Economic Theory Conference Honoring Phil Reny
The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics and the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics hosted a conference on Economic Theory celebrating our friend and colleague Phil Reny. This conference featured presentations by Phil’s colleagues, coauthors, and students.
GUEST OF HONOR
Philip J. Reny, The Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College
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Agenda
Registration and Breakfast
Saieh Hall Room 203
Opening Remarks
Rank-Dependent Disappointment Aversion
Faruk Gul, Princeton University (Presenter)
Marciano Siniscalchi, Northwestern University (Discussant)
Communicating about Endogenous Issues
Elliot Lipnowski, Yale University (Presenter)
Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University (Discussant)
Break
Score-based Mechanisms
Vasiliki Skreta, University of Texas, Austin (Presenter)
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University (Discussant)
Spreading Information via Social Networks: An Irrelevance Result
Vijay Krishna, Pennsylvania State University (Presenter)
Agathe Pernoud, University of Chicago (Discussant)
Lunch
Strategic Foundations of Efficient Rational Expectations
Paulo Barelli, University of Rochester (Presenter)
Jeroen Swinkels, Northwestern University (Discussant)
An Informationally Robust Model of Perfect Competition
Benjamin Brooks, University of Chicago (Presenter)
Motty Perry University of Warwick (Discussant)
Break
Dual Reduction and Elementary Games with Senders and Receivers
Roger Myerson, University of Chicago (Presenter)
Piotr Dworczak, Northwestern University (Discussant)
Reception and Dinner
The Study Hotel – Winter Garden
1227 E 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
Breakfast
Saieh Hall Room 203
Risk Perception: Measurement and Aggregation
Arthur Robson, Simon Fraser University (Presenter)
Luis Rayo, Northwestern University (Discussant)
Privacy Preserving Signals
Kai Hao Yang, Yale University (Presenter)
Harry Pei, Northwestern University (Discussant)
Break
Two(!) Good To Be… Monotonic
Sergiu Hart, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Presenter)
Jason Hartline, Northwestern University (Discussant)