Microeconomic Theory Workshop, 2005/06 - 2011/12
| 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 |
To find the Archives for more recent years, go to the Events/Seminars page and scroll to the bottom, Past Events
2011/12 | |
Aug. 31 | Rene Saran, University of Maastricht, "Whose Opinion Counts? Political Processes and the Implementation Problem" (with Norovsambuu Tumennasan) [Paper] |
Sep. 7 | Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University, "Framing Rules without Guiding Bypassing: A Model of Persuasion with a Bounded Rational Agent" (with Jacob Glazer) [Paper] |
Sep. 14 | Mihai Manea, MIT/Cowles visitor, "Bargaining in Dynamic Markets with Multiple Populations" [Paper] |
Sep. 21 | Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University/Cowles visitor, "Who Cooperates and How: Experimental Play of Noisy Repeated Games" Paper A: "Who Cooperates in Repeated Games?" (with Anna Dreber and David G. Rand) [Paper] and Paper B: "Slow to Anger and Fast to Forgive: Cooperation in an Uncertain World" (with David G. Rand and Anna Dreber) [Paper] |
Sep. 28 | Alessandro Bonatti, MIT/Cowles visitor, "Career Patterns and Career Concerns" (with Johannes Hörner) [Paper] |
Oct. 12 | Marco Battaglini, Princeton University/Cowles visitor, "The Free Rider Problem: A Dynamic Analysis" (with Salvatore Nunnari and Thomas Palfrey) [Paper] |
Oct. 19 | Nageeb Ali, University of California, San Diego, "Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies" |
Oct. 26 | Joel Sobel, University of California, San Diego, "Effective Communication in Cheap-Talk Games" |
Nov. 2 | David Rappoport, Yale University, "Can Borrowers Benefit From Taxes on Borrowing?" |
Nov. 9 | Pierpaolo Battigalli, University of Bocconi, "Selfconfirming Equilibrium and Uncertainty" [Paper] |
Nov. 16 | Xavier Gabaix, NYU/Cowles visitor, "Game Theory with Sparsity-Based Bounded Rationality" [Paper] |
Nov. 30 | Mihalis Yannakakis, Columbia University, "Equilibria, Fixed Points, and Complexity Classes" [Paper] |
Feb. 22 | Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University, "The Price of Anarchy: Out-of-Equilibrium Guarantees, Intrinsic Robustness, and Beyond" [Slides] |
Feb. 29 | Andrew Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania, "Cautiousness" (with Olivier Compte) [Paper] |
Mar. 21 | Stephen Morris, Princeton University, "Extremal Information Structures of the First Price Auction" |
Mar. 28 | Roland Strausz, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, "The Benefits of Sequential Screening" (with Daniel Krähmer) [Paper] |
Apr. 4 | Olivier Gossner, Paris School of Economics, "The Robustness of Incomplete Penal Codes to Payoff Perturbations" |
Apr. 11 | Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University, "Generalized Reduced-Form Auctions: A Network-Flow Approach" |
Apr. 18 | Ennio Stacchetti, New York University, "Agency Models with Frequent Actions: A Quadratic Approximation Method" (with Tomasz Sadzik) [Paper] |
Apr. 25 | Frédéric Koessler, Paris School of Economics, "Full Disclosure in Decentralized Organizations" (with Jeanne Hagenbach) [Paper] |
2010/11 | |
Sep. 8 | Sebastian Kranz, University of Bonn/Cowles Visitor, "Infinitely Repeated Games with Public Monitoring and Monetary Transfers" (with Susanne Goldluecke) [Paper] |
Sep. 15 | Ran Spiegler, Tel Aviv University and University College London, "Price Competition Under Limited Comparability" (with Michele Piccione) [Paper] |
Sep. 22 | Joel Watson, University of California, San Diego, and Cowles Visitor, "A Theory of Disagreement in Repeated Games" (with David A. Miller) [Paper] |
