President, Collegio Carlo Alberto, and CEPR)
	Dino Gerardi (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università di Torino and CEPR)
	Welcome address
9:15-10:15	Piero Gottardi (University of Essex and CEPR)
	“Mediation Design“
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-11:45	Paula Onuchic (Oxford University)
	“Information Acquisition and Disclosure by Advisors with Hidden Motives”
11:45-12:45	Ludovic Renou (Queen Mary University of London and CEPR)
	“Cross verification and Persuasive Cheap Talk“
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn and CEPR)
	“Auctions-With-Frictions“
15:00-16:00	Anne-Katrin Roesler (University of Toronto and CEPR)
	“Multi-dimensional Screening: Buyer-Optimal Learning and Informational Robustness“
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-17:30	Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
	Keynote Talk: “Decentralized-Market Design”
20:00	Workshop Dinner

 

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3RD

 

9:00-10:00	Vasiliki Skreta (University of Texas at Austin, University College London and CEPR)
	“Information Design by an Informed Designer“
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-11:30	João Ramos (Queen Mary University of London)
	“Optimal Political Career Dynamics”
11:30-12:30	Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick and CEPR)
	“Optimal Overspecified Contracts”
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Gregorio Curello (University of Bonn)
	“Screening for breakthroughs”
15:00-16:00	Inga Deimen (University of Arizona and CEPR)
	“Communication in the shadow of catastrophe”
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-17:30	Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University and CEPR)
	Keynote Talk: “Keeping the Agents in the Dark: Private Disclosures in Competing Mechanisms”
20:00	Workshop Dinner

 

Talks are 50 minutes long. After each talk, there are 10 minutes for discussion.

 

Organising committee:

Meg Meyer (Nuffield College, Oxford University and CEPR), Vasiliki Skreta (university of Texas at Austin, University College London and CEPR), Andrea Gallice (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin), Dino Gerardi (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin and CEPR), Paolo Ghirardato (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin) and Ignacio Monzon (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin).