The Sixth International Meeting of the
Society for Social Choice and Welfare
July 11 -- 14, 2002

Program

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Overview of Sessions

Thursday, July 11
9:25 AM
1A: Equality of Opportunity
1B: Elections and Lobbying
1C: Strategy-Proof Allocation Rules
1D: Individual Choice

11:00 AM
1E: Lorenz Domination
1F: Incentives and Strategy-Proofness in Voting
1G: Prospect Theory
1H: Democracy and Competition among Parties

12:15 PM
1H1: Lunch

2:00 PM
1I: Networks
1J: Regulation
1K: Behavior in Personal Interactions
1L: Incentives and Non-Cooperative Games

3:50 PM
1Q: Arrow Lecture

5:00 PM
1R: Tour and dinner - busses leave from Holliston and San Pasqual at 5 PM


Friday, July 12
9:00 AM
2A: Bargaining
2B: Strategy-Proofness in Voting and Public Goods Problems
2C: Decision Making and Uncertainty
2D: Axiomatics of Voting Rules and Rankings

11:00 AM
2E: Health Care and Welfare
2F: Legislative Bargaining
2G: Bankruptcy Rules
2H: Libertarian Rights

12:15 PM
2H1: Lunch

12:25 PM
2H2: Council Lunch for Current SCW Council Members

2:00 PM
2I: Poverty
2J: Matching Markets
2K: Taxation
2L: Competitive Markets with Imperfections

3:25 PM
2M: Public Decision Making
2N: Sequencing Problems
2P: Condorcet and the Kemeny Rule

4:25 PM
2Q: Condorcet Lecture

5:45 PM
2R: Pre-dinner drinks

6:30 PM
2S: Dinner


Saturday, July 13
9:00 AM
3A: Arrovian Social Choice
3B: Behavior in Non-Cooperative Games
3C: Voting Rules and Candidate Entry
3D: House Allocation Problems

11:00 AM
3E: Social Welfare Orderings
3F: Public Goods
3G: Inferring Preferences and Aggregating Information in Voting
3H: Taxation and Voting

12:15 PM
3H1: Lunch

2:00 PM
3I: Social Evaluation Functions
3J: Cooperative Games
3K: Matching and Incentives
3L: Binary Relations and Choice Functions

3:25 PM
3M: Opportunity
3N: Strategy-Proofness and Fair Sharing
3P: Voting Rules in Practice

4:25 PM
3Q: Social Choice and Welfare Prize Lecture

5:30 PM
3R: Meeting of the Editorial Board of Social Choice and Welfare

6:00 PM
3S: Meeting of the Members of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare

6:30 PM
3T: Reception


Sunday, July 14
9:00 AM
4A: Coalition Formation and Collusion
4B: Distributive Justice
4C: Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives
4D: Implementation

11:00 AM
4E: Scoring Rules
4F: Fair Allocation Rules
4G: Electoral Competition
4H: Ethics, Altruism, and Freedom

12:15 PM
4H1: Lunch

2:00 PM
4I: Income Measurement and Evaluation
4K: Majority rules
4L: Sharing Rules

3:50 PM
4Q: Presidential Address


Session Details

Session 1A: Equality of Opportunity

Thursday, July 11 9:25-10:40 AM
25 Baxter
Chair:John Roemer

Papers

Roemer on Equality of Opportunity
Matthias Hild (California Institute of Technology)
Alex Voorhoeve (University College London)

Choice and the Measurement of Freedom
Sabastiano Bavetta (U of Palermo and London School of Economics)

Session 1B: Elections and Lobbying

Thursday, July 11 9:25-10:40 AM
080 Moore
Chair:John Duggan

Papers

Primaries and the New Hampshire Effect
Tilman Klumpp (University of Western Ontario)
Mattias Polborn (University of Western Ontario)

Lobbying as Investment under Uncertainty
Mattias Polborn (University of Western Ontario)

Session 1C: Strategy-Proof Allocation Rules

Thursday, July 11 9:25-10:40 AM
070 Moore
Chair:Lars Ehlers

Papers

Incentive-Compatible Assignment on the Full Preference Domain
Anna Bogomolnaia (Southern Methodist University)
Rajat Deb (Southern Methodist University)
Lars Ehlers (Universite de Montreal)

