Fondation Francqui-Stichting
Fondation d’Utilité Publique  Stichting van Openbaar Nut



Social Organization and Mechanism Design

(Universitaire Stichting 10-11 juni 1996)


Programme

Monday, June 10, 1996

09.30 : Welcome address by Baron Jacques Groothaert, President of the Francqui Foundation

Morning session

Chair : Professor Jean-Pierre Ponssard, Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratoire d’Econométrie - Paris, France

09.30-10.15 : Professor Robert Wilson, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business - California, USA - An Economic Model of Disclosure and Discovery in Litigation

Coffee Break 

10.45-11.30 : Professor Jean-Charles Rochet, Institut d’Economie Industrielle - Toulouse, France - Regulating a Risk Averse Firm  

11.30-12.15 : Professor Jacques Crémer, IDEI, Université des Sciences Sociales - Toulouse, France - Productive Information Gathering

Lunch

Afternoon session

Chair : Professor Jean-François Mertens, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

14.00-14.45 : Professor Michel Le Breton, Université d’Aix-Marseille II, LEQAM - Marseille, France - Common Agency under Complete Information 
14.45-15.30 : Professor Françoise Forges, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium - Self-fulfilling Mechanisms in Bayesian Games

Coffee Break

16.00-16.45 : Professor Thomas Palfrey, California Institute of Technology and CREST, Laboratoire d’Economie Industrielle - Montrouge, France - Interim Efficiency in a Public Goods Problem 
16.45-17.30 : Professor Louis-André Gérard-Varet,
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Marseille, France - Unique Implementation in Auctions

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Tuesday, June 11, 1996

Morning session

Chair : Professor Sudipto Bhattacharya, London School of Economics - Great Britain

09.00-09.45 : Professor Salvador Barbera, CODE, Universitad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain -  Multidimensional Strategyproof Voting 
09.45-10.30 : Professor Hervé Moulin, Duke University - Durham, North Carolina, USA - Strategyproof Allocation of Resources : News from the Front

Coffee Break 

11.00-11.45 : Professor Aldo Rustichini, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium - Dynamic Incentive Constraints 
11.45-12.30 : Professor John Roberts,
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business - California, USA - Robust Comparative Statics of Equilibria

Lunch 

Afternoon session

Chair : Professor Jacques Drèze, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

14.00-14.45 : Professor Matthew Jackson, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management -
Evanston, Illinois, USA -
Social Learning in Recurring Games 
14.45-15.30 : Professor Louis Gevers, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix-Namur, Belgium - Bequest Functions and Random Altruism 
15.30-16.15 : Professor Claude d’Aspremont, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium -
Moral Hazard in Teams : Uncertainty and Efficiency

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