D-TEA 2017

D-TEA (Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications) 2017

Voting Systems

Dedicated to the Memory of Kenneth J. Arrow

Date:       May 29-31, 2017. 

Location: Institut Henri Poincaré 

               11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie

               75231 Paris Cedex 05

Room:  AMPHITHÉÂTRE HERMITE

Program (Mornings: theme talks; afternoons: non‐theme)

Monday, May 29

Morning Session (Chair: Larry SAMUELSON)

08:45‐09:00  Welcome

09:00‐09:30  Michel BALINSKI: Majority Judgment: Practice (w/ Rida LARAKI)

09:30‐10:00  Rida LARAKI: Majority Judgment: Recent Theoretical Results (w/ Michel BALINSKI)

10:00‐10:30  Yucheng LIANG: Information-Dependent Expected Utility

10:30‐11:00  Coffee Break

11:00‐11:30  Felix BRANDT: Consistent Probabilistic Social Choice (w/ Florian BRANDL, Hans Georg SEEDIG)

11:30‐12:00  Alessandra CASELLA: Democracy for Polarized Committee: A Tale of Blotto's Lieutenants (w/ Jean‐Francois LASLIER, Antonin MACE)

12:00‐12:30  Glen WEYL: Quadratic Voting (w/ Steven LALLEY)

12:30‐14:00  Lunch Break

Afternoon Session (Chair: Edi KARNI)

14:00‐14:30  Nabil AL‐NAJJAR: Policy Bargaining under Disagreement (w/ Robert GARY‐BOBO) 

14:30‐15:00  Aurelien BAILLON: Signal Perception and Belief Updating (w/ Ilke AYDOGAN, Emmanuel KEMEL)

15:00‐15:30  Pierpaolo BATTIGALLI: Ambiguity Attitudes and Self‐Confirming Equilibrium in Sequential Games (w/ Emiliano CATONINI, Giacomo LANZANI, Massimo MARINACCI)

15:30‐16:00  Coffee Break

16:00‐16:30  Collin RAYMOND: Group‐Shift and the Consensus Effect (w/ David DILLENBERGER)

16:30‐17:00  Larry SAMUELSON: Cases and Scenarios in Decision under Uncertainty (w/ Itzhak GILBOA, Stefania MINARDI)

17:00‐17:30  Uzi SEGAL: Preferences and Social Influence (w/ Chaim FERSHTMAN) 

Tuesday, May 30

Morning Session (Chair: Pierpaolo BATTIGALLI)

09:00‐09:30  Andreas KLEINER: Content‐based Agendas and Qualified Majorities in Sequential Voting (w/ Benny MOLDOVANU)

09:30‐10:00  Jean‐Francois LASLIER: Experiments on the Reaction of Citizens to New Voting Rules: A Survey

10:00‐10:30  Marco LICALZI: Approval Voting in Venice 

10:30‐11:00  Coffee Break

11:00‐11:30  Aniol LLORENTE‐SAGUER: Get Rid of Unanimity Rule: The Superiority of Majority Rules with Veto Power (w/ Laurent BOUTON, Frederic MALHERBE)

11:30‐12:00  Andrew MACKENZIE: A Game of the Throne of Saint Pater 

12:00‐12:30  Klaus NEHRING: Resource Allocation by Frugal Majority Voting (w/ Clemens PUPPE)

12:30‐14:00  Lunch Break

Afternoon Session (Chair: Rose-Anne DANA)

14:00‐14:30  Florian BRANDL: Arrovian Aggregation via Pairwise Utilitarianism (w/ Felix BRANDT)

14:30‐15:00  Edi KARNI: A Mechanism for Eliciting Second‐Order Beliefs and Inclination to Choose

15:00‐15:30  Shaowei KE: Social Discounting and Long‐Run Discounting (w/ Tangren FENG)

15:30‐16:00  Coffee Break

16:00‐16:30  Igor KOPYLOV: Framing in Expected Utility and Multiple Prior Models

16:30‐17:00  Matthew KOVACH: Satisficing with a Variable Threshold (w/ Levent ULKU) 

17:00‐17:30  Pavlo BLAVATSKYY: Estimating Representations of Time Preferences and Models of Probabilistic Intertemporal Choice on Experimental Data (w/ Hela MAAFI)

Wednesday, May 31 

Morning Session (Chair: Andrew POSTLEWAITE)

09:00‐09:30  Olga GORELKINA: One Tick and You’re Out: The Effects of the Master Lever on Senators’ Positions (w/ Ioanna GRYPARI)

09:30‐10:00  Matias NUNEZ: Unanimous Implementation: A Case for Approval Mechanisms (w/Dimitrios XEFTERIS)

10:00‐10:30  Benjamin OGDEN: Group‐Based Voting in Multicandidate Elections (w/ Laurent BOUTON)

10:30‐11:00  Coffee Break

11:00‐11:30  Marcus PIVATO: The Median Rule in Judgment Aggregation (w/ Klaus NEHRING) 

11:30‐12:00  Rafael TREIBICH: (Over)Weighting Nations: Optimal Decision Rules under Participation Constraints (w/ Antonin MACE)

12:00‐12:30  Clemence TRICAUD: Expressive voting and its cost: Evidence from runoffs with two or three candidates (w/ Vincent PONS)

12:30‐14:00  Lunch Break

Afternoon Session (Chair: David SCHMEIDLER)

14:00‐14:30  Fabio MACCHERONI: Law of Demand and Forced Choice (w/ Simone CERREIA‐VIOGLIO, Massimo MARINACCI, Aldo RUSTICHINI)

14:30‐15:00  Clemens PUPPE: The Single-Peaked Domain Revisited: A Simple Global Characterization

15:00‐15:30  Simon GRANT: Ambiguity and the Centipede Game: Strategic Uncertainty in Multi-Stage Games (w/ Juergen EICHBERGER, David KELSEY)

15:30‐16:00  Coffee Break

16:00‐16:30  Rabee TOURKY: Learning under Unawareness (w/ Simon GRANT, Idione MENEGHEL) 

16:30‐17:00  Gerelt TSERENJIGMID: The Imbalanced Luce Model (w/ Matthew KOVACH) 

17:00‐17:30  Stephane ZUBER: Fair Utilitarianism (w/ Marc FLEURBAEY)

17:30‐17:40  Jacques OLIVIER, Dean of Faculty: Concluding words