15 th East Asia Theory Conference

December 7, 2024

About

Date: December 7, 2024 (Saturday)

Venue:  HKU iCube (4005-07 Two Exchange Square, Central)

Organizers: Kong-Pin Chen, Hideshi Itoh, Hiroshi Osano, Wing Suen, and Seung Han Yoo

Host: HKU Business School

Registration: Please register here. Registration is free; all are welcome.

Conference Program

9:00-9:30am 

Registration

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Session 1 (Chair: Kong-Pin Chen)

Changhyun Kwak

“Screening without single-crossing: A general approach”

Changhyun Kwak (Academia Sinica)

“Equivalent mechanisms for information intermediation”

Wenji Xu (City University of Hong Kong)

11:00am-11:20am

Coffee break

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Session 2 (Chair: Hiroshi Osano)

“The value of information in oligopoly with endogenous entry”

Jihwan Do (Yonsei University)

“Sponsored review”

Sunya Nuta (Osaka University)

12:50 pm-2:00 pm

Lunch break

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Session 3 (Chair: Seung Han Yoo)

“Collective choice with limited commitment: A case for vague politics”

Carl Heese (University of Hong Kong)

“Robust exchange”

Yosuke Yasuda (Osaka University)

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Coffee break

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Session 4 (Chair: Wei-Cheng Chen)

“A theory of endogenous time preference: Search-theoretic approaches”

Joosung Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)

“Alpha-Maxmin updating rules for ambiguous information”

Yi-Hsuan Lin (Academia Sinica)

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm 

Conference Dinner