Day 1: 8th March, Friday

12:00 – 13:00 Registration with lunch (UEBS, concourse)

13:00 – 13:15 Welcome speeches (UEBS, LT1A):

    • Jonathan Crook, Deputy Dean & Director of Research, Business School, University of Edinburgh
    • Thomas Archibald, Head of MSBE Group, Business School, University of Edinburgh
    • John Moore, David Hume University Chair of Economics, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh

13:15 – 15:30 Presentation session 1 (UEBS, LT1A)

15:30 – 16:00 Break with refreshments (UEBS, LT1A)

16:00 – 18:30 Presentation session 2 (UEBS, LT1A)

19:30 – 22:00 Dinner (in Celebration of Kalyan Chatterjee’s 65th Birthday) Howies Waterloo Place

Day 2: 9th March, Saturday

9:00 – 10:30 Presentation session 3 (UEBS, LT1A)

10:30 – 11:00 Break with refreshments (UEBS, LT1A)

11:00 – 12:30 Presentation session 4 (UEBS, LT1A)

12:30 – 13:45 Poster session with Lunch (UEBS, concourse)

13:45 – 16:00 Presentation session 5 (UEBS, LT1A)

16:00 – 16:15 Conference closing (UEBS, LT1A)

Session 1 (13:15 - 15:30, Friday)

Chair: Yu Awaya (Rochester)

  • Gary Bolton (UT Dallas), Rate this transaction: Towards principles for the design of market feedback systems
  • Joosung Lee (Edinburgh), A Rational Foundation of Impatience and Procrastination
coauthor: Daniel Li (Durham)
  • William Samuelson (Boston U), Practical Decision Analysis: Ten Principles

Session 2 (16:00 - 18:30, Friday)

Chair: Maxim Ivanov (McMaster)

  • Kaustav Das (Exeter), Competition, Duplication and Learning in a Patent Race
coauthor: Nicolas Klein (Montreal)
  • Hamid Sabourian (Cambridge), Evolution of Rules, Selection and Mutation: Efficiency and Egalitarianism
  • Kalyan Chatterjee (Penn State), On interim rationality, belief formation and learning in decision problems with bounded memory
coauthor: Pathikrit Basu (CalTech)

Session 3 (09:00 - 10:30, Saturday)

Chair: Aditya Goenka (Birmingham)

  • Rakesh Chaturvedi (IIITD), Double Auction Mechanisms for Land Assembly
  • Tai-Wei Hu (Bristol), Belief Formation by Inferences in Games
coauthor: Mamoru Kaneko (Waseda)

Session 4 (11:00 - 12:30, Saturday)

Chair: Chun-Ting Chen (National Taiwan)

  • Vijay Krishna (Penn State), Startups and Upstarts
coauthor: Yu Awaya (Rochester)
  • Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge), Network Interventions
coauthors: Andrea Galotti (LBS), Benjamin Golub (Harvard)

Session 5 (13:45 - 16:00, Saturday)

Chair: Tong Wang (Edinburgh)

  • Tomas Sjostrom (Rutgers), The Strategy and Technology of Conflict
  • Robert Evans (Cambridge), Optimality of the Contrarian Adviser
  • Larry Samuelson (Yale), The Wisdom of a Confused Crowd: Model-Based Inference
coauthor: George Mailath (U Penn)