2015 C-PEC Program

ILR Conference Center, room 423 (MAP)

King Shaw Hall

140 Garden rd., Ithaca, NY

Friday, June 12th

 

12:00 Lunch

 

1:30-2:45 Presenter:  David Myatt (London Business School)

Title:  "A Theory of Protest Voting”

Discussant: Andrew Little (Cornell)

 

2:45-4:00 Presenter: John Morgan (Haas School of Business)

Title: Voluntary Voting under Aggregate Uncertainty

Discussant: Laurent Bouton (Georgetown University)

 

4:00-4:15 Break

 

4:15-5:30 Presenter:  Jesse Shapiro (Brown University)

Title:  "Special Interests and the Media: Theory and an Application to Climate Change"

Discussant: Stephen Coate (Cornell University)

 

6:00 Dinner

  

Saturday, June 13th

 

9:00 Breakfast

 

9:30-10:45 Presenter: John Duggan (University of Rochester)

Title:  "Term Limits and Bounds on Policy Responsiveness in Dynamic Elections"

Discussant: Renee Bowen (Stanford GSB)

 

10:45-11:00 Break

 

11:00-12:15 Presenter: Ugo Troiano (University of Michigan)

Title:  "Old and Young Politicians" (with Alberto Alesina and Traviss Cassidy)

Discussant: Karam Kang (Carnegie Mellon University)

 

12:15 Lunch

 

1:30-2:45 Presenter: Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton University)

Title: "Policy Competition in Real-Time"

Discussant: Martin Osborne (University of Toronto)

 

2:45-3:00 Break

 

3:00-4:15 Presenter: Nageeb Ali (University of California, San Diego)

Title: "Collective Search with Private Information"

Discussant: Tasos Kalandrakis (Univeristy of Rochester)