On February 1st, all PhD scholars and professors involved in the Graduate School met in Bad Herrenalb for this year’s IME Spring Colloquium.
As in the last colloquium we had parallel sessions and a discussant for each talk who was assigned in advance.
After the address of welcome we started with the presentation of our current research activities.
The first session was a plenary session with presentations by Saartje Brockmans and Steffen Lamparter, who were discussed by Heiko Schepperle and Stefan Seifert.
After lunch we continued with parallel sessions.
In the plenary room Janos Kunze and Cora Schäfer presented their advancements, while in the conference room Michael Blume and Carolina Laborde presented their work. The discussants were Yalin Gündüz, Stefan Luckner, Xin Chen and Kendra Stockmar.
In the second parallel session Yalin Gündüz and Jörn Dermietzel held their talks in parallel to Jan Krämer and Xin Chen. These talks were commented by Michael Blume, Ralf Löschel, Nicolas Gaus and Saartje Brockmans.
In the last session of the day Stefan Seifert and Stefan Luckner presented their research. They were discussed by Jonas Kunze and Cora Schäfer.
The Professor’s meeting was held before diner and afterwards we visited a nearby hotel, where we had the chance to do bowling.
The first session on Friday was a plenary session again with presentations by Kendra Stockmar and Christoph Sorge, who were discussed by Carolina Laborde and Steffen Lamparter.
The second session was a parallel session with the talks of Nicolas Gaus and Ralf Löschel (discussed by Jan Krämer and Jörn Dermietzel) in the plenary room and the talks of Moritz Killat and Heiko Schepperle in the Conference room. These talks were commented by Christoph Sorge and Moritz Killat.
After the lunch break we had time for single talks and discussions with the first and second supervisors.
The whole event was closed with an organization session where we discussed the advances in the Graduate School and the time schedule for the upcoming semester.
The topics of the talks were:
| Michael Blume |
Analyzing Markets as Networks |
| Saartje Brockmans |
Integrating knowledge using metamodels |
| Xin Chen |
Competition between e-Auction Marketplaces |
| Jörn Dermietzel |
Heterogeneous Trading Horizons in an Artificial Stock Market |
| Nicolas Gauß |
Innovative markets and their assessment under Article 82 EC Treaty (ECT) |
| Yalin Gündüz |
Empirical Comparison of Credit Risk Frameworks |
| Moritz Killat |
Impact of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) on traffic safety |
| Jonas Kunze |
Fitting Heuristics to Decision Data in Dynamic Systems |
| Jan Krämer |
Bundling as a Quality Commitment Device in Vertical Product Differentiation |
| Carolina Laborde |
Electronic Signatures in International Contracts |
| Steffen Lamparter |
Towards Policies for Automated Web Service Contracting |
| Ralf Löschel |
Allocating CO2 Emission Permits within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme |
| Stefan Luckner |
A Field Experiment on Monetary Incentives in Prediction Markets |
| Cora Schäfer |
Contextual effects in online social networks |
| Heiko Schepperle |
DAMAST - Driver Assistance using Multi-Agent-Systems in Traffic |
| Stefan Seifert |
Overconfidence and Trade of Common Value Items in Double Auctions |
| Christoph Sorge |
Recommendations in Peer-to-Peer networks |
| Kendra Stockmar |
Legal and Economic Issues of the Promotion of Open Access |