Revised Program  as of  3/2

Southern California Economic Theory Meeting

March 4-5, 1999 UC Santa Barbara

(Most papers' titles can be clicked to download as pdf or postscript files.)

All presentations are 30 minutes.  Presenters will make themselves available for questions and discussion during the break that follows their group of presentations.
 
 

Saturday, March 4
 
8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast  
Session   Chaired by Peter Kuhn,  UCSB
8:45 Rod Garratt, UCSB  On Coalition Government Formation 
9:15 Jeff Banks, Cal Tech A Multidimensional Model of Repeated Elections
9:45 Priya Ranjan, UC Irvine Consumption Externalities from Education
10:15-11:00 Coffee Break  
Session  Chaired by Jack Marshall , UCSB
11:00 Dan Friedman, UCSC Dynamics of Conspicuous Consumption
11:30 Mark Walker, Arizona Minimax Play at Wimbledon

Lunch Break 12:00-2:00 pm

During lunch David Levine and Tom Palfrey will discuss the new Cassel Experimental Economics Lab at UCLA


  Session  Chaired by Steve Leroy,  UCSB
2:00 David Levine, UCLA  Evolution through Imitation
2:30 Chris Proulx, UCSB The Replicator Dynamic Applied to the Nash Demand Game
3:00 Ed Schlee, ASU Increasing Returns in the Value of Information
3:30-4:15 CoffeeBreak  
Session  Chaired by Rod Garratt,  UCSB
4:15  Ingolf Dittman, UCSD On the Optimality of Imprisonment Although Fines are Feasible
4:45 Guofo Tan, UBC Joint Bidding in Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Auctions
5:15 Klaus Nehring, UCD Modelling Economies of Scope

 

Sunday, March 5
 
 
8:30 Continental Breakfast  
Session  Chaired by Bob Deacon,  UCSB
9:15 Ross Starr, UCSD Why is there Money?
9:45 Harrison Cheng, USC Optimal Collusion and Moral Hazard in Repeated Cournot Oligopoly
10:15 Manjira Datta, ASU Existence and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Distorted Dynamic Economies with Capital and Labor 
10:45  CoffeeBreak  
Session  Chaired by Carol MacAusland , UCSB 
11:15  Peter Hammond, Stanford Gains from Trade Versus Gains from Migration
11:45 Kichool Park, UCLA  Leader Follower Model of Strategic Experimentation
12:15 Bentley Macleod, USC A Note on the Optimality of Bonus Pay
12:45 Lunch served