Market design in honour of John Ledyard in Sydney

Here in the Southern hemisphere, there are two simultaneous conferences on market design. I'm at the one in Sao Paulo in honor of Marilda Sotomayor, and it turns out they just had one in honor of John Ledyard at the University of Technology's Centre for Policy and Market Design in Sydney.

ESEI / UTS Centre for Policy and Market Design Conference in honour of John Ledyard

July 24 & 25 at the University of Technology, Sydney
Room B424, Level 4, 'B Block", UTS Business School
1-59 Quay Street, Haymarket, Sydney, Australia


Here's the program:
ESEI/UTS Centre for Policy and Market Design Conference in honour of John Ledyard

July 24, 2014

9:00 – 9:15	Roy Green, Dean of the UTS Business School. Welcome
9:15 – 9:55	John Ledyard (California Institute of Technology) “A Simple Buy-back Auction for Fisheries Management” with Guillerme Freitas and Theodore Groves
9:55 – 10:35	Leslie M. Marx (Duke University) “Equilibrium Bid Strategies in an Auction with Bidder Preferences and Resale”  with Simon Loertscher
10:35–11:00		Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40	Jun Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney) “Information Disclosure In Contests: A Bayesian Persuasion Approach” with Junjie Zhou
11:40 – 12:20	Murali Agastya (University of Sydney) “On Efficient Partnership Dissolution” with Oleksii Birulin
12:20–14:00		Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:40	Paul Pezanis-Christou (University of Adelaide) “Tacit collusion and asset (un)certainty in first-price common value auctions”with Thomas Sheldrick
14:40–15:20	Tom Wilkening (University of Melbourne) “A Long Way Coming:  Designing Centralized Markets with Privately Informed Buyers and Sellers” with Simon Loertscher and Leslie M. Marx
15:20 –15:50		Coffee Break
15:50– 16:30	Antonio Rosato (University of Technology, Sydney) "Entry by Takeover: Auctions vs. Bilateral Negotiations" with Marco Pagnozzi

July 25, 2014

9:00 – 9:40	Peter Bossaerts (University of Melbourne) “Human-Robot Interaction In A Classical Experiment On Multi-Period Asset  Pricing” with Elena Asparouhova
9:40 – 10:20	Robert Slonim (University of Sydney) “Improving Blood Donations:  A Summary of 6 Papers” with Ashley Craig, Ellen Garbarino, Stephanie Heger, Victor Iajya, Mario Macis, Nicola Lacetera and Carmen Wang.
10:20–10:50		Coffee Break
10:50–11:30	Haris Aziz (NICTA and University of New South Wales) “Cake Cutting Algorithms for Piecewise Constant and Piecewise Uniform Valuations” with Chun Ye
11:30- 12:10	Andy McLennan (University of Queensland) “On Uniqueness of Equilibrium in the Kyle Model” with Paulo Klinger Monteiro and Rabee Tourky
12:10–13:40		Lunch Break
13:40– 14:20	Claudio Mezzetti (University of Melbourne) “Repeated Nash Implementation” with Ludovic Renou
14:20 – 15:00	Juan Carlos, Carbajal (University of New South Wales) “Plasticity, Monotonicity, and Implementability” with Rudolf Müller
15:00 –15:30		Coffee Break
15:30– 16:10	Priscilla Man (University of Queensland) “Generalized Majority Rules” with Marco Faravelli
16:10- 17:00	Luke Lindsay (University of Exeter Business School) "Designing Package Markets to Eliminate Exposure Risk" with Jacob K. Goeree