Fair Play in Economics and Politics Workshop in Honour of Steven J. Brams

25 March, 2019 from 09:00 to 17:00

Cabinet Room, first floor, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6LE

This workshop is organised in honour of political scientist and game theorist Steven J. Brams (New York University), who is a pioneer in Approval Voting and Fair Division.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers with an interest on fairness issues (broadly understood) in Economics and Politics— topics include Voting, Elections, Games, Sports, Coalition Formation, Algorithms, Discrimination, and more.

Registration

There is no participation fee, and it is open to anyone who is interested, but registration is required for catering purposes. Click here for registration.

If you would like to present, please feel free to contact Mehmet Ismail at mehmet.ismail@kcl.ac.uk. Both practitioners and academics are welcome.

Program: pdf

09:30 - 09:40 Gathering – Coffee/Tea Break

09:40 - 09:50 Introduction to Catch-Up Fairness Workshop Series in Honour of Steven J. Brams (by M. Ismail)

Session 1. Chair: Kostas Matakos

09:50 - 10:20 Edith Elkind

“Justified Representation: From Axioms to Algorithms”

10:20 - 10:50 Adrian Blau

“One Concept of Fairness: Fairness as Equity, in Sport and Politics”

10:50 - 11:20 Kostas Matakos

"Electoral Rules, Strategic Entry and Polarization"

11:20 - 11:40 Coffee/Tea Break

Session 2. Chair: Adrian Blau

11:40 - 12:10 Bernhard von Stengel

“Computational progress on the Catch-Up game”

12:10 - 12:40 Alexander Matros

“Fair and Square Contests”

12:40 - 13:10 Lunch Break (sandwich lunch provided)

13:10 - 14:10 Lunch Break continued: Discussion / open problems session -- Participants will be encouraged to start a discussion or pose an open problem.

Session 3. Chair: Elisa Cavatorta

14:10 - 14:40 Jean-Jacques Herings

“The Last will be First, and the First Last: Segregation in Societies with Positional Externalities”

14:40 - 15:10 Stephane Wolton

“A political economy of social discrimination”

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

Session 4. Chair: Mehmet Ismail

15:30 - 16:00 Elisa Cavatorta

“Does exposure to violence affect reciprocity?”

16:00 - 16:30 Kutay Cingiz

“Multi-Battle n-Player Dynamic Contests: An Application to the U.S. Presidential Primaries”

16:30 - 17:00 Amrita Dhillon

“Next Generation Online Voting: The role of a blockchain based infrastructure”

Invited Speakers (by alphabetical order):

Adrian Blau (King's College London)

Kutay Cingiz (Wageningen University and Research)

Elisa Cavatorta (King's College London)

Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht University)

Amrita Dhillon (King's College London)

Edith Elkind (University of Oxford)

Konstantinos Matakos (King's College London)

Alexander Matros (University of South Carolina)

Bernhard von Stengel (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Stephane Wolton (London School of Economics and Political Science)

The workshop is sponsored by King's Policy Institute and supported by the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.