Economics Seminars

The GSB Economics Seminar is held on Wednesdays at 3:45-5:00 pm, unless otherwise indicated. Should you have any questions please contact our seminar organizer Alex Wolitzky or Nicolas Lambert.

Please select the Meet the Speaker link below (•) to view the current schedule or email Miriam Torres for an appointment (GSB faculty only).
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Spring 2013

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

Meet the Speaker

April 3 Tayfun Sonmez
Boston College 
Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice: Theory and Evidence from Boston 3:45-5:00 PM
C102 
     (•) 
April 10 Nicole Immorlica
Northwestern University  
An Analysis of One-Dimensional Schelling Segregation 3:45-5:00 PM
C102 
     (•) 
April 17 Faruk Gul
Princeton University  
3:45-5:00 PM
C102 
     (•) 
April 24 Lars Stole
University of Chicago Booth School of Business 
Public Contracting in Delegated Agency Games 3:45-5:00 PM
C102 
     (•) 
May 8 Geoffroy de Clippel
Brown University 
On the Selection of Arbitrators 3:45-5:00 PM
C102 
     (•) 
May 15 Qingmin Liu
Columbia University 
Auctions with Limited Commitment 
joint with Konrad Mierendor ff and Xianwen Shi
3:45-5:00 PM
C102 
     (•) 
May 22 Joel Watson
UCSD 
Contractual Chains 3:45-5:00 PM
C102 
     (•)
May 29 Alejandro Manelli
Arizona State University 
3:45-5:00 PM
M104 
     (•)

Winter 2013

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

Meet the Speaker 

January 16 Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
UC Berkeley  - Joined with Finance 
The Employment Effects of Credit Market Disruptions: Firm-level Evidence from the 2008-09 Financial Crisis 12:00-1:15 PM
C102 
     (•)
January 17 Christopher Tonetti
New York University 
Equilibrium Technology Diffusion,Trade, and Growth 12:00-1:15 PM
G101 
     (•) 
January 22 Benjamin Faber
London School of Economics 

Trade Liberalization, the Price of Quality, and Inequality: Evidence from Mexican Store Prices

12:00-1:15 PM
C102 
     (•)
January 24 Rebecca Diamond
Harvard University  
The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers' Diverging Location Choices Skill: 1980-2000 12:00-1:15 PM
C102 
     (•)
January 25 Gonzalo Cisternas
Princeton University  
Two-Sided Learning and Moral Hazard 12:00-1:15 PM
B400 
     (•)
January 29 Melanie Morten
Yale University 

Temporary Migration and Endogoneous Risk Sharing in Village India

12:00-1:15 PM
SE102 
     (•)
January 30 Jose Miguel Abito
Northwestern University 
Welfare Gains from Optimal Pollution Regulation 12:00-1:15 PM
G101 
     (•)
January 31 Sebastian Di Tella
MIT 

Uncertainty Shocks and Balance Sheet Recessions

12:00-1:15 PM
C101 
     (•)
February 20 Sergiu Hart
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 

Two(!) Good To Be True

Maximizing Revenue with Multiple Goods: Nonmonotonicity and Other Observations

Approximate Revenue Maximization with Multiple Items

The Menu-Size Complexity of Auctions

3:45-5:00 PM
M105
       (•)
February 27 Emir Kamenica
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business 
Competition in Persuasion 3:45-5:00 PM
C102 
     
March 6 In-Koo Cho
University of Illinois 
Search, Adverse Selection and Market Clearing  3:45-5:00 PM
SE102 
     (•) 
March 13 Paolo Pin
University of Siena (Italy) 
Efficiency and Stability in a Process of Teams Formation 3:45-5:00 PM
SE102 

Autumn 2012

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

October 3 Al Roth
Stanford University  
Random Graph Models of Kidney Exchange

3:45-5:00 PM
C102 
October 10 Susan Athey
Stanford GSB 
Peaches, Lemons, and Cookies: Designing Auction Markets with Dispersed Information 
Coauthors: lttai Abraham, Moshe Babaioff, and Michael Grubb 
3:45-5:00 PM
C102  
October 17 Vincent Glode
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 
Compensating Financial Experts  3:45-5:00 PM
C102  
October 24 Vijay Krishna
Penn State University  
Majority Rule and Utilitarian Welfare

joint with John Morgan
3:45-5:00 PM
C102  
October 31 Alexander Westkamp
University of Bonn (visiting Stanford) 
Overbooking in Matching Markets (Abstract) 3:45-5:00 PM
C102  
November 7 Johannes Hörner
Yale University 
Recursive Methods in Dynamic Bayesian Games
Joined with S Takahashi and N. Vieille 
3:45-5:00 PM
C102  
November 14 Ron Lavi
Technion Israel Institute of Technology (CANCELLED) 
Efficiency of Sequential English Auctions with Dynamic Arrivals

3:45-5:00 PM
C102 
November 28 Romans Pancs
University of Rochester 

Comparing Market Structures: Allocative and Informational Efficiencies of Continuous Trading, Periodic Auctions, and Dark Pools  

3:45-5:00 PM
C102  
December 5 Drew Fudenberg
Harvard University 
Recursive Stochastic Choice 3:45-5:00 PM
SE102