2006-07 Economics Seminars
Spring 2007 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
April 2 |
John Van Reenen |
Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle |
3:30-5:00 pm/Landau 139 Econ Dept |
April 4 |
Tanjim Hossain |
When Do Markets Tip? An Experimental Study [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S150 |
April 25 |
Attila Ambrus |
Multi-Sender CheapTalk with Restricted StateSpace [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S150 |
May 2 |
Jason Hartline |
Prior-free Optimal Auction Design Abstract [ Related Paper [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S150 |
May 9 |
John Morgan |
Information Aggregation in Polls [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S150 |
May 16 |
Steven Tadelis |
The Power of Shame and Rationality of Trust [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S150 |
May 23 |
R. Preston McAfee |
A Theory of Bilateral Oligopoly [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S150 |
May 30 |
No Seminar |
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June 6 |
Michael Schwarz |
Interviewing and Dating in Two-Sided Matching Markets [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S150 |
June 12 |
Michael Golosov [ |
Political Economy of Mechanisms [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/L107 |
June 13 |
Dilip Mookherjee [ |
Mechanism Design with Costly Communication: Implications for Decentralization [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S150 |
Winter 2007 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
January 12 |
Yuliy Sannikov [ |
Agency Problems, Screening and Increasing Credit Lines [ |
10:30-Noon/S172 |
January 16 |
Parag Pathak [ |
Tie Breaking in School Choice Problems Related Papers: |
3:30-5:00 pm/S183 |
January 25 |
Emi Nakamura [ |
Five Facts About Prices: A Reevaluation of Menu Cost Models [ |
Noon-1:30pm/S172 |
January 26 |
Jon Steinsson [ PDF 111KB]Harvard University |
Monetary Non-Neutrality in a Multi-Sector Menu Cost Model [ |
Noon-1:30pm/L107 |
February 1 |
Jesse Shapiro [ |
What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Newspapers [ |
Noon-1:30pm/L107 |
February 2 |
Emily Oster [ |
Does Increased Access Increase Equality? Gender and Child Health Investments in India [ |
11:30-1:00 pm/S172 |
February 21 |
Dan Levin |
Investment Dynamics with Common and Private Values [ and Hindsight, Foresight, and Insight: An Experimental Study of a Small-Market Investment Game with Common Private Values [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S152 |
February 28 |
Peter Hammond |
Enlivened Trees and Other Heresies: Some Research Challenges in Game Theory Related papers: |
3:30-5:00 pm/S152 |
March 9 |
Muriel Niederle |
Gender Differences in Competitive Attitudes, and the Effects of Affirmative Action Related paper: [ |
Noon-1:30pm/L107 |
March 14 |
Marko Tervio |
Difference that CEOs Make: An Assignment Model Approach [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S152 |
March 21 |
Ehud Kalai |
Large Games and Markets [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/L107 |
Fall 2006 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
September 27 |
Christopher Phelan |
Sequential Equilibria with Infinite Histories (joint work with Andy Skrzypacz) [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S162 |
October 4 |
Hal Varian |
[ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S162 |
October 18 |
Amanda Friedenberg |
[ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S182 |
October 25 |
Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S181 |
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November 1 |
Adam Szeidl |
Trust and Social Collateral (joint work with Markus Mobius) [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/L103 |
November 15 |
Jeff Ely |
Common Learning (joint work with Martin Cripps, George Mailath and Larry Samuelson) [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S162 |
November 29 |
Daron Acemoglu |
Learning and Disagreement in an Uncertain World (joint work with Victor Chernozhukov and Muhamet Yildiz) [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S162 |
December 6 |
Matthias Blonski |
Underpricing in Market Games with a Distinguished Player (joint work with Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal) [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S162 |
December 13 |
Christos Papadimitriou |
The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium (joint work with Costantinos Daskalakis and Paul W. Goldberg) [ |
3:30-5:00 pm/S162 |