| 2007 |
|
| February 20 |
William Bunting, Yale University,
"A False Moral Hazard Model of External Regulation" |
| February 27 |
Jernej Copic, UCLA, Cowles Visitor,
"Awareness Equilibrium" (with Andrea Galeotti) |
| March 6 |
Achim Wambach, University of
Cologne, "The Descending Auction Is Not Strategically Equivalent to a
First-price-sealed-bid Auction" |
| March 27 |
Eduardo Faingold, Yale University,
"Reputation Effects and Equilibrium Degeneracy" (with Y. Sannikov) |
| April 3 |
Rahul Deb, Yale University, "Computational Inefficiency of Nonparametric Tests for
Consistency of Data with Household Consupmption" |
| April 10 |
Stephanie Lau, Washington
University, Cowles Visitor, "Information Revelation in Bilateral Bargaining" |
| April 17 |
Nicholas Barberis, Yale University,
SOM, "What Drives the Disposition Effect? An
Analysis of a Long-standing Preference-Based Explanation" (with Wei Xiong,
Princeton) |
| April 24 |
Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University,
"Bargaining over a New Welfare State: A Model of
the Distribution of New Deal Funds" (with K. Thomsson) |
| May 1 |
Keith Gamble, UC Berkeley Economics,
"Two Choice Experiments" |
| May 8 |
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University,
"Optimal Dynamic Contest" |
| May 15 |
Richard Van Weelden, Yale
University, |
| May 22 |
Maher Said, Yale University, "A
Model of Sequential Auctions with Entry" |
| September 11 |
Kareen Rozen, Yale University,
"A 'Dual'-Improved Shortcut to
the Long Run" |
| Septemer 25 |
Pingyang Gao, Yale University, "Information Quality, Keynesian Beauty Contest, and
Market Efficiency" |
| October 2 |
Srihari Govindan, University of
Iowa, "Computation of Nash Equilibria: Background
Material" |
| October 9 |
David Parkes, Harvard University,
"Efficient Dynamic Incentive Mechanisms" Related papers: "Efficient Online Mechanisms for Persistent, Periodically
Inaccessible Self-Interest Agents" and "An
Ironing-Based Approach to Adaptive Online Mechanism Design in Single-Valued Domains" |
| October 16 |
Lucas Maestri, Yale University,
"Bonus Payments in the Principal-Agent Model with Subjective Evaluations" |
| October 23 |
Martin Hellwig, Max Planck
Institute, "Public-Goods Provision in a Large Economy" (joint with Micro-Theory Seminar) |
| November 6 |
Luigi Balletta, Yale University,
"Optimal Taxation of Family Income: An Application of Multidimensional
Screening" |
| November 13 |
Eduardo Faingold, Yale University, "Uniform Topology on Types and Strategic
Convergence" (joint with Alfredo Di Tillio) |
| November 27 |
Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University,
"Continuous — Time Screening Contracts" |
| December 4 |
Richard Van Weelden, Yale
University, "Partisanship, Cascades, and the Value of Oversight" |
| December 11 |
Edmund Yeh, Yale University, "Pricing, Competition, and Routing for Selfish and
Strategic Nodes in Multi-hop Relay Networks" (with Yufang Xi) |
| 2006 |
|
| February 14 |
Xianwen Shi, Yale University, "Contests for Status" (with Benny Moldovanu, University
of Bonn, and Aner Sela, Ben Gurion University) |
| February 21 |
Sven De Vries, Zentrum Mathematik,
TU Muenchen, "On Ascending Vickrey Auctions for
Heterogeneous Objects" (with James Schummer and Rakesh V. Vohra, both at
Northwestern University) |
| February 28 |
Yianis Sarafidis, Yale University,
"Games with Time Inconsistent Players" |
| March 21 |
John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Collateral and Crashes" |
| March 28 |
Daniel Monte, Yale University,
"Long Run Reputation and Bounded Memory" |
| April 4 |
Alessandro Bonatti,
Yale University, "Brand-Specific Taste for Quality" |
| April 11 |
Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University,
"A Dual Self Model of Impulse
Control" (with David K. Levine) |
| April 18 |
Leonardo Felli, London School of
Economics (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Should
Courts Always Enforce What Contracting Parties Write?" (with Luca Anderlini and
Andrew Postlewaite) |
| April 25 |
Maher Said, Yale University,
"Learning in Hidden Markov Models with Bounded Memory" |
| May 9 |
Joel Watson, University of
California, San Diego, "Open Option Contracts — Work in Progress" |
| September 12 |
