Microeconomic Theory Workshop, 1998/99 - 2004/05
| 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 |
To find the Archives for more recent years, go to the Events/Seminars page and scroll to the bottom, Past Events
2004/05 | |
Sep. 9 | Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University, "Storable Good Monopoly: The Role of Commitment" (with Paolo Dudine and Igal Hendel) [Paper] Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
Sep. 15 | William Sandholm, University of Wisconsin, "Excess Payoff Dynamics, Potential Dynamics, and Stable Games" [Paper] |
Sep. 22 | Mark Armstrong, University College London, "Competition in Two-sided Markets" [Paper] Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
Sep. 29 | Ran Spiegler, University of Tel Aviv, "Competition over Agents with Boundedly Rational Expectations" [Paper] |
Oct. 6 | Klaus Schmidt, University of Munich, visiting Yale, "Contracts, Fairness and Incentives" (with Ernst Fehr and Alexander Klein) [Paper] |
Oct. 13 | Pierpaolo Battigalli, University of Bocconi, visiting New York University, "Dynamic Psychological Games" (with Martin Dufwenberg) |
Oct. 20 | Hector Chade, Arizona State University, "Simultaneous Search" (with Lones Smith) [Paper] |
Oct. 27 | Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University, visiting New York University, "Information Dynamics and Multiplicity in Global Games of Regime Change" (with George-Marios Angeletos and Christian Hellwig) [Paper] |
Nov. 3 | Benny Moldovanu, University of Bonn, visiting Yale, "Priority Auctions and Queue Disciplines that Depend on Processing Times" (with Thomas Kittsteiner) [Paper] |
Nov. 10 | Sandro Brusco, Stony Brook, "Simultaneous Ascending Auction with Multiple Objects and Known Budget Constraints" (with Pino Lopomo) |
Nov. 17 | Olivier Compte, ENPC. CERAS, Paris, "Bargaining over Randomly Generated Offers: A New Perspective on Multi-Party Bargaining" (with Philippe Jehiel) [Paper] |
Dec. 1 | Thomas Wiseman, University of Texas at Austin, "Capacity Choice Counters the Coase Conjecture" (with Preston McAfee) [Paper] |
Feb. 15 | Rajnish Mehra, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Junior is Rich: Bequests as Consumption" (with George M. Constantinides, John B. Donaldson) [Paper] |
Feb. 23 | Kuznets Lecture Series: Robert Townsend, University of Chicago, "The Thai Economy: Growth, Inequality and the Evaluation of Financial Systems" |
Mar. 2 | Paolo Siconolfi, Columbia University, "General Equilibrium in Economies with Asymmetric Information" (with Aldo Rustichini), based on Paper 1 and Paper 2 |
Mar. 23 | Alvaro Sandroni, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, "Testing Knowledge" |
Mar. 30 | David Cass, CARESS and University of Pennsylvania, "Multiple Equilibria and Sunspots in Securities Markets with Investment Restrictions" (with Suleman Basak, London Business School; Juan Manuel Licari, University of Pennsylvania; and Anna Pavlova, Sloan School, MIT) [Slides] [CARESS Rules] |
Apr. 6 | Helios Herrera, ITAM-CIE, "Group Formation and Voter Participation" (with Cesar Martinelli) [Paper] |
Apr. 13 | Yossi Feinberg, Graduate Schoool of Business, Stanford University, "Games with Incomplete Awareness," based on the following: "Subjective Reasoning — Games with Unwareness" [Paper] and "Games with Incomplete Awareness" [Paper] |
Apr. 20 | Max Amarante, Columbia University, "States, Models and Unitary Equivalence: A Reconsideration of Ellsberg's Paradox" |
2003/04 | |
Sep. 3 | Itzhak Gilboa, Tel-Aviv and Yale University, "Probabilities: Frequencies Viewed in Perspective" |
Sep. 11 | Susan Athey, Stanford University, "Dynamic Auctions with Persistent Private Information" (with Kyle Bagwell, Columbia University) [Abstract] Joint with Applied Micro Workshop and SOM Micro Strategy Workshop (SOM) |
Sep. 17 | Andy Skrzypacz, GSB Stanford University, "Bidding with Securities: Auctions and Security Design" (with Peter M. DeMarzo and Ilan Kremer) [Paper] |
