Microeconomics Seminars
General Information
All seminars are on Wednesday, 3:30-5:00 (unless otherwise noted) in room 206 David Kinley Hall . Schedule for the current semester is here. Faculty members can sign up to set up a meeting with a speaker here.
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Upcoming Lectures
| Date | Location | Name | Affiliation | Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPRING 2013 | ||||
| Wed., Mar. 27, 2013 | 206 DKH | Ben Handel | Berkeley | "Health Insurance for Humans: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare" |
| Wed., April 3, 2013 | 206 DKH | Gabriel Carroll | Microsoft Research | TBA |
| Wed., April 10, 2013 | 206 DKH | Suehyun Kwon | UCL | TBA |
Fri., April 26, 2013 Note different day and location |
7 DKH | Gary Biglaiser | UNC-Chapel Hill | "The Value of Incumbency in Heterogeneous Networks" |
Mon., April 30, 2013 Note different day and location |
7 DKH | Larry Samuelson | Yale | "Investment and Matching" |
Past Lectures
| Date | Location | Name | Affiliation | Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Wed., Dec. 5, 2012 CANCELLED |
215B DKH | Dirk Bergemann | Yale | TBA |
| Wed., Nov. 28, 2012 | 215B DKH | Yuichiro Kamada | Berkeley, Haas | TBA |
| Wed., Nov. 7, 2012 | 215B DKH | Scott Kominers | Chicago | TBA |
| Wed., Oct. 31, 2012 | 215B DKH | Yasutora Watanabe | Northwestern, Kellogg | TBA |
| Wed., Oct. 24, 2012 | 215B DKH | Bruno H. Strulovici | Northwestern | TBA |
| Wed., Oct. 17, 2012 | 215B DKH | In-Koo Cho | University of Illinois | TBA |
| Wed., Oct. 10, 2012 | 215B DKH | Sangmook Lee | University of Pennsylvania | TBA |
| Wed., Oct. 3, 2012 | 215B DKH | Caroline Thomas | University of Texas, Austin | TBA |
| Wed., Sept. 26, 2012 | 215B DKH | Briana Chang | Wisconsin | TBA |
| Wed., Sept. 12, 2012 | 215B DKH | Takuo Sugaya | Stanford | TBA |
| Wed., Sept. 5, 2012 | 215B DKH | Xun Tang | University of Pennsylvania | TBA |
| Wed., Nov. 16, 2011 |
106 DKH | Jay Pil Choi | Michigan State | TBA |
| Wed., Nov. 9, 2011 |
106 DKH | Azeem Shaikh | Chicago | TBA |
| Wed., Nov. 2, 2011 |
106 DKH | Alex Wolitzky | MIT | TBA |
| Fri., Oct. 28, 2011 |
125 David Kinley Hall | Stephan Laumann | Michigan | TBA |
| Fri., Oct. 21, 2011 |
125 David Kinley Hall | Jess Benhabib | NYU | TBA |
| Wed., Oct. 12, 2011 |
106 DKH | J.P. Dube | Chicago Booth | TBA |
| Wed., Oct. 5, 2011 |
106 DKH | John Kagel | OSU | TBA |
| Wed., Sept. 28, 2011 |
106 DKH | Yuichi Yamamoto | Penn | TBA |
| Wed., Sept. 21, 2011 |
106 DKH | Alex Frankel | Chicago Booth | Aligned Delegation |
| Wed., Sept. 14, 2011 |
106 DKH | Asher Wolinsky | Northwestern | Search with Adverse Selection |
| Wed., Sept. 7, 2011 |
106 DKH | Kei Kawai | Yale | Auction Design and the Incentive to Invest: Evidence from Procurement Auctions |
| Wed., Dec. 8, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Seung-Hyun Hong | University of Illinois | " Local Identity and the Persistent Leadership in Market Share Dynamics: Evidence from Deregulation in the Korean Soju Industry" |
| Wed., Dec. 1, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Andrew Sweeting | Duke University | "When Should Sellers Use Auctions?" |
| Wed., Nov.17, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Alessandro Lizzeri | New York University | "Government Policy with Time Inconsistent Voters" |
| Wed., Nov. 10, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Brett Green | Northwestern University, Kellogg | "Asset Trading, News and Liquidity in Markets with Asymmetric Information" |
| Wed., Nov. 3, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Tilman Börgers | University of Michigan | |
| Wed., Oct. 27, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Atila Abdulkadiroglu | Duke University | "Resolving Conflicting Preferences in School Choice: The 'Boston' Mechanism Reconsidered " |
Wed., Oct. 20, 2010 CANCELLED |
226 Wohlers Hall | Yi Qian | Northwestern University, Kellogg | "Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends? - Sales Impacts of Counterfeiting" |
| Wed., Oct. 13, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Joyee Deb | New York University, Stern | |
| Wed., Oct. 6, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Teddy K. Kim | University of Iowa | " Information about Sellers' Past Behavior in the Market for Lemons " |
| Wed., Sept. 29, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Lu Han | University of Toronto, Rotman | "Understanding the Puzzling Risk-Return Relationship for Housing" |
| Wed., Sept. 22, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Brent Hickman | University of Chicago | "Effort, Race Gaps, and Affirmative Action: " "A Game-theoretic Analysis of College Admissions" and "A Structural Policy Analysis of US College Admission" |
| Wed., Sept. 15, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Mihai Manea | MIT | "Markets in Steady State" |
| Wed., Sept. 8, 2010 | 226 Wohlers Hall | Akihiko Matsui | University of Tokyo | |
| Wed., April 28, 2010 | 219 DKH | Sudipta Sarangi | Louisiana State | "Key Players and Key Groups in Teams: A Network Approach using Soccer Data" |
| Wed., April 21, 2010 | 219 DKH | Srihari Govindan | Iowa | "Axiomatic Equilibrium Selection for Generic Two-Player Games" |
| Wed., April 14, 2010 | 219 DKH | Wolfgang Pesendorfer | Princeton University | "Bounded Rationality and Random Choice" |
| Wed., April 7, 2010 | 219 DKH | Bill Zame | UCLA | "Collateralized Security Markets" |
| Wed., March 31, 2010 | 219 DKH | Glenn Ellison | MIT | "Position Auctions with Consumer Search" |
| Mon., March 29, 2010 - joint the Macroeconomics - 3:30 - 5:00 | 219 David Kinley Hall | Luis Cabral | New York University | "lDynamic Price competition with Network Effects" |
| Wed., March 17, 2010 joint with Applied Micro | 219 DKH | Claire Lim | Stanford | "Measuring Media Influence on U.S. State Courts" |
| Wed., Feb. 24, 2010 | 219 DKH | Lones Smith | Michigan | "Dynamic Deception" |
| Wed., Dec. 2, 2009 | 123 David Kinley Hall | Johannes Horner | Yale University | "Selling Information" |
| Wed., Nov. 18 | 123 David Kinley Hall | James Schummer | Northwestern, Kellogg Schl of Mgt., MEDS | "Assigment of Arrival Slots" |
| 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 | 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" |