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Faculty Seminars

 

Economics Seminars

The GSB Economics Seminar is held on Wednesdays at 3:30 to 5:00 pm. If you would like to meet with a speaker on the day of the seminar, please contact Rochelle Bagalso, 650-736-2237, at your earliest convenience.

Should you have any questions please contact our seminar organizer Yossi Feinberg .

Please select the link above to view the schedule or email Rochelle Bagalso for an appointment.

 

Spring 2008

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

April 2 Peter Hammond
University of Warwick
Mechanism Design for Monte Carlo Simulations of Macroeconomies 3:30-5:00 pm
L107
April 9     3:30-5:00 pm
L107
April 16     3:30-5:00 pm
L107
April 23 Tai-Wei Hu
Penn State
Complexity and Mixed Strategy Equilibria 3:30-5:00 pm
L107
April 30 Luis Rayo
University of Chicago - GSB
Status, Market Power, and Veblen Effect 3:30-5:00 pm
L107
May 7 Simon Grant
Rice University
Mean-Dispersion Preferences 3:30-5:00 pm
L107
May 14 Francis Bloch
GREQAM and Universite de la Mediterranee
Markovian Assignment Rules 3:30-5:00 pm
L107
May 21 Daniel Hojman
Harvard University
Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement 3:30-5:00 pm
L107
May 28 Mihai Manea
Harvard University
  3:30-5:00 pm
S172
June 4 Leonardo Felli
London School of Economics
  3:30-5:00 pm
L107
       

 

Winter 2008

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

January 14
Monday
Denis Nekipelov
Duke University
Entry Deterrence and Learning Prevention on eBay 12:00-1:15 PM
L103
January 18
Friday
Eran Shmaya
California Institure of Tech
Many Inspections are Manipulable 12:00-1:15 PM
L103
January 21
Monday
Shing-Yi Wang
Yale University
Credit Constraints, Job Mobility and Entrepreneurhsip: Evidence form a Property Reform in China 12:00-1:15 PM
L103
January 24
Thursday
Matthew Weinzierl
Harvard University
The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes 3:30-5:00 PM
SIEPR Econ Conference A
January 25
Friday
Robin Lee
Harvard University
Vertical Integration and Exclusivity in Platform and Two-Sided Markets 12:00-1:15 PM
L103
January 28
Monday
Xun Tang
Northwestern University
Bounds on the Counterfactual Distribution of Revenues in Auctions with Reserve Prices 12:00-1:15 PM
L103
January 31
Thursday
Tomasz Strzalecki
Northwestern University
Axiomatic Foundations of Multiplier Preferences 3:30-5:00 PM
S161
February 4
Monday
Gregory Fischer
MIT
Contract Sturcture, Risk Sharing, and Investment Choice 3:30-5:00 PM
S152
February 6
Bruno Strulovici
Oxford University
Voting and Experimentation 12:00-1:15 PM
S182
February 8
Friday
Tamara Bowen
Georgetown University
On Dynamic Compromise 12:00-1:15 PM
L103
February 20 Julio Rotemberg
Harvard Business School
Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model 12:00-1:30 PM
L112
February 27 Martin Hellwig
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Public-Good Provision in a Large Economy 3:30-5:00 PM
S161
March 12 Richard Holden
MIT
Subgame Perfect Implementation with Almost Perfect Information 3:30-5:00 PM
S161

 

Fall 2007

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

September 24 Aleh Tsyvinski
Harvard University
A Theory of Liquidity and Regulation of Financial Intermediation 12:00-1:3- pm
S152
September 26 Sergei Izmalkov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Perfect Implementation of Normal-Form Mechanisms 3:30-5:00 pm
Littlefield 107
October 3 Michel Balinski
Ecole Polytechnique, France
A Theory: Measuring, Electing and Ranking
Abstarct
3:30-5:00 pm
Littlefield 107
October 10 Yeon-Koo Che
Columbia University
Expanding "Choice" in School Choice 3:30-5:00 pm
Littlefield 107
October 17 Eduardo Faingold
Yale University
Uniform Topology on Types and Strategic Convergence 3:30-5:00 pm
Littlefield 107
October 24 Salvador Barbera
University Autonoma de Barcelona
Top Monotonicity: A Weak Domain Restriction Encompassing Single Peakedness, Single Crossing and Order Restriction

3:30-5:00 pm
Littlefield 107

October 31 Marcin Peski
University of Chicago
Learning Through Theories 3:30-5:00 pm
Littlefield 107
November 7 Johannes Horner
Northwestern University
Public vs. Private Offers in the Market for Lemons 3:30-5:00 pm
Littlefield 107
November 14 Colin Stewart
University of Toronto
Testing Multiple Forecasters 3:30-5:00 pm
Littlefield 107
November 21 no seminar   3:30-5:00 pm
Littlefield 107
November 28 Peyton Young
Brookings Institution
Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations: Contagion, Social Influence, and Social Learning 3:30-5:00 pm
Littlefield 107
December 5 Alexandre Mas
UC Berkeley
  12:00-1:30 pm
Littlefield 103