Efficient Strategy-Proof Exchange and Minimum Consumption Guarantees
John Weymark (Vanderbilt University)
Shigehiro Serizawa (Tojoju University)

Strategy-Proof Risk Sharing
Biung-Ghi Ju (University of Kansas)

Session 1D: Individual Choice

Thursday, July 11 9:25-10:40 AM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Mark Johnson

Papers

Internal Consistency of Choice, Sen, and the Spirit of Revealed Preferences: A Behaviorist Approach
Damien Broussolle (Universite Robert Schuman)

Procedural Choice
Wulf Gaertner (University of Osnabruck)
Yongsheng Xu (Georgia State University)

Rational Choice: The Case of Path Dependent Procedures
Taradas Bandyopadhyay (University of California, Riverside)
Kunal Sengupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Session 1E: Lorenz Domination

Thursday, July 11 11:00-12:15 PM
070 Moore
Chair:Ken-Ichi Shimomura

Papers

Lorenz, Pareto, Pigou: Who Socres Best?
Stefan Traub (Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel)
Ulrich Schmidt (Universitat Kiel)
Maria Vittoria Levati (Abteilung Strategische Interaktion)

Multidimensional Inequality Comparisons: A Compensation Perspective
Alain Trannoy (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise)
Christophe Muller (University of Notingham)

Session 1F: Incentives and Strategy-Proofness in Voting

Thursday, July 11 11:00-12:15 PM
080 Moore
Chair:Antonio Nicolo

Papers

On Asymptotic Strategy-proofness of Classical Social Choice Rules Under IC and AIC
Arkadii Slinko (University of Auckland)

A Strategy-Proofness Characterization of Majority Rule
Jerry Kelly (Syracuse University)
Donald Campbell (The College of William and Mary)

Ordinal Bayesian Incentive-Compatible Voting Schemes
Arunava Sen (Indian Statistical Institute)
Dipyjoti Majumdar (Indian Statistical Institute)

Session 1G: Prospect Theory

Thursday, July 11 11:00-12:15 PM
25 Baxter
Chair:Veronika Kobberling

Papers

Risk Aversion in Cumulative Prospect Theory
Horst Zank (University of Manchester)
Ulrich Schmidt (Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel)

Utilitarianism for Agents who like Equity, but Dislike Decreases in Income
Peter Wakker (University of Amsterdam)

An Axiomatization of Linear Cumulative Prospect Theory with Applications to Portfolio Selection and Insurance Demand
Ulrich Schmidt (Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel)
Horst Zank (University of Manchester)

Session 1H: Democracy and Competition among Parties

Thursday, July 11 11:00-12:15 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Mattias Polborn

Papers

Strategic Voting and Intergovernmental Bargaining in a Two-tier Three-party Parliamentary System
Maria Gallego (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Electoral Consequences of Racialism for Redistribution in the United States: 1972-1992
Woojin Lee (Northern Illinois University)
John Roemer (Yale University)

Does Democracy Engender Equality?
John Roemer (Yale University)

Session 1H1: Lunch

Thursday, July 11 12:15-2:00 PM

Session 1I: Networks

Thursday, July 11 2:00-3:40 PM
070 Moore
Chair:Robert Gilles

Papers

Networks and Farsighted Stability
Myrna Wooders (University of Warwick)
Frank Page (University of Alabama)
Samir Kamat (University of Alabama)

Formation of Buyer-Seller Trade Networks in a Quality-Differentiated Product Market
Alison Watts (Southern Illinois University)
Ping Wang (Vanderbilt University)

On Measuring Personal Connections and the Extent of Social Networks
Yongsheng Xu (Georgia State University)
Prasanta K. Pattanaik (University of California, Riverside)

Centrality and Network Formation
Herman Monsuur (Royal Netherlands Naval Academy)

Session 1J: Regulation

Thursday, July 11 2:00-3:40 PM
080 Moore
Chair:Koichi Tadenuma

Papers

Externality Policy Reform: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Sushama Murty (University of California, Riverside)
R. Robert Russell (University of California, Riverside)

Information and Dynamic Adjustment
Michael Hoy (University of Guelph)
Mattias Polborn (University of Western Ontario)
Asha Sadanand (University of Guelph)

Product Liability and Signaling in a Monopolistic Market
Ken-Ichi Shimomura (Osaka University)
Sumiko Takaoka (Osaka University)

