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2022 Spring Theory Workshops

3/30/2022

Bard Harstad
University of Oslo
The Conservation Multiplier
Research Page
*Relocated to 4101

4/6/2022

Caroline Thomas
University of Texas at Austin
Social Choice under Gradual Learning
Research Page

4/13/2022

Pietro Ortoleva
Princeton University
Caution and Reference Effects
Research Page
*Relocated to 4101

4/20/2022

Vasiliki Skreta
University of Texas, Austin
Fraud-Proof Non-Market Allocation Mechanisms
Research Page

4/27/2022

David Kreps
Stanford University
Should Economics Abandon De Gustibus?
Research Page

5/4/2022

Mike Ostrovsky
Stanford University
Choice Screen Auctions
Research Page

5/11/2022

Alexander Jakobsen
University of Calgary
Revealed Persuasion
Research page

5/18/2022

Fernando Vega-Redondo
Bocconi University
"Riot Networks and the Tullock Paradox: An Application to the Egyptian Arab Spring"
Research Page
*Relocated to 4101

5/25/2022

Mohammad Akbarpour
Stanford University
Title TBA
Research Page
*Relocated to 4101




2021 Fall Theory Workshops

9/22/2021

Kevin He
University of Pennsylvania
Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specifications: Theory and Applications
Research Page

9/29/2021

Omer Tamuz
California Institute of Technology
Private Private Information
Research Page

10/6/2021

Xiaosheng Mu
Princeton University
Monotone Additive Statistics
Research Page
*Relocated to 5301

10/13/2021

No Seminar


10/20/2021

Krishna Dasaratha
Yale University
Innovation and Strategic Network Formation
Research Page

10/27/2021

Federico Echenique
California Institute of Technology
Preference Identification
Research Page

11/3/2021

No Seminar


11/10/2021

Nicole Immorlica
Microsoft Research
Communicating with Anecdotes
Research Page
*Relocated to 5301

11/17/2021

Arjada Bardhi
Duke University
Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics
Research Page

12/1/2021

Sylvain Chassang
Princeton University
"Using Divide and Conquer to Improve Tax Collection: Theory, Evidence, and More Theory"
Research Page

2021 Spring Theory Workshops

4/7/2021

Maryam Farboodi
MIT Sloan School of Management
The Emergence of Market Structure
Research Page

4/21/2021

Gabriel Carroll
University of Toronto
Dynamic Incentives in Incompletely Specified Environments
Research Page

4/28/2021

Yuhta Ishii
Pennsylvania State University
Title TBA
Research Page

5/12/2021

Juuso Toikka
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
On Efficiency in Optimal Mechanisms
Research Page

5/19/2021

Ben Brooks
Columbia University
A Strong Minimax Theorem for Informationally-Robust Auction Design
Research Page

5/26/2021

Aniko Ory
Yale School of Management
Aiming for the Goal: Contribution Dynamics of Crowdfunding
Research Page

2020 Fall Theory Workshops

9/23/2020

Shengwu Li
Harvard University
Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms
Research Page

9/30/2020

Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
UCLA
Learning Dynamics on Social Networks
Research Page
*This seminar has been moved to 12:00-1:30pm

10/14/2020

Shaowei Ke
University of Michigan
Behavioral Neural Networks
Research Page

11/11/2020

Marzena Rostek
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Exchange Design and Efficiency
Research Page

11/18/2020

Yeon-Koo Che
Columbia University
Weak Monotone Comparative Statics
Research Page

12/2/2020

Marina Halac
Yale University
Rank Uncertainty in Organizations
Research Page




2019 Fall Theory Workshops

9/25/2019

Laura Doval
California Institute of Technology
"Optimal Mechanism for the Sale of a Durable Good"
Research Page

10/2/2019

Toomas Hinnosaar
Collegio Carlo Alberto
"Price Setting on a Network"
Research Page

10/9/2019

Chris Shannon
University of California, Berkeley
"Detectability, Duality, and Surplus Extraction"
Research Page

10/16/2019

Geoffroy de Clippel
Brown University
"Bargaining over Contingent Contracts under Incomplete Information"
Research Page

10/23/2019

Luciano Pomatto
California Institute of Technology
"The Cost of Information"
Research Page

10/30/2019

Jakub Steiner
CERGE-EI and the University of Zurich
"Attention Please!"
Research Page

11/6/2019

Ben Golub
Harvard University
"Targeting Interventions in Networks: Coordination, Cohesion, and Welfare"
Research Page

11/13/2019

Ron Siegel
Pennsylvania State University
"Pareto Improving Segmentation of Multi-product Markets"
Research Page
*Relocated to 5301

11/20/2019

Andrew McClellan
The University of Chicago
"Outside Options and Efficient Bargaining Dynamics"
Research Page

11/27/2019

No Seminar

12/4/2019

Gonzalo Cisternas
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
"Signaling with Private Monitoring"
Research Page

2018-2019 Spring Theory Workshops

4/3/2019

Anton Kolotilin
UNSW Business School
Persuasion Meets Delegation
Research Page

4/10/2019

Chiara Margaria
Yale University
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: Intra-Household Earning Distribution and Marriage Durability"
Research Page

4/17/2019

Daniel Rappoport
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Evidence and Skepticism in Verifiable Disclosure Games
Research Page

4/24/2019

Faruk Gul
Princeton University
Title TBA
Research Page

5/1/2019

No Seminar

5/8/2019

No Seminar

5/15/2019

David Kreps
Stanford Graduate School of Business
"Starting Small to Screen for Mr. Good Bob"
Research Page
*Relocated to 4101

5/22/2019

Andreas Kleiner
Arizona State University
Title TBA
Research Page

5/29/2019

Drew Fudenberg
MIT Economics
Title TBA
Research Page

6/5/2019

Alessandro Bonatti
MIT Sloan School of Management
Title TBA
Research Page

 

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2018-2019 Fall Theory Workshops

9/26/2018

Mira Frick
Yale University
Misinterpreting Others and the Fragility of Social Learning
Research Page

10/3/2018

Stephan Lauermann
Bonn University
Informal Elections with Dispersed Information
Research Page

10/10/2018

Gilat Levy
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Moderate Views can be Ignored: Using Maximum Likelihood for Combining Forecasts
Research Page

10/17/2018

George-Marios Angeletos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Myopia and Anchoring
Research Page

10/24/2018

Nicolas Lambert
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Dynamic Belief Elicitation
Research Page