Sep. 29 | Andrea Prat, LSE, "Screening with an Approximate Type Space," (with K. Madarász) [Paper] |
Oct. 6 | Mehmet Ekmekci, Northwestern University/Cowles Visitor, "Reputation with Long Run Players and Imperfect Observation" (with Alp E. Atakan) [Paper] |
Oct. 13 | Andrew Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania/Cowles Visitor, "Plausible Cooperation" (with Olivier Compte) [Paper] |
Oct. 20 | David Ahn, UC Berkeley, "The Condorcet Jur(ies) Theorem" (with Santiago Oliveros) [Paper] and "Combinatorial Voting" (with Santiago Oliveros) [Paper] |
Oct. 21 | Uzi Segal, Boston College, "The Case for Discrimination" |
Oct. 28 | Klaus Ritzberger, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna, "Foundations of the Theory of Extensive Form Games" [Background papers: Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3] |
Nov. 3 | Christian Ghiglino, University of Essex, "Strategic Information Transmission in Networks" (with Andrea Galeotti and Francesco Squintani) [Paper] |
Nov. 10 | Peyton Young, University of Oxford, "Learning Efficient Nash Equilibria in Distributed Systems" (with Bary S.R. Pradelski) [Paper] |
Nov. 17 | Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University and Cowles Visitor, "Discounting and Patience in Optimal Stopping and Control Problems" (with John K.-H. Quah) [Paper] |
Dec. 1 | Lucas Maestri, Yale University, "Dynamic Contracting under Adverse Selection and Renegotiation" [Paper] |
Feb. 9 | Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Università Bocconi /Cowles visitor, "Ambiguity and Robust Statistics" (with Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci, Luigi Montrucchio) [Paper] |
Feb. 23 | Debraj Ray, New York University, "Poverty and Self-Control" (Introduction) (with B. Douglas Bernheim, Sevin Yeltekin) [Paper] Joint with Development Workshop |
Mar. 2 | Asuman Ozdaglar, MIT, "Cascades in Networks and Aggregate Volatility" (with Daron Acemonglu, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi) [Paper] |
Mar. 23 | Peter Klibanoff, Northwestern University, "Relevance and Symmetry" (with Sujoy Mukerji and Kyoungwon Seo) [Paper] |
Mar. 30 | Marciano Siniscalchi, Northwestern University, "Recursive Vector Expected Utility" [Paper] |
Apr. 6 | Meg Meyer, Nuffield College, Oxford University, "The Supermodular Stochastic Ordering" (with Bruno Strulovici) [Paper] |
Apr. 13 | V. Bhaskar, University College London, "Marriage as a Rat Race: Noisy Pre-Marital Investments with Assortative Matching" (with Ed Hopkins) [Paper] |
Apr. 20 | Pradeep Dubey, Stony Brook University/Cowles visitor, "The Allocation of a Prize" |
Apr. 27 | Philipp Strack, University of Bonn/Yale visitor, "Continuous Time Contests" (with Christian Seel) [Paper] |
May 4 | Kareen Rozen, Yale University, "Optimally Empty Promises" |
2009/10 | |
Sep. 2 | Lucas Maestri, Yale University, "Efficiency in Bargaining with Interdependent Values" |
Sep. 9 | Joel Watson, University of California San Diego, "Contract, Renegotiation, and Hold Up: General Results on the Technology of Trade and its Interaction with the Technology of Investment" (with Kristy Buzard) [Paper] |
Sep. 16 | Herakles Polemarchakis, University of Warwick, "Suboptimality, Identification and Economic Policy" |
Sep. 23 | George Noldeke, University of Basel, "The Competitive Benchmark in Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Markets" |
Sep. 30 | Phil Reny, University of Chicago, "On the Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in Bayesian Games" [Paper] |
Oct. 7 | Ken Binmore, University College London, "Rational Decisions in Large Worlds" |