Session 1K: Behavior in Personal Interactions

Thursday, July 11 2:00-3:40 PM
25 Baxter
Chair:Lin Zhou

Papers

Human Capital, Marriage, and Regression
Diganta Mukherjee (Indian Statistical Institute)

Public Policy, Interpersonal Trust, and Economic Development
Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate University)
Stephen Knack (Claremont Graduate University)

The Affectionate Society: Does Competition for Partners Promote Friendliness?
Hans Haller (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Hans Gersbach (University of Heidelberg)

Session 1L: Incentives and Non-Cooperative Games

Thursday, July 11 2:00-3:40 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Rajat Deb

Papers

Fuzzy Play, Matching Devices and Coordination Failures
Ana Mauleon (Universite Catholique de Lille)
P. Jean-Jacques Herings (Universeit Maastricht)
Vincent Vannetelbosch (Universite Catholique de Louvain)

Rationalizability for Social Environments
Vincent Vannetelbosch (Universite Catholique de Louvain)
P. Jean-Jacques Herings (Universiteit Maastricht)
Ana Mauleon (Universite Catholique de Louvain)

Explicit and Latent Authority in Hierarchical Organizations
Robert Gilles (Virginia Tech)
Rene van den Brink (Tilburg University)

Session 1Q: Arrow Lecture

Thursday, July 11 3:50-4:50 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:John Weymark

Utility, Non-welfaristic Values, and Social Welfare
Prasanta K. Pattanaik (University of California, Riverside)

Session 1R: Tour and dinner - busses leave from Holliston and San Pasqual at 5 PM

Thursday, July 11 5:00 PM
Huntington Gardens

Session 2A: Bargaining

Friday, July 12 9:00-10:40 AM
070 Moore
Chair:Hans Peters

Papers

Nash Bargaining in Ordinal Environments
Ozgur Kibris (Sabanci University)

The Ordinal Nash Social Welfare Function
Eran Hanany (Northwestern University)

The Replacement Principle in Bargaining
Youngsub Chun (Seoul National University)

An Axiomatization of the Sequential Raiffa Solution
Walter Trockel (Universitaet Bielefeld)

Session 2B: Strategy-Proofness in Voting and Public Goods Problems

Friday, July 12 9:00-10:40 AM
080 Baxter
Chair:Rakesh Vohra

Papers

Strategy-Proofness and Efficiency in a Mixed-Good Economy with Single-Peaked Preferences
Paulo Corte-Real (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Maximal Domains for Strategy-Proof Rules in the Candidates Selection Problem
Dolors Berga (Universitat de Girona)
Shigehiro Serizawa (Tohoku University)

The Strategy-Proof Provision of Public Goods under Congestion
Antonio Nicolo (University of Padova)
Matthew Jackson (California Institute of Technology)

Strategy-Proof Social Choice on Single-Peaked Domains: Possibility, Impossibility and the Space Between
Klaus Nehring (University of California, Davis)
Clemens Puppe (University of Bonn)

Session 2C: Decision Making and Uncertainty

Friday, July 12 9:00-10:40 AM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Peter Wakker

Papers

On Freedom of Choice and Infinite Sets: The Suprafinite Rule
Miguel Ballester (Universidad Publica de Navarra)
Juan R. De Miguel (Universidad Publica de Navarra)

The Impact of the Unit of Measurement: Comparing Risk Attitudes Before and After the Introduction of the Euro
Veronika Kobberling (University of Maastricht)
Christiane Schwieren
Peter Wakker

Rational Evaluation of Actions Under Complete Uncertainty
Ricardo Arlegi (Public University of Navarra)

Session 2D: Axiomatics of Voting Rules and Rankings

Friday, July 12 9:00-10:40 AM
25 Baxter
Chair:Murat Sertel

Papers

Efficiency in the Degree of Compromise: A New Axiom for Social Choice
Ipek Ozkal Sanver (Bilgi University)
M. Remzi Sanver (Bilgi University)

Does Majoritarian Approval Matter in Selecting a Social Choice Rule?: An Exploratory Panel Study
Ayca Kara (Isik University)
Murat Sertel (Bogazici University)

An Axiomatic Characterization of a Method for Ranking Journals or The True Value of an AER
Oscar Volij (Iowa State University)

Reduction-Consistency in Collective Choice Problems
Chun-Hsien Yeh (University of Rochester)

