Game Theory in Law, Business and Political Economy

Game Theory

Thursday, October 14, 2010
9:15 a.m. - 5:15 p.m., Pacific time
Gould School of Law, Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor
University of Southern California
699 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90089


If you wish to attend, RSVP to Christopher Schnieders at cschnieders@law.usc.edu

PROGRAM
9:15 am Continental Breakfast
10:00 am Bruce Carlin
Assistant Professor of Finance, UCLA
“Competition and Transparency in Financial Markets”
10:45 am Stergios Skaperdas
Professor of Economics, UCI
“Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future”
11:30 am Gary Charness
Professor, Department of Economics, UCSB
“Gender differences in cooperation with group membership”
12:15 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Gordon Hanson
Director, Center on Pacific Economies; Professor of Economics, UCSD
Exporting Christianity:
Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations
1:45 pm Heikki Rantakari
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC
“Employee Initiative and Managerial Control”
2:30 pm Break
3:00pm

S. Nageeb Ali
Assistant Professor of Economics, UCSD
“Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies”

3:45pm Silke Forbes
Assistant Professor of Economics, UCSD
“Is Better Performance Really “Better”? The Effects of Mandatory Disclosure on Airline Flight Delays”
4:30pm Reception

THIS CONFERENCE HAS BEEN ORGANIZED BY:

Robert Gibbons

CSLP Distinguished Visitor
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management
Professor of Applied Economics
MIT Sloan School of Management & Department of Economics

Mathew McCubbins

Provost Professor of Business, Law and Political Economy & co-director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics

Kevin Murphy

Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance, USC Marshall School of Business

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