10/31/2018

Eduardo Azevedo
University of Pennsylvania
A/B Testing for Black Swans
Research Page

11/7/2018

Paolo Piacquaido
University of Oslo
The Measurement of Individual and Social Deprivation
Research Page

11/14/2018

Larry Samuelson
Yale University
The Wisdom of a Confused Crowd: Model-Based Inference
Research Page

11/21/2018

NO SEMINAR

11/28/2018

Qingmin Liu
Columbia University
Title TBA
Research Page

12/5/2018

Tymofiy Mylovanov
University of Pittsburgh
Title TBA
Research Page

 

2017-2018 Spring Theory Workshops

4/4/2018

Dezso Szalay
Professor of Economics, University of Bonn
"Delegated Expertise, Authority, and Communication"
Research Page

4/11/2018

Dirk Bergemann
Professor of Economics & Computer Science, Yale University
"Selling to Intermediaries: Optimal Auction Design in a Common Value Model"
Research Page

4/18/2018

Alexander Frankel
Associate Professor of Economics, Chicago Booth
"Which Findings Should Be Published?"
Research Page

4/25/2018

Andrea Prat
Professor of Business and Professor of Economics, Columbia University
"Competing Models"
Research Page

5/2/2018

NO SEMINAR

5/9/2018

Nick Netzer
Professor of Economics, University of Zurich
"Delegating Performance Evaluation"
Research Page

5/16/2018

Matthew O. Jackson
Professor of Economics, Stanford University
"Behavioral Communities and the Atomic Structure of Networks"
Research Page

5/23/2018

Laurent Mathevet
Assistant Professor of Economics, NYU
"Attention Management"
Research Page

5/30/2018

Rann Smorodinsky
Associate Professor of Economics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
"The Implications of Pricing on Social Learning"
Research Page

6/6/2018

Archishman Chakraborty
Professor of Finance, Yeshiva University
"Expert Captured Democracies"
Research Page

 

2017-2018 Fall Theory Workshops

9/20/2017

Jack Fanning
Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University
Mediation in Reputational Bargaining
Research Page
*Relocated to 4101

9/27/2017

Jacob Leshno
Assistant Professor of Decision, Risk, and Operations, Columbia Business School
Monopoly without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System
Research Page

10/04/2017

Simon Board
Professor of Economics, UCLA
An Inspection Model of Learning in Networks
Research Page

10/11/2017

Pierpaolo Battigalli
Professor of Decision Sciences, Universita Bocconi
Beliefs, Plans, and Perceived Intentions in Dynamic Games
Research Page

10/18/2017

CANCELLED

10/25/2017

Botond Koszegi
Professor of Economics, Central European University
Browsing versus Studying Offers
Research Page

11/1/2017

Fuhito Kojima
Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Fair Matchings under General Constraints
Research Page

11/8/2017

Ariel Rubinstein
Professor of Economics, Tel Aviv University
Multi-dimensional Reasoning in Games: Framework, Equilibrium and Applications
Research Page

11/15/2017

Eva Tardos
Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
Learning and Efficiency of Outcomes in Games
Research Page

11/29/2017

Doug Bernheim
Professor of Economics, Stanford University
A Theory of Endogenous Preference
Research Page


2016-2017 Coordinators: Daniel Martin and Alessandro Pavan
Wednesdays 3:30-5:00 pm
Location: 3245

Location: Jacobs 3245 (Economics dept. seminar room)

A reception will follow each seminar in 531 Jacobs Center. All are encouraged to meet with our speakers during their visits with us. Please click on this Google Document to sign up for meetings and the Wednesday lunch and dinner.

 


2016-2017 Theory Workshops

9/21/2016

Jean Tirole
Chairman, Toulouse School of Economics
Cognitive Games and Cognitive Traps
Research Page

9/28/2016

Erik Madsen
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, NYU
Optimal Project Termination with an Informed Agent
Research Page

10/5/2016

Leeat Yariv
Professor of Economics, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cal-Tech
Optimal Dynamic Matching
Research Page

10/12/2016

Christian Ewerhart
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Zurich
A Fractal Solution To The Chopstick Auction
Research Page

10/19/2016

Christopher Chambers
Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
On Multiple Discount Rates
Research Page

10/26/2016

Anqi Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis
Optimal Incentive Contract with Costly and Flexible Monitoring
Research Page

11/2/2016

Xavier Vives
Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Navarra
Market Power and Welfare in Asymmetric Divisible Good Auctions
Research Page

11/9/2016

Takako Fujiwara-Greve
Professor, Department of Economics, Keio University
Diverse Behavior Patterns in a Symmetric Society with Voluntary Partnerships
Research Page

11/16/2016

Alexander Wolitzky
Associate Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title Fortthcoming
Research Page

11/30/2016

Sylvain Chassang
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Title Fortthcoming
Research Page


2015-2016 Theory Workshops

9/23/2015 Maryam Saeedi, Ohio State University
9/30/2015 Mark Dean, Columbia
10/7/2015 Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford GSB
10/14/2015 Muhamet Yildiz, MIT
10/14/2015 Muhamet Yildiz, MIT
10/21/2015 George Mailath, U. Penn
10/28/2015 David Ahn, Berkeley
11/4/2015 Navin Kartik, Columbia
11/11/2015 Ben Golub, Harvard
11/18/2015 Mallesh Pai, U. Penn
12/2/2015 Ariel Pakes, Harvard

3/30/2016

Fei Li
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Discriminatory Persuasion: How to Convince a Group
Abstract
Research Page

4/6/2016

David Levine
European University
Voter Participation with Collusive Parties
Abstract
Research Page

4/13/2016

Pietro Ortoleva
Columbia University
Title Forthcoming
Abstract
Research Page

4/20/2016

Phillip Strack
University of California, Berkeley
Title Forthcoming
Abstract
Research Page

4/27/2016

Ignacio Esponda
Washington University, St. Louis
Title Forthcoming
Abstract
Research Page

5/4/2016

Yeon-Koo Che
Columbia University
Title Forthcoming
Abstract
Research Page

5/11/2016

Ettore Damiano
University of Toronto
Title Forthcoming
Abstract
Research Page

5/18/2016

Ettore Damiano
University of Toronto
Title Forthcoming
Abstract
Research Page

5/18/2016

David Mortimort
Paris School of Economics
Title Forthcoming
Abstract
Research Page

