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2008-2009 Bag Lunches
09/25/08	Lance Fortnow McC Electrical Engineering and Computer Science "Program Equilibria and Discounted Computation Time" Research Page
10/02/08	Siyang Xiong NU Economics Dept. "Topologies on types: connections" (with Yi-Chun Chen)
10/07/08	SPECIAL SEMINAR: 12:00-1:00 ROOM CHANGE: 561 Jacobs Nick Netzer University of Zurich "Competition without Commitment" ABSTRACT Research Page
10/09/08	Jason Hartline McC Electrical Engineering and Computer Science "Approximation in Multi-dimensional Pricing" ABSTRACT Research Page
10/16/08	Bard Harstad NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. "The Dynamics of Climate Agreements" ABSTRACT Research Page
10/21/08	SPECIAL SEMINAR: 12:10-1:10 Serra Boranday Ph D Student, NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. "Sequential and Simultaneous Budget Making Under Different Voting Rules" Part One; Part Two
10/23/08	Andras Niedermayer NU Kellogg Math Center "Fee Setting Intermediaries: On Real Estate Agents, Stock Brokers, and Auction Houses" Research Page
10/30/08	Glen Weyl Harvard University "Monopolies in Two-Sided Markets: Comparative Statics and Identification" SLIDES Research Page
11/06/08	Pierpaolo Battigalli Università Bocconi "Context Dependent Forward Induction Reasoning" Slides Research Page
11/13/08	Po Han Fong NU Kellogg Management & Strategy Dept. "Path-Dependent Policy Dynamics in Stochastic Environments" Abstract Research Page
11/20/08	Julio Gonzales-Diaz NU Kellogg Math Center "Repeated Random Matching Games: Community Enforcement Beyond the Prisoner's Dilemma" Research Page
12/04/08	Daniele Condorelli NU Kellogg Math Center Research Page Weak Cartels at Standard Auctions Abstract
12/11/08	Alessandro Pavan NU Economics Dept. Dynamic Mechanism Design Research Page
04/02/09	Todd Sarver ROOM: G43 Jacobs NU Economics Dept. A Subjective Model of Temporal Preferences (with Haluk Ergin) ABSTRACT Research Page
04/03/09	SPECIAL SEMINAR: 12:00-1:00 Nejat Anbarci ROOM: 561 Jacobs Deakin University, Australia Interim Outcomes and Bargaining Solutions Research Page
04/09/09	Room: G44 Jacobs Vlad Mares NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Preemption and Jump Bidding: the Case Against Information Agregation Abstract
04/16/09	Drew Fudenberg ROOM: G44 Jacobs THIS TALK WILL END AT 1:45 Harvard University Perfect Public Ex-Post Equilibria of Repeated Games with Uncertain Outcomes ABSTRACT Research Page
04/23/09	Wojciech Olszewski ROOM: G44 Jacobs NU Economics Dept. The principal-agent approach to testing experts (with Marcin Peski) ABSTRACT Research Page
04/30/09	Ron Siegel ROOM: G42 Jacobs NU Economics Dept. Hiring in Labor Markets with Information Revelation (with Jeff Ely) ABSTRACT Research Page
05/07/09	Ehud Kalai ROOM: G44 Jacobs NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. A Cooperative/Competitive Solution to a Class of Strategic Games (with Adam Tauman Kalai) Research Page
05/08/09	SPECIAL SEMINAR: 12:10-1:10 José Heleno Faro ROOM: G42 Jacobs FACE - UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Variational Bewley Preferences ABSTRACT Research Page
05/12/09	SPECIAL SEMINAR: 1:00-2:30 STUDENTS ONLY ROOM: G43 Jacobs David Levine Washington University Repeated Games in Continuous Time Research Page
05/14/09	Yuval Salant ROOM: G44 Jacobs NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Eliciting Preferences from Choices with Consistent Mistakes Research Page
05/21/09	Nabil Al-Najjar ROOM: G42 Jacobs NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. A Subjective Foundation of Objective Probability (with Luciano de Castro) ABSTRACT Research Page
05/28/09	Eran Shmaya ROOM: G44 Jacobs NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. The determinacy of infinite games with eventual perfect monitoring ABSTRACT Research Page
06/04/09	Joaquin Poblete ROOM: G43 Jacobs NU Kellogg MECS PhD student The Limited Liability Agency Model with Moral Hazard (with Daniel Spulber) ABSTRACT

