Microeconomics Seminars
General Information
All seminars are on Wednesday, 3:30-5:00 (unless otherwise noted) in room 123 David Kinley Hall. Schedule for the current year will be here
Upcoming Lectures
| Date | Location | Name | Affiliation | Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2009 Seminars | ||||
| Wed., Nov. 18 | 123 David Kinley Hall | James Schummer | Northwestern, Kellogg Schl of Mgt., MEDS | "Assigment of Arrival Slots" |
| Wed., Dec. 2, 2009 | 123 David Kinley Hall | Johannes Horner | Yale University | |
| Spring 2010 -- Seminars |
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| Mon., March 29, 2010 - joint the Macroeconomics | Luis Cabral | New York Universtiy | ||
| Wed., April 7, 2009 | TBA | Bill Zame | UCLA |
Past Lectures
| Date | Location | Name | Affiliation | Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed., Nov. 11, 2009 | 123 David Kinley Hall | Vladimir Mares | Northwestern University | |
| Wed., Nov. 4, 2009 | 123 David Kinley Hall | Mehmet Ekmekci | Northwestern University | "Reputation with Long Run Players" |
| Wed., Oct. 28 | 123 David Kinley Hall | Brian Rogers | Northwestern Univ. | "Immunizations and Group-dependent Interactions" |
| Wed., Oct. 21, 2009 Joint with Macro | 123 Daid Kinley Hall | Shouyong Shi | University of Toronto | "An Equilibrum Theory of Learning, Search and Wages" |
| Wed., Oct. 14, 2009- | 123 David Kinley Hall | Andrew McLennan | University of Queensland | "Games with Discontinuous Payoffs: a Strengthening of Reny's Existence Theorem" |
Thurs. Oct. 8, 2009 - joint with Macro CANCELLED |
2 Education Bldg. | Luis Cabral | NYU Stern School and IESE | "Dynamic Competition with Network Effects" Seminar is CANCELLED |
| Fri. Oct. 2, 2009 - 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. | 219 David Kinley Hall | Bernard Cornet | Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and University of Kansas | "Financial Markets with Restricted Participation" " |
| Wed., Sept. 30, 2009 | 123 David Kinley hall | Tai-Wei Hu | Northwestern University | "Complexity and Mixed Strategy Equilibria" |
| Thurs. Sept. 24, 2009 -3:30 - 5:00 - NOTE Day change | 2 Education Bldg. | Haluk Ergin | Washington University | "A Subjective Model of Temporal Preferences" |
| Wed. Aug. 26, 2009 | 123 David Kinley Hall | Paolo Ghirardato | Collegio Carlo Alberto | "A More Robust Definition of Muiltiple Priors" Joint with Marciano Siniscalchi |
| Wed., April 29, 2009 | 166 Wohlers Hall | Aldo Rustichini | University of Minnesota | "Cognitive Skills Affect Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment" and "Second-to-Fourth Digit Ratio Predicts Success Among High-Fregquency Financial Traders" |
| Wed., April 22, 2009 | 166 Wohlers Hall | Sylvain Chassang | Princeton University | "Robustness to Incomplete Information in Repeated Games" |
| Wed., April 15, 2009 | 166 Wohlers Hall | Muhamet Yildiz | MIT, visiting Institute for Advanced Study | "Public Disagreement" |
| Wed., April 8, 2009 | 166 Wohlers Hall | Klaus Schmidt | University of Munich, visiting Berkeley | "Reputation and Contract Design" |
| Wed., April 1, 2009 | 166 Wohlers Hall | Alvaro Sandroni | University of Pennsylvania | "Rationalization" |
| Fri., March 20, 2009 - 3:30 - 5:00 NOTE DATE Departmental Seminar |
123 David Kinley Hall | Stephen E. Morris | Princeton University | TBA |
| Wed., March 18, 2009 | 166 Wohlers Hall | University of California, San Diego | "Information Aggregation and Group Decisions" | |
| Wed., March 11, 2009 | 166 Wohlers Hall | Fuhito Kojima | Stanford Univeristy visiting Yale University | "Asymptotic Equlvalence of Probabiliistic Serial and Random Priority Mechanisms" |