Session 2E: Health Care and Welfare

Friday, July 12 11:00-12:15 PM
070 Moore
Chair:Alain Trannoy

Papers

Income Distribution and the Public-Private Mix in Health Care Provision: The Latin American Case
Daniel Maceira (Center for the Study of State and Society)

Equity Weights in the Allocation of Health Care: The Rank-Dependent QALY Model
Enrico Diecidue (University of Tilburg)
Han Bleichrodt (Erasmus University)
John Quiggin (Australian National University)

QALYs, Rights and the Optimal Provision of Health Services
Richard Barrett (University of Birmingham)
Chiung-Yi Huang (University of Birmingham)

Session 2F: Legislative Bargaining

Friday, July 12 11:00-12:15 PM
25 Baxter
Chair:Tomoichi Shinotsuka

Papers

Legislative Bargaining under Weighted Voting
Michael Ting (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
James Snyder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Stephen Ansolabehere (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Electoral Control in the Presence of Gridlock
Mauricio Bugarin (University of Brasilia)

Bargaining in Bicameral Legislatures
James Snyder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Ting (University of North Carolina)
Stephen Ansolabehere

Session 2G: Bankruptcy Rules

Friday, July 12 11:00-12:15 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Carmen Bevia

Papers

An Experiment on Bankruptcy
Giovanni Ponti (Universidad de Alicante)
Juan Moreno-Ternero (Universidad de Alicante)

On the Existence of Consistent Rules to Resolve Conflicting Claims: A Geometric Approach
William Thomson (University of Rochester)

The TAL-Family of Rules for Bankruptcy Problems
Juan Moreno-Ternero (University of Alicante)
Antonio Villar (University of Alicante and Ivie)

Session 2H: Libertarian Rights

Friday, July 12 11:00-12:15 PM
080 Moore
Chair:Youngsub Chun

Papers

Pareto Efficiency with Spatial Rights
Ashley Piggins (Queen's University Belfast)
Juan Perote-Pena (Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla)

On Libertarian Rights Assignments
Naoki Yoshihara (Hitotsubashi University)
Reiko Gotoh (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)
Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi University)

Rights and Collective Decisions: A Fuzzy Approach
Jorge Alcalde-Unzu (Universidad Publica de Navarra)

Session 2H1: Lunch

Friday, July 12 12:15-2:00 PM

Session 2H2: Council Lunch for Current SCW Council Members

Friday, July 12 12:25-2:00 PM
The Athenaeum

Session 2I: Poverty

Friday, July 12 2:00-3:15 PM
070 Moore
Chair:Buhong Zheng

Papers

Changing Poverty or Changing Poverty Aversion?
Peter Lambert (University of York)
Daniel Millimet (Souther Methodist University)
Daniel Slottje (Souther Methodist University)

Decomposable Poverty Measures when Households Differ in Size
Udo Ebert (Universitaet Oldenburg)

On Sen's Approach to Poverty Meaures and Recent Developments
Kuan Xu (Dalhousie University)
Lars Osberg

Session 2J: Matching Markets

Friday, July 12 2:00-3:15 PM
080 Moore
Chair:Tayfun Sonmez

Papers

Stable Schedule Matching Under Revealed Preference
Ahmet Alkan (Sabanci University)
D. Gale (University of California, Berkeley)

In Search of Advice for Participants in Matching Markets that use the Deferred-Acceptance Algorithm
Lars Ehlers (Universite de Montreal)

Understanding Preference Formation in a Matching Market
Antonio Romero-Medina (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Ricard Mora (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Session 2K: Taxation

Friday, July 12 2:00-3:15 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Esteban Klor

Papers

Joint versus Individual Taxation and Intrafamily Distribution
Elisabeth Gugl (Rice University)

Possibility, Impossibility, and History in the Origins of the Marriage Tax
Marcus Berliant (Washington University in St. Louis)
Paul Rothstein (Washington University in St. Louis)

Optimal Income Tax Enforcement Mechanisms
Lin Zhou (Arizona State University)

Session 2L: Competitive Markets with Imperfections

Friday, July 12 2:00-3:15 PM
25 Baxter
Chair:M. Utku Unver

Papers

Specialization Results for the Consumer-Producer Problem
Dimitrios Diamantaras (Temple University)
Robert Gilles (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Shareholders' Choice Problem in Finance Economies with Incomplete Markets and Production
Egbert Dierker (Universitat Wien)
Birgit Grodal (University of Copenhagen)
Hildegard Dierker (Universitat Wien)

