Schedule for the Workshop on Economics, Game Theory, and the Internet
Friday, April 18th
8:15-9:00 A.M. Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00-9:05 A.M. Welcome to DIMACS, Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director
9:05-10:15 A.M. Herve Moulin, (Duke University)
Fair division under network externalities
10:30-11:45 A.M. Bill Sharkey, (Federal Communications Commission)
Economic Theory and Telecommunications Policy
after the Telecommunications Act of 1996
11:45-1:00 P.M. Lunch at DIMACS
1:00-2:30 P.M. Ken Binmore, (University College London)
Applying game theory to automated negotiation
Dean Foster, (Penn)
Calibrated Learning and Correlated Equilibrium
Eric Friedman, (Rutgers)
Learning and implementation on the Internet
2:30-3:00 P.M. Catherine Eckel, (National Science Foundation)
New NSF Initiatives
3:30-5:30 P.M. Alok Gupta, (Connecticut)
Designing Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Internet
Traffic Pricing
Yannis Korilis, (Lucent Technologies)
Pricing Noncooperative Networks
Nemo Semret, (Columbia)
The Dynamics of an Auction for Network Resource Sharing
Dale Stahl, (Texas-Austin)
The inefficiency of auctions in dynamic stochastic
environments
6:00-7:00 P.M. Reception at the Rutgers Economics Department,
3rd floor, New Jersey Hall.
Saturday, April 19th
8:15-9:00 A.M. Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00-10:15 A.M. Hal Varian, (U.C. Berkeley)
Intellectual property rights in a digital environment
10:30-11:45 A.M. Scott Shenker, (Xerox PARC)
Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to
ask about Economics, Game Theory and the Internet:
A Survey and Q&A session.
11:45-1:00 P.M. Lunch at DIMACS
1:00-2:30 P.M. Yannis Bakos, (U.C. Irvine)
Bundling Information Goods: Pricing Profits and Efficiency
Bernardo Huberman, (Xerox PARC)
Social Dilemmas and Internet Latencies
Yoav Shoham, (Stanford)
On the role of incentives in network-based applications
2:45 -4:15 P.M. Beth Allen, (Minnesota)
The economics of scientific data
Indrajit Ray, (York)
A simple model of slot allocation
Timothy VanZandt, (Princeton)
Information overload in a network of targeted communication
4:30 -6:00 P.M. Van Kolpin, (Oregon)
Equitable pricing of directed use networks
Deborah Minehart, (Boston U.)
Link patterns in buyer-supplier networks:
incentives and efficiency in graphs
Anne Van de Nouveland, (Oregon)
A one-stage model of link formation and payoff division