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The Economic Theory Conference in Memory and Honor of Hugo Sonnenschein

The Economic Theory Conference in Memory and Honor of Hugo Sonnenschein occurred on April 29 and April 30, 2022, at the David Rubenstein Forum on the University of Chicago campus. Please see the agenda below.

The conference was timed to allow for attendance at the University of Chicago’s memorial service for Hugo Sonnenschein. The memorial took place at 2:00 p.m. CST on Saturday, April 30, 2022, at Rockefeller Chapel. Attendees were invited to attend a reception immediately after the memorial service across the street at the Booth School of Business.

Agenda

Friday, April 29, 2022
08:00:00–08:45:00

Continental Breakfast and Registration

08:45:00–09:00:00

Introductory Remarks

Session 1

09:00:00–09:45:00

General Equilibrium with Climate Change

09:45:00–10:30:00

Market Design and Walrasian Equilibrium

10:30:00–11:00:05

Break

Session 2

11:00:00–11:45:00

Predicting Choice from Information Costs

11:45:00–12:30:00

Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms

12:30:00–14:00:00

Lunch

With remarks by Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Columbia University; Faruk Gul, Princeton University; Vijay Krishna, Pennsylvania State University; and John Roberts, Stanford University

 

Session 3

14:00:00–14:45:00

Large Auctions

14:45:00–15:30:00

On the Structure of Informationally Robust Optimal Auctions

15:30:00–16:00:00

Break

Session 4

16:00:00–16:45:00

A Minskyite Model of Financial Crises

16:45:00–17:30:00

Panics and Prices

17:30:00–18:30:00

Cocktail Hour

18:30:00

Conference Dinner

With remarks by Salvador Barberà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University; David M. Kreps, Stanford University; and Robert Wilson, Stanford University

Location: City View Room, 10th Floor Rubenstein Forum

Saturday, April 30, 2022
08:00:00–09:00:00

Continental Breakfast

Session 1

09:00:00–09:45:00

Interactions Across Multiple Games: Implications for Cooperation, Corruption, and the Design of Teams and Organizations

09:45:00–10:30:00

Efficiency in Random Resource Allocation and Social Choice

10:30:00–11:00:00

Break

Session 2

11:00:00–11:45:00

Sources of Authority

11:45:00–12:30:00

Bargaining with Exclusionary Commitments

12:30:00–14:00:00

Lunch

14:00:00–15:30:00

Hugo F. Sonnenschein Memorial Service

Memorial Service
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5850 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

Reception

The Charles M. Harper Center – Winter Garden
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637