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2015-16 Economics Seminars

Fall 2015

Date Speaker Title
Sep 23 Sylvain Chassang
Princeton University
Collusion in Auctions with Constrained Bids: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement
Sep 30 Marek Pycia
UCLA
Efficient Bilateral Trade
Oct 7 Tamas Fleiner
Eötvös Loránd, Budapest
Stable Matchings Through the Eyes of a Mathematician
Oct 14 Anne-Katrin Roesler
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Is Ignorance Bliss? Rational Inattention and Optimal Pricing
Oct 21 Roland Strausz
Humboldt University of Berlin
A Theory of Crowdfunding — A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard
Oct 28 Roger Myerson
University of Chicago
Local Agency Costs of Political Centralization
Nov 4 Eduardo Faingold
Yale University
The Value of a Reputation Under Imperfect Monitoring
Joint with Martin W. Cripps, UCL
Nov 11 Glenn Ellison
MIT
Fast Convergence in Evolutionary Models: A Lyapunov Approach
Joint with Drew Fudenberg and Lorens A. Imhof
Dec 2 Alex Frankel
Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago
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Spring 2016

Date Speaker Title
Mar 30 Ben Golub
Harvard University
Expectations, Networks, and Conventions
Joint with Stephen Morris, Princeton
Apr 6 Ran Spiegler
Tel Aviv University and University College London
Bayesian Networks and Boundedly Rational Expectations
Managing Non-Rational Expectations: A ìMonetary PolicyîExample
Apr 13 Michael Peters
University of British Columbia
Can Mechanism Designers Exploit Buyers’ Market Information
Apr 27 Pietro Ortoleva
Columbia University
Designing Dynamic Contests
May 4 Jeff Ely
Northwestern University
Moving the Goalposts
May 11 Caroline Thomas
University of Texas at Austin
Career Concerns and Policy Intransigence: A Dynamic Signalling Model
May 18 Balazs Szentes
London School of Economics
Buyer-optimal Demand and Monopoly Pricing
May 25 Jack Fanning
Brown University
Mediation in Reputational Bargaining
Jun 1 Alessandro Pavan
Northwestern University
Dynamic Matching Auctions: Experimentation and Cross-Subsidization