| 2011 |
|
| February 1 |
Sebastian Kranz, University of Bonn and
Cowles Visitor, "Optimal Equilibria in Dynamic Stochastic Games |
| February 8 |
Evangelia Chalioti, Athens University of
Economics and Yale University, "Incentive Contracts Under Product Market Competition
and R&D Spillovers" |
| February 15 |
Philipp Strack, University of Bonn and Yale
University, "Gambling in Contests" (with C.
Seel) |
| February 22 |
Brian Baisa, Yale University, "The
Social Value of Public Information with Endogenous Information Acquisition" |
| March 1 |
Steven Zucker, Yale Computer Science,
"Brains and Games" Background paper: "Efficient Simplex-Like Methods for Equilibria of
Nonsymmetric Analog Networks" |
| March 22 |
Arthur Campbell, Yale University,
"Information Acquisition and Revelation in Teams" |
| March 29 |
Anne Guan, Yale University,
"Employment Hierarchies: Does the Cream Rise to the Top?" |
| April 5 |
Olivier Gossner, PSE, LSE, and Cowles
Visitor, "Entropy and the Value of Information for
Investors" (with A. Cabrales and R. Serrano) |
| April 12 |
Juuso Välimäki, Helsinki School of
Economics and Cowles Visitor, "Learning in Contests" |
| April 19 |
Eduardo Faingold, Yale University,
"Bargaining and Learning: The Role of Commitment" (with Q. Liu and X. Shi) |
| April 26 |
Priscilla T.Y. Man, University of
Queensland, "Endogenous Reputation in Repeated Games" |
| May 3 |
Matthew Rabin, University of
California-Berkeley and Cowles Visitor, "A Model of
Non-Belief in the Law of Large Numbers" (with D.J. Benjamin and C. Raymond) |
| May 10 |
Mehmet Ekmekci, Northwestern University and
Cowles Visitor, "Failures of Information Aggregation in Auctions with Actions" |
| September 6 |
Daeyeol Lee, Yale University, "Neural Basis of Reinforcement Learning During Iterative Games" |
| September 13 |
Gerald D. Jaynes, Yale University, "Equilibrium and Strategic Communication in the Adverse
Selection Insurance Model" |
| September 20 |
Vitali Gretschko, University of Cologne and
Cowles visitor, "Information Acquisition during a Descending Auction" |
| September 27 |
Takuo Sugaya, Princeton
University and Cowles visitor, "Folk Theorem in Repeated Games wtih Private Monitoring" |
| October 4 |
Nick Barberis, Yale University, "Realization
Utility" (with W. Xiong) |
| October 11 |
Juuso Toikka, MIT, "Information and
Timing in Repeated Bargaining" |
| October 18 |
Shane Frederick, Yale University, "A Reference
Price Theory of the Endowment Effect" |
| October 25 |
Ifat Levy, Yale University, "Decisions and Values in the Human Brain" |
| November 1 |
Renato Gomes, Toulouse School of Economics,
"Price Discrimination in Many-to-Many Matching Markets"
(with A. Pavan) |
| November 8 |
Keith Chen, Yale University, "The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from
Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets" |
| November 15 |
Kareen Rozen, Yale University, "Optimism and Pessimism with Expected Utility" |
| November 29 |
Eduardo Faingold, Yale University,
"Belief-based Equilibria in Continuous-time Games with Private Monitoring" (with
J. Hörner and Y. Sannikov) |
| December 6 |
Brian Baisa, Yale University,
"Probability Weighting and Auction Design" |
| 2010 |
|
| February 16 |
Alexis Akira Toda, Yale University, "Integration of the Walrasian Paradigm into the Statistical
Paradigm" |
| February 23 |
Alexander Stremitzer, Yale Law School and
University of Bonn, "Insolvency and Biased
Standards — The Case for Proportional Liability" (with A. Tabbach) |
| March 2 |
Mark Klee, Yale University, "Aggregate
Welfare Under Professional Licensing and Certification with Coarse Signals" |
| March 23 |
Thomas Wiseman, University of Texas at
Austin and Cowles visitor, "Observational Learning
and Demand for Search Goods" |
| March 30 |
Michael Schapira, Yale University and
University of California, Berkeley, "When is it Best to Best-Reply," based
on the papers, "Best-Response Mechanisms" and "Interdomain Routing and Games" |
| April 6 |
Oliver Bunn, Yale University,
"Cognitive Dissonance in Networks" |
| April 13 |
Anne Guan, "Pay-per-Bid Auctions"
and
James Choy, Yale University, TBA |
| April 20 |
