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	Venice Summer Institute 2008 Workshop on Advances in the Theory of Contests and its Applications Venice International University, San Servolo, 18 - 19 July 2008
	Programme
	Friday, 18 July 2008
08:50 - 9:00	Welcome KAI A. KONRAD and DAN KOVENOCK

9:00 - 9:40	The Nature of Tournaments ROBERT AKERLOF and Richard T. Holden Discussant: Theofanis Tsoulouhas
9:40 - 10:20	Multi-Player Contests with Asymmetric Information KARL WÄRNERYD Discussant: Johannes Münster
10:20 - 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:20	Distributing Two Prizes in teh All-Pay Auction JULIA SCHMID and Dietmar Fehr Discussant: Roman Sheremeta
11:20 - 12:00	Sequential Two-Prizes Contests ANER SELA Discussant: Kai Konrad
12:00 - 13:20	Lunch
13:20 - 14:00	The Optimal Multi-Stage Contest QIANG FU and Jingfeng Lu Discussant: Tilman Klumpp
14:00 - 15:00	Keynote Lecture Applications of Order-Statistics to Multi-Prize Contests BENNY MOLDOVANU
15:00 - 15:20	Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:00	Risk Aversion in Symmetric and Asymmetric Contests ROGER HARTLEY and Richard Cornes Discussant: Oliver Gürtler
16:00 - 16:50 19:30	Charity Auctions for the Happy Few OLIVIER BOS Discussant: Arye Hillman Conference Dinner
	Saturday, 19 July 2008
08:30 - 09:10	Contests with Rank-Order Spillovers MICHAEL R. BAYE, Dan Kovenock and Casper G. de Vries Discussant: Murali Agastya
09:10 - 09:50	The Non-Constant-Sum Colonel Blotto Game BRIAN ROBERSON and Dimitry Kvasov Discussant: Wolfgang Leininger
09:50 - 10:10	Coffee Break
10:10 - 10:50	Contest Success Function with the Possibility of a Draw: Axiomatization PAVLO R. BLAVATSKYY Discussant: Dan Kovenock
10:50 - 11:50	Endogenous Entry in Contests JOHN MORGAN
11:50 - 12:10	Coffee Break
12:10 - 12:50	Persuasion as a Contest STERGIOS SKAPERDAS and Samarth Vaidya Discussant: Arye Hillman

12:50 - 13:30	Communication of Preferences in Contests for Contracts TODD R. KAPLAN Discussant: Martin Beckman
13:30	Lunch End of Conference

Venice Summer Institute 2008 Workshop on Advances in the Theory of Contests and its Applications

Venice International University,

San Servolo, 18 - 19 July 2008

Programme

Friday, 18 July 2008

Saturday, 19 July 2008

Venice Summer Institute 2008

Workshop on
Advances in the Theory of Contests and its Applications