Contract Theory Workshop East (CTWE)

Basic Information

• When: Fridays from 16:30-18:30, unless noticed otherwise.
• Where: Room 3403 (GSCM Conference Room) on the 4th floor of Mercury Tower (building 41 in campus map) located in East Campus of Hitotsubashi University. Please note that the access to the room is restricted after 17:00.
• Please send me an e-mail if you are interested in contributing to the workshop by presenting your work or participating actively in discussion. Presentation may be in English contingent on the audience.

2009 Workshop Schedule

• January 9
  • Speaker: Fumitoshi Moriya
  • Title: Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo, The Brain as a Hierarchical Organization, American Economic Review 98 (2008), 1312-1346
• February 6
  • Speaker: Ricard Gil (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Title: The Role of Repeated Interactions, Informal Agreements and Relational [Sub]Contracting: Evidence from California Highway Procurement Auctions (joint with Justin Marion).
• February 13
  • Speaker: Hideshi Itoh
• February 27
  • Speaker: Jun Sakimoto
  • Title: Determinants of Board Independence
• March 12 (Thurs)
  • Speaker: Shintaro Miura (Washington University at St. Louis)
  • Title: Breakdown of Communication in Common Interest Games
• March 19 (Thurs)
  • Speaker: Takuro Yamashita (Stanford University)
  • Title: Worst-case mechanism design in undominated strategies
• April 10
  • Speaker: Takuya Nakaizumi (Kanto Gakuin University)
  • Title: Field Experiment on Incentive of Communication and Compilation and Evaluation
• April 17
  • Speaker: Yusuke Mori
  • Title: Lars Stole and Jeffrey Zwiebel, Mergers, Employee Hold-up and the Scope of the Firm: An Intrafirm Bargaining Approach to Mergers, August 27, 2008. (pdf)
• April 24
  • Speaker: Norio Arai
  • Title: Gorkem Celik, Mechanism design with collusive supervision, Journal of Economic Theory 144 (2008), 69-95.
• May 1
  • Speaker: Toshihiro Tsushihashi
  • Title: Informative Advertising and Uninformative Advertising
• May 8
  • Speaker: Kohei Kawamura (University of Edinburgh)
  • Title: Direct Shareholder Control, Board Independence and Firm Value
• May 29
  • Speaker: Yutaka Suzuki (Hosei University)
  • Title: TBA
• June 12, 15:30-17:30
  • Speaker: Norio Arai
  • Title: Nahum D. Melumad, Dilip Mookherjee, Stefan Reichelstein, Hierarchical Decentralization of Incentive Contracts, The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp.654-672. (pdf via JSTOR)
• June 19
  • Speaker: Yusuke Mori
  • Title: Jonathan Levin and Steve Tadelis, Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities, April 2008, forthcoming in Journal of Industrial Economics. (pdf)
• July 17: Cancelled
• July 24
  • Speaker: Masazumi Shiraishi
  • Title: Patent Litigation and Injunctions
• July 31, 15:00-18:30 (the order of presentation may be subject to change)
  • Speaker: Takuro Yamashita (Stanford University)
  • Title: Worst-case mechanism design in undominated strategies
  • Speaker: Fumitoshi Moriya (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
  • Title: Hierarchy and Reward System
• October 15 (Thursday), joint with theory workshop@Isono Building Room 31 7
  • Speaker: Ricardo Alonso (University of Southern California)
  • Title: Shared Control and Strategic Communication
• October 23, 15:00-18:30 (From the papers to be presented in Business Law and Innovation Conference, October 30-31)
  • Speaker: Yasuhiro Arai (Hitotsubashi University)
  • Title: Ronald J. Gilson, ``Contracting for Innovation: Vertical Disintegration and Inter firm Collaboration,'' joint with Robert E. Scott and Charles F. Sabel. (download via ssrn)
  • Speaker: Hideshi Itoh (Hitotsubashi University)
  • Title: Patrick Bolton, ``Satisficing Contracts,'' joint with Antoine Faure-Grimaud. (download via nber)
• November 13
  • Speaker: Yusuke Mori
  • Title: Yossi Feinberg and Andrzej Skrzypacz ``Uncertainty about Uncertainty and Delay in Bargaining,'' Econometrica, Vol.73, No.1 (Jan., 2005), pp. 69-91
• November 27
  • Speaker: Norio Arai
  • Title: Alonso, Dessein, and Matouschek (2008), ``Centralization versus Decentralization: An Application to Price Setting by A Multi-Market Firm,'' Journal of the European Economic Association April-May 2008 6(2-3): 457-467, Alonso, Dessein, and Matouschek (2008), ``When Does Coordination Require Centralization?'' AER 2008, 98 (1) 145-179.
• December 11 14:00-16:00
  • Speaker: Masazumi Shiraishi
  • Title: Patent Litigation,Validity, and Injunctions
• December 18
  • Speaker: Nobue Suzuki(Komazawa University)
  • Title: Strategic Experimentation Free Equilibrium in Voluntarily Separable Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma (with Takako Fujiwara-Greve and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara)

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