Wojciech Olszewski, Northwestern
University and Visitor, Yale, "Repeated Games with Private Monitoring" |
| September 19 |
Itzhak Gilboa, Tel-Aviv University
and Visitor, Yale, "Similarity and Heuristics in Consumer Expenditures" (with
Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler) |
| September 26 |
Daniel Monte, "Reputation and
Bounded Memory" |
| October 3 |
Xianwen Shi, Yale University,
"Optimal Auctions with Information Acquisition" |
| October 10 |
George Mailath, Yale University,
"Common Learning" |
| October 17 |
Rossella Argenziano, University of
Essex, "N-Players Preemption Games" |
| October 24 |
Sven de Vries, Tech U of Munich and
Visitor, Yale University, "An Ascending Vickrey Auctions for Selling Spanning Trees
of a Graph (and Bases of a Matroid)" |
| October 31 |
Colin Stewart, Yale University
"Learning by Similarity in Coordination Problems" |
| November 7 |
Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University
"Insurance Contracts with Two-Sided Privated Information" |
| November 14 |
Richard Van Weelden, TBA |
| November 28 |
Rahul Deb, Yale University
"Characterization of Mechanisms in the Random Assignment Problem" |
| December 5 |
Rodney Chan, Yale University
"Conformity and Learning" |
| 2005 |
|
| January 18 |
Hanming Fang, Yale University,
"Toward an Economic Theory of Disfunctional Identity" |
| February 8 |
Xianwen Shi, Yale University,
"Split Award Auctions with Entry" |
| February 15 |
Andres Carvajal, Yale University,
"Identification of Fundamentals from Market Data:
May Lack of Information be the Invisible Hand?" Click here for another background paper |
| February 22 |
Marzena Rostek, Yale University,
"Fatalistic Reasoning in Games" |
| March 1 |
Juan Moreno-Ternero, Yale
University, "Impartiality,
Solidarity, and Priority in the theory of Justice" |
| March 29 |
Colin Stewart, Yale University |
| April 5 |
Alex Lee, Yale University, "The
Harm in Social Stigma: Signal Fading and Costly Signals |
| April 12 |
Daniel Monte |
| April 19 |
Melody Lo |
| September 13 |
Organizational Meeting: Dirk
Bergemann, Yale University, "Information in Mechanism Design: A Survey" |
| September 20 |
Amil Dasgupta, London School of
Economics, "Reputation and Asset Prices" |
| September 27 |
Dmitry Shapiro, Yale University,
"Asset Price with Heterogenous Beliefs and Equity Premium Decline" |
| October 4 |
Hao Li, University of Toronto,
"Assortative Matching" |
| October 11 |
Tzachi Gilboa, Tel Aviv University,
"Making Statements and Approval Voting" |
| October 18 |
Marzena Rostek, Yale University,
"Quantile Maximization in Decision Theory" |
| October 25 |
Pei-Yu Lo, Yale University,
"Iterative Admissibility and Common Knowledge of Language in a Sender-Receiver
Game" |
| November 1 |
Dino Gerardi, Yale University,
"Aggregation of Expert Opinions" |
| November 8 |
Larry Samuelson, University of
Wisconsin, "The Economics of Relationships" |
| November 15 |
Daniel Monte, Yale University,
"Reputation and Bounded Memory" |
| November 29 |
Philip J. Reny, University of
Chicago, "Existence of Nash Equilibria in Discontinuous Games: A Tutorial" |
| December 6 |
Maher Said, Yale University,
"Reinforcement Learning in Nonstationary Environments" |
| 2004 |
|
| January 13 |
Ezra Friedman, Yale University,
"A Model of Obfuscation" |
| January 20 |
Ying Chen, Yale University, "A
Non-fully Rational Model of Communication" |
| January 26 |
Anat Bracha, Yale University,
"Affective Decision Making in Insurance Markets" |
| February 9 |
Stephen Morris, Yale University,
"Robust Mechanism Design" |
| February 17 |
Andrew Postlewaite, University of
Pennsylvania, "Consumption Commitments and Preferences for Risk" |
| February 24 |
Ana Fostel, Yale University,
"Offsetting Distortions, Non-Monotone Inefficiencies and Liquidity under
Provision" |
| March 2 |
Sergio Turner, Yale University,
"Pareto Improving Taxation in Incomplete Markets" |
| March 23 |
Pei-Yu Lo, Yale University, TBA |
| March 30 |
Caterina Calsamiglia, Yale
University, "Equal Opportunities and Effort" |
| April 6 |
Marek Verekta, Yale University,
"Emphathic Games" |
| April 13 |
Andrew Lemon, Yale University,
"Political Rhetoric and Government Policy" |
| April 20 |
Marzena Rostek, Yale University,
"Target-based Reasoning in Choice" |