Oct. 14 | Stephen Morris, Princeton University, "Strategic Distinguishability” (with Dirk Bergemann and Satoru Takahashi) |
Oct. 21 | Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University, "School Choice" |
Oct. 28 | Marco Battaglini, Princeton University, "Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory" (with Stephen Coate) [Paper] |
Nov. 4 | Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School) "Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments" [Paper] |
Nov. 11 | Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University, "Selective Trials, Information Production and Technology Adoption" |
Nov. 18 | Itzhak Gilboa, University of Tel Aviv, "A Unified Model of Induction" |
Dec. 2 | Stephan Lauermann, University of Michigan, "Adverse Selection and Search" (with Asher Wolinsky) [Paper] |
Feb. 17 | V.V. Chari, UMN, FRB Minneapolis/Cowles visitor, "Reputation and Sudden Collapse in Secondary Loan Markets" (with A. Shourideh and A. Zetlin-Jones) [Paper] |
Feb. 24 | Donald Brown, Yale University, "ADM: A Theory of Optimisim-Bias in Decision-Making under Uncertainty" (with Anat Bracha) |
Mar. 3 | Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India" (with Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak, Jeanne Lafortune) [Paper] Joint with the Development Workshop) |
Mar. 24 | Federico Echenique, Caltech/Cowles visitor, "The Axiomatic Structure of Empirical Content" (with Chris Chambers and Eran Shmaya) [Paper] |
Mar. 31 | Francis Bloch, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris/Cowles visitor, "Markovian Assignment Rules" (with David Cantala) [Paper] |
Apr. 7 | Olivier Tercieux, CNRS, Paris School of Economics/Cowles visitor, "Subgame-Perfect Implementation under Value Perturbations and the Hold-Up Problem" (with Philippe Aghion, Drew Fudenberg, Richard Holden, and Takashi Kunimoto) [Paper] |
Apr. 14 | Thomas Mariotti, Toulouse School of Economics/Cowles visitor, "Non-Exclusive Competition in the Market for Lemons" (with Andrea Attar and François Salanié) [Paper] |
Apr. 21 | Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania/Cowles visitor, "Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market" (with Leo Kass) [Paper] |
2008/09 | |
Sep. 17 | Kfir Eliaz, Brown University, "Consideration Sets and Competitive Marketing" (with Ran Spiegler) [Paper] |
Sep. 24 | Robert Anderson, University of California, Berkeley, "Equilibrium in Continuous-Time Financial Markets: Endogenously Dynamically Complete Markets" (with Roberto C. Raimondo) |
Oct. 1 | David Martimort, Université de Toulouse, "Mechanism Design with Bilateral Contracting" (with Vianney Dequiedt) [Paper] |
Oct. 8 | Itzhak Gilboa, Tel-Aviv University, visiting Cowles, "Objective and Subjective Rationality in a Multiple Prior Model" (with Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci, David Schmeidler) [Paper] |
Oct. 15 | Xavier Vives, IESE Business School, "Strategic Supply Function Competition with Private Information" [Paper] |
Oct. 22 | Michihiro Kandori, University of Tokyo, "Weakly Belief-Free Equilibria in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring" [Paper] |
Oct. 29 | Tomasz Sadzik, NYU, "Beliefs Revealed in Bayesian-Nash Equilibrium" [Paper] |
Nov. 5 | Bruno Biais, Université de Toulouse/Cowles, "Liquidity Shocks and Order Book Dynamics" (with Pierre-Olivier Weill) [Paper] |
Nov. 12 | Tri Vi Dang, University of Mannheim/Cowles, "Information Acquisition, Noise Trading, and Speculation in Double Auction Markets" [Paper] |
