Conference

on

Learning and Bounded Rationality


Location

University of Illinois

Date

November 8-9, 2003

Map

Conference, Hotel and Coffee

Sponsor

Department of Economics


November 7   (Friday)

2 Education  (Bottom of the map)

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Jess Benhabib (New York University)

"Political Economy of Redistribution under Democracy"

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Hugo Sonnenschein (University of Chicago)

"The Linking of Collective Decisions Leads to Efficiency"

November 8 (Saturday)

B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory (Top of the map)

8:30 - 8:45 a.m.

Welcoming remark

8:45 - 9:30 a.m.

Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University)

"Equilibrium in the Jungle"

9:30 - 10:15 a.m.

Philippe Jehiel (CERAS and UCL)

"Valuation Equilibria"

10:15 - 11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00 - 11:45 a.m.

Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv University)

"Testing Threats in Repeated Games"

11:45 - 12:30 a.m.

George Evans (University of Oregon) and Roger Guesnerie (DELTA and College de France)

"Coordination on the Saddle-Path Solutions: The Eductive Viewpoint---Linear Multivariate Models"

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

Coordinated Science Laboratory, Room 301

2:00 - 2:45 p.m.

H. Peyton Young (Johns Hopkins University)

"Learning Nash Equilibrium"

2:45 - 3:30 p.m.

William Sandholm (University of Wisconsin)

"Excess Payoff Dynamics, Potential Dynamics and Stable Games"

3:30 - 4:15 p.m.

Break

4:15 - 5:00 p.m.

George Evans (University of Oregon) and Seppo Honkapohja (University of Helsinki)

"E-Correspondence Principle"

5:00 - 5:45 p.m.

Chris Sims (Princeton University)

"Rational Inattention: A Research Agenda"

5:45 - 6:30 p.m.

Break

6:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Conference Dinner at Timpone's

710 S Goodwin Avenue Urbana, IL 61801

November 9 (Sunday)

B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory

8:30 - 9:15 a.m.

Noah Williams (Princeton University)

"Small Noise Asymptotics for a Stochastic Growth Model"

9:15 - 10:00 a.m.

Laura Veldkamp (New York University)

"Learning Asymmetries in Real Business Cycles"

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 - 11:15 a.m.

Thomas Knox (University of Chicago)

"Learning How to Invest when Returns are Uncertain"

11:15 - 12:00 p.m.

Lars P. Hansen (University of Chicago) and Thomas J. Sargent (New York University)

"Recursive Robust Control and Prediction"