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9th CTN Workshop
Barcelona, January 30-31, 2004
Programme and
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Scientific Report
9th CTN Workshop
Barcelona, January 30-31, 2004
PROGRAMME AND PAPERS
Friday, January 30th, 2004
9.30-9.45 WORKSHOP VENUE
Chairman: H. KEMPF, Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and EUREQua
9.45-10.30 OPENING CONFERENCE
Salvador
BARBERÀ, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and CODE
"On the Weights of Nations: Assigning
Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union" (joint with M. O. Jackson)
Discussant:
David WETTSTEIN, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Israel
10.30-11.15 SESSION 1
Sanjeev
GOYAL, University of Essex
"Economics: an Emerging small World"
(joint with M. van der Leij and J.L. Moraga-González)
Discussant: Carmen BEVIÁ, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and CODE
11.15-11.45 Coffee-break.
Chairman: A. SOUBEYRAN, GREQAM and Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Maresille II
11.45-12.30 SESSION 2
Antonio
CABRALES, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
"Optimal Information Transmission
in Organizations: Search and Congestion" (joint with A. Arenas,
A. Díaz-Guilera, R. Guimerà and F. Vega-Redondo)
Discussant: Jean-Marc TALLON, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
and EUREQua
12.30-13.15 SESSION 3
Debraj
RAY, New York University
"Group Decision-Making in the Shadow
of Disagreement" (joint with K. Eliaz and R. Razin)
Discussant: David PÉREZ-CASTRILLO, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
and CODE
13.15-14.30 Lunch
Chairman: C. PONSATÍ, Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC and CODE
14.30-15.15 SESSION 4
Sébastien
VIVIER-LIRIMONT, Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and EUREQua
"Banking
Networks and Welfare"
Discussant: Santiago
SÁNCHEZ-PAGÉS, University of Edinburgh
15.15-16.00 SESSION 5
Matthew
O. JACKSON, California Institute of Technology
"The Formation of Networks with Side-Payments among Players" (joint
with F. Bloch)
Discussant: Anke GERBER, University of Zurich
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.15 SESSION 6
Effrosyni
DIAMANTOUDI, Concordia University, Montreal
"Merger Performance under uncertain
Efficiency Gains" (joint with R. Amir and L. Xue)
Discussant: Antonio NICOLÒ, Università di Padova
Saturday, January 31st, 2004
Chairman: M. VORSATZ, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
9.45-10.30 SESSION 7
Inés
MACHO-STADLER, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and CODE
"Sharing the Surplus: a just and
Efficient Proposal for Environments with Externalities" (joint
with D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein)
Discussant: Bhaskar DUTTA, University of Warwick
10.30-11.15 SESSION 8
Shlomo
WEBER, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
"Secession-proofness and the Rawlsian Principle in large Societies"
(joint with M. Le Breton)
Discussant: Sana ELAOUER, GREQAM
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
Chairman: S. CURRARINI, Università "Ca' Foscari" di Venezia and FEEM
11.45-12.30 SESSION 9
"Bicameralism and Government Formation" (joint with D. Diermeier and H. Eraslan)
Discussant: Antoni CALVÓ-ARMENGOL, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
12.30-13.15 SESSION 10
Rod
GARRATT, University of California, SB
"Potential Maximization and Coalition
Government Formation" (joint with J. E. Parco, C. Z. Qin and A.
Rapoport)
Discussant: Sergio CURRARINI, Università "Ca' Foscari" di Venezia
and FEEM
13.15-14.30 Lunch
Chairman: C. CARRARO, FEEM and Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
14.30-15.15 SESSION 11
Edward J. CARTWRIGHT, EUREQua and University of Warwick
"Learning
to Play Approximate Nash Equilibria in Games with many Players"
Discussant: Guillaume HAERINGER, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
15.15-16.00 SESSION 12
Vincent
VANNETELBOSCH, Université Catholique de Louvain; FNRS; IRES and CORE
"Risk-Dominant
Networks" (joint
with O. Tercieux)
Discussant:
Edward J. CARTWRIGHT, EUREQua and University of
Warwick
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.15 SESSION 13
Francis
BLOCH, GREQAM and Université de la Mediterranée
"Contracting with Externalities and
outside Options" (joint with A. Gomes)
Discussant: Licun XUE, CRDE and McGill University, Montreal
21.00- CONFERENCE DINNER