Microeconomic Theory Workshop, Fall 2009

Economics 537a
Microeconomic Theory Workshop

Organizers: John Geanakoplos and Larry Samuelson

The Microeconomic Theory Workshop presents current research by faculty from Yale and elsewhere.

Fall 2009	Wednesday, 2:30-3:50 pm, 28 Hillhouse, Room 106
September 2	Lucas Maestri (Yale University) "Efficiency in Bargaining with Interdependent Values"
September 9	Joel Watson (University of California San Diego) "Contract, Renegotiation, and Hold Up: General Results on the Technology of Trade and its Interaction with the Technology of Investment"
September 16	Herakles Polemarchakis (University of Warwick) "Suboptimality, Identification and Economic Policy"
September 23	George Noldeke (University of Basel) "The Competitive Benchmark in Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Markets"
September 30	Phil Reny (University of Chicago) "On the Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in Bayesian Games"
October 7	Ken Binmore (University College London) "Rational Decisions in Large Worlds"
October 14	Stephen Morris (Princeton University) "Strategic Distinguishability” (with Dirk Bergemann and Satoru Takahashi)
October 21	Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University) "School Choice"
October 28	Marco Battaglini (Princeton University) "Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory" (with Stephen Coate)
November 4	Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School) "Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments"
November 11	Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University) "Selective Trials, Information Production and Technology Adoption"
November 18	Itzhak Gilboa (University of Tel Aviv) "A Unified Model of Induction"
December 2	Stephan Lauermann (University of Michigan) "Aggregate Uncertainty and Learning in a Decentralized Market"

Past Workshops Micro Theory Lunch (Econ 522a)

Schedule maintained by Megan Carney (432-3709)

Last updated: November 18, 2009