News and Workshops

Workshop in Economic Theory

Autumn 2008

This workshop meets every Thursday at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions please contact Pat Garcia
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October 2
Juan Dubra (Universidad de Montevideo)
"Overconfidence?"

October 9
Eyal Winter (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"How to Throw a Party: Multi-Agent Initiatives with Type Dependent Externalities"

October 16
Paul Milgrom (Standford University)
"Assignment Exchanges"

October 23
To be announced.

October 30
Srihari Govindan (University of Iowa)
"Axiomatic Theory of Equilibrium Selection in Signaling Games with Generic Payoffs"

November 6 
Gustavo Manso (MIT Sloan School of Management)
"Information Percolation" Paper 1 and Paper 2

November 13
Balasz Szentes (University College London)
"Definable and Contractible Contracts"

November 20
Andrea Prat (London School of Economics)
"Endogenous Communication in Complex Organizations"

November 27
No Meeting

December 4
Roger Myerson (University of Chicago)
"A Capitalist Model of Political Liberalization"

December 11
Francesco Nava (University of Chicago)
"Quantity Competition in Networked Markets"



 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