CTN Events

14th Coalition Theory Network Workshop
Maastricht, the Netherlands, January 23-24, 2009

FINAL PROGRAMME

Friday 23 January

8.45-9.15 REGISTRATIONS

9.15-9.30 WELCOME ADDRESS

9.30-10.30 PLENARY SESSION 1
Chair: Arno Riedl
Jacob Goeree
Network Experiments

10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK

11.00-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A

A.1 in the Aula: Kidney Exchange

Antonio Nicolo
Feasibility constraints and protective behavior in efficient kidney exchange
Discussant: Alvin Roth

Paolo Pin
Optimizing public goods in networks
Discussant: Adrien Vigier

A.2 in room H0.4: Bargaining \ Game Theory

Harold Houba
Discrete sets of alternatives and costless delay in negotiations
Discussant: Volker Britz

Gilles Grandjean
Strongly rational sets for normal-form games
Discussant: Alexander Vostroknutov

A.3 in room H0.6: Deliberation and Allocation in Networks

Carlo Martini
Deliberation in networked groups
Discussant: Vincent Buskens

Cagatay Kayi
Allocation rules on networks
Discussant: Emin Karagozoglu

12:30-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-15:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS B

B.1 in the Aula: School Choice and Experiments \ Matching

Guillaume Haeringer
Constrained school choice: An experimental study
Discussant: Alexandru Nichifor

Ahmet Alkan
On matchability when preferences are restricted to shortlists
Discussant: Burak Can

B.2 in room H0.4: Behavioral Economics

Alessandro Tavoni
Incorporating fairness motives into the impulse balance equilibrium
Discussant: Friederike Mengel

Friederike Mengel
Cooperation through imitation and exclusion in networks
Discussant: Alessandro Tavoni

B.3 in room H0.6: Networks and Markets

Rahmi Ilkilic
Cournot competition on a network of markets and firms
Discussant: Ana Babus

Itay Fainmesser
Community structure and market outcomes
Discussant: Olga Gorelkina

15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00-17:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS C

C.1 in the Aula: Social Networks and Experiments

Vincent Buskens
Social motives in networks formation: An experiment
Discussant: Jaromir Kovarik

Arno Riedl
Directed generosity in social and economic networks
Discussant: Jeanne Hagenbach

C.2 in room H0.4: Farsightedness in Housing and Matching Markets

Ryo Kawasaki
Dynamics, stability, and foresight in the Shapley-Scarf housing market
Discussant: Flip Klijn

Markus Walzl
Farsighted stability for roommate markets
Discussant: Wouter Vergote

C.3 in room H0.6: Networks I

Luca Merlino
Endogenous job contact networks
Discussant: Jörg Franke

Adrien Vigier
Globalization, education, and the topology of social networks

19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
Restaurant Livrei
Brusselsestraat 15

 

Saturday 24th

09:00-10:00 PLENARY SESSION 2
Chair: Rahmi Ilkilic

Matthew Jackson
How Homophily Affects Communication in Networks

10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30-12:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS D

D.1 in the Aula: Coalition \ Group Formation

Hubert Kempf
Risk sharing and endogenous group formation
Discussant: Laszlo Koczy

Marc Kilgour
Kingmakers and leaders in coalition formation
Discussant: Kristof Bosmans

D.2 in room H0.4: Experiments in Matching and Networks

Elena Molis
How rational agents are when they look for a partner: Experimental results
Discussant: Philipp Reiss

Ingrid Rohde
Choosing interaction partners induces maximum effort in the minimum effort game
Discussant: Elena Molis

D.3 in room H0.6: Networks II

Edoardo Gallo
Small world networks with segregation patterns and brokers
Discussant: Philippos Louis

Dotan Persitz
Power in the heterogeneous connections model: The emergence of core-periphery networks

12:00-13:00 LUNCH

13:00-14:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS E

E.1 in the Aula: Networks III

Berno Buechel
Under-connected and over-connected networks
Discussant: Paolo Pin

Robin Cowan
Fits and misfits: patent races on innovation networks
Discussant: Frederic Deroian

E.2 in room H0.4: Matching I

Thayer Morrill
The roommates problem revisited
Discussant: Alexander Westkamp

Avner Shaked
Finding a match in a shrinking population
Discussant: Guillaume Haeringer

E.3 in room H0.6: Networks IV

Laszlo Koczy
Stationary quasi-perfect equilibrium partitions constitute the recursive core
Discussant: Jean Francois Caulier

Ana Mauleon
Connections among farsighted agents
Discussant: Jean-Jacques Herings

14:30 - 14:45 BREAK

14:45-16:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS F

F.1 in the Aula: Networks V

Jeanne Hagenbach
Strategic communication networks
Discussant: Francis Bloch

Frank Page
Emergent network dynamics and strategic social interactions
Discussant: Luca Merlino

F.2 in room H0.4: Matching II

Alexey Kushnir
Matching markets with signals
Discussant: Itay Fainmesser

Alexander Westkamp
Breaking ties in school choice: Specialized schools and walk-zones
Discussant: Bettina Klaus

F.3 in room H0.6: Networks VI

Markus Kinateder
Team formation in a network
Discussant: Fabian Lange

Marco van der Leij
Bounded rationality and incomplete information in network games
Discussant: Berno Buchel

16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:45-17:45 PLENARY SESSION 3
Chair: Bettina Klaus

Alvin Roth
Kidney Exchange