Sep. 24 | In-Koo Cho, UIUC, "Montonicity and Rationalizability in a Large First Price Auction" [Paper] |
Oct. 1 | Elchanan Ben-Porath, Hebrew University, Israel, "Rationalizable Expectations" (with Aviad Heifetz) [Paper] |
Oct. 8 | David Levine, UCLA, "Steady State Learning and the Code of Hammurabi" (with Drew Fudenberg) [Paper] |
Oct. 15 | Muhamet Yildiz, MIT and Yale University, "Rationalizability and Impact of Higher-Order Beliefs on Equilibrium Actions," based on the following: "Rationalizability and Finite-Order Implications of Equilibrium" (with Jonathan Weinstein) [Paper] and "Impact of Higher-Order Uncertainty" (with Jonathan Weinstein) [Paper] |
Oct. 22 | Péter Esö, Northwestern University, "Optimal Information Disclosure in Auctions and the Handicap Auction" (with Balázs Szentes) [Paper] |
Nov. 5 | Felix Kubler, Stanford University, "The Accuracy of Numerical Solutions For Dynamic GEI Models" (with Karl Schmeddlers) [Paper] |
Nov. 12 | Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Columbia University, "College Admissions with Affirmative Action" [Paper] |
Nov. 20 | Michael Riordan, Columbia University GSB and Yale University, "Vertical Integration, Exclusive Dealing, and Ex Post Cartelization" (with Yongmin Chen) [Paper] Joint with Applied Micro Workshop and Micro Strategy Workshop (SOM) |
Dec. 3 | Bart Lipman, Boston University, "Temptation-Driven Preferences" (with Eddie Dekel and Aldo Rustichini) [Paper] |
Dec. 10 | Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Princeton University, "Electoral Competition with Asymetrically Informed Voters" (with Faruk Gul) |
Feb. 18 | Andy Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, "Sunk Investments Lead to Unpredictable Prices" (with George J. Mailath and Larry Samuelson) [Paper] |
Feb. 25 | Paul Milgrom, "Auctions, Matching and the Law of Aggregate Demand" Tjalling C. Koopman Memorial Lectures |
Mar. 3 | Kfir Eliaz, New York University, "Group Decision-Making in the Shadow of Disagreement" (with Debraj Ray and Ronny Razin) [Paper] |
Mar. 24 | Roger Myerson, University of Chicago, "Federalism and Incentives for Success of Democracy" [Paper] Joint with Seminar on Formal Models in Politics |
Mar. 31 | Leonardo Felli, LSE, visiting New York University, "Firm-Specific Training" (with Christopher Harris) [Paper] |
Apr. 7 | Marco Battaglini, Princeton University, "Pareto Efficient Income Taxation with Stochastic Abilites" (with Stephen Coate) [Paper] |
Apr. 21 | Shmuel Zamir, Hebrew University/Cowles visitor, "On the Existence of Pure Strategy Monotone Equilibria in Asymmetric First-Price Auctions" (with Philip J. Reny) [Paper] |
2002/03 | |
Sep. 4 | Hanming Fang and Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University "Overconfindence, Morale and Wage Setting Policies" |
Sep. 11 | Luis Rayo, GSB Chicago University, "Relational Team Incentives and Ownership" [Paper] Joint with Micro/Strategy Workshop |
Sep. 18 | Phil Reny, University of Chicago, "Reinterpreting Mixed Equilibria: A Unification of the Classical and Baynesian Views" (with Arthur J. Robson) [Paper] |
Sep. 25 | Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, "When is Reputation Bad?" (with David K. Levine) [Paper] |
Oct. 2 | Edward E. Schlee, Arizona State University, "Expected Consumer's Surplus as an Approximate Welfare Measure" [Paper] |
Oct. 9 | Yossi Feinberg, GSB Stanford University, "Subjective Reasoning in Dynamic Games" [Paper] |
Oct. 16 | Itzhak Gilboa, Tel Aviv University/Cowles visitor, "Accuracy vs. Simplicity: A Complex Trade-Off" (with Enriqueta Aragones, Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler) [Paper] |
Oct. 17 | Steve Coate, Cornell University, "On the Desirability of Campaign Contribution Limits" [Paper] Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar |
