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
Continental Breakfast and Registration
Introductory Remarks
Session 1
General Equilibrium with Climate Change
Market Design and Walrasian Equilibrium
Break
Session 2
Predicting Choice from Information Costs
Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms
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
Large Auctions
On the Structure of Informationally Robust Optimal Auctions
Break
Session 4
A Minskyite Model of Financial Crises
Panics and Prices
Cocktail Hour
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
Continental Breakfast
Session 1
Interactions Across Multiple Games: Implications for Cooperation, Corruption, and the Design of Teams and Organizations
Efficiency in Random Resource Allocation and Social Choice
Break
Session 2
Sources of Authority
Bargaining with Exclusionary Commitments
Lunch
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