Workshop in Economic Theory

Schedule for Spring 2008

Seminars are held on Thursdays from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383, unless otherwise noted.

The workshop organizer is Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn.

Workshop Organizers: Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn

The workshop meets on Thursday from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm in Bunche 9383 unless otherwise noted.

Apr 3 Simon Wilkie  (USC) :  "Simple Economics of Price Floors."
Apr 10 Matthew Rabin  (UC Berkeley) :  "Reference-Dependent Consumption Plans"
Apr 17 Rod Garratt  (UC Santa Barbara) :  "Collusion in Auctions via Resale"
Apr 24 Scott Page  (U Michigan, Ann Arbor) :  "Interpreted and Generated Signals"
Tuesday,
Apr 29
Joe Ostroy  (UCLA) :  "Decentralized Knowledge, Internal Organization, and the Limits of the Price System"
Note: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383
Joint with Laub Foundation Workshop in Industrial Organization
May 1 Phil Reny  (University of Chicago) :  "Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in Bayesian Games"
May 8 Gara Minguez Afonso  (LSE and Princeton) :  "Liquidity and Congestion"
May 15 Herve Moulin  (Rice University) :  "Sharing the Cost of a Capacity Network"
May 22 Andy Skrzypacz  (Stanford GSB) :  "The role of information in repeated games with frequent actions"
Tuesday,
Jun 3
David Levine  (Washington University at St Louis) :  "Monopoly and the Incentive to Innovate When Adoption Involves Switchover Disruptions"
Note: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383
Joint with Laub Foundation Workshop in Industrial Organization