Summer Microeconomics Seminars <Programme>

Summer Microeconomics Seminars
Hosted by
University of British Columbia;
School of Economics and Finance &
The Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy
The University of Hong Kong

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29 July 2013 (Monday)
10:00-10:30	Registration
10:30-12:00	Persuasion and Optimal Panel Design
	Sourav BHATTACHARYA (University of Pittsburgh)
12:00-14:30	Conference Lunch
14:30-16:00	Mandatory Versus Discretionary Spending: the Status Quo Effect
	Ying CHEN (University of Southampton)
16:00-16:30	Tea Break
16:30-18:00	Rational Inattention and Organizational Focus
	Wouter DESSEIN (Columbia University)
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30 July 2013 (Tuesday)
10:30-12:00	Majority Rule and Utilitarian Welfare
	Vijay KRISHNA (Penn State University)
12:00-14:30	Conference Lunch
14:30-16:00	Tractable Consumer Theory
	Jozsef SAKOVICS (University of Edinburgh)
16:00-16:30	Tea Break
16:30-18:00	A Revealed Preference Test for Weakly Separable Preferences
	John QUAH (University of Oxford)
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31 July 2013 (Wednesday)
10:30-12:00	Competitive Screening and Search
	Renato GOMES (Toulouse School of Economics)
12:00-14:30	Conference Lunch
14:30-16:00	Incentive Compatibility of Large Centralized Matching Markets
	SangMok LEE (University of Pennsylvania)
16:00-16:30	Tea Break
16:30-18:00	Dynamic Screening with Limited Commitment
	Maher SAID (Washington University in St. Louis)
18:00-21:00	Conference Dinner
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