History as a Widespread Externality: Constrained Efficiency and Remedial Policy
Peter Hammond (Stanford University)

Session 2M: Public Decision Making

Friday, July 12 3:25-4:15 PM
070 Moore
Chair:Frank Page

Papers

Relevant Information to Public Decision and Choice Dependency to Opportunity Sets
Antoinette Baujard (Universite de Caen)

Valuation of Public Goods in the Presence of Political Risk: An Experimental Procedure
Stephane Luchini (GREQAM)
Robert Kast (GREQAM)

Session 2N: Sequencing Problems

Friday, July 12 3:25-4:15 PM
080 Moore
Chair:Anna Bogomolnaia

Papers

On Games Corresponding to Sequencing Situations with Precedence Relations
Flip Klijn (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Herbert Hamers (Tilburg University)
Bas van Velzen (Tilburg University)

Simple Sequencing Problems with Interdependent Costs
Manipushpak Mitra (University of Bonn)
Ronald Hain

Session 2P: Condorcet and the Kemeny Rule

Friday, July 12 3:25-4:15 PM
25 Baxter
Chair:M. Socorro Puy

Papers

Some Startling Inconsistencies when Electing Committees
Thomas Ratliff (Wheaton College)

The Kemeny rule: An Extension to Variable Probabilities
Michel Truchon (Universite Laval)
Mohamed Drissi (Universite Laval)

Session 2Q: Condorcet Lecture

Friday, July 12 4:25-5:25 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Thomas Palfrey

Deliberation and Collective Choice
David Austen-Smith (Northwestern University)

Session 2R: Pre-dinner drinks

Friday, July 12 5:45 PM
The Athenaeum

Session 2S: Dinner

Friday, July 12 6:30 PM
The Athenaeum

Session 3A: Arrovian Social Choice

Saturday, July 13 9:00-10:40 AM
070 Moore
Chair:Kotaro Suzumura

Papers

Non-binary Social Choice
Rajat Deb (Southern Methodist University)

Anonymity and Consensus in Large Societies
Cesar Martinelli (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico)
Andrei Gomberg (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico)
Ricard Torres (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico)

Integer Programming and Arrovian Social Welfare Functions
Rakesh Vohra (Northwestern University)
Jay Sethuraman (Columbia University)
Teo Chung Piaw (National University of Singapore)

Dichotomic Preference Restriction and the Possibility of Social Choice
Toyotaka Sakai (University of Rochester)
Masaki Shimoji

Session 3B: Behavior in Non-Cooperative Games

Saturday, July 13 9:00-10:40 AM
080 Moore
Chair:Hans Haller

Papers

Three Principles of Competitive Nonlinear Pricing
Frank Page (University of Alabama)
Paulo Monteiro (EPGE/FGV)

A Theory of Endogenous Sentiments
Laurence Kranich (State University of NY at Albany)
Joan Esteban (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Ultimatum Bargaining: The Realism of Moral Framing vs. Methodological Parsimony
Geert Demuijnck (Universite Catholique de Lille)

Interpersonal Comparison of Utility in Bargaining: Evidence from a Transcontinental Ultimatum Game
Romina Boarini (Ecole Polytechnique)
Jean-Francois Laslier (Ecole Polytechnique)
Stephane Robin (INSGI-IREPD)

Session 3C: Voting Rules and Candidate Entry

Saturday, July 13 9:00-10:40 AM
25 Baxter
Chair:Arkadii Slinko

Papers

Condorcet Consistency in the Citizen-Candidate Approach
M. Socorro Puy (Universidad de Malaga)
Bernardo Moreno (Universidad de Malaga)

Candidate Stability and Probabilistic Voting
Carmelo Rodriguez-Alvarez (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

Cloning Manipulation of the Borda rule
Jerome Serais (University of Caen)

Session 3D: House Allocation Problems

Saturday, July 13 9:00-10:40 AM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Szilvia Papai

Papers

Social Orderings for the Assignment of Indivisible Objects
Francois Maniquet (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)

Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach
Tayfun Sonmez (Koc University)
Atila Abdulkadiroglu (Columbia University)
M. Utku Unver (Koc University)

