Summer School on Political Economy and Social Choice

Summer School on Political Economy and Social Choice

Torremolinos, June 9-12, 2007

Program

Saturday, June 9

09h15 Welcoming Remarks

09h30-11h00 Plenary Lecture (Chair: Juan D. Moreno-Ternero)

John E. Roemer: The Political Economy of Income Taxation

11h00 Coffee Break

11h30-13h00 Plenary Lecture (Chair: Juan D. Moreno-Ternero)

John E. Roemer: The Veil of Ignorance

13h00 Lunch

14h30-16h30 Contributed Session (Chair: John E. Roemer)

Juan D. Moreno-Ternero: The Political Economy of Health Care Finance

Christian Schultz: Arm's Length Outsourcing of Public Services

Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin: Surnames and Social Mobility in Spain

Pablo Amorós: Eliciting Socially Optimal Rankings from Unfair Jurors

16h30 Coffee Break

17h00-18h30 Contributed Session (Chair: John E. Roemer)

Humberto Llavador: Competitive Issues and Policy Consensus

Carmen Beviá: Cooperative Production and Efficiency

Antonio Villar: A Multiplicative Human Development Index

20h30 Dinner

Sunday June 10

09h00-10h30 Plenary Lecture (Chair: Bernardo Moreno)

Salvador Barberà: Restricted domains: the existence of Condorcet winners and of strategy-proof social choice functions I

10h30 Coffee Break

11h00-12h30 Plenary Lecture (Chair: Bernardo Moreno)

Salvador Barberà: Restricted domains: the existence of Condorcet winners and of strategy-proof social choice functions II

12h30 Lunch

14h00-16h00 Contributed Session (Chair: Salvador Barberà)

Bernardo Moreno: Top Monotonicity

Dolors Berga: Strategy-Proofness, Unanimity and Tops-Only with Single-Plateaued Preferences

Paulo Corte-Real: Rationality, Behavior and Rhizomatic Thinking

Vincent Merlin: On the Stability of a Triplet of Scoring Rules

16h00 Coffee Break

16h30-18h30 Contributed Session (Chair: Salvador Barberà)

Dunia López-Pintado: The Spread of Free-Riding Behavior in a Social Network

Bhaskar Dutta: Strategic Models of Network Formation

Biung-Ghi Ju: Coalitional Manipulation on Networks

Bettina Klaus: Competition and Resource Sensitivity in Marriage and Roommates Markets

20h30 Dinner

Monday June 11

09h00-10h30 Plenary Lecture (Chair: Pablo Amorós)

François Maniquet: Social Ordering Functions: Theory

10h30 Coffee Break

11h00-12h30 Plenary Lecture (Chair: Pablo Amorós)

François Maniquet: Social Ordering Functions: Applications

12h30 Lunch

14h00-16h00 Contributed Session (Chair: François Maniquet)

Massimo Morelli: Incumbency Advantage and Supermajority Reelection Rule

Thomas Palfrey: The Swing Voter's Curse in the Laboratory

Federico Echenique: On behavioral complementarity and its implications for preferences and observable demand

Lars Ehlers: Controlled School Choice

16h00 Coffee Break

16h30-18h00 Contributed Session (Chair: François Maniquet)

Toyokata Sakai: Preference Manipulations lead to the Uniform Rule

Olivier Bochet: Priorities and hierarchies in the location of multiple public facilities

Antonio Romero-Medina: Converging to Efficiency: the Ramón y Cajal Program Experience

20h30 Dinner

Tuesday June 12

09h00-10h30 Plenary Lecture (Chair: Socorro Puy)

David Austen-Smith: Information Aggregation in Elections

10h30 Coffee Break

11h00-12h30 Plenary Lecture (Chair: Socorro Puy)

David Austen-Smith: Bias Uncertainty and Communication in Committees

12h30 Lunch

14h00-16h00 Contributed Session (Chair: David Austen-Smith)

Socorro Puy: Dialogue or Issue Divergence in the Political Campaign?

Enriqueta Aragonés: Listening to Voters: the Welfare Effects of Participatory Democracy

Antonio Cabrales: Pathway from Communist Revolution to Liberal Democracy

Clara Ponsatí: Consensus on Consensus in Heterogeneous Groups

16h00 Coffee and Concluding Remarks