Nov. 13 | Leeat Yariv, Caltech, "Matching Through Decentralized Markets" (with Muriel Niederle) [Paper] |
Nov. 19 | Peter Eso, Northwestern KSM-MEDS, "Wait and See: A Theory of Communication Over Time" (with Yuk-fai Fong) [Paper] |
Dec. 3 | David Miller, UC San Diego/Cowles visitor, "Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies" (with Nageeb Ali) [Paper] |
Dec. 10 | Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University, "Collaborating" (with Johannes Hörner) [Paper] |
Feb. 25 | Nicolas Vieille, HEC Paris, "Dynamic Sender Receiver Games" |
Mar. 4 | Juuso Välimäki, Helsinki School of Economics, "Private Information in Games of Timing" (with Pauli Murto) |
Mar. 25 | Christian Hellwig, UCLA, "Bubbles and Self-enforcing Debt" (with Guido Lorenzoni) [Paper] |
Apr. 1 | John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Rationally Discounting an Uncertain Future" (with J. Doyne Farmer) [Paper] |
Apr. 8 | Andrew Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania, "Belief Formation" (with Olivier Compte) [Paper] |
Apr. 15 | Adam Szeidl, UC Berkeley, "Fishing for Fools" (with Ulrike Malmendier) |
Apr. 22 | Bart Lipman, Harvard University, "Implementation and Partial Provability" |
Apr. 29 | David Levine, Washington University in St. Louis, "Self Control, Risk Aversion and the Allais Paradox" (with Drew Fudenberg) [Paper] |
2007/08 | |
Sep. 12 | Johannes Hörner, Northwestern University/Cowles Visitor, "Public vs. Private Offers in the Market for Lemons" (with Nicolas Vieille) [Paper] |
Sep. 19 | Marcin Peski, University of Chicago, "Learning through Theories" [Paper] |
Sep. 26 | Eric Maskin, Princeton University, "Evolution and Repeated Games" (Background material: "Evolution and Cooperation in Noisy Repeated Games"(with Drew Fundenberg) [Paper] |
Oct. 3 | Srihari Govindan, University of Iowa, "Decomposition Algorithms for Games," "A Decomposition Algorithm for N-Player Games" (with Robert Wilson) [Paper] and "A Canonical Decomposition Algorithm to Compute Equilibria of N-Player Games with Arbitrary Accuracy" (with Robert Wilson) [Paper] |
Oct. 10 | Bruno Biais, Toulouse School of Economics, "Accident Risk, Limited Liability and Dynamic Moral Hazard" (with T. Mariotti, Jean-Charles Rochet, and Stéphane Villeneuve) [Paper] Joint with Finance and Accounting Workshop |
Oct. 17 | Jonathan Weinstein, Northwestern University, "Comparative Testing of Experts" (with Nabil I. Al-Najjar) [Paper] |
Oct. 23 | Martin Hellwig, Max Planck Institute, "Public-Good Provision in a Large Economy" (with Felix Bierbrauer) [Paper] Joint with Micro Theory Lunch |
Oct. 24 | Timothy Van Zandt, INSEAD, "Interim Bayesian Nash Equilibrium on Universal Type Spaces for Supermodular Games" [Paper] |
Oct. 31 | Jerry Green, Harvard University, "Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement" (with Daniel Hojman) [Paper] |
Nov. 7 | Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania, "The Sorting Effect of Price Competition" (with Jan Eeckhout) [Paper] |
Nov. 14 | Haluk Ergin, Washington University (St. Louis) "A Unique Costly Contemplation Representation" (with Todd Sarver) [Paper] |
Nov. 28 | Marco Ottaviani, LSE, "Aggregation of Information and Beliefs in Prediction Markets" (with Peter Norman Sorensen) |
Dec. 5 | Vasiliki Skreta, NYU, "Transparency and Commitment" [Paper] |
Feb. 27 | Navin Kartik, University of California-San Diego, "Opinions as Incentives" (with Yeon-Koo Che) [Paper] |
Mar. 26 | John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "The Leverage Cycle in an Anxious Economy" Related papers: "Emegring Markets in an Anxious Global Economy" [Paper] and "Liquidity, Default and Crashes" [Paper] and "Promises Promises" [Paper]) |