House Allocation with Existing Tenants: An Equivalence
M. Utku Unver (Koc University)
Tayfun Sonmez (Koc University)

Consistent House Allocation
Bettina Klaus (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Lars Ehlers (Universite de Montreal)

Session 3E: Social Welfare Orderings

Saturday, July 13 11:00-12:15 PM
070 Moore
Chair:Jorge Nieto

Papers

Recoverability of Choice Functions and Binary Relations: Some Duality Results
Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi University)
Yongsheng Xu (Georgia State University)

Orderings, Equity and Non-expected Utility Theory
Ernesto Savaglio (CORE)

On Intermediate Measures of Inequality
Buhong Zheng (University of Colorado)

Session 3F: Public Goods

Saturday, July 13 11:00-12:15 PM
080 Moore
Chair:Laurence Kranich

Papers

Competitive Pricing in Socially Networked Economies
Nizar Allouch (University of Warwick)
Myrna Wooders (University of Warwick)

Fuzzy Aggregation in Economic Environments I: Quantitative Fuzziness, Public Goods, and Monotonicity Assumptions
Stephanie Geslin (Universite de Caen)
Maurice Salles (Universite de Caen)

Solidarity and Efficiency in Choosing a Location on a Cycle
Sidartha Gordon (Northwestern University)
Olivier Pequeux (Corps du Controle des Assurances)

Session 3G: Inferring Preferences and Aggregating Information in Voting

Saturday, July 13 11:00-12:15 PM
25 Baxter
Chair:Peter Coughlin

Papers

Simple Majority Decision Rules Based on Ordered Monoids of Linguistic Labels
Jose Luis Garcia-Lapresta (Universidad de Valladolid)

Analysing a Preference and Approval Profile
Jean-Francois Laslier (Ecole Polytechnique)

Session 3H: Taxation and Voting

Saturday, July 13 11:00-12:15 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Marcus Berliant

Papers

Majority Support for Progressive Income Taxation: The Importance of Corner Preferences
Jean Hindriks (University Catholique de Louvain)
Philippe De Donder (Universite de Toulouse)

Environmental Taxes and Majority Voting
Philippe De Donder (University of Toulouse)
Helmuth Crener (Universite of Toulouse)
Firouz Gahvari (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Federal Progressivity and State Regressivity
Esteban Klor (New York University)

Session 3H1: Lunch

Saturday, July 13 12:15-2:00 PM

Session 3I: Social Evaluation Functions

Saturday, July 13 2:00-3:15 PM
070 Moore
Chair:Yves Sprumont

Papers

Welfarism with Multiple Non-Welfare Profiles
Walter Bossert (Universite de Montreal)
Charles Blackorby (University of British Columbia)
David Donaldson (University of British Columbia)

Variable Population Egalitarian Ethics and the Critical-Level
Jorge Nieto (Universidad Publica de Navarra)
Ritxar Arlegi (Universidad Publica de Navarra)
Miguel Ballester (Universidad Publica de Navarra)
Maria-del-Carmen Marco (Universidad Publica de Navarra)

Non Welfarist Approaches to Inequality Measurement
Patrick Moyes (Universite Montesquieu Bordeaux IV)
Alain Chateauneuf (Universite paris-1)

Session 3J: Cooperative Games

Saturday, July 13 2:00-3:15 PM
080 Moore
Chair:Walter Trockel

Papers

On the Equal Division Core
Anindya Bhattacharya (Universite de Caen)

Efficiency in Uncertain Cooperative Games
Hans Peters (university of Maastricht)
Walter Bossert (Universite de Montreal)
Jean Derks (University of Maastricht)

Balancedness and the Core in Economies with Asymmetric Information
Stefan Maus (University of Masstricht)

Session 3K: Matching and Incentives

Saturday, July 13 2:00-3:15 PM
25 Baxter
Chair:Bettina Klaus

Papers

Tradeproofness and the Matching Market
Murat Sertel (Bogazici Universitesi)
Ipek Ozkal Sanver (Bilgi University)

Matching Markets: The Particular Case of Couples
David Cantala (Universidad de Guanajuato)

Unique Cores in General Matching
Szilvia Papai (University of Notre Dame)

Session 3L: Binary Relations and Choice Functions

Saturday, July 13 2:00-3:15 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Wulf Gaertner

