News and Workshops

Workshop in Economic Theory

Spring 2009

This workshop meets every Thursday at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions please contact Harriet Gulick
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April 2
Ignacio Esponda (New York University, Stern School of Business)
"Information Aggregation, Learning, and Non-Strategic Behavior in Voting Environments," joint with Demian Pouzo (New York University).

April 9
Jonathan Levin (Stanford University)
"Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions"

April 16
Tomasz Sadzik (New York University)
"Beliefs Revealed in Bayesian Equilibrium"

April 23
Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University)
"Robustness to Incomplete Information in Repeated Games"

April 30
Simon Board, (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Reputational Incentives and Dynamics"

May 7
Ron Siegel (Northwestern University)
"Asymmetric Contests with Conditional Investments"

May 14
Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)
"Learning While Voting: Determinants of Collective Experimentation"

May 21
Marco Ottaviani (Northwestern University)
"Aggregation of Information and Beliefs in Prediction Markets: Lessons for Asset Pricing," with Peter N. Sorensen

May 28
Yuval Salant (Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management)
"Procedural Analysis of Choice Rules with Applications to Bounded Rationality"

June 4
Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments," with Georgy Egorow and Konstantin Sonin



 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