Economic Theory 2011-2012
Fall 2011 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |