III Hurwicz Workshop on Mechanism Design Theory

III Hurwicz Workshop on Mechanism Design Theory

1 - July, 2011, Warszawa

Organized by:
Mathematical Center for Science and Technology PAS
and Department of Applied Mathematics, SGGW

The 2011 Hurwicz Workshop on Mechanism Design Theory is a continuation of the initiative started in 2009 and continued in 2010 of holding an annual conference to honor the 2007 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, professor Leonid Hurwicz. Leonid Hurwicz lived in Warsaw until 1938 and studied at the University of Warsaw. He frequently visited Poland in 1990's. Hurwicz is often credited with introducing rigorous mathematical approach to economic analysis. He received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2007 for his fundamental contributions to the theory of the design of economic mechanisms. Theory of mechanism design relies heavily on mathematical methods of functional analysis, differential equations, differential topology, dynamical systems, etc. He has made important contributions to mathematics as well as economics, in particular, to non-linear programming. The previous Hurwicz Workshops had an interdisciplinary focus with presentations on topics ranging from macroeconomic issues to mathematical game theory and stochastic finance.

The aim of the 2011 Hurwicz Workshop is to bring together scholars from Poland and abroad who specialize in mathematical approach to economic theory, including, but not necessarily confined to the mechanism design theory. The Workshop will provide them with a forum for presenting their research to an audience with expertise in mathematics and economics as well as for informal discussions. Continuing the tradition of the previous 2009 and 2010 Hurwicz Workshops the program includes a Hurwicz Memorial Lecture, which will be delivered this year by professor Roger B. Myerson of the Department of Economics, University of Chicago, who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin. This will give participants of the Workshop a unique opportunity to learn a first-hand account of the mechanism design theory. We hope that the workshop will contribute to popularization of the mathematical approach to economic analysis in Poland.

Professor Roger B. Myerson's visit to Warsaw will be sponsored by the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF).

Organizing Comitee

  • Łukasz Stettner (IMPAN)
  • Aleksander Strasburger
  • Jan Werner (University of Minnesota)
  • Secretary: Urszula Grzybowska (SGGW)

Programme

Friday, 1st of July
15:00-15.30
G. Grabek, Skewness in DSGE Models
15:30-16.00
 A. Jakimowicz, Sources of Complexity in R. M. Goodwin Business Cycle Model
16:00-16.30 W. Olszewski, Attributes
17:00-17.30 T. Słoczyński, Population Average Gender Effects
17:30-18.00 M. Lewandowski, Gambles with prices and operational measure of riskiness
Saturday, 2nd of July
9:30-10.00 M. Karpowicz, On the Nash Equilibrium Design Problem: the case of price-anticipating agents
10:00-10.30 K. Koufopoulos, Edogenous Commitment and Nash Equilibria in Competitive Markets with Adverse Selection
10:30-11.00 A. Boukouras, Information Aggregation and Adverse Selection
11:00-11.30 A. Lipieta, Mechanisms of Schumpeterian Evolution
12:00-13.00 Roger B. Myerson, A Model of Moral-Hazard Credit Cycles
14:30-15.00 T. Strzalecki, Temporal Resolution of Uncertinity and Recursive Models of Ambiguity Aversion
15:00-15.30
 Z. Świtalski, Price Equilibria in a Gale-Shapley Market Model
15:30-16.00 R. Golański, Properties of matching algorithm in college admission problem with variable capacity quotas
16:00-16.30
 Ł. Woźny, Computing time-consistent Markov policies for quasi-hyperbolic consumers under uncertainty

Participants

  • Katarzyna Banasiak (Warsaw University of Life Sciences)
  • Agnieszka Bezat (Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute (IAFE-NRI))
  • Paweł Borys (Warsaw School of Economics and University of Warsaw)
  • Aristotelis Boukouras (Georg-August University Goettingen)
  • Krzysztof Brzeziński (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Joanna Czarnowska (University of Gdańsk)
  • Paweł Doligalski (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Joanna Dys (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Piotr Dworczak (Warsaw School of Economics and University of Warsaw)
  • Michał Tomasz Godziszewski (University of Warsaw)
  • Robert Golański (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Grzegorz Grabek (National Bank of Poland)
  • Urszula Grzybowska (Warsaw University of Life Sciences)
  • Aleksander Jakimowicz (University of Warmia and Mazury)
  • Aleksandra Jaworska (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Michał Kaczan (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Krzysztof Kalisiak (Warsaw School of Economics and University of Warsaw)
  • Michał Karpowicz (Warsaw University of Technology)
  • Bernhard Kitous (Sciences Po, Institute of Political Sciences)
  • Karol Klimas (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Kostas Koufopoulos (University of Warwick)
  • Rafał Kucharski (Silesian University in Katowice)
  • Michał Lewandowski (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Agnieszka Lipieta (Cracow University of Economics)
  • Agnieszka Łata (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Mateusz Łącki (Warsaw School of Economics and University of Warsaw)
  • Monika Majewska (University of Economics in Poznań)
  • Andrzej Malawski (Cracow University of Economics)
  • Roger B. Myerson (University of Chicago)
  • Zdzisław Nowak
  • Joanna Olbryś (Bialystok University of Technology)
  • Wojciech Olszewski (Northwestern University)
  • Andrzej Palczewski (University of Warsaw)
  • Radosłw Paluszyński (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Maciej Popis (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Krzysztof Pytka (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Maciej Sablik (Silesian University in Katowice)
  • Maciej Skórski (University of Warsaw)
  • Tymon Słoczyński (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Beata Słomińska (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Łukasz Stettner (Institute of Mathematics of PAS)
  • Aleksander Strasburger (Warsaw University of Life Sciences)
  • Tomasz Strzalecki (Harvard University)
  • Małgorzata Szreder (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Zbigniew Świtalski (University of Zielona Góra)
  • Jan Werner (University of Minnesota)
  • Grzegorz Wiliński (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Matyszkiel (University of Warsaw)
  • Małgorzata Wojciechowska (Warsaw University of Life Sciences)
  • Adam Woźniak (Warsaw University of Technology)
  • Łukasz Woźny (Warsaw School of Economics)
  • Olga Zajkowska (Warsaw University of Life Sciences)
  • Adam Żak (Warsaw School of Economics and University of Warsaw)

Abstracts