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