News and Workshops

Workshop in Economic Theory

Fall 2009

This workshop meets every Thursday at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions please contact Ada Barbosa
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Archives (Winter 2009), Archives (Spring 2009)


October 1
(No Meeting)

October 8
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (U of C Harris School of Public Policy)
"Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs"

October 15
Andy McLennan (University of Queensland)
"Games with Discontinuous Payoffs: a Strengthening of Reny's Theorem"

October 22 (Please note: time changed from 1:30 - 3:00)
Priscilla Man (University of Chicago)
"Forward Induction Equilibrium"

October 29
Vasiliki Skreta (NYU Stern)
"What to Put on the Table"

Novenber 3 (Note: Special Meeting)
Aloisio Araujo (IMPA and FGV)
Two papers: "Bubbles, Ambiguity and the Lack of Impatience";
and "Regulating Collateral-Requirements When Markets are Incomplete"

November 5
(No Meeting)

November 12
Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School/CEFIR in Moscow)
"The Political Economy of Faculty Selection"

November 19
Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn)
"Optimal Search, Learning, and Implementation"

November 26
(No Meeting - Thanksgiving Holiday)

December 3
Ken Judd (Hoover Institution, Stanford)
"The Nash Method for Existence and Uniqueness of Feedback Equilibrium in Dynamic Games"

December 10
(TBA)

 Economics Workshops and Seminars:
500 Economic Theory
512 Econometrics
516 Applied Dynamic Economics
530 Money & Banking
590 Applications of Economics
Rational Choice
592 Economics Policy and Public Finance