Oct. 23 | Dino Gerardi, Yale University, "Putting Your Ballot Where Your Mouth Is -- An Analysis of Collective Choice with Communication" (with Leeat Yariv) [Paper] |
Oct. 30 | Ilya Segal, Stanford University and Institute for Advanced Studies, "Optimal Pricing Mechanisms with Unknown Demand" [Paper] |
Nov. 6 | Rajiv Vohra, Brown University, "The Ex Ante Incentive Compatible Core in the Absence of Wealth Effects" (with Francoise Forges and Jean-Francois Mertens) [Paper] |
Nov. 13 | Colin Campbell, Rutgers University, "Implementation and Orderings of Public Information" [Paper] |
Nov. 20 | Benny Moldovanu, University of Bonn, "Potentials and Implementation: A Generic Impossibility Theorem" (with Philippe Jehiel and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn) [Paper] |
Dec. 4 | Attila Ambrus, Harvard University and Yale University, "Coalitional Rationality in Normal and Extensive Form Games" [Paper] |
Dec. 11 | Francoise Forges, Cergy-Pontsoise, "The Ex-Ante Incentive Compatible Core of the Assignment Game" [Paper] |
Mar. 5 | Herakles Polemarchakis, Brown University, "Pareto Improving Taxes and Observability" (with P.J.J. Herings) [Paper] |
Mar. 26 | Ehud Kalai, Northwestern University, "Large Robust Games" [Paper] and Ex-post Stability in Large Games" [Paper] |
Apr. 2 | Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley, "Piecemeal Preferences" |
Apr. 8 | Hyun Song Shin, London School of Economics, "Beauty Contests, Bubbles and Iterated Expectations in Asset Markets" (with Franklin Allen and Stephen Morris) [Paper] Joint with Macroeconomic Workshop |
Apr. 16 | George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania, "Imperfect Monitoring and Impermanent Reputations" (with Martin W. Cripps and Larry Samuelson) [Paper] |
Apr. 23 | Peter Norman, University of Wisconsin, "An Efficiency Rationale for Bundling of Public Goods" (with Hanming Fang) [Paper] |
May 21 | Thomas Quint, University of Nevada, Reno, "On Houseswapping, the Strict Core, Segmentation, and Linear Programming" (with Jun Wako) |
2001/02 | |
Sep. 12 | John Roemer, Department of Political Science, Yale University, "Does Democracy Engender Equality" [Paper] |
Sep. 19 | Debraj Ray, Department of Economics, New York University, "Persistent Inequality" (with Dilip Mookherjee) [Paper] Joint with International and Development Workshop |
Oct. 3 | David Schmeidler, Tel Aviv University, "Inductive Inference: An Axiomatic Approach" (with Itzhak Gilboa) [Paper] |
Oct. 10 | Tzachi Gilboa, Tel Aviv University, "Contextual Separation Theorems" (with David Schmeidler) [Paper] |
Oct. 17 | Larry Samuelson, University of Wisconsin, "Information-Based Relative Consumption Effects" [Paper] |
Oct. 24 | Steve Tadelis, Stanford University, "The Market for Reputations as an Incentive Mechanism" |
Oct. 31 | Antonio Rangel, Stanford University, "Addiction, Conditioning, and the Visceral Brain" (with Douglas Bernheim) |
Nov. 7 | Matthew Jackson, California Institute of Technology, "Social Networks and the Dynamics of Employment and Wages" (with Toni Calvo-Armengol) |
Nov. 14 | John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Rothschild-Stiglitz Reconsidered" (Based on CFDP 1305 and CFDP 1315) |
Nov. 28 | Ennio Stachetti, University of Michigan, "Aspirational Bargaining" (with Lones Smith) |
Dec. 5 | Christoper Harris, Institute of Advanced Studies, "Instantaneous Gratification" (with David Laibson) [Paper] |
Apr. 3 | Chris Shannon, University of California, Berkeley, Uncertainty and Risk in Financial Markets (with Luca Rigotti) [Paper] |
Apr. 10 | Timothy Van Zandt, INSEAD, Hierarchy Size and Environmental Uncertainty (with Kieron Meagher and Hakan Orbay) [Paper] |
Apr. 17 | Joel Watson, University of California, San Diego, Contract, Mechanism Design, and Technological Detail [Paper] |
Apr. 24 | Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University, Why Did the Elites Extend the Suffrage? Democracy and the Scope of Government, With an Application to Britain's 'Age of Reform' (with Nicola Persico) [Paper] |
