Robust + Environmental Mechanism Design Decentralization Conference

April 21-23, 2023


  Ross School of Business

University of Michigan-Blau Hall




Schedule

 

Friday, April 21, 2023

 

3:00 pm welcome

                                   

3:15-5:15: Mechanism Design

Grant Schoenebeck and Fang-Yi Yu

``Learning and Strongly Truthful Multi-Task Peer Prediction: A Variational Approach.”

 

Ulrike Vollstaedt and Zhewei Song

“How to Make Better and/or Cheaper Products Accessible to Buyers through an Optimal Product Testing Mechanism”

 

5:15-5:30: Break

 

5.30-6.30: Decision Making

Michael Mandler

``Decision-making for small-probability catastrophes.’’ Mandler.pdf

 

 

 

Saturday, April 22, 2023

 

8:15 – 9:00:  Breakfast

 

9.00-11.00: Linkages and Externalities in Environmental Mechanisms

Matthew Leisten and Nicholas Vreugdenhil

``Dynamic Regulation with Firm Linkages: Evidence from Texas.’’

 

Sarah Johnston , Chenyu Yang and Yifei Liu

``An Empirical Analysis of the US Generator Interconnection Policy’’JohnstonPaper.pdf

 

 

11:00-11:15:  Break

 

11.15-12.15   Policy making

Francisco Conti

``A Multiple-Principal Approach to Environmental Policy-Making’’ Francesco Conti.pdf   

 

 

12.15-1.15: Lunch 

 

 

1.30-3:45 General Equilibrium, Pricing and Mechanism Design

Robert M Anderson and Haosui (Kevin) Duanmu) 

``General Equilibrium Theory for Climate Change,’’  Robert M Anderson.pdf 


Soren Anderson, Ioana Marinescu and Boris Shor

``Bribing Voters to Support a State Carbon Tax’’

 

3.45-4:15: Break

           

4:30-5:45: Keynote in Honor of Roy Radner

Prajit Dutta

“Climate Change and Transfers: A Coase Theorem”  DuttaPaper.pdf

 

 

 

Sunday, April 23, 2023

  

 

8:15 – 8:45: Breakfast

 

8:45 – 12:00: Robustenn and Incentive Compatibility

                                  

Edward Schlee

``Prices vs Quantities in the Small and in the Large with Risk Aversion and Income Effects’’SchleePaper.pdf


Nemanja Antic and George Georgiadis              

“Robust Contracts: A Revealed Preference Approach”

 

 

10:45- 11:00: Coffee Interlude

Frank Page  

``Incentive Compatible Networks and the Delegated Networking Principle.’’ FrankPagePaper.pdf