5/25/2016

Bart Lipman
Boston University
Title Forthcoming
Abstract
Research Page

6/1/2016

Shengwu Li
Stanford University
Title Forthcoming
Abstract
Research Page


2014-2015 Theory Workshops

04/01/15

Ben Brooks
University of Chicago 
The consequences of information in the first price auction (with Dirk Bergemann and Stephen Morris)
Abstract
Research Page

04/08/15

Ming Yang
Duke University 
Security Design in a Production Economy with Flexible Information Acquisition (with Yao Zeng)
Abstract
Research Page

04/15/15

Andrea Galeotti
University of Essex 
Financial Linkages, Risk Taking and Volatility (with S. Goyal and C. Ghiglino)
Abstract
Research Page

04/22/15

Fabio Maccheroni
Bocconi University
Monetary policies in self-confirming equilibria with uncertain models (with P. Battigalli, S. Cerreia-Vioglio, M. Marinacci, and T. Sargent)
Abstract
Research Page

04/29/15
1:30-3:00
Jacobs G45

STUDENT ONLY SEMINAR
Emmanuel Farhi
Harvard University
“A Theory of Macroprudential Policies in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities” (with Iván Werning)

04/29/15
4:30
Allen Center

Nemmers lecture
Jean Tirole
Toulouse School of Economics
Moving Up a Demand Curve: Dynamic Screening
with Positive Selection 
Research Page

05/06/15

Juuso Toikka
MIT 
Dynamic Oligopoly with Incomplete Information
(with Alessandro Bonatti and Gonzalo Cisternas)
Research Page

05/13/15

Federico Echenique
Cal Tech 
Testable Implications of Models of Intertemporal Choice: Exponential Discounting and Its Generalizations
(with Taisuke Imai and Kota Saito) 
Research Page

05/20/15

Schwartz lecture
Ehud Kalai
Northwestern University 
Chaos, Learning and Stability in Big Games
Research Page

05/27/15

Colin Stewart
Rational Inattention Dynamics: Inertia and Delay in Decision-Makings (with Jakub Steiner and Filip Matejka)
Research Page

06/03/15

Gabriel Carroll
Stanford University 
Robustness and Separation in Multidimensional Screening
Research Page

01/12/15
Jacobs G43
10:00-12:00

Alessandro Arlotto
Duke University
Mini-course in Bandit Models

01/14/15
Jacobs G43
10:00-12:00

Alessandro Arlotto
Duke University
Mini-course in Bandit Models

01/16/15
Jacobs G43
10:00-12:00

Alessandro Arlotto
Duke University
Mini-course in Bandit Models

09/24/14

David Dillenberger
University of Pennsylvania
Cautious Expected Utility and the Certainty Effect
Research Page

10/01/14

Stephen Morris 
Princeton University
Common Belief Foundations of Global Games
(with Hyun Song and Muhamet Yildiz)         
Research Page

10/08/14

Mihai Manea 
MIT
Intermediation in Networks
Research Page

10/15/14

Faruk Gul    
Princeton University
Calibrated Uncertainty       
Research Page

10/22/14

Kfir Eliaz
Tel Aviv University 
Broad Matching and the Market for Search Platforms (with Ran Spiegler)
Research Page        

10/29/14

Tilman Borgers    
University of Michigan
Mechanism Design for Large Type Spaces      
Research Page     

11/05/14

Rahul Deb           
University of Toronto     
Symmetric Auctions (with Mallesh Pai)   
Research Page     

11/12/14

Andy Skrzypacz
Stanford University       
Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia, Front-Running and Relationship Banking (with Yuliy Sannikov)
Research Page   

11/19/14

Michael Peters
University of British Columbia
Unobservable Mechanisms: Can Mechanism Designers Exploit Buyers' Market Information
Research Page 

12/03/14

Arthur Robson
Simon Fraser University
Research Page
The Evolution of Strategic Sophistication (with Nicolas Robalino)

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2013-2014 Theory Workshops
2013-2014 Coordinators: Ron Siegel, Bruno Strulovici, and Yuval Salant

04/02/14

Shachar Kariv
University of California at Berkeley
Substantive and Procedural Rationality in Decisions under Uncertainty
Research Page   

04/09/14

Ilya Segal        
Stanford University      
Property Rights and the Efficiency of Bargaining
(with Michael Whinston)
Research Page    

04/16/14 Philip Reny        
University of Chicago      
Sequential Equilibria of Multi-Stage Games with Infinite Sets of Types and Actions (with Roger Myerson)
Research Page     
04/23/14 Srihari Govindan  
University of Rochester  
On The Existence of Equilibria in Bayesian Allocation Mechanisms (with Paulo Barelli and Robert Wilson)
Abstract
Slides
Research Page    
04/30/14 Sujoy Mukerji     
University of Oxford 
Ordering Ambiguous Acts  
Research Page          
05/07/14 Tomasz Strzalecki    
Harvard University 
Stochastic Choice and Optimal Stopping (with Drew Fudenberg and Philipp Strack)
Abstract
Research Page          
05/14/14 Jihong Lee           
Seoul National University   
Complexity and Repeated Implementation (with Hamid Sabourian)
Abstract  
Research Page  
05/21/14
5:45PM
Allen Center
Colin Camerer
Cal Tech
NANCY SCHWARTZ LECTURE SPEAKER
ALLEN CENTER 5:45PM

Research Page  
05/27/14 SPECIAL SEMINAR
Annual Student-Only Talk
11:30-1:00
G42 Jacobs
Matthew Jackson       
Stanford University 
Games on Networks  
Research Page
05/28/14 ROOM CHANGE: Jacobs 3245
Matthew Jackson
      
Stanford University   
Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Decisions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits
Research Page         
06/04/14

Joel Watson        
University of California at San Diego  
Contractual Chains and Modes of Linkages
Research Page         

  Fall Quarter 2013
09/25/13 Room Change: Jacobs 6234 (Accounting Dept. seminar room)
Johannes Horner
Yale University
Truthful Equilibria in Dynamic Bayesian Games
(with Satoru Takahash and Nicolas Vieille)
Research Page
10/02/13

Matthew Rabin
University of California, Berkeley
Excessive Imitation is Irrational and Harmful (with Erik Eyster)
Slides
Research Page

10/09/13

Willie Fuchs
University of California, Berkeley
Costs and Benefits of Dynamic Trading in a Lemons Market (with Andrzej Skrzypacz)
SLIDES
AND/OR:
An Information Based Theory of Slow Moving Capital (with Brett Green and Dimitris Papanikolaou)
SLIDES
Research Page