May 1 | Philippe Henrotte, HEC, On Pricing Kernels and Dynamic Portfolios [Paper] |
May 9 | Alvin Roth, Harvard University, Last-minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-prize Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet (with Axel Ockenfels) [Paper] Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
2000/01 | |
Sep. 6 | Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University, "The Law of Large Demand for Information'' (with Lones Smith) |
Sep. 13 | Muhamet Yildiz, MIT, "Sequential Bargaining without a Recognition Device Part I: Model and Sequential Bargaining without a Recognition Device Part II: Reaching an Agreement" |
Sep. 20 | Larry Blume, Cornell and Yale University, "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? Belief Selection in Complete and Incomplete Markets" |
Sep. 27 | Adam Brandenburger, Harvard Business School, "Epistemic Conditions for Iterated Admissibility" (with H. Jerome Keisler) |
Oct. 4 | Marco Battaglini, Princeton University, "Multiple Referrals and Multidimensional Cheap Talk" |
Oct. 11 | Martine Quinzii, "Capital Markets Equilibrium with Moral Hazard" (with Michael Magill, UC/Davis and Yale University) |
Oct. 18 | Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University, "Efficient Dominance Solvable Auctions with Interdependent Values" (with Kim-Sau Chung) |
Oct. 25 | Estelle Cantillon, Harvard Business School and Yale University, "Electoral Rules and the Emergence of New Issues Dimensions" |
Nov. 1 | Akihiko Matsui, Tokyo and Georgetown University, "A Theory of Money with Market Places" (with Takashi Shimizu) [Paper] Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop |
Nov. 8 | Asher Wolinsky, Northwestern University, "Second Opinions and Price Competition" |
Nov. 15 | Rani Spiegler, Institute for Advanced Studies, "Experimentation and Bargaining Dynamics" |
Nov. 29 | Phillippe Jehiel, ENPC, University College and Institute for Advanced Studies, "Analogy-Based Expectation Equilibrium" |
Dec. 6 | Hongbin Cai, University of California, Los Angeles/Yale University, "Optimal Committee Design with Heterogeneous Preferences" |
Feb. 14 | Bill Sudderth, University of Minnesota, "N-person Games of Survival" |
Feb. 21 | Menahem Yaari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "A Credit Market a la David Hume" Joint with Cowles Foundation Seminar |
Feb. 28 | Ilya Segal, Stanford University, "Collusion, Exclusion and Inclusion in Random-Order Bargaining" |
Mar. 21 | Jeremy Bulow, Chief, Federal Trade Commission, "Selling a Company: When to Run an Auction" |
Mar. 28 | Michael Mandler, Royal Holloway College, University of London, "Compromises between Cardinality and Ordinality in Preference Theory and Social Theory" |
Apr. 11 | Svetlana Boyarchenko, University of Pennsylvania, "Capital Accumulation under Non-Gaussian Processes and the Marshallian Law" |
Apr. 18 | Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago, "Robustness and Pricing with Uncertain Growth" Joint with Cowles Foundation Seminar and Macroeconomics Workshop |
May 3 | Michael Whinston, Northwestern University, "Robust Predictions for Bilateral Contracting with Externalities" (with Ilya Segal) [Paper] Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
1999/00 | |
Sep. 8 | Alvaro Sandroni, Northwestern University, "Calibration with Many Checking Rules" (with Rann Smorodinsky and Rakesh Vohra) [Paper] |
Sep. 9 | Rohan Pitchford, Australian National University, "Incomplete Contracts and the Problem of Social Harm" (with Christopher M. Snyder) [Paper] Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
Sep. 15 | Nicola Persico, University of Pennsylvania, "Provision of Public Goods under Alternative Electoral Incentives" (with A. Lizzeri) [Paper] |
Sep. 23 | Hyun Song Shin, Nuffield College, Oxford University, "Coordination Risk and the Price of Debt" (with Stephen Morris) [Paper] |
