We are very pleased to announce the Hitotsubashi GCOE conference on Choice, Games, and Welfare: ``Frontiers in Microeconomic Theory.'' The conference will be held on August 24 (Friday), 2012.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
Sincerely,
Takashi Kunimoto and Koichi Tadenuma
We provide the more detailed information on the conference below:
DATE: August 24 (Friday), 2012
LOCATION: Mercury Tower (7th floor, Building 39 on the campus map), Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan. Go to the following link to check ``Where is Hitotsubashi University? or How can you get there?
ORGANIZERS: Takashi Kunimoto and Koichi Tadenuma (Hitotsubashi University)
SPEAKERS: Johannes Horner (Yale University), Hamid Sabourian (University of Cambridge), Satoru Takahashi (National University of Singapore), Takuro Yamashita (Toulouse School of Economics)
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE: If you plan to participate in this conference, we ask you to follow the registration procedure below:
(1) You send email to Chieko Takada (our secretary of this conference) with the title of ``GCOE2012.'' Her email address is
``GCOE-Info5+@+ier.hit-u.ac.jp''
where you eliminate ``+'' from the above.
(2) You provide us with the following information:
(i) Name, (ii) Affiliation, (iii) Position, (iv) whether or not you prefer lunch being provided; and (v) whether or not you plan to participate in the conference reception dinner (around 19:00). For items (iv) and (v), you just answer either ``YES'' or ``NO.'' Here is an example:
(i) Takashi Kunimoto
(ii) Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
(iii) Assistant Professor
(iv) YES
(v) YES
Please let us know your participation with the associated information by August 14(Tue).
When you come to the conference, we ask you to pay the registration fee for 1,000 (JPY) at the registration desk. This is the only cost you have to pay for the conference so that all the costs for lunch, reception, coffee and etc. are included in this fee. Your contribution on this is very much appreciated.
PROGRAM: The below describes the schedule of the conference. In particular, we have a series of two lectures by Johannes Horner in the morning and three more talks in the afternoon.
August 24 (Friday)
9:20-10:20: Registration
10:20-10:30: Opening Remark
10:30-11:40: the first lecture by Johannes Horner: ``Recursive Methods in Repeated Bayesian Games''
11:40-11:50: Coffee Break
11:50-13:00: the second lecture by Johannes Horner: ``Recursive Methods in Repeated Bayesian Games''
13:00-14:30: Lunch
14:30-15:40: Takuro Yamashita's talk: ``Robust Auctions with Interdependent Values and Agents' Strategic Uncertainty''
15:40-16:00: Coffee Break
16:00-17:10: Hamid Sabourian's talk: ``Repeated Implementation with Incomplete Information''
17:10-17:30: Coffee Break
17:30-18:40: Satoru Takahashi's talk: ``Interdependent Preferences and Strategic Distinguishability''
18:40-18:50: Closing Remark
19:00- : Reception