Conference 2013

Québec Political Economy Conference

The 1st Mont Tremblant conference in Political Economy will take place on the 15-17 of march 2013 in Mont Tremblant, Québec Canada.

The conference is organized by Decio Coviello (HEC Montréal) and Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC Montréal) with the support of the Québec Political Economy Study Group (Groupe d'Étude en Économie Politique).

Conference Program

The conference will start friday morning but we encourage people to be in Mont Tremblant thursday 14th in the evening. The conference will end on sunday 17th in the evening.

Papers:

Coviello Decio (HEC Montréal) "Publicity requirements in public procurement" with M. Mariniello

Crutzen Benoit (Erasmus Univerisity Rotterdam) "Non-competitive primaries" with N. Sahuguet

Arianna Degan (UQAM) "Persuasive Signalling" (joint with Ming Li)

Alessandro Gavazza (NYU) "A Quantitative Analysis of the Used-Car Market" with A. Lizzeri and N. Koketskiy

Sandy Gordon (NYU) "Gridlock Federalism" with D. Landa

Marie-Louise Leroux (UQAM) "Behavioral Biases and Long Term Care Insurance :A Political Economy Approach" with Philippe De Donder

Alessandro Lizzerri (NYU) "Collective self control"

Nicola Persico (Northwestern University) "The Political Economy of Occupational Licensing Associations"

Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC Montréal) "Hub and spoke collusion", with A. Walckiers

Accomodation

The hotel for the conference is Le Kandahar. (See details for accomodation)

Here is the form to reserve the hotel (you can either fax the form or call them). (form)

Note that there will be additional fees of approximately 150 dollars per person to cover the conference room, the lunch and the coffee breaks.

Travelling

For travelling, there are several possibilities.

Porter Airlines have flights directly to the Mont Tremblant airport from Boston, New York and Chicago (www.flyporter.com). Surprisingly this is a cheap option.

f you are flying with Porters Airline the shuttle service is free and included. However, please make sure to call Porters in advance and make a reservation for a shuttle for the Tremblant resort , Hotel Le Kandhar. If you do it at the check-in it might be too late.

Otherwise, Mont Tremblant is approximately 120 kms from Montréal and its international airport. In that case, you can consider renting a car or contact the local organizers to see if we can arrange something.

The participants' list: (confirmed their participation)

Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC Montréal) (with a car, leaving from MTL on thursday afternoon)

Decio Coviello (HEC Montréal) (with a jeep, leaving MTL on thursday afternoon)

Arianna Degan (UQAM)

Ming Li (Concordia University)

Nicola Persico (Northwestern University)

Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University)

Benoit Crutzen (Rotterdam University)

Alessandro Gavazza (New York University)

Marie-Louise Leroux (UQAM)

Sandy Gordon (New York University)

Local Contact

Nicolas Sahuguet (nicolas.sahuguet(at)hec.ca )

Decio Coviello (decio.coviello(at)hec.ca )