Organizers: Luca Lambertini (University of Bologna and The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) and Georges Zaccour (GERAD-HEC and The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)

Thursday, December 4

8:00 - 8:50   
Registration

8:50 - 9:00   
Welcome Address

9:00 - 10:00   
Keynote Presentation 1 - Chair: Luca Lambertini

Market equilibrium: applications to emission reduction and economic growth
Arkady Kryazhimskiy (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis -IIASA, Austria)

10:00 - 10:30   
COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - 12:30    
Session 1 - Chair: Peter M. Kort

Resolution of Financial Distress under Chapter 11
Amira Annabi, Michèle Breton, Pascal François (HEC Montréal, Canada)
Dynamic efficiency of Cournot and Bertrand competition with cooperative R&D
Jeroen Hinloopen (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and Jan Vandekerckhove (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Why Do Big Firms Not Innovate?
Herbert Dawid (Bielefeld University, Germany), Michael Kopel (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) and Peter M. Kort (Tilburg University, The Netherlands and University of Antwerp, Belgium)

12:30 - 14:00   
LUNCH

14:00 - 16:00   
Session 2 - Chair: Bruno Viscolani

A differential game for a licensing contract in a complementary business with a guarantee clause
Alessandra Buratto (University of Padua, Italy)
Strategic Interactions Among Franchisees: Are Franchisors Always Better Off?
Guiomar Martín-Herrán (GERAD, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain), Simon-Pierre Sigué (Athabasca University, Canada) and Georges Zaccour (Chair in Game Theory and Management and GERAD, HEC Montréal, Canada)
Advertising in a segmented market with exogenous or competitive interference
Luca Grosset and Bruno Viscolani (University of Padua, Italy)

16:00 -16:30   
COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 18:00   
Session 3 - Chair: Lina Mallozzi

A Class of Best-Response Potential Games
Davide Dragone, Luca Lambertini and Arsen Palestini (University of Bologna, Italy)
International Technology Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization
Valentina Bosetti, Massimo Tavoni (FEEM and Princeton University), Carlo Carraro (University of Venice and FEEM) and Emanuele Massetti (FEEM and University of Milan)
Facility location problems in a game theoretical setting
Lina Mallozzi (University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy)

 

 

FRIDAY - 5 December 2008 (Room: AULA 2)

9:00 - 10:00   
Keynote Presentation 2 - Chair: Georges Zaccour

Stochastic convexity and supermodularity in dynamic games
Rabah Amir (University of Arizona, USA)

10:00 - 10:30   
COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - 12:30    
Session 4 - Chair: Sjur Didrik Flåm

The Interplay between Labor Skills and the Labor Market Segmentation
Ricardo S. Azevedo Araujo, Lionello F. Punzo and Edgar J. Sanchez Carrera (University of Siena, Italy)
The Circular City with Heterogeneous Firms
Claudio Piga (University of Loughborough, UK and RCEA, Italy) and Marco Alderighi (University of “Valle d’Aosta” and Bocconi University, Italy)
Discriminatory prices, endogenous locations and the Prisoner Dilemma problem
Stefano Colombo (Catholic University of “Sacro Cuore”, Italy)
Bilateral Barter and Core Solutions
Sjur Didrik Flåm (Bergen University, Norway)

12:30 - 14:00   
LUNCH

14:00 - 16:00   
Session 5 - Chair: Luca Lambertini

A Differential Environmental Game with Coupling Constraints
Mabel Tidball (INRA, LAMETA, France) and Georges Zaccour (Chair in Game Theory & Management and GERAD, HEC Montréal, Canada)
Approximate Evolutionary Stable Strategies
Lucia Pusillo (1DIMA - Department of Mathematics, University of Genoa, Italy)
Solving Infinitely Repeated Agency Model with Learning and Persistence via a Linear Quadratic Game
Mehdi Feizi (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

 

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