Papers

Distance Minimization with Non-binary Procedures
Christian Klamler (Graz University)
Nick Baigent (Graz University)

Comparison of Two Neutral and Monotonic Collective Choice Procedures by Two Complexities
Mark Johnson (Texas Christian University)

Transitive Closure, Proximity and Intransitivities
Nick Baigent (Graz University)
Christian Klamler (Graz University)

Session 3M: Opportunity

Saturday, July 13 3:25-4:15 PM
070 Moore
Chair:David Cantala

Papers

Filtral Preorders and Opportunity Inequality
Stefano Vannucci (Universita de Siena)
Ernesto Savaglio

The Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics in a Non-Welfaristic Approach
Koichi Tadenuma (Hitotsubashi University)
Yongsheng Xu (Georgia State University)

Session 3N: Strategy-Proofness and Fair Sharing

Saturday, July 13 3:25-4:15 PM
080 Moore
Chair:James Schummer

Papers

Collective Choice under Dichotomous Preferences
Herve Moulin (Rice University)
Yves Sprumont (University of Montreal)

Distributive Justice and Strategy-Proof Cost Sharing of a Public Good
Indranil Ghosh (Penn State Erie)

Session 3P: Voting Rules in Practice

Saturday, July 13 3:25-4:15 PM
25 Baxter
Chair:Ipek Ozkal Sanver

Papers

The Bloody Consequences of Lousy Voting Procedures
Peter Emerson (The de Borda Institute
Presented by Ashley Piggins
Queen's University of Belfast )

The Dichotomous Voting and the Disappointed Voter
Yasumi Matsumoto (Waseda University)

Session 3Q: Social Choice and Welfare Prize Lecture

Saturday, July 13 4:25-5:25 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Salvador Barbera

Endogenous Agenda Formation
Matthew Jackson (California Institute of Technology)

Session 3R: Meeting of the Editorial Board of Social Choice and Welfare

Saturday, July 13 5:30-6:00 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall

Session 3S: Meeting of the Members of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare

Saturday, July 13 6:00-6:30 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall

Session 3T: Reception

Saturday, July 13 6:30-8:30 PM
Dabney Gardens

Session 4A: Coalition Formation and Collusion

Sunday, July 14 9:00-10:40 AM
070 Moore
Chair:Alison Watts

Papers

Single-Peakedness and Disconnected Coalitions
D. Marc Kilgour (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Steven Brams (New York University)
Michael Jones (Montclair State University)

Forming Stable Coalitions: The Process Matters
Steven Brams (New York University)
Michael Jones (Montclair State University)
D. Marc Kilgour (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Stability of Cartels and the Incentive of Merger in Oligopoly Situations without Transferable Technologies
Holger Meinhardt (University of Karlsruhe)
Theo Driessen (University of Twente)

Bribing and Signaling in a Bayesian Setting
James Schummer (Northwestern University)
Peter Eso

Session 4B: Distributive Justice

Sunday, July 14 9:00-10:40 AM
080 Moore
Chair:Peter Hammond

Papers

Theories of Justice: Social Conditioning and Personal Responsibility in Roemer's Contribution
Nicola Acocella (University of Rome)

Endogenous Social Choice: Theory, Solution, and Applications
Serge-Christophe Kolm (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales)

Social Justice and Rationality: The Lessons of the Debate Opposing Rawls to Harsanyi
Feriel Kandil (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan)

Which is the Fairest One of All?: A Positive Analysis of Justice Theories
James Konow (Loyola Marymount University)

Session 4C: Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives

Sunday, July 14 9:00-10:40 AM
25 Baxter
Chair:Cesar Martinelli

Papers

An Extension to Arrow's Theorem
Tingjun Liu (University of California, Irvine)
Donald Saari

A Reexamination of Additivity of Power in Randomized Social Preference
Shasikanta Nandeibam (University of Birmingham)

Positional Information and Preference Aggregation
Robert Powers (University of Louisville)

Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives
Ton Storcken (Maastricht University)

Session 4D: Implementation

Sunday, July 14 9:00-10:40 AM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Francois Maniquet

Papers

The Relation Between Implementability and the Core
Eiichi Miyagawa (Columbia University)

Supra-Implementation with Transfers of Discrete Choices
Hatice Ozsoy (Bilkent Univresity)
Semih Koray (Bilkent University)

