Economic Theory 2011-2012
Fall 2011 Schedule
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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September 12th | Andrea Prat | Screening with an Approximate Type Space (with Kristof Madarasz) |
September 19th | Simon Board | Relational Contracts in Competitive Labor Markets (with Moritz Meyer-Ter-Vehn) |
September 26th | Xavier Gabaix | Game Theory with Sparsity-Based Bounded Rationality |
October 3rd | Jeff Ely | Overbooking (with Daniel Garrett and Toomas Hinnosaar) |
October 10th | Takakazu Honryo | Dynamic Persuasion |
October 17th | Fuhito Kojima | Promoting School Competition Through School Choice: A Market Design Approach (with John W. Hatfield and Yusuke Narita) |
October 24th | Jidong Zhou | Exploding Offers and Buy-Now Discounts (with Mark Armstrong) |
October 31st | Eduardo Perez Richet | Complicating to Persuade? (with Delphine Prady) |
November 7th | In-Uck Park | Seller Reputation and Trust in Pre-Trade Communication (with Bruno Jullien) |
November 14th | Konrad Mierendorff | Optimal Dynamic Mechanism Design with Deadlines |
November 21st | Mike Whinston | Property Rights and Bargaining Inefficiency (with Ilya Segal) |
November 28th | Alexander Wolitzky | Reputational Bargaining with Minimal Knowledge of Rationality |
December 5th | Bruno Strulovici | Contracts, Information Persistence, and Renegotiation |
Spring 2012 Schedule
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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February 13th | Jinwoo Kim | Generalization Reduced-Form Auctions: A Network-Flow Appraoch (with Yeon-Koo Che and Konrad Mierendorff |
February 20th | Tri Vi Dang | Ignorance, Debt and Financial Crisis |
February 27th | Pierre Fleckinger | Incentives for Qualtity in Friendly and Hostile Informational Environments (with Matthieu Glachant and Gabrielle Moineville) |
March 5th | Juan Carrillo | Resource Allocation in the Brain (with Ricardo Alonso and Isabelle Brocas) |
March 12th | Spring Break | |
March19th | Pierpaolo Battigalli | Selfconfirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainity (with S. Cerreia-Vioglio, F. Maccheroni, and M. Marinacci) |
March 26th | Roland Strausz | Hierarchical Structures and Dynamic Incentives (with Dongsoo Shin) |
April 2nd | Mark Dean | Estimating the Relationship between Economic Preferences: A Testing Ground for Unified Theories of Behavior |
April 9th | Prajit Dutta | Bargaining and the Nash Solution |
April 16th | Kalyan Chatterjee | Credibility and Strategic Learning in Networks (with Bhaskar Dutta) |
April 23rd | Dilip Mookherjee | Mechanism Design with Communication Constraints (with Masatoshi Tsumagari) |
April 30th | Jun Xiao | Asymmetric All-Pay Contests with Heterogeneous Prizes |