Sep. 29 | Aviad Heifetz, University of Tel Aviv, "Doubting Others' Faultlessness and Cooperation in Centipede Games" (with Ady Pauzner) [Paper] |
Oct. 6 | Glenn Ellison, MIT, "Evolution of Standards and the Economics Publishing Process" Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
Oct. 13 | Robert Rosenthal, Boston University, "Coordination through Reputations: A Laboratory Experiment" (with Donald J. Dale and John Morgan) [Paper] |
Oct. 20 | Faruk Gul , Princeton University, "Temptation and Self-Control" (with Wolfgang Pesendorfer) [Paper] |
Oct. 27 | Francesca Cornelli, London Business School and Wharton, "Risk Arbitrage in Takeovers" (with David D. Li) [Paper] Joint with Finance and Accounting Seminar |
Nov. 3 | Steven Matthews, University of Pennsylvania, "Renegotiating Moral Hazard Contracts Under Limited Liability and Monotonicity" |
Nov. 10 | Philip Reny, University of Chicago, "An Ex-Post Efficient Auction" (with Motty Perry) [Paper] |
Nov. 17 | Michael Schwarz, Harvard University, "Decision Making Under Extreme Uncertainty" [Paper] |
Dec. 1 | Jon Levin, Yale University and Stanford University, "The Value of Information in Monotone Decision Problems" (with Susan Athey) (Note: No figures available) [Paper] |
Dec. 9 | Dirk Bergemann, Yale University, "Information Acquisition and Efficient Mechanism Design" Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
Mar. 1 | Efe Ok, New York University, "Utility Theory with Incomplete Preferences (with Juan Dubra) |
Mar. 22 | Yaw Nyarko, New York University, "An Experimental Study of Belief Learning Using Real Beliefs" (with Andy Schotter) |
Mar. 29 | Sergiu Hart, Hebrew University, "Simple Procedures, Approachability and Correlated Equilibria, or You Won't Regret It" (with Andreu Mas-Colell) |
Apr. 4 | Roland Benabou, Princeton, "Self-Confidence: Intrapersonal Strategies" (with Jean Tirole) [Paper] Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop |
Apr. 5 | Sandeep Baliga, MEDS, Northwestern, "Not Invented Here" |
Apr. 19 | Aldo Rusticini, Boston University, "Representing Preferences with a Unique Subjective State Space" (with Eddie Dekel and Bart Lipman) |
Apr. 27 | Pierre-André Chiappori, Chicago, "Econometric Models of Insurance under Asymmetric Information" [Abstract] Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop and Workshop Trade and Development |
1998/99 | |
Feb. 4 | Lloyd Shapley, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Walras Core" |
Feb. 10 | Ben Polak , Yale, "Decomposable Choice Under Uncertainty" (with Simon Grant and Atsushi Kajii) |
Feb. 17 | Hamid Sabourian, Cambridge University, "Complexity, Equilibrium Selection and Bargaining" |
Feb. 24 | Marciano Sinischalchi, Princeton University, "Belief, Revision and Forward Induction" (with Pierpaolo Battigalli) |
Mar. 3 | Ilya Segal, University of California, Berkeley, "The Mirrlees Approach to Mechanism Design with Renegotiation" (with Mike Whinston) |
Mar. 24 | Ted O'Donoghue, Cornell, "Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility" (with George Loewenstein and Matthew Rabin) |
Mar. 31 | Bill Zame, University of California, Los Angeles, "Does Market Incompleteness Matter?" (with David K. Levine) |
Apr. 7 | David Cass , University of Pennsylvania, "Financial Equilibrium with Restricted Market Participation" (with Paolo Siconolfi and Marcos Lisboa) |
Apr. 14 | Ronel Elul, Brown, "Collateral, Credit-History and the Financial Decelerator" |
Apr. 15 | Steve Tadelis, Stanford, "Procurement, Contracts: Fixed Price vs. Cost Plus" (with Patrick Bajari) Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
Apr. 21 | Sven Rady, Stanford University, GSB, "Market Experimentation in a Dynamic Differentiated-Goods Duopoly" |
May 5 | Philippe Aghion, UCL, "Capital Market Imperfections and the Instability of Open Economies" (with Banerjee and Bacchetta) Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop |