News and Workshops

Workshop in Economic Theory

Spring 2004

This workshop meets every Thursday at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in SS 401.
For questions please contact Ada Barbosa

April 1
No Meeting

April 8
Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University)
"A Behavioral Characterization of Plausible Priors"

April 15
Zvika Neeman (Boston University)
"On the Generic (Im)possibility of Full Surplus Extraction in Mechanism Design"

April 22
Cancelled
Douglas Gale (New York University)
"Competition and Complexity, Part I: Sequential Matching"
"Markov Equilibria of Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Games"

April 29
Larry Epstein (University of Rochester)
"An Axiomatic Model of Non-Bayesian Updating"

May 6
Asher Wolinsky (Northwestern University)
"Vote Buying"

May 13
Larry Samuelson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Sunk Investments Lead to Unpredictable Prices"

May 20
Vasiliki Skreta (University of Minnesota)
"Optimal Auction Design Under Non-Commitment"

May 27
Haluk Ergin (MIT)
"A Subjective Theory of Compound Lotteries"

June 3
No Meeting.

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