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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

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 Capita l (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

Back to the top 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
Back to the top 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
Back to the top 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
Back to the top 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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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 Sega l 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 Recal l
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 Hammurab i
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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