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2007-2008 Bag Lunches 2007-2008 Coordinator: Antoine Loeper
09/27/07	Tomasz Strzalecki Ph.D. Candidate in WCAS Economics Dept. Axiomatic Foundations of Multiplier Preferences Research Page
10/04/07	Frances Xu Ph.D. Candidate in Kellogg MEDS Dept. Optimal Best-Price Policy
10/11/07	Konstantinos E. Zachariadis Ph.D. Candidate in Kellogg MEDS Dept. Derivation of Rational Equilibrium Prices in a Sequential Market with a Common Value Component: A Baseline Model
10/16/07	NEW ROOM: G45 JACOBS Andrei Barbos Ph.D. Candidate in WCAS Economics Dept. Context Effects: A Representation of Choices from Categories
10/18/07	Joyee Deb Ph.D. Candidate in Kellogg MEDS Dept. Cooperation and Community Responsibility: A Folk Theorem for Repeated Matching Games with Names
10/25/07	Luca Rigotti Duke University Knightian uncertainty and incomplete preferences: an introduction and some applications Research Page
11/01/07	Nenad Kos Ph.D. Candidate in WCAS Economics Dept. Communication and Efficiency in Auctions
11/08/07	Peter Eso NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Multi-sender dynamic cheap talk with imperfect observation (with Yuk-fai Fong, Kellogg Mgmt. and Strategy Dept.) Research Page
11/15/07	François Maniquet CORE, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium On the informational efficiency of approval voting in large elections Research Page
11/29/07	Olivier Gossner PSE, Paris, visiting NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Evolution, rationality and adaptation in a changing environment (with Christoph Kuzmics) Research Page
12/06/07	Nabil Al-Najjar NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Learnability and the Testing of Experts (with A. Sandroni, R. Smorodinsky, and J. Weinstein) Research Page
03/06/08	Andras Niedermayer NU Kellogg Math Center Postdoc Optimal Intermediation Mechanisms Research Page
04/03/08	Marciano Siniscalchi WCAS Economics Dept. Three Easy Pieces: Applications of Vector Expected Utility Research Page
04/08/08	Graduate Students only Seminar ROOM CHANGE: Jacobs G42 Faruk Gul Princeton University Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Risk Research Page
04/10/08	Ron Siegel WCAS Economics Dept. Licensing with Limited Instruments Research Page
04/15/08	SPECIAL SEMINAR: 3:30-500 ROOM CHANGE: Jacobs G42 Mihai Manea Harvard University Bargaining on Networks Research Page
04/17/08	Luis Corchon Universidad Carlos III, Madrid Peace Agreements Without Commitment Research Page
04/24/08	Christoph Kuzmics NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Hidden Symmetries and Focal Points Research Page
05/01/08	Gabrielle Demange Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE) A communication game on electoral platforms (with Karine Van der Straeten) ABSTRACT Research Page
05/06/08	SPECIAL SEMINAR ROOM CHANGE: Jacobs G42 Tilman Borgers University of Michigan When are Signals Complements or Substitutes? (with Daniel Krahmer and Angel Hernando-Veciana) Research Page
05/08/08	Peter Klibanoff NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Updating ambiguity averse preferences Research Page
05/15/08	Alp Atakan NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Reputation With Long Run Players Research Page
05/22/08	Marco Ottaviani NU Kellogg Management and Strategy Dept. The Organization of Search for Innovation (with Tracy R. Lewis) Research Page
05/29/08	Mehmet Ekmekci NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Bargaining and Reputation in Search Markets (with Alp Atakan) Research Page

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2006-2007 Bag Lunches 2006-2007 Coordinator: Jonathan Weinstein
09/21/06	Alexei Alexandrov Ph.D. Candidate in NU Managerial Economics and Strategy Fat Products Research Page
09/28/06 166 Jacobs	Ehud Kalai NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. An Approach to Bounded Rationality (with A. Kalai and E. Ben-Sasson)
10/05/06	Itai Sher Ph.D. Candidate in NU Economics Dept. A Model of Persuasion
10/12/06	Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu Ph.D. Candidate in NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Incentives for Quality through Endogenous Routing (with Jan Van Mieghem and Canan Savaskan)
10/19/06	Sourav Bhattacharya Doctoral Candidate, Managerial Economics and Strategy Can Voting Solve the Information Problem in Large Elections?
10/26/06	Elchanan Ben-Porath Hebrew University of Jerusalem Trade with Heterogeneous Beliefs Research Page
11/02/06	Lance Fortnow University of Chicago- Computer Science Department On The Complexity of Testing Forecasts (with Rakesh Vohra)
11/09/06	Che-Lin Su NU Kellogg Math Center Stock Options and Chief Executive Officer Compensation and Computation of Moral Hazard Problems (with Christopher Armstrong and David Larcker) Research Page
11/16/06	Nabil Al-Najjar NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Decision Makers are Statisticians: Diversity, Ambiguity, and Belief Formation Research Page
11/30/06	Alp Atakan NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Small Efficient Auctions in Decentralized Matching with Incomplete Information Research Page
12/07/06	Miguel Melendez NU Kellogg Math Center Voting in small networks with cross-pressure (with Ascension Andina-Diaz, Universidad de Murcia) Research Page
03/01/07	Ehud Kalai NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Conditional Commitments (with A. Kalai, D. Samet and E. Lehrer) Abstract Research Page
03/08/07	Jeff Ely NU Economics Dept. Kludged Research Page
03/28/07	Peter Klibanoff NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Updating Preferences with Multiple Priors (with Eran Hanany) Research Page
04/05/07	Julio Gonzalez-Diaz NU Kellogg Math Center Essentializing equilibrium concepts Research Page
04/12/07	Christoph Kuzmics NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Refined best-response correspondence and dynamics Research Page
04/19/07	Daniel Diermeier NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Policy Dynamics and Legislative Bargaining (with Pohan Fong) Research Page
04/26/07	Matthew Jackson Stanford University Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and the Wisdom of Crowds
05/03/07	Jonathan Weinstein NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Comparative Testing of Experts (with Nabil Al-Najjar) Research Page
05/10/07	Alessandro Pavan NU Department of Economics On The Effects of Shocks on Long-term Contracting Research Page
05/17/07	Eyal Beigman NU Kellogg Math Center Learning From Revealed Preference
05/24/07	Rakesh Vohra NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. A Characterization of Revenue Equivalence Research Page
05/31/07	Florian Herold NU Kellogg MEDS Dept. Contractual Incompleteness as a Signal of Trust Research Page