The Nash Implementation Problem when the Actual Outcome is Unknown to the Planner
Pablo Amoros (Universidad de Malaga)

Implementing Pareto Optimal and Individually Rational Outcomes by Veto
M. Remzi Sanver (Bilgi University)

Session 4E: Scoring Rules

Sunday, July 14 11:00-12:15 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Jean-Francois Laslier

Papers

On the Impact of Indifferent Voters on the Likelihood of Some Voting Paradoxes
Vincent Merlin (University of Caen)
Fabrice Valognes (University of Namur)

The Effectiveness of Weighted Scoring Rules when Pairwise Majority Rule Cycles Exist
William Gehrlein (University of Delaware)

Minimal Monotonic Extensions of Scoring Rules
Orhan Erdem (Istanbul Bilgi University)
M. Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University)

Session 4F: Fair Allocation Rules

Sunday, July 14 11:00-12:15 PM
070 Moore
Chair:William Thomson

Papers

Tax Implementability of Fair Allocations
Yukihiro Nishimura (Yokohama National University)

Multiple Assignment Problems of Indivisible Goods without Monetary Transfer
Eve Ramaekers (FUNDP)

Fairness in Non-rival Environments when Exclusion is Possible
Yves Sprumont (University of Montreal)
Francois Maniquet (University of Namur)

Session 4G: Electoral Competition

Sunday, July 14 11:00-12:15 PM
25 Baxter
Chair:James Snyder

Papers

Models of Electoral Competition
Peter Coughlin (University of Maryland)

Electoral Competition, Candidate Uncertainty, and Polling
John Duggan (University of Rochester)
Dan Bernhardt (University of Illinois)
Francesco Squintani (University of Rochester)

Session 4H: Ethics, Altruism, and Freedom

Sunday, July 14 11:00-12:15 PM
080 Moore
Chair:Stefano Vannucci

Papers

A Statistical Theory of Freedom
Vito Peragine (Universita' de Bari)
Marcello D'Agostino (Universita' de Ferrara)
Valentino Dardanoni (Universita' de Palermo)

Interdependent Utility Functions in an Intergenerational Context
Tomoichi Shinotsuka (Otaru University of Commerce)

Stability of Altruistic Utility Functions: Do Nice Guys Finish Sane?
David Ahn (Stanford University)

Session 4H1: Lunch

Sunday, July 14 12:15-2:00 PM

Session 4I: Income Measurement and Evaluation

Sunday, July 14 2:00-3:40 PM
070 Moore
Chair:Walter Bossert

Papers

Background Context Effects in Income Categorization
Christian Seidl (Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel)
Andrea Morone (Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel)

The Dutch Book Argument for Weighted Income Evaluations
Han Bleichrodt (Erasmus Univerity)
Enrico Diecidue (INSEAD)
Fabio Maccheroni

Unequal Uncertainties and Uncertain Inequalities: an Axiomatic Approach
Thibault Gajdos (Cnrs-Crest)
Eric Maurin (CREST-INSEE)

Session 4K: Majority rules

Sunday, July 14 2:00-3:40 PM
080 Moore
Chair:Michel Le Breton

Papers

The Majority Rule is the Maximally Decisive Member of the Family of Anonymous, Neutral, Pareto Optimal and Weakly Monotonic Aggregation Rules
Goksel Asan (Istanbul Bilgi University)
M. Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University)

Self-Stable Majority Rules for Weighted Voting Games
Honorata Sosnowska (Warsaw School of Economics)

Negotiation Processes and Clear-cut Decisions in a Committee
Laurent Vidu (Universite de Caen)

Complex Collective Decisions and the Probability of Collective Inconsistencies
Christian List (Nuffield College)

Session 4L: Sharing Rules

Sunday, July 14 2:00-3:40 PM
25 Baxter
Chair:Herve Moulin

Papers

A Theory of Rational Sabotage and How to Avoid it
Carmen Bevia (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Luis Corchon (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Allocation Rules for Land Division
Christopher Chambers (University of Rochester)

A Dynamic Look at Rationing Methods
Thierry Marchant (Universiteit Gent)

Session 4Q: Presidential Address

Sunday, July 14 3:50-4:50 PM
Baxter Lecture Hall
Chair:Maurice Salles

Dynamics and Groups in Social Choice
Salvador Barbera (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
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