10/16/13

Alex Kushnir
University of Zurich
A Geometric Approach to Mechanism Design (with Jacob Goeree)
Research Page

10/23/13 Daniel Quint
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Indicative Bidding in Auctions with Costly Entry (with Ken Hendricks)
Research Page
10/30/13

Nageeb Ali
University of California, San Diego
Ostracism (with David A. Miller)
Research Page

11/06/13

Roberto Serrano
Brown University
The Appeal of Information Transactions
Research Page

11/13/13

Yoram Halevy
University of British Columbia
No Two Experiments Are Identical (with Larry Epstein)
Research Page

11/20/13

Olivier Compte
Paris School of Economics
Ignorance, Uncertainty and Strategy Restrictions
Research Page

11/27/13 No seminar: Thanksgiving 11/28/13
12/04/13

Attila Ambrus
Duke University
Asynchronicity of Moves and Coordination (with Yuhta Ishii) AND
Gradual bidding in eBay-like Auctions (with James Burns and Yuhta Ishii)
Research Page

  WINTER QUARTER
03/26/14 SPECIAL SEMINAR
Wednesday, March 26
12:15-1:45
3245 Jacobs
Renato Gomes

Toulouse School of Economics
Competitive Screening under Heterogeneous Information (with Lucas Maestri and Daniel Garrett)
ABSTRACT
Research Page


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2012-2013 Theory Workshops
2012-2013 Coordinators: Ronen Gradwohl and Willemien Kets

09/26/12 Simon Board
UCLA
Competitive Insurance Markets with Limited Commitment (with Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn)
Abstract
Research Page
10/03/12 Amanda Friedenberg
Arizona State University
Bargaining under Strategic Uncertainty
Research Page
10/10/12

Geoffroy De Clippel
Brown University
Behavioral Implementation
Abstract
Research Page

10/17/12

Jacob Leshno
Microsoft Research
Dynamic Matching in Overloaded Systems
Abstract
Research Page

10/23/2012 SPECIAL SEMINAR
1:00-2:30PM
Jacobs 387

Simone Galperti

PhD Student, NU WCAS Economics Dept.
Commitment, Flexibility, and Optimal Screening of Time Inconsistency
Abstract
Research Page
10/24/12

Balázs Szentes
University of Chicago
Spontaneous Discrimination (with Marcin Peski)
Abstract
Research Page

10/31/12

Marek Pycia
UCLA
Ordinal Efficiency, Fairness, and Incentives
in Large Markets
(with Qingmin Liu)
Abstract
Research Page

11/07/12

Vasiliki Skreta
New York University
Selling Through Referrals (with Daniele Condorelli and Andrea Galeotti)
Abstract
Research Page

11/14/12

David Miller
University of California, San Diego
Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies (with S. Nageeb Ali)
Abstract
Research Page

11/21/12

Thanksgiving

11/28/12 Aldo Rustichini
University of Minnesota
A Neuronal Theory of the Decision Process (with Camillo Padoi-Schoppa)
Abstract
Research Page
12/05/12

Yusufcan Masatlioglu
University of Michigan
Revealed Willpower (with Daisuke Nakajima and Emre Ozdenoren)
Abstract
Research Page

02/26/2013

SPECIAL SEMINAR
Accounting Dept.  seminar room (6234 Jacobs)
3:30-5:00pm
David Cesarini

New York University
The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics
Abstract
Research Page

04/03/13 ROOM CHANGE: Andersen 3245
Ariel Rubinstein

University of Tel Aviv
A Model of Persuasion with Boundedly Rational Agents (with Jacob Glazer)
Abstract
Research Page
04/10/13 Ennio Stacchetti
New York University
Agency Models with Frequent Actions (with Tomasz Sadzik)
Abstract
Research Page
04/17/13 Flavio Toxværd
University of Cambridge
The Optimal Control of Infectious Diseases via Prevention and Treatment (with Robert Rowthorn)
Abstract
Research Page
04/24/13 Klaus Schmidt
University of Munich
Loss Aversion and Ex Post Inefficient Renegotiation (with Fabian Herweg)
Abstract
Research Page
05/01/13

Antonio Penta
University of Wisconsin
Strategic Thinking and the Incentives to Reason
Research Page

05/08/13 Drew Fudenberg
Harvard University
Recursive Stochastic Choice (with Tomasz Strzalecki)
Abstract
Research Page
05/15/13 NEMMERS PRIZE CONFERENCE - NO SEMINAR
05/22/13

Hal Varian
Chief Economist at Google
SCHWARTZ LECTURE SPEAKER
ALLEN CENTER 5:45PM

Predicting the Present with Search Engine Data

05/29/13

V. Bhaskar
University College London
The Ratchet Effect Re-examined: A Learning Perspective
Abstract
Research Page

06/05/13

Marcin Pęski
University of Toronto
Local stability of stationary equilibrium (with Balazs Szentes)
Abstract
Research Page


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2011-2012 Theory Workshops
2011-2012 Coordinators: Tai-Wei Hu and Asher Wolinsky

09/21/11

Larry Epstein
Boston University
Bayesian inference and non-Bayesian prediction and choice: foundations and an application to entry games with multiple equilibria (with Kyoungwon Seo)
Research Page

09/28/11

Pietro Ortoleva
California Institute of Technology
Objective Probabilities as Ambiguous Objects: Allais, Ellsberg, and Hedging (with Mark Dean)
Abstract
Research Page

10/05/11 Wolfgang Pesendorfer
Princeton University
Behavioral Competitive Equilibrium and Extreme Prices (with Faruk Gul and Tomasz Strzalecki)
Abstract
Research Page
10/12/11

Leeat Yariv
California Institute of Technology
Collective Dynamic Choices: The Nessity of Time Inconsistency (with Matthew O. Jackson)
Abstract
Research Page

10/19/11

Susan Athey
Harvard University
Peaches, Lemons, and Cookies: Designing Auction Markets with Dispersed Information (with I. Abraham, M. Babaioff, and M. Grubb)
Abstract
Research Page

10/26/11

Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Duke University
Generalized Matching for School Choice
Abstract
Research Page

11/02/11

Andrew Postlewaite
University of Pennsylvania
Mental Processes and Decision Making (with Olivier Compte)
Abstract
Research Page

11/9/11

Erik Eyster
London School of Economics
An Approach To Asset-Pricing Under Incomplete and Diverse Perceptions (with Michele Piccione)
Abstract
Research Page