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2005-2006
June 8	ROOM CHANGE: 276 Jacobs Peter Klibanoff NU Kellogg MEDS Recursive Smooth Ambiguity Preferences (with Massimo Marinacci and Sujoy Mukerji) Research Page
June 1	ROOM CHANGE: 276 Jacobs James Schummer NU Kellogg MEDS Credible Deviations from Signaling Equilibria" (with Péter Esö, NU Kellogg MEDS) Research Page
May 25	*ROOM CHANGE: 276 Jacobs* Ehud Kalai NU Kellogg MEDS Price Stability in Large Market Games Research Page
May 18	Nabil Al-Najjar NU Kellogg MEDS Learning and the Common Prior Assumption Research Page
May 11	Miguel A. Melendez-Jimenez Post-doc, NU Kellogg Math Center Exploitation and Cooperation in Networks (with Andrea Galeotti, Cal Tech) Research Page
May 4	Jeff Ely NU Economics Dept. Common Learning Research Page
April 27	Wojciech Olszewski NU Economics Dept. Strategic Manipulation of Empirical Tests (with Alvaro Sandroni) Research Page
April 20	Ariel Rubinstein Tel Aviv University Instinctive and Cognitive Reasoning: A Study of Response Times Research Page
April 13	Alp Atakan NU Kellogg MEDS Research Page Efficient Matching with Explicit Search Frictions
April 6	*NOTE ROOM CHANGE: 1246 Jacobs* Robert Merton, Harvard (Schwartz Lecture speaker) Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure (with Zve Bodie) Research Page
March 30	Johannes Horner NU Kellogg MEDS Public vs. Private Offers in the Market for Lemons ( with Nicolas Vieille) Research Page
Dec. 1	Tapas Kundu NU Kellogg MEDS Monopoly Pricing under the Medicaid-Style Most-Favored-Customer Clause and Its Welfare Implication (with Peter Klibanoff)
Dec. 8	Yuk-Fai Fong NU Kellogg Management & Strategy Research Page Intertemporal Bundling and Tacit Collusion (with James Dana)
Nov. 24	Thanksgiving
Nov. 17	Christoph Kuzmics NU Kellogg/MEDS Research Page The Evolution of Morality
Nov. 10	Che-Lin Su NU Kellogg Math Center Research Page Optimal income taxation with multidimensional taxpayer types (with Kenneth Judd)
Nov. 3	Jonathan Weinstein NU Kellogg/MEDS A new equilibrium in the classic Blotto game
Oct. 27	Alessandro Pavan NU WCAS/Economics Research Page Efficiency and Welfare under Asymmetric Information
Oct. 20	Charles Zheng NU WCAS/Economics Research Page The General Equilibrium of Common Agencies
Oct. 13	Eran Shmaya Tel Aviv University When are two information structures equivalent? (with Ehud Lehrer and Dinah Rosenberg)
Oct. 6	Olivier Gossner NU Kellogg/MEDS Research Page Ability and Knowledge
Sept. 29	Ehud Kalai NU Kellogg/MEDS Research Page Partially Specified Large Games

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2004-2005
March 31	Wojciech Olszewski NU Economics Dept A Welfare Analysis of Arbitration Figures

April 7	Tomasz Strzalecki NU Economics Dept Subjective Beliefs and Ex-Ante Agreeable Trade

April 14	John Ledyard Cal Tech Voting and Efficient Public Good Mechanisms

April 21	Andrew Postlewaite University of Pennsylvania Aggregation of Expert Opinions

April 28	Antonio Nicolo, University of Padua, Italy Efficient and Stable Collective Choices under Crowding Preferences (with Jordi Masso).

May 5	Charles Zheng NU Economics Dept (joint with Siyang Xiong) Core Equivalence Theorem and Corporate Governance

May 12	Peter Eso NU Kellogg MEDS "Should I Work on behavioral, or Standard Economic Theory? Costly Signalling in a Career Concern Model."

May 19	Matthias Dahm Visiting Scholar, CMS-EMS Side-Effects of Campaign Finance Reform

May 26	Eduardo Faingold University of Pennsylvania "Building a Reputation under Frequent Decisions"

June 2	Adam Galambos NU Kellogg MEDS Acyclic Sets of Linear Orders (with Victor Reiner)

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