SWET 2011

Southwest Economic Theory Conference 2011

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
February 26th, 2011 – February 27th, 2011

The Southwest Economic Theory Conference (SWET) is an annual conference on economic theory, applied theory, and experiments. In 2011 it will be hosted by Cal Poly at its campus in beautiful San Luis Obispo, on the Central Coast of California. The conference will take place on Saturday February 26th and Sunday February 27th, 2011.  As usual, we will have an informal reception on Friday night and a conference dinner on Saturday night.

David Easley from Cornell University and John Geanakoplos from Yale University will be our keynote speakers.

There is no registration fee. Registration is now open.

List of Presenters

Rabah Amir, Arizona

Jernej Copic, UCLA

Zachary Grossman, UCSB

Dan Friedman, UCSC

Ted Bergstrom, UCSB

Florian Ederer, UCLA Anderson

Leeat Yariv, Caltech

Guillaume Rocheteau, UC – Irvine

Herve Roche, Cal Poly

John Hartman, UCSB

Madhav Chandrasekher, ASU

Laura Gee, UCSD

Paul Niehaus, UCSD

S. Nageeb Ali, UCSD

SangMok Lee, Caltech

Conference Program Friday, February 25th 5:30 – 7:30 pm Registration and Reception (Quality Suites – 1631 Monterey Street) Saturday February 26th 8:00 am Registration and Refreshments (Cal Poly, Orfalea College of Business, Room 114) 8:30 am Arthur Campbell (Yale), Florian Ederer (UCLA) and Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE): Information Search and Revelation in Groups 9:00 am Xiaochen Fan (Stanford), Nageeb Ali (UCSD) and B. Douglas Bernheim (Stanford): Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining 9:30 am Coffee Break 9:40 am Plenary Talk John Geanakoplos (Yale) The Leverage Cycle and Derivatives 10:40 am Coffee Break 10:50 am Philip Babcock, Kelly Bedard, Gary Charness, John Hartman, and Heather Royer (UCSB): Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives 11:20 am James Andreoni and Laura Gee (UCSD):  Governing Ourselves: Does Third Party Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Public Goods Games? 11:50pm Lunch Break 1:20 pm  Madhav Chandrasekher (ASU): Incomplete Menu Preferences and Ambiguity 1:50 pm Paul Niehaus (UCSD): Knowledge Spillovers 2:20 pm Coffee Break 2:30 pm Federico Echenique (Caltech), SangMok Lee (Caltech) and M. Bumin Yenmez (Carnegie Mellon): Existence and Testable Implications of Extreme Stable Matchings 3:00 pm Guillaume Rocheteau (UCI) and Randall Wright (Wisconsin-Madison): Liquidity and asset market dynamics 3:30 pm Herve Roche (Cal Poly): Speculative Bubbles in a Pure Exchange Economy 4:00 pm Coffee Break 4:10 pm Dan Friedman (UCSC) and Daniel N. Ostrov (Santa Clara): Evolutionary Dynamics for Playing the Field (This talk focuses on new material not included in the linked paper) 4:40 pm Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford) and Leeat Yariv (Caltech): Collective Dynamic Choice: The Necessity of Time Inconsistency 5:10 pm Adjourn 6:00 pm Gather at Novo Restaurant (726 Higuera Street). Dinner is at 6:30 pm. Sunday February 27th 8:00 am Refreshments (Cal Poly, Orfalea College of Business, Room 114) 8:30 am Zack Grossman (UCSB), Jonathan Pincus (Adelaide) and Perry Shapiro (UCSB): Evaluating the Tradeoff between Efficiency and Property Rights in Land Assembly 9:00 am Jernej Copic (UCLA): Robustness, Efficiency, and Durability 9:30 am Coffee Break 9:45 am Plenary Talk David Easley, Larry Blume, Jon Kleinberg, Robert Kleinberg and Eva Tardos (Cornell): Network Formation in the Presence of Contagious Risk 10:45 am Coffee Break 11:00 am Rabah Amir (Arizona): Discounted Supermodular Stochastic Games: Theory and Applications 11:30 am Ted Bergstrom (UCSB), Rod Garratt (UCSB) and Damien F. Sheehan-Connor (Wesleyan): Stem cell donor matching for patients of mixed race 12:00 pm Adjourn

Driving, Parking and Walking Directions

* If you’re driving from the Quality Suites to the conference venue follow these driving and parking directions

* If you’re coming on the 101S straight to the conference venue: (1) Take the exit toward California Blvd, (2) Merge onto Taft St., (3) Turn right at California Blvd, (4) Follow these parking directions.

*If you’re coming on the 101N straight to the conference venue: (1) Take exit 203 C for California Blvd, (2) Turn right at California Blvd, (3) Follow these parking directions.

*If you’re walking from the Quality Suites to the conference venue follow these walking directions. Be aware that this is a 25 minute walk, so please plan accordingly.

Conference Accommodations

We have blocked 20 single rooms at $139 per night and 10 double rooms at $149 per night for Friday and Saturday nights at the Quality Suites, 1631 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. The room rates include a ‘made-to-order’ breakfast – waffles, eggs, omelets, bacon, sausage, etc. If you wish to make a reservation there, call (805) 541-5001. Tell them you are with this conference to get the rate quoted above. The hotel is walking distance to both the Cal Poly campus and the San Luis Obispo downtown area. The hotel is holding rooms for the conference for a limited time, so please make your reservations as soon as you know you will be attending.

Alternatively, you may want to consider many of the other hotels that are within walking distance to Campus on Monterey Street.

If you are a PhD student and your paper was accepted at the conference we will reimburse shared double room accommodations and 50% of travel expenses. If you have administrative questions, please call or email the administrative assistant for the conference, Sheila Smith (805-756-2783, smsmith@calpoly.edu). If you have questions about the program for the conference please contact us at Calpolyswet2011@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you in San Luis Obispo!

Eric Fisher and Eduardo Zambrano

Local Organizers