11/16/11

Fuhito Kojima
Stanford University
Promoting School Competition Through School Choice: A Market Design Approach (with John William Hatfield and Yusuke Narita)
Abstract
Research Page

11/23/11

Thanksgiving

11/30/11 Michael Schwarz
Yahoo Research
Many to Many Matching and the case of Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses
Abstract
Research Page
01/11/12

Special seminar
Jacobs 561
Alex Belloni

Duke University
Approximate Group Context Tree: applications to dynamic programming and dynamic choice models (with Roberto I. Oliveira)
Abstract
Research Page

03/27/12 STUDENT ONLY SEMINAR
12:00-1:30; Jacobs G36
Ran Spiegler

Tel Aviv University and University College London
Markets with Boundedly Rational Consumers: Competition and Obfuscation

Powerpoint slides
Abstract
Research Page
03/28/12 Ran Spiegler
Tel Aviv University and University College London
Reference Dependence and Labor-Market Fluctuations
(with Kfir Eliaz)
Abstract
Slides
Research Page
04/04/12 Tymofiy Mylovanov
University of Pennsylvania
Mechanism Design by an Informed Principal: the Quasi-Linear Private-Values Case (with Thomas Troeger)
Abstract
Research Page
04/11/12 In-Koo Cho
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dynamic Lemon’s Problem
Abstract
Paper
Research Page
04/18/12 Sylvain Chassang
Princeton University
Calibrated Incentive Contracts
Abstract
Research Page
04/25/12

Sergiu Hart
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Comparing and Measuring Risks
Abstract:  Three approaches -- ordinal, operational, and axiomatic -- to objectively measure the riskiness of gambles (risky assets)
Based on Three Papers:

An Operational Measure of Riskiness (with Dean Foster)
Comparing Risks by Acceptance and Rejection (with Dean Foster)
A Wealth-Requirement Axiomatization of Riskiness (with Dean Foster)
Research Page

05/01/12 SPECIAL SEMINAR
Sonia Jaffe,
Harvard University
561 Jacobs, 3:45-4:45PM
What Happens when Transfers are Added to a Matching Market? (with Scott Kominers)
Abstract
Research Page
05/02/12 Jean Tirole
SCHWARTZ LECTURE SPEAKER
ALLEN CENTER 5:45PM
"Laws and Norms"

Research Page
05/09/12 Vijay Krishna
Penn State University
Majority Rule and Utilitarian Welfare (with John Morgan)
Abstract
Research Page
05/16/12 Eric Budish
University of Chicago
Strategyproofness in the Large as a Desideratum for Market Design (with Eduardo Azevedo)
Abstract
Research Page
05/23/12 David Pearce
NYU, Department of Economics
Reputational Bargaining with Asymmetric Information
Abstract
Research Page
05/30/12 Qingmin Liu
Columbia University
Matching with Incomplete Information
Abstract
Research Page


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2010-2011 Theory Workshops
2010-2011 Coordinators: Yuval Salant and Bruno Strulovici

09/22/10

David Rahman
University of Minnesota
But Who Will Monitor the Monitor?
Abstract
Research Page

09/29/10

David McAdams
Duke University
Performance and Turnover in a Stochastic Partnership
Abstract
Research Page

10/06/10

David Dillenberger
University of Pennsylvania
Disappointment Cycles (with Kareen Rozen)
Abstract
Research Page

10/13/10

Elchanan Ben Porath
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Implementation with Partial Provability (with Bart Lipman)
Research Page

10/20/10

Yeon-Koo Che
Columbia University
Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms: Theory and Applications (with Eric Budish, Fuhito Kojima and Paul Milgrom)
Abstract
Research Page

10/26/10
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Tuesday, Oct. 26, 12:10-1:10pm, **G42** Jacobs
Umberto Garfagnini

PhD student, NU Kellogg MEDS Dept.
Learning Through Delegated Experimentation
Research Page
10/27/10

Rann Smorodinsky
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Approximately Optimal Mechanism Design via Differential Privacy (with Kobbi Nissim and Moshe Tennenholtz)
Abstract
Research Page

11/03/10

Kfir Eliaz
Brown University
Reason-Based Choice: A Bargaining Rationale for the Attraction and Compromise Effects (with Geoffroy de Clippel)
Abstract
Research Page

11/10/10

Bruno Biais
Toulouse University
Trading and Liquidity with Limited Cognition (with Pierre Olivier Weill)
Abstract
Slides
Research Page

11/17/10

Yves Zenou
Stockholm University
A Dynamic Model of Network Formation with Strategic Interactions (with Michael Konig and Claudio Tessone)
Abstract
Research Page

11/24/10

Thanksgiving

12/01/10

Axel Anderson
Georgetown University
Dynamic Deception
Abstract
Research Page

03/16/11 Fernando Vega-Redondo
European University Institute, Florence
Social networks, institutions, and the process of "globalization" (with Georg Duernecker)
Abstract
Research Page
03/30/11 Dirk Bergemann
Yale University
Robust Predictions in Games with Incomplete Information (with Stephen Morris)
Abstract
Slides
Research Page
04/06/11 Peyton Young      
Oxford University
Learning Efficient Nash Equilibria in Distributed Systems (with Bary S.R. Pradelski)
Abstract
Research Page
04/13/11 Andrzej Skrzypacz
ROOM CHANGE: G03 JACOBS
Stanford GSB
Selling Information (with Johannes Hörner)
Abstract
Research Page
04/20/11 Stephan Lauermann 
University of Michigan
Common Value Auctions with Bid Solicitation (with Asher Wolinsky)
Abstract
Research Page
04/26/11 SPECIAL SEMINAR
ROOM CHANGE: JACOBS G05
Daron Acemoglu, MIT
History, expectations and leadership in the evolution of cooperation (with Matthew Jackson)
Abstract
Research Page
04/27/11

Nancy Schwartz Lecture
Daron Acemoglu, MIT
5:00 pm
Jacobs G40 (Louis Stern Room)
Why Nations Fail
Research Page

05/04/11 Françoise Forges
Université Paris Dauphine
Implementation of Communication Equilibria by Correlated Cheap Talk: the Two-Player Case (with Péter Vida)
Abstract
Research Page
05/11/11

ROOM CHANGE: 3245 ANDERSEN
Kareen Rozen
Yale University
Optimally Empty Promises (with David Miller)
Research Page

