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Rational Choice

Spring 2009

This workshop meets every other Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
Papers can also be accessed directly from http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Egbecker/
For questions please contact Shirley Ogrodowski
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April 14
Roger Myerson (University of Chicago)
"Constitutional Structures for a Strong Democracy"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/research/lahore.pdf

April 30
Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm Univesity)
Title of talk: "What's Wrong with Social Preferences"
"Why Labels Affect Cooperation"

May 12
Emir Kamenica (University of Chicago)
"Do Advertisements Affect the Physiological Efficacy of Branded Drugs?" joint with Anup Malani

May 19
Panel discussion on "Fear and Economics."
Gary Becker (University of Chicago)
Richard Posner (University of Chicago)
"Fear, Liquidity Preference, and Depressions"
Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)
"Trusting the Stock Market" joint with Luigi Guiso and Paola Sapienza

June 2
Jack Goldstone (George Mason University)
"Democracy and Development: New Insights from Graphic Analysis" joint with Adriana Kocornik-Mina
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