Apr. 2 | Olivier Compte, ENPC, "Repeated Games and Limited Information Processing Preliminary and Incomplete" (with Andrew Postlewaite) [Paper] |
Apr. 9 | Yossi Feinberg, Stanford University, "Testing Multiple Forecasters" (with Colin Stewart) [Paper] |
Apr. 16 | John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Credit Cards and Inflation" (with Pradeep Dubey) [Paper] |
Apr. 23 | Philippe Mongin, CNRS & HEC School of Management, "The Premiss-Based Approach to Logical Aggregation" (with Franz Dietrich) [Paper] |
Apr. 30 | Francoise Forges, Universite Paris-Dauphine, "Afriat's Theorem for General Budget Sets" (with Enrico Minelli) [Paper] |
Sep. 10 | Roland Benabou, Princeton University, "Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets" [Paper] |
2006/07 | |
Sep. 20 | Yuliy Sannikov, UC Berkeley, "Agency Problems, Screening and Increasing Credit Lines" [Paper] |
Sep. 27 | Daron Acemoglu, MIT and Visitor, Yale, "Learning and Disagreement in an Uncertain World" (with Victor Chernozukov and Muhamet Yildiz) [Paper] |
Oct. 4 | Wojciech Olszewski, Northwestern and Visitor, Yale, "Strategic Manipulation of Empirical Test" (with Alvaro Sandroni) [Paper] |
Oct. 11 | Ulrich Horst, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, "Dynamic Systems of Social Interactions" [Paper] |
Oct. 18 | Anat Admati, GSB Stanford, "The "Wall Street Walk" and Shareholder Activism: Exit as a Form of Voice" (with Paul Pfleiderer) [Paper] |
Oct. 25 | Jeroen Swinkles, Washington University "Moral Hazard with Bounded Payments" (with Ohad Kadan) [Paper] |
Nov. 01 | Faruk Gul, Princeton University, "The War of Information" (with Wolfgang Pesendorfer) [Paper] |
Nov. 08 | Olivier Gossner, MEDS Northwestern, "When Is the Reservation Value in a Repeated Game Equal to the Minmax Payoff?*" (with Johannes Hörner) [Paper] |
Nov. 15 |
Antoni Calvo-Armengol, UAB, "Investing in the Creation of Synergies: Building Socio-economic Networks*" (with Antonio Cabrales and Yves Zenou) [Paper] |
Nov. 29 | Sergei Izmalkov, MIT, "Perfect Implementaion of Normal-Form Mechanisms" (with Matt Lepinski and Silvio Micali) [Paper] |
Dec. 6 | Andrea Wilson, Harvard, "Sustainable Reputations with Finite Memory" [Paper] |
Feb. 28 | William D. Sudderth, University of Minnesota, "Subgame Perfect Equilibria for Stochastic Games" (with Ashok P. Maitra) [Paper] |
Mar. 7 | Ennio Stacchetti, New York University, "Insider Trading with Stochastic Valuation" (with René Caldentey) [Paper] |
Mar. 28 | Larry Epstein, University of Rochester, "Subjective States: A More Robust Model" (with Kyoungwon Seo) [Paper] |
Apr. 4 | Nicola Persico, New York University, "Factions and Political Competition" (with José Carlos Rodriguez-Pueblita and Dan Silverman) [Paper] |
Apr. 11 | Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University, "Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second-Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords" (with Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz) [Paper] |
Apr. 18 | Mark Armstrong, University College London, "Competitive Nonlinear Pricing and Bundling" (with John Vickers) [Paper] |
Apr. 25 | Joe Halpern, Cornell University, "Lower Bounds on Implementing Robust and Resilient Mediators" (with Ittai Abraham and Danny Dolev) [Paper] |
May 2 | William Zame, UCLA, "Incentives, Contracts and Markets: A General Equilibrium Theory of Firms" [Paper] |
2005/06 | |
Sep. 7 | Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University, "Clock Games: Theory and Experiments" (with John Morgan) [Paper] |