Tues, 05/18/11 Andrew Caplin mini-course
12:00-1:15, Jacobs G43
Anxiety or Surprise? The Need for Data Enrichment
Reading List
05/18/11 Andrew Caplin mini-course
12:00-1:15, Jacobs G43
The Axiomatic Approach to Enriched Choice Data: Two Examples
Reading List
05/18/11 Andrew Caplin
ROOM CHANGE: JACOBS G42
New York University
The Axiomatic Approach to Enriched Choice Data: Two Examples
Research Page
Thurs, 05/19/11 Andrew Caplin mini-course
9:30-10:45, Jacobs G166
Mis-perception and Stochastic Choice: Theory and Tests
Reading List
05/25/11

Larry Samuelson   
Yale University
Dynamics of Inductive Inference in a Unified Framework (with Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler)
Abstract
Research Page

06/01/11 Mariagiovanna Baccara
Washington University
Similarity and Polarization in Groups (with Leeat Yariv)
Abstract
Research Page


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2009-2010 Theory Workshops
Coordinators: Antoine Loeper and Wioletta Dziuda

09/23/09

Eyal Winter
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mental Equilibrium and Rational Emotions
Research Page

09/30/09

Benny Moldovanu
Bonn University
Optimal Search, Learning, and Implementation
(with Alex Gershkov)
ABSTRACT
Research Page

10/07/09

Stephen Morris
Princeton University
Strategic Distinguishability (with Dirk Bergemann and Satoru Takahashi)
DRAFT
SLIDES
Research Page

10/14/09

Dov Samet
Tel Aviv University
The sure-thing principle and independence of irrelevant knowledge
ABSTRACT
Research Page

10/21/09

Tomasz Sadzik
New York University
Dynamic Incentive Accounts
(with A. Edmans, X. Gabaix, and Y. Sannikov)
ABSTRACT
Appendix
Research Page

10/28/09

Peter Cramton
University of Maryland
Spectrum Auction Design
ABSTRACT
Research Page

11/04/09 SPECIAL SEMINAR (12:10-1:10)
ROOM CHANGE: JACOBS G44
Claudia Neri
PhD Student, NU WCAS Economics Dept.
Strategic Thinking and Subjective Expectations in a Double Auction Experiment
ABSTRACT
11/4/09

Dept. wide seminar

11/11/09

Navin Kartik
Columbia University
Advising on Alternatives: Pandering to Persuade (joint with Yeon-Koo Che and Wouter Dessein)
Research Page

11/18/09

Matthew Jackson
Stanford University
Social Capital and Social Quilts:  Network Patterns of Favor Exchange
Research Page

11/25/09

THANKSGIVING

12/02/09

ROOM CHANGE: JACOBS 276
Philipp Sadowski
Duke University
Conditional Preference for Flexibility: Eliciting Beliefs from Behavior
ABSTRACT
Research Page

03/17/10

ROOM CHANGE: JACOBS 276
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
UCLA
Reputation for Quality (with Simon Board)
ABSTRACT
SLIDES
Research Page

03/31/10

Joel Sobel
University of California, San Diego
Effective Communication in Cheap-Talk Games
(with Navin Kartik)
Abstract
Research Page

04/07/10

Sylvain Chassang
Princeton University
Robustness to Incomplete Information in Repeated Games
(with Satoru Takahashi)
Draft
Abstract
Research Page

04/14/10

Tim Roughgarden
ROOM CHANGE: JACOBS 101
Stanford University
Intrinsic Robustness of the Price of Anarchy
Abstract
Research Page

04/21/10

John Quah
Oxford University
Aggregating the single crossing property: theory and applications to comparative statics and Bayesian games
(with Bruno Strulovici)
Abstract
Research Page

04/28/10

Emir Kamenica
University of Chicago
Bayesian Persuasion (with Matthew Gentzkow)
Abstract
Research Page

05/05/10

Philipp Kircher
University of Pennsylvania
Sorting and Decentralized Price Competition
(with Jan Eeckhout)
Abstract
Research Page

05/12/10

David Ahn
University of California, Berkeley
Combinatorial Voting (with Santiago Oliveros)
Abstract
Research Page

05/17/10 Special seminar (Political Economy series)
MEDS 561: 12:15 - 1:30pm
Sivan Frenkel

Math Center Pre-doc
Research Page
05/19/10

John Hatfield
Stanford University
Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts
(with Scott Duke Kominers)
Abstract
Research Page

05/26/10

Nancy Schwartz Lecture
Alvin Roth, Harvard University
Market Design
Research Page
5:00 pre-lecture reception; 5:45 Lecture
Allen Center, Tribune Auditorium

06/2/10

TIME CHANGE: 12:10-1:40
Muhamet Yildiz
MIT
Public Disagreement
Abstract
Research Page


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2008-2009 Theory Workshops
Coordinators: Todd Sarver and Ron Siegel

09/24/08

Rani Spiegler
University College London
Consideration Sets and Competitive Marketing
Research Page

10/01/08

Michihiro Kandori
University of Tokyo
Weakly Belief-Free Equilibria in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring
Research Page

10/07/08

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 12:00-1:00
ROOM CHANGE: 561 Jacobs
Nick Netzer
University of Zurich
Competition without Commitment
ABSTRACT
Research Page

10/08/08

Jakub Steiner
University of Edinburgh
Reversibility in Dynamic Coordination Problems (with Eugen Kovac, Bonn University)
Research Page

10/15/08

Yeon-Koo Che
Columbia University
Expanding "Choice" in School Choice (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Yosuke Yasuda)
Paper; Slides
Research Page

10/21/08 SPECIAL SEMINAR
12:10-1:10 pm
Serra Boranbay
Ph D Student, NU Kellogg MEDS Dept.
Sequential and Simultaneous Budget Making Under Different Voting Rules
Part One; Part Two
10/22/08

Paul Milgrom
Stanford University
Assignment Exchanges
Research Page

10/29/08

Gil Kalai
Hebrew University and Yale University
Social Choice - Information, Power, Indeterminacy, and Chaos
Abstract
Research Page

11/05/08

Luis Rayo
University of Chicago
Optimal Information Disclosure (with Ilya Segal)
Research Page

11/12/08

Andrea Prat
London School of Economics
Endogenous Communication in Complex Organizations
Abstract
Research Page

11/19/08

Piero Gottardi
University 'Ca' Foscari
Markets for Information: Of Inefficient Firewalls and Efficient Monopolies
Abstract
Research Page

