Workshop in Economic Theory

Spring 2007

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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March 29
 Ani Guerdjikova (Cornell University)
"Evolution of Wealth and Asset Prices in Markets with Case-Based Investors"

April 5
Uzi Segal (Boston College)
"Are Universal Preferences Possible? Calibration Results for Non-Expected Utility Theories"

April 12
H. Peyton Young (John Hopkins University)
"Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations"

April 19
Yuliy Sannikov (University of California at Berkeley)
"Agency Problems, Screening and Increasing Credit Lines"

April 26
Thomas Wiseman (University of Texas)
"Reputation and Exogenous Private Learning"

May 3, 2007
Christian Hellwig (UCLA)
"Knowing What Others Know: Coordination Motives in Information Acquisition"

May 17
Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University)
"Parental Guidance and Supervised Learning"

May 24
Drew Fudenberg (Harvard University)
"Continuous Time Limits of Repeated Games with Imperfect Public Monitoring"

May 31
Navin Kartik (University of CA, San Diego)
"Cheap and Costly Talk" (based on the two following papers)
"Information Transmission with Almost-Cheap Talk"

"On the Robustness of Informative Cheap Talk"

June 7
Haluk Ergin (MIT)
"A Unique Costly Contemplation Representation"



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