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Fall 2017
September 26
Srihari Govindan, Rochester University
"On the Existence of Equilibria in Bayesian Allocation-Mechanisms"
October 3
David Dillenberger, University of Pennsylvania
"Group-Shift and the Consensus Effect"
October 10
Gabriel Carroll, Stanford University
"Information Games and Robust Trading Mechanisms"
October 17
Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
"Adverse Selection, Efficiency and the Structure of Information"
October 24
Tomasz Sadzik, UCLA
"Robust Mechanism Design of Exchange"
October 31
Gonzalo Cisternas, MIT Sloan
"Ratings-Based Price Discrimination"
November 7
Yonatan Aumann, Bar Ilan University
"An Axiomatic Foundation for the Theory of Risk Aversion with Applications"
November 10 - SPECIAL MEETING 1:00-2:30pm in SHFE 112
Sergiu Hart, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Smooth Calibration, Leaky Forecasts, Finite Recall, and Nash Dynamics"
November 14
Elliot Lipnowski and Doron Ravid, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"Cheap Talk with Transparent Motives"
November 21
Dan Barron, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"Optimal Agents with a Risk-Taking Agent"
November 28
Kfir Eliaz, Tel Aviv University
"The Silent Treatment"
December 5
Anqi Li, Washington University in St. Louis
"Optimal Incentive Contract with Endogenous Monitoring Technology"