REVISED PROGRAM: 1997 NSF/NBER DECENTRALIZATION CONFERENCE

The Pennsylvania State University

May 9-11, 1997

Organizer and Contact for Information:
Professor Thomas A. Gresik

Department of Economics
608 Kern Graduate Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814)-863-8007
Fax: (814)-863-4775
Email: txg8@psu.edu

All conference activities will take place at the Penn State Scanticon.

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Thursday, May 8

Reception

8 pm - 11 pm

  • Informal Reception - Legends Bar

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    Friday, May 9

    9:00 - 9:45 am

  • Coffee and Rolls

    Morning Session

    9:45 am - 10:45 am

  • "Communication Complexity and Coordination by Authority"
    Ilya Segal (UC - Berkeley)

    11:00 am - 12:00 noon

  • "Self-organization in communication networks,"
    Venkatesh Bala (McGill) and Sanjeev Goyal (Erasmus).

    12:00 noon - 2:30 pm

  • Lunch

    Afternoon Session

    2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

  • "Insecure property rights and government ownership of firms,"
    Jiahua Che (Stanford) and Yingyi Qian (Stanford).

    3:45 pm - 4:45 pm

  • "Termination and coordination in partnerships,"
    Deborah Minehart (Boston) and Zvika Neeman (Boston).

    5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  • "Competition and incentives with non-exclusive contracts,"
    Charles M. Kahn (Illinois) and Dilip Mookherjee (Boston).

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    Saturday May 10

    9:00 - 9:30 am

  • Coffee and Rolls

    Morning Session

    9:30 am - 10:30 am

  • "Demand reduction and inefficiency in multi-unit auctions,"
    Lawrence M. Ausubel (Maryland) and Peter C. Cramton (Maryland).

    10:45 am - 11:45 am

  • "Efficient auctions,"
    Partha Dasgupta (Cambridge) and Eric Maskin (Harvard).

    11:45 am - 2:00 pm

  • Lunch

    Afternoon Session

    2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  • "A Tiebout economy with a continuum of agents,"
    John Conley (Illinois) and Myrna Wooders (Toronto).

    3:15 pm - 4:15 pm

  • "Feasible balanced outcome functions yielding constrained Walrasian and Lindahl allocations at Nash equilibrium points in economies with two agents when the designer knows the feasible set,"
    Leonid Hurwicz (Minnesota).

    4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

  • "Bargaining, coalitions, and competition,"
    Nir Dagan (Pompeu Fabra), Roberto Serrano (Brown), and Oscar Volij (Brown).

    6:00 pm

  • Reception - Senate II

    7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

  • Conference Banquet - Senate III

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    Sunday May 11

    8:30 am - 9:00 am

  • Coffee and Rolls

    Morning Session

    9:00 am - 10:00 am

  • "Cooperative Production: A Comparison of Lower Bounds"
    Alison Watts (Vanderbilt)

    10:15 am - 11:15 am

  • "A simple model of takeovers, firm valuation and managerial rent,"
    James S. Jordan (Minnesota).