School of Economics

SMU Workshop on Mechanism Design 2016

Program

The workshop begins on Wednesday December 14, 2016 and will continue through Thursday evening, December 15, 2016. 

Please note that each talk is allocated 40 minutes (35 min presentation + 5 min discussion).

Also, do note that the talk is paperless. Please bring along a laptop/ ipad for this workshop

14 December (Day 1 of 2)

TimeEvent
8:15amRegistration
8:45am

Opening remarks by Professor Bryce Hool, Dean,

School of Economics, Singapore Management University

9:00am-11:00am

Session 1.  Chair:  Herve Moulin

Biung-ghi Ju: "Identifying groups in a Boolean algebra"

Jingyi Xue: “Equal quantile rule in resource allocation with uncertain demand”.

Youngsub Chun: "Probabilistic assignment of individual objects when agents have single-peaked preferences with a common peak"

11:00am-11:30amCoffee break
11:30am-12:50pm

Session 2.  Chair: Juan Carlos Carbajal

Shigehiro Serizawa: “Strategy-Proofness and Efficiency for Non-Quasi-linear and Common-Tiered-Object Preferences: Characterization of Minimum Price Rule” 

Debasis Mishra: ​​​​​​​“Mechanism Design without Quasilinearity”

12:50pm-2:20pmLunch
2:20pm-4:20pm

Session 3.  Chair: Yi-Chun Chen

Shin Sato: “An Impossibility under Bounded Response of Social Choice Functions”

Claudio Mezzetti: “Dominant Strategy, Double Clock Auctions with Estimation-Based Tatonnement”

John Weymark: ​​​​​​​“The Structure of Dominant Strategy Incentive Compatible Mechanisms”

4:20pm-4:50pmCoffee break
4:50pm-6:10

Session 4.  Chair: Bhaskar Dutta

Anna Bogomolnaia: “Dividing Goods Or Bads under linear Preferences”

Herve Moulin: ​​​​​​​“Dividing Goods, Bads and Satiable Items”

15 December (Day 2 of 2)

TimeEvent
9:00am-11:00am

Session 5.  Chair: Arunava Sen

Liu Peng: “The Strategy-proofness of the Probabilistic Serial Rule on Sequentially Dichotomous Domains”

Huaxia Zeng: ​​​​​​​“Random Social Choice Functions on Multidimensional Domains"

Jordi Masso: "Not all Majority-based Social Choice Functions are obviously Strategy-proof"

11:00am-11:30amCoffee break
11:30am-12:50pm

Session 6. Chair: Takashi Kunimoto

Olivier Bochet: ​​​​​​​"Prevalence of Truthtelling and Implementation"

Arunava Sen: “Implementation of the Pareto Correspondence in Undominated Strategies by Bounded Mechanisms"

12:50pm-2:20pmLunch
2:20pm-3:40pm

Session 7. Chair: Parimal Bag

Juan-Carlos Carbajal: ​​​​​​​“Institutional Inertia and the Optimal Pace of Market Reforms”

Tridib Sharma: “Secret Sequential Advice”

3:40pm-4:10pmCoffee break
4:10pm-5:30pm

Session 8. Chair: John Weymark

Felix Brandt: “Fishburn's Maximal Lotteries”   

Bhaskar Dutta: "Network Design and Conflict"

7:30pm onwards

Conference Dinner at StraitsKitchen Restaurant, Grand Hyatt Singapore.      

Logistics Information

Date

14-15 December, 2016

Venue

Singapore Management University, School of Economics, 90 Stamford Road, Singapore, 178903
Seminar Room 2.4
(Click here for direction) 

Please enter by the visitor's gate at the entrance, the security guard will guide you to the location.

Contact

Ms. Juniper Ng
Assistant Manager
Office of Dean / School of Economics
Singapore Management University
DID: +65 6828 0855
www.smu.edu.sg

Accommodation

The accommodation provided by the workshop is the Rendezvous Hotel Singapore, which is strategically located at the heart of the city centre at Bras Basah Road. The hotel is also located directly across the road from the SMU School of Economics, where the workshop is held.

Location:

9 Bras Basah Road Singapore 189559

Hotel: +65 6336 0220 

Contact Details

Local Organizing Committee:

School of Economics
Singapore Management University
90 Stamford Road, Singapore Management University, Singapore 178903

Contact Person:

Ms Juniper Ng
Assistant Manager, Office of the Dean, School of Economics
School Website, Events and External Affairs
Email: juniperng@smu.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 6828 0855 Fax: (65) 6828 0833


Maps/ Directions

Directions from Airport to Hotel Rendezvous

Hotel Rendezvous to SMU School of Economics

School of Economics to Grand Hyatt Hotel (The Straits Kitchen)