Sep. 21 | Sudipto Bhattacharya, London School of Economics, "Knowledge Licensing, Patents, and Optimal Organization of Research and Development" (with Sergei Guriev) [Paper] |
Sep. 28 | George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania, "Repeated Games with Private Monitoring: What Have We Learned" Joint with Cowles Lunch Talk |
Oct. 6 | Hao Li, University of Toronto, "Competing for Talents" (with Ettore Damiano and Wing Suen) [Paper] Joint with Applied Micro Workshop |
Oct. 12 | Matthew Jackson, California Institute of Technology, "Social Networks and Economic Behavior" Joint with Cowles Lunch Talk |
Oct. 19 | Eytan Sheshinski, Hebrew University, "Socially Desirable Limits on Choice" [Paper] and "Optimal Policy to Influence Individual Choice Probabilities" [Paper] |
Oct. 26 | Adam Brandenburger, Stern School of Business, NYU, "Can Hidden Variables Explain Correlation?" (with Amanda Friedenberg) [Paper] |
Nov. 2 | Johannes Hörner, Northwestern University, "The Folk Theorem for Games with Private Almost-Perfect Monitoring" (with Wojciech Olszewski) [Paper] |
Nov. 9 | Larry Samuelson, University of Wisconsin, "Optimal Bunching without Optimal Control" (with Georg Nöldeke) [Paper] |
Nov. 16 | Francesco Squintani, University College London, "Preemption Games with Private Information" (Hugo Hopenhayn) |
Nov. 30 | Douglas Gale, New York University, "Decision Making under Uncertainty" (with Syngjoo Choi, Ray Fisman, and Shachar Kariv) |
Dec. 1 | Philip J. Reny, University of Chicago, "On the Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in Bayesian Games" [Paper] |
Dec. 7 | Luis Rayo, University of Chicago Grad. School of Business, "Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness" (with Gary Becker) [Paper] Joint with Applied Micro Workshop |
Feb. 8 | Balázs Szentes, University of Chicago, "An Evolutionary Approach Towards Time Preferences" (with Emil Iantchev) [Paper] |
Feb. 15 | Bernard DeMeyer, University of Paris-1 (Pantheon Sorbonne)/Cowles visitor, "On the Strategic Origin of the Brownian Motion in Finance" (with Hadiza Moussa Saley) [Paper] |
Feb. 22 | Lones Smith, University of Michigan/Cowles visitor, "Caller Number Five: Timing Games that Morph from One Form to Another" (with Andreas Park) [Paper] |
Mar. 1 | Jean-Francois Mertens, CORE/Cowles visitor, "Intergenerational Equity and the Discount Rate for Cost-Benefit Analysis" (with Anna Rubinchik-Pessach) [Paper] |
Mar. 22 | Roger Lagunoff, Georgetown University/Cowles visitor, "Dynamic Stability and Reform of Political Institutions" [Paper] |
Mar. 29 | Ori Haimanko, BenGurion University of Negev/Cowles visitor, "Wages versus Prizes with Envy and Pride" (with Pradeep Dubey and John Geanakoplos) [Paper] |
Apr. 5 | H. Peyton Young, The Brookings Institution, "Learning to Play Nash Equilibrium without Knowing You Have an Opponent" (with Dean P. Foster) [Paper] |
Apr. 12 | Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University/Cowles visitor, "Game Theory on the Universal Type Space, Part 2" [Paper] |
Apr. 19 | Massimo Marinacci, Université di Torino, "Static and Dynamic Variational Preferences." Based on the following: "Ambiguity Aversion, Robustness, and the Variational Representation of Preferences" [Paper] and "Dynamic Variational Preferences" (both with Fabio Macceroni and Aldo Rustichini) [Paper] |
Apr. 26 | Stony Brook Conference to Honor Robert Aumann |
May 3 | Abraham Neyman, Hebrew University/Cowles visitor, "Optimal Use of Communication Resources" (with Olivier Gossner and Penélope Hernandez) [Paper] |