12/03/08

Marek Pycia
ROOM CHANGE: 165 Jacobs
UCLA
A Theory of House Allocation and Exchange Mechanisms
Abstract
Research Page

03/11/09

Silvio Micali
MIT
Resilient and Equilibrium-Less Mechanism Design
Abstract
Research Page

04/01/09 Massimo Marinacci
Collegio Carlo Alberto
Uncertainty Averse Preferences
Research Page

04/08/09

Ignacio Esponda
NYU Stern
Information aggregation, learning, and non-strategic behavior in voting environments (with Demain Pouzo)
Research Page

04/15/09 Nancy Schwartz lecture: 5:00-6:00pm
G40 Jacobs (Stern classroom)
Drew Fudenberg
Harvard University
Learning in Games
Research Page
04/22/09

Yossi Feinberg
Stanford University
Games with Unawareness
Research Page

04/29/09

Tore Ellingsen
Stockholm School of Economics
When Does Communication Improve Coordination?
ABSTRACT
Research Page

05/06/09

William Fuchs
University of Chicago
Dividing and Discarding: A Procedure for Taking Decisions with Non-transferable Utility (with Vinicius Carrasco)
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

05/13/09

David Levine
Washington University
Self Control, Risk Aversion, and the Allais Paradox
(with Drew Fudenberg)
ABSTRACT
Research Page

05/20/09 Department-wide seminar this week
05/27/09 Brendan Daley
ROOM CHANGE: JACOBS G44
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Waiting for News in the Dynamic Market for Lemons
ABSTRACT
Research Page
06/03/09 Marzena J. Rostek
University of Wisconsin
Dynamic Thin Markets
ABSTRACT
Research Page
06/10/09 no seminar - exam week

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2007-2008 Theory Workshops
2007-2008 Coordinator: Jonathan Weinstein

09/26/07

Ronny Razin
London School of Economics
A Theory of Religious Organizations
Research Page

10/03/07 Chiaki Hara
Kyoto University
Heterogeneous impatience in a continuous-time model; talk based on Complete Monotonicity of the Representative Consumer’s Discount Factor and Heterogeneous Impatience in a Continuous-Time Model
Research Page
10/10/07 Yair Tauman
State University of New York at Stony Brook
A Strategic Analysis of the War Against Terror (with Eva Carceles Poveda)
Research Page
10/17/07 Ronen Gradwohl
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Partial Exposure in Large Games
Research Page
10/24/07 Andrea Wilson
New York University
Sustainable Reputations with Finite Memory (with Mehmet Ekmekci)
10/31/07

Philippe Jehiel
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE)
Manipulative auction design and
Learning Spillover and Analogy-Based
Expectations: A Multi-Game Experiment

Research Page

11/07/07 Hao Li
University of Toronto
Delay in Strategic Information Aggregation (with Ettore Damiano and Wing Suen) Research Page
11/14/07 Simon Board
University of Toronto
Relational Contracts with on-the-job Search
Research Page
11/28/07 David McAdams
MIT Sloan
Dynamics in an Evolving Partnership
Research Page
12/05/07 Eduardo Faingold
Yale University
Uniform Topologies on Types and Strategic Convergence (with Alfredo Di Tillio)
Research Page
02/20/08 Drew Fudenberg
ROOM CHANGE: ANDERSEN 3245 (Economics Dept. seminar room)
Harvard University
Repeated Games with Frequent Observations
Research Page
02/27/08 Nikolai Kukushkin
ROOM CHANGE: ANDERSEN 3245 (Economics Dept. seminar room)
Russian Academy of Science
Best response adaptation under dominance solvability
Research Page
04/02/08

Carlos Alós-Ferrer
University of Konstanz
The Logit-Response Dynamics
Research Page

04/08/08 Graduate Students only Seminar
ROOM: JACOBS G42
Faruk Gul

Princeton University
Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Risk
Research Page
04/09/08 Faruk Gul
Princeton University
A Theory of Measurable Ambiguity
Research Page
04/15/08

SPECIAL SEMINAR
Mihai Manea
Harvard University
Bargaining on Networks
Research Page

04/16/08 Leonardo Felli
London School of Economics
Common Law or Civil Law? Optimal Design of Legal Regimes (with Luca Anderlini and Alessandro Riboni)
Research Page
04/23/08 Phil Reny
University of Chicago
On the Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in Bayesian Games
Research Page
04/30/08 Balazs Szentes
University of Chicago
Definable and Contractible Contracts
Research Page
05/06/08

SPECIAL SEMINAR
TIME CHANGE: 12:10-1:10
Tilman Borgers
University of Michigan
When are Signals Complements or Substitutes?
(with Daniel Krahmer and Angel Hernando-Veciana)
Research Page

05/07/08 Adam Szeidl
University of California, Berkeley
Trust and Social Collateral (with Markus Mobius)
Research Page
05/14/08 Dilip Mookherjee
Boston University
Mechanism Design with Costly Communication: Implications for Decentralization (with Masatoshi Tsumagari)
Research Page
05/21/08 Lones Smith
ROOM CHANGE: Jacobs G44
University of Michigan
Optimal Dynamic Contests (with Giuseppe Moscarini)
Research Page
05/28/08 No theory seminar:
Nancy Schwarz Memorial Lecture
5:00pm, Jacobs G40
Roger Myerson, University of Chicago
On the Foundations of Social Institutions  
06/04/08 Marcin Peski
University of Chicago
Decomposition of Uncertainty in Invariant Distributions
ABSTRACT
Research Page

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2006-2007 Theory Workshops
2006-2007 Coordinator: Alp Atakan

09/20/06

Chris Chambers
Cal Tech
Bayesian Consistent Prior Selection (with Takashi Hayash)
Research Page

09/27/06

Uzi Segal
Boston College
Calibration results for non expected utility theories
Research Page

