Jerry Green conference in Tel Aviv

Conference in Economic Theoryin Honor of Jerry Green 
Tel Aviv, Israel 13-15 June, 2012


It starts tomorrow, organized by Eddie Dekel, in honor of Jerry Green's 65th birthday. There's a long list of participants.

 Here's the conference program:

Wednesday, June 13th

8:50-9:00 - Opening Remarks

9:00-10:00 - Elections and Strategic Voting: Condorcet and Borda
Eric Maskin (Harvard)

10:00-11:00 - Optimal Contracts and Money BurningAttila Ambrus (Duke University)

11:00-11:20 - Coffee Break

11:20-12:20 - Behavioral Competitive Equlibrium and Extreme PricesTomasz Strzalecki (Harvard)

12:20-13:50 - Lunch  

13:50-14:50 - TBA
Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA) 

14:50-15:50 - A Search Story of the Peacock's TailBalazs Szentes (Chicago)

15:50-16:10 - Coffee Break 

16:10-17:10 - Impartial Decision MakingHerve Moulin (Rice)

17:20 - Bus departs from the university to the hotel

18:40 - Bus departs from the hotel to "Shalvata" for an informal buffet-style dinner at the port overlooking the sea. Dinner at 19:00.
 
Thursday, June 14th
9:00-10:00 - Concurrent Discovery 
Joel Sobel (UCSD)

10:00-11:00 - Multidimensional Product DesignGlen Weyl (Chicago)

11:00-11:20 - Coffee Break 

11:20-12:20 - Two(!) Good To Be TrueSergiu Hart (Hebrew University)

12:20-13:50 - Lunch

13:50-14:50 - Decision-Theoretic Underpinnings of Informativeness OrderingsRoberto Serrano (Brown)

14:50-15:50 -  Communication and Money in Repeated Games on Networks  
Alex Wolitzky (Stanford) 

15:50-16:10 - Coffee Break  

16:10-17:10 - TBADrew Fudenberg (Harvard)

17:20 - Bus departs from the university to the hotel

19:10 - Bus departs from the hotel to "Liliot" for the main conference dinner. 
Dinner at 19:30.

Friday, June 15th
9:00-10:00 - Robustness
Stephen Morris (Princeton)

10:00-11:00 - Strategic TournamentsAriel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University and New York University)

11:00-11:20 - Coffee Break

11:20-12:20 - TBA
John Geanakoplos (Yale)

12:20-13:50 - Lunch

14:00 - Bus departs from the university to the hotel.

16:40 - Bus departs from the hotel for a tour of Tel Aviv's White City (a World Cultural Heritage site) and Jaffa (see local information for more information). The tour is about 3-4 hours.