The 10
th
Annual IMBS Graduate Student Conference
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 in SSPA 2112
9:00 Welcome/ Coee
Session I: Behavior in Experiments
Session Chair: Heidi Tucholski
9:10
Ryan Kendall
, Economics
Strategic Behavior in an Open and Sequential Vote: An Experimental Test
9:40
Daniel Jessie
, IMBS
Testing the Quantal Response Equilibrium (QRE)
10:10
Michael Caldara
, Economics
Bidding Behavior in Pay-to-Bid Auctions: An Experimental Study
10:40 Ten Minute Break
Session II: Social Issues
Session Chair: Ryan Kendall
10:50
Fan Jiang
, Economics
The Welfare Eect of Intermediation: A Theoretical Exploration of Markets with Wholesale Trade
11:20
Bennett Holman
, LPS
Rethinking Evidence in Evidence-based Medicine
11:50
Ray Mendoza
, IMBS
Syntax-based Collocation Extraction Methods and Cluster Separation of Verbs
12:20 Lunch Break
Session III: Problems with Aggregation
Session Chair: Ryan Kendall
1:20
Heidi Tucholski
, IMBS
Military Retention Bonuses: Combating Information Asymmetry and Cheap Signals
1:50
Matt Glass
, LPS
Impossibility in Judgment Aggregation: A Geometric Proof
2:20
Lisa Guo
, IMBS/Statistics
Scientic Studies on Aesthetic Judgments
2:50 Ten Minute Break
Session IV: Group Behavior
Session Chair: Kalin Agrawal
3:00
Justin Bruner
, LPS
Diversity, Tolerance and the Social Contract
3:30
Andy Porter
, Economics
Dispersed Information: Experts and Investment Decisions
4:00 Ten Minute Break
4:10
Giorgio Gosti
, IMBS
The Evolution of Naming Conventions
4:40
Tomas McIntee
, IMBS
Methods of Estimating the Probability of Cyclic Pairwise Preferences
5:10 Discussion/ Happy Hour
Conference co-organizers: Kalin Agrawal, Ryan Kendall, and Heidi Tucholski.