| Wed., March 4, 2009 | 166 Wohlers Hall | Alberto Bisin | New York University | "The Distribution of Wealth and Fiscal Policy in Economies with Finitely Lived Agents" |
| Wed., February 25, 2009 | 166 Wohlers Hall | Dilip Abreu | Princeton University | "Implementing the Nash Program in Stochastic Games" |
| Wed., Feb. 18, 2009 | 166 Wohlers Hall | M. Ali Khan | Johns Hopkins University | "On Large Gams with a Multiplicity of Types of Players" |
| Wed., December 3 | 236 Wohlers Hall | Christina Pawlowitsch | Havard University | Why Evolution Does Not Always Lead to an Optimal Signaling System |
| Wed., November 19 | 236 Wohlers Hall | Jin Li | "Relational Contract, Limited Liability, and Employment Dynamics" | |
| Wed., November 12 | 236 Wohlers Hall | Harrison Cheng | USC | "Relational Contract, Limited Liability, and Employment" |
| Wed., November 5 | 236 Wohlers Hall | Alvin Roth | Harvard University | "Kidney Exchange" |
| Wed., October 29 | 236 Wohlers Hall | Raoul Minetti | Michigan State University | "From Fairs to Banks" |
| Mon. October 27 - Joint with Macroeconomics | 166 Wohlers Hall | Nobu Kiyotaki | Princeton University | "Liquidity, Business Cycles and Monetary Policy" |
| Wed., October 22 | 236 Wohlers Hall | Kyna Fong | Stanford University | "Evaluating Skilled Experts: Optimal Scoring Rules for Surgeons" |
| Wed., October 15 | 236 Wohlers Hall | Jakub Steiner | Edinburgh | Reversibility in Dynamic Coordination Problems |
| Wed., October 8 | 236 Wohlers Hall | Michihiro Kandori | University of Tokyo, visiting Stanford | "Weakly Belief-Free Equiliria in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring" |
| Wed., October 1 | 236 Wohlers Hall | David Ahn | Berkeley visiting Univ. of Michigan | "Combinatorial Voting" |
| Tues. September 30 | 166 Wohlers Hall | Peter Bossaerts | Caltech | "Exploring the Nature of Trading Intuition" |
| Wed., September 24 | 236 Wohlers Hall | Kyoungwon Seo | Northwestern MEDS | "Ambiguity and Second-Order Belief" |
| Wed., September 17 | 236 Wohlers Hall | John Duffy | University of Pittsburgh | "Competitive Behavior in Market Games: Evidence and Theory" |
| Wed., September 10, 2008 | 236 Wohlers Hall | Ming Hsu | University of Illinois | "Neuroeconomics: Decision-Making and the Brain" |
| Wed., September 3, 2008 | Daniela Puzzello | University of Illinois | Random Matching and Aggregate Uncertainty | |
| April 23, 2008 | Minjung Park | University of Minnesota | "M&A Incentives and Outcomes: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry" | |
| April 16, 2008 | Ignacio Esponda | NYU Stern School | "Behavioral Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse Selection" | |
| April 9, 2008 | Vijay Krishna | Pennsylvania State University | "On the Benefits of Costly Voting" | |
| April 2, 2008 | Attila Ambrus | Harvard | "A continuous model of bargaining with random arrival times" (joint with Shih En Lu) | |
| March 26, 2008 | Satoru Takahashi | Princeton | "Community Enforcement when Players Observe Partners' Past Play" | |
| March 12, 2008 | Nabil Al Najjar | Northwestern | "Decision Makers as Statisticians: Diversity, Ambiguity and Robustness" | |
| March 5, 2008 | Marciano Siniscalchi | Northwestern | "Vector Expected Utility and Attitudes toward Variation" | |
| February 27, 2008 | Piero Gottardi | University of Venice, visiting IAS | "Markets for Information: Of Inefficient Firewalls and Efficient Monopolies" | |
| February 20, 2008 | Luciano De Castro Filho | University of Illinois | "Missing Trade and Ambiguity Aversion" |