A Conference in Celebration of Jim Friedman's 70th Birthday
November 4-5, 2006
Durham, North Carolina
"Knowledge in economics accumulates and progresses in many different ways. Even knowledge within economic theory advances as a result of activity of many sorts, including formal model building, at one extreme, and informal (and informed) speculation at another. Almost exclusively, this book is in the tradition of formal model building, eschewing any serious direct concern with the empirical world or with questions of policy. The things which are avoided are not avoided from a belief that they are any less important than what is included. I am quite content to remain agnostic on the relative importance of these pursuits, though all are vital to the progress of the discipline. In my view, the material covered in the following chapters is important, interesting, and very much worth communicating. Though I personally find it fascinating, it is possible to find it so without believing that it is the center of knowledge."
~ James Friedman, Oligopoly and the Theory of Games, 1976.
Invited Speakers:
Dilip Abreu (Princeton)
Jacques Cremer (Toulouse, IDEI) .
Ehud Kalai (Northwestern - MEDS)
Eric Maskin (Institute for Advanced Study) .
Michael Riordan (Columbia)
Rafael Rob (Penn)
Larry Samuelson (Wisconsin)
Xavier Vives (IESE, ICREA-UPF)
Conference Program:
Saturday (November 4th)
8:45 - Breakfast
9:15 - Opening remarks
9:30 - Ehud Kalai (Northwestern): "Recent Results on Large Robust Games"
10:30 - Break
11:00 - Eric Maskin (Institute for Advanced Study): "Evolution in Repeated Games"
12:00 - Lunch
1:30 - Larry Samuelson (Wisconsin): "Common Learning"
2:30 - Break
3:00 - Michael Riordan (Columbia): "Quality Competition in a Winner-Take-All Market"
4:00 - Break
4:30 - Jacques Cremer (Toulouse, IDEI): "Auctions with Costly Information Acquisition"
6:30/7:00 - Conference Dinner (Directions)
Sunday (November 5th)
8:30 - Breakfast
9:00 - Dilip Abreu (Princeton): "A Reputational Value for Stochastic Games"
10:00 - Break
10:30 - Rafael Rob (Penn): "Long Term Relationships as Safeguards"
11:30 - Xavier Vives (IESE and ICREA-UPF): "Monotone Equilibria in Bayesian Games of Strategic Complementarities"
12:30 - Lunch
Conference Location: RJR Room, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. There will be signs to the room in the lobby of Fuqua.