10/04/06 David Martimort
Universite des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse
Research Page
Mechanism Design Under Private Communication
10/11/06 Joe Halpern
Cornell University, CS Dept
Distributed Computing Meets Game Theory:
Robust Mechanisms for Secret Sharing and Implementations With Cheap Talk
10/18/06 Federico Echenique
Caltech
Supermodularity is not Falsifiable   
10/25/06 Bernard Caillaud
Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques
Consensus Building: How to persuade a group
11/01/06 Pino Lopomo
Duke University
Efficient Mechanisms for Mergers and Acquisitions
Research Page
11/08/06 Andreas Blume
Pittsburgh University
Noisy Talk
Research Page
11/15/06 Jan Eeckhout
University of Pennsylvania
Local supermodularity and unique assortative matching
Research Page
11/22/06 Thanksgiving - No Seminar
11/29/06
Jacobs G44
Haluk Ergin
MIT
A Unique Costly Contemplation Representation (with Todd Sarver, NU)
Research Page
12/06/06 Salvatore Piccolo
University of Salerno
The Strategic Value of Incomplete
Contracts for Competing Hierarchies
(with D. Martimort)
Research Page
03/28/07 Navin Kartik
University of California- San Diego
A Theory of Momentum in Sequential Voting
Research Page
04/04/07 Douglas Gale
New York University
Trading Networks
Research Page
04/11/07 Peyton Young
The Brookings Institution
Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations
Research Page
04/18/07 Fabio Maccheroni
Università Bocconi - Milan 
Preliminary Title: Social Decision Theory: choosing in and between groups
Research Page
04/25/07 Efe Ok
New York University
Reference-Dependent Rational Choice Theory and the Attraction Effect
Research Page
TIME CHANGE (due to Nancy Schwartz Memorial Lecture): New Time- 3:00-4:30
ROOM CHANGE: New Room: Jacobs G03
05/02/07 Larry Samuelson
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Pricing in Matching Markets
Research Page
05/09/07

Hector Chade
Arizona State University
Repeated Games with Present-Biased Preferences
NEW ROOM FOR RECEPTION AFTERWARDS:
547 Jacobs (Staff Lounge)

(due to Kellogg photo shoot in Jacobs)
Research Page

05/16/07 Tristan Tomala
University Paris-Dauphine
Correlation and authentication in repeated games with monitoring network
Research Page
05/23/07 Max Amarante
Columbia University
Toward a Rational-Choice Foundation for Non-Additive Models
Papers Talk Is Based On: Paper 1, Paper 2 ROOM CHANGE: New Room- Jacobs G27
05/30/07 Adam Brandenburger
New York University
How Much Coordination is Possible via Correlation?
Research Page

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2005-2006 Theory Workshops
May 31 Vasiliki Skreta
UCLA
The Role of Outside Options in Auction Design
Research Page
May 24 Ignacio Palacios-Huerta
Brown University
Experientia Docet: Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments
Research Page
May 17

Jean-Francois Mertens
Université Catholique de Louvain
Intergenerational Equity and the discount rate for Cost-Benefit analysis (with Anna Rubinchik)

May 10 Bill Zame
UCLA
Incentives Contracts and Markets: A General Equilibrium Theory of Firms
May 3

Ilya Segal
Stanford University
Communication and Prices in Economic Mechanisms
Research Page

April 26

Sjaak Hurkens
Institute for Economic Analysis (Barcelona)
Dynamic Matching and Bargaining: The Role of Deadlines
Research Page

April 19 David Levine
UCLA
The Paradox of Voter Participation: A Laboratory Study (with T. R. Palfrey )
Research Page
April 12

Luca Anderlini
Georgetown University
A 'Super' Folk Theorem for Dynastic Repeated (with Dino Gerardi and Roger Lagunoff)
Research Page

April 5 David Ahn
University of California at Berkeley
Unawareness and Framing
March 29

Dirk Bergemann
Yale University
Robust Monopoly Pricing (joint with Karl Schlag (European University Institute))
Research Page

March 8 Stephen Morris
Princeton University
Robust Implementation: The Case of Direct Mechanisms
Research Page
Dec. 7

Wolfgang Pesendorfer
Princeton University
Partison Politics and Aggregation Failure with Ignorant Voters
Research Page

Nov. 16 Patrick Bolton
Columbia University
Economics Department-Wide Speaker:
Sovereign debt restructuring and the role of the IMF
Nov. 9 Tymon Tatur
Princeton University
On an Evolutionary Model, an Equilibrium Concept, and Applications
Nov. 2

Daijiro Okada
Rutgers University
Growth of Strategy Sets, Entropy, and Nonstationary Bounded Recall

Oct. 26 Luca Rigotti
Duke University
"Uncertainty in Mechanism Design"
Research Page
Oct. 19

Sergiu Hart
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Uncoupled Dynamics and Nash Equilibrium
Research Page

Oct. 12 Aldo Rustichini
University of Minnesota
Dynamic Variational Preferences
Home Page
Oct. 5 Vincent Crawford
University of California, San Diego
"Fatal Attraction: Focality, Naivete, and Sophistication in Experimental 'Hide-and-Seek' Games"
Sept. 28 Itzhak Gilboa
Tel-Aviv University,
"Empirical Similarity and Objective Probabilities"
Sept. 21

Nicola Persico
University of Pennsylvania

"A Rational Theory of Random Crackdowns"
Research Page

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2004-2005 Theory Workshops
March 2 Paolo Ghirardato
University of Torino
Ambiguity and Asset Prices
March 9

Che-Lin Su
Stanford University
Title of Talk:  Equilibrium Programming and Leader-Follower Games, refers to:  Computation of Moral-Hazard Problems (with Kenneth L. Judd, Jan. 2005)
Analysis on Forward Market Equilibrium Model (Nov. 2004)
A Sequential NCP Algorithm for Solving Equilibrium Problems with Equilibrium Constraints (Revised Nov. 2004)

March 16 Tadashi Sekiguchi
Kobe University, Japan
The Folk Theorem for Repeated Games with Observation Costs
March 30

Yeon-Koo Che
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Revenue Comparisons for Auctions When Bidders Have Arbitrary Types

April 6 Faruk Gul
Princeton University
The Canonical Type Space for Interdependent Preferences
April 13 Ian Jewitt
Nuffield College, Oxford
Information in Auctions: Disclosure
April 20 Olivier Compte
ENPC, Paris
Bargaining over Randomly Generated Offers
April 27 Sanjeev Goyal
University of Essex
Structural Holes in Social Networks
May 4  Jing Li
University of Pennsylvania
Unawareness
Appendix
May 11 Ariel Rubinstein
Tel-Aviv University
A Model of Persuasion
May 18 Drew Fudenberg
Harvard University
Steady State Learning and the Code of Hammurabi
May 25 Andreas Park
University of Toronto
Caller Number Five: Timing Games that Morph from One Form to Another (with Lones Smith)
June 1 Daron Acemoglu
MIT
Competition and Efficiency in Congested Markets (with Asu Pzdaglar)

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