Centre for Applied

CENTRE FOR APPLIED

ECONOMIC RESEARCH

The 24th Australasian Economic Theory Workshop

16th -17th February 2006

Venue: Central Lecture Block (CLB), University of New South Wales

Program: Thursday 16th February

8:30 – 8:50 Registration and Morning Coffee [Foyer]

8:50 – 9:00 Welcome [CLB Room 4]

9:00 – 10:20

[CLB Room 4. Chair: Bill Schworm]

9:00 – 9:40 / Mark Weder (Adelaide) “Did sunspot forces cause the roaring twenties”
Discussant: Bill Schworm (UNSW)
9:40 – 10:20 / Vladimir Petkov (VUW) “Delegation and commitment in durable goods monopolies”
Discussant: Indranil Chakraborty (NUS)

[CLB Room 5. Chair: Arghya Ghosh]

9:00 – 9:40 / Leopoldo Yanes (Queensland) “Trade, industrial policy and initial conditions”
Discussant: Souresh Saha (NUS)
9:40 – 10:20 / Robert Cairns (McGill/ UNSW) “Sustainable development of Easter Island?”
Discussant: Stuart Whitten (CSIRO)

10:20 – 10:50 Morning Tea [Foyer]

10:50 – 12:10

[CLB Room 4. Chair: Matthew Ryan]

10:50 –11:30 / Peter Bardsley (Melbourne) “Cryptographic commitment and simultaneous exchange”
Discussant: Jeff Kline (Bond)
11:30 –12:10 / Vladimir Smirnov (Sydney) “Staged financing with a variable return”
Discussant: Vladimir Petkov (VUW)

[CLB Room 5. Chair: Robert Cairns]

10:50 –11:30 / Maria Racionero (ANU) “An efficiency argument for affirmative action in higher education”
Discussant: Robert Cairns (McGill/ UNSW)
11:30 –12:10 / Svetlana Danilkina (Melbourne) “Talking rationally about rational addiction: the theory of rational addiction revisited”
Discussant: Ralph Bayer (Adelaide)

12:10 – 13:30 Lunch [Foyer]

13:30 – 15:30

[CLB Room 4. Chair: Simon Grant ]

13:30 –14:10 / Chia-Ying Chang (VUW) “Vertical differentiation in search-theoretic model: revisited”
Discussant: Mark Weder (Adelaide)
14:10 –14:50 / Indranil Chakraborty (NUS) “An analysis of large multi-unit auctions with bundling”
Discussant: Suren Basov (Melbourne)
14:50 –15:30 / Andrew McLennan (Sydney) “Simple complexity from imitation games”
Discussant: Kieron Meagher (UNSW)

[CLB Room 5. Chair: Maria Racionero]

13:30 –14:10 / Ralph Bayer (Adelaide) “Tax compliance and firms’ strategic interdependence”
Discussant: Matthew Ryan (Auckland)
14:10 –14:50 / Aaron Schiff (Auckland) “Informational intermediation and competing auctions”
Discussant: Maria Racionero (ANU)

15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Tea [Foyer]

16:00 – 17:40

[CLB Room 4. Chair: Kieron Meagher]

16:00 –16:50 / Simon Anderson (Virginia) “Spatial competition without excessive differentiation”
Discussant: Hodaka Morita (UNSW)
16:50 –17:40 / Simon Grant (Rice) “Generalized utilitarianism: accidents of birth, life chances and Harsanyi’s impartial observer theorem”
Discussant: Murali Agastya (Sydney)

19:00 – 21:30 Dinner at Barzura restaurant. Barzura is located at the south end of Coogee beach, at 62 Carr Street Coogee. Phone: 9665 5546.

Program: Friday 17th February

8:30 – 9:00 Morning Coffee [Foyer]

9:00 – 10:20

[CLB Room 4. Chair: Andrew McLennan]

9:00 – 9:40 / Suren Basov (Melbourne) “Migration and the evolution of conventions with spatially heterogeneous payoffs”
Discussant: Peter Streufert (Western Ontario/ Auckland)
9:40 –10:20 / Matthew Ryan (Auckland) “Risk aversion in RDEU”
Discussant: Andrew McLennan (Sydney)

[CLB Room 5. Chair: Peter Bardsley]

9:00 – 9:40 / Damien Eldridge (Texas at Austin) “A shirking theory of referrals: vicarious reputation in a moral hazard supergame”
Discussant: Peter Bardsley (Melbourne)
9:40 –10:20 / Jan Libich (La Trobe) “Inflexibility of inflation targeting revisited: modelling the “anchoring” effect”
Discussant: Chia-Ying Chang (VUW)

10:20 – 10:50 Morning Tea [Foyer]

10:50 – 12:10

[CLB Room 4. Chair: Jan Libich]

10:50 –11:30 / Peter Streufert (Western Ontario/ Auckland) “Characterizing consistency by monomials and by product dispersions”
Discussant: Vladimir Smirnov (Sydney)

[CLB Room 5. Chair: Tina Kao]

10:50 –11:30 / Souresh Saha (NUS) “Price competition, technology licensing and strategic trade policy”
Discussant: Tina Kao (ANU)
11:30 –12:10 / Samarth Vaidya (Deakin) “Divide and conquer: A fresh look at media capture”
Discussant: Simon Anderson (Virginia)

12:10 – 13:30 Lunch [Foyer]

13:30 – 14:50

[CLB Room 4. Chair: Chris Adam]

13:30 –14:10 / Tina Kao (ANU) “Bundling and foreclosure”
Discussant: Chris Adam (AGSM)
14:10 –14:50 / Shino Takayama (Sydney) “Price, trade size, and information revelation in multi-period securities markets”
Discussant: Simon Grant (Rice)

14:50 – 15:30 Afternoon Tea [Foyer]

[End of Workshop]