CTN Events

15th Coalition Theory Network Workshop
Marseilles, France, June 17-18, 2010

FINAL PROGRAMME

PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Thursday 17th

08.15 – 08.45 : Registration
08.45 – 09.00 : Welcome Address
09.00 – 10.00 : Plenary Session : Adam Szeidl
10.05 – 11.05 : Parallel Sessions 1
11.05 – 11.45 : Coffee Break
11.45 – 12.45 : Parallel Sessions 2
12.45 – 14.15 : Lunch
14.15 – 15.15 : Plenary Session : Parag Pathak
15.20 – 16.50 : Parallel Sessions 3
16.50 – 17.20 : Coffee Break
17.20 – 18.20 : Parallel Sessions 4
18.30 – 19.20 : Board Meeting
19.45 : Aperitif and Conference Dinner

Friday 18th

09.00 – 10.00 : Parallel Sessions 5
10.00 – 10.30 : Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.30 : Parallel Sessions 6
11.35 – 12.35 : Parallel Sessions 7
12.45 – 14.00 : Lunch
14.15 – 15.00 : Plenary Session : Kaivan Munshi
15.05 – 16.05 : Parallel Sessions 8
16.05 – 16.35 : Coffee Break
16.35 – 18.05 : Parallel Sessions 9

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DETAILED PROGRAM

The last speaker of a parallel session is also its chair. Each presentation will take 30 minutes, including questions and comments from the audience.
In order to synchronize the parallel sessions we urge the chairs to strictly implement the time tables.
We only list the presenter of a paper and not all co-authors.

Thursday 17th

08.15 – 08.45 : REGISTRATION

08.45 – 09.00 : WELCOME ADDRESS

09.00 – 10.00 : PLENARY SESSION

Adam Szeidl (Berkeley University)
Measuring Social Capital in Peruvian Shantytowns
joint with Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius and Tanya Rosenblat

10.05 – 11.05 : PARALLEL SESSIONS 1

1a Opportunities on Networks (Chair: Y. Bramoullé)

Gergerly Horváth
Wage discount vs. premium for the network search in the labor market

Yann Bramoullé
Favoritism

1b Characterization of allocation rules (Chair: A. VdNouweland)

Sylvain Beal
Compensations in the Shapley value and the compensation solutions for graph games

Anne Van den Nouweland
An axiomatic characterization of the position value for general communication situations

11.05 – 11.45 : COFFEE BREAK

11.45 – 12.45 : PARALLEL SESSIONS 2

2a Coalition Formation / Jurisdictions (Chair: Antoine Loeper)

Emiliya Lazarova
Status-seeking in coalitional matching problems

Antoine Loeper
Group Formation, Free Mobility and Social Optimality

2b Networks and Resource Constraints (Chair: Olivier Bochet)

Vincent Boucher
Strategic Network Formation under Resource Constraint

Olivier Bochet
Clearing Supply and Demand Under Bilateral Constraints

12.45 – 14.15 : LUNCH

14.15 – 15.15 : PLENARY SESSION

Parag Pathak (MIT)
Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets
joint with Fujito Kujima and Alvin Roth

15.20 – 16.50 : PARALLEL SESSIONS 3

3a Stability in Cooperative Games (Chair: Françoise Forges)

László Kóczy
Stationary consistent equilibrium coalition structures constitute the recursive core

Theo Driessen
The indirect function of compromise stable TU games for the determination of its nucleolus and prekernel

Françoise Forges
Core-stable rings in second price auctions with common values


3b Communication Networks (Chair: Yair Livne)

Kris De Jaegher
Two-way flow networks with small decay

Joost Vandenbossche
Network formation with heterogeneous agents and absolute friction

Yair Livne
Strategic Random Networks: Why Social Networking Technology Matters

16.50 – 17.20 : COFFEE BREAK

17.20 – 18.20 : PARALLEL SESSIONS 4

4a Bargaining 1 (Chair: Maria Montero)

Nicolas Quérou
Group bargaining and Conflict

Maria Montero
The Paradox of New Members in the EU Council of Ministers: A Non-cooperative Bargaining Analysis

4b Networks and Incomplete Information (Chair: C. Ghiglino)

Federico Valenciano
Networks: Information, Stability and Dynamics

Christian Ghiglino
Strategic Information Transmission in Networks

18.30 – 19.20 :BOARD MEETING

19.45 : APERITIF & CONFERENCE DINNER


Friday 18th

09.00 – 10.00 : PARALLEL SESSIONS 5

5a Bargaining 2 (Chair: Vincent Vannetelbosch)

Volker Britz
Theory of the firm: Bargaining and competitive equilibrium

Jean-François Caulier
Coalitional Network Games

5b Conformity (Chair: Myrna Wooders)

Onur Özgür
Dynamic Games with Local Interactions

Myrna Wooders
Correlated equilibium, conformity and stereotyping in social groups

10.00 – 10.30 : COFFEE BREAK

10.30 – 11.30 : PARALLEL SESSIONS 6

6a Matching (Chair: Jordi Masso)

Alexander Westcamp
An Analysis of the German University Admissions System

Jordi Masso
On Cooperative Solutions of a Generalized Assignment Game: Limit Theorems to the Set of Competitive Equilibria

6b Network Formation Games 1 (Chair: Pascal Billand)

Tom Truyts
On Big Fishes in Small Ponds: Network Formation with Relative Concerns

Pascal Billand
Spying in Multi-market Oligopolies

11.35 – 12.35 : PARALLEL SESSIONS 7

7a Network Formation Games 2 (Chair: Gilles Grandjean)

Valeska Gronert
A Characterization of Weakly Pairwise Nash Stable Networks

Gilles Grandjean
A characterization of farsightedly stable networks under the componentwise egalitarian allocation rule

7b Diffusion in Networks (Chair: Roman Chuhay)

Emily Tanimura
Diffusion of innovations on community based Small Worlds: the role of correlation between social spheres

Roman Chuhay
Marketing via Friends: Strategic Diffusion of Information in Social Networks with Homophily

12.45 – 14.00 : LUNCH

14.00 – 15.00 : PLENARY SESSION

Kaivan Munshi (Brown University)
Historical Disadvantage and Network Formation: Slavery in the U.S. and Caste in India

15.05 – 16.05 : PARALLEL SESSIONS 8

8a Resource Management (Chair: Stephan Ambec)

Alessandro Tavoni
The survival of the conformist: equity-driven ostracism and renewable resource management

Stephan Ambec
On the Polluter-Pays Principle

8b Strategic Interaction (Chair: Frédéric Deroïan)

Paolo Pin
Stochastic Stability in the Best-Shot Game

Frédéric Deroïan
On Strategic Interaction and Aggregate Incentives

16.05 – 16.35 : COFFEE BREAK

16.35 – 18.05 : PARALLEL SESSIONS 9

9a Networks and Groups (Chair: Rahmi Ilkilic)

Dotan Persitz
Clubs and Networks

Messan Agbaglah
Overlapping Coalitions, Bargaining and Networks

Rahmi Ilkilic
Cartel Formation and Behavior on a Networked Market

9b Emerging Cooperation (Chair: Akira Okada)

Markus Kinateder
The Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma in a Network

Oliver Baetz
Cooperation in volatile networks

Akira Okada
Dynamic group formation in the repeated prisoner's dilemma