CANCELLED: Philipp
Kircher, University of Pennsylvania and Cowles visitor, "Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market"
(with Leo Kaas) |
| April 27 |
Lucas Maestri, Yale University,
"Dynamic Monopoly and Renegotiation" |
| May 4 |
Ji Shen, Yale University, "Learning,
Experimentation and Optimal Capital Structure" and Yijia Eric Lu, Yale University,
"Specific Performance and the Hold-up Problem with Rubinstein Bargaining" |
| May 11 |
Andy Skrzypacz, Stanford University and
Cowles visitor, "Optimal Dynamic Auctions for
Durable Goods: Posted Prices and Fire-sales" (with Simon Board) |
| August 31 |
Kareen Rozen, Yale University,
"Disappointment Cycles" |
| September 7 |
Sander Heinsalu, Yale University, "Equivalence of the Information Structure with Unawareness
to the Logic of Awareness" |
| September 14 |
Brian Baisa, Yale University,
"Sequential Duopoly with Incomplete Information" |
| September 21 |
Eduardo Faingold, Yale University,
"The Strategic Impact of Higher-Order Beliefs" |
| September 28 |
Alexis Akira Toda, Yale University, "A General Equilibrium in Economies with Friction and its
Relation to Walrasian Equilibria" |
| October 5 |
Donald Brown, Yale University, "The
Walrasian Paradigm" |
| October 12 |
Massimo Morelli, Columbia University,
"Internal Hierarchy and Stable Coalition Structures" (with In-Uck Park) |
| October 19 |
Lucas Maestri, Yale University,
"Dynamic Contracting Under Adverse Selection and Renegotiation" |
| October 26 |
Joel Watson, University of California, San
Diego and Cowles Visitor, "Some Thoughts on Contractual Chains" |
| November 2 |
Shyam Sunder, Yale University, "Risky Curves: From
Unobservable Utility to Observable Opportunity Sets" (with Daniel Friedman) |
| November 9 |
Johannes Hörner, Yale University,
"Recursive Methods in Discounted Stochastic Games" |
| November 16 |
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University
and Cowles Visitor, "Renegotiation-Proof Contracts with Moral Hazard and Persistent
Private Information" Extended
Abstract |
| November 30 |
Cihan Artunc, Yale University,
"Consolidation and Reversals in Young Democracies" |
| December 7 |
Larry Samuelson, Yale University,
"Common Learning" |
| December 14 |
Noam Tanner, Yale University, "Grades
and Risk Taking" |
| 2009 |
|
| March 3 |
Richard Van Weelden, Yale University,
"Partisanship and the
Effectiveness of Oversight" (with Justin Fox) |
| March 9-20 |
Spring Break |
| March 24 |
Stephanie Lau, Washington University in St.
Louis, "Information Revelation and
Acquisition in Bargaining" |
| March 31 |
Rahul Deb, Yale University, "Optimal
Contracts In A Durable Goods Monopoly With Stochastic Values" |
| April 7 |
Kareen Rozen, Yale University, "Need I
Remind You?" (with David Miller) |
| April 14 |
Humberto Llavador, Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, "An Agenda-Setting Model of
Electoral Competition" (with Josep M. Colomer) |
| April 21 |
Nick Barberis, Yale University, "A
Model of Casino Gambling" |
| April 28 |
Andrea Wilson, New York University, "Dynamic
Strategic Information Transmission" |
| May 5 |
Luigi Balletta, Yale University, "Full
Surplus Extraction in Dynamic Mechanisms Without Commitment" |
| 8 September |
Oliver Bunn (Yale) "Being of Two
Minds: Dynamic Ambiguity-Related Behavior" |
| 15 September |
Yehuda (Yud) Izhakian (Tel Aviv University)
"Decision Making in Phantom Spaces" |
| 22 September |
Dina Mayzlin (Yale: SOM) "Uninformative Advertising as an Invitation to Search" |
| 29 September |
Lucas Maestri (Yale) "Dynamic Monopoly
and Renegotiation" |
| 6 October |
Asi Cohen "Bandit Problems with Levy
Payoff Process" |
| 13 October |
Richard Van Weelden (Yale)
"Candidates, Credibility, and Re-election Incentives" |
| 20 October |
Luigi Balletta (Yale) "Full Surplus
Extraction in Dynamic Mechanisms" |
| 27 October |
Nicolas Klein (Yale) "Free-Riding & Delegation in Research Teams — A
Three-Armed Bandit Model" |
| 3 November |
Johannes Horner (Yale) "Selling
Information" |
| 10 November |
Tri Vi Dang (University of Mannheim/Cowles
Visitor) "Opacity and the Optimality of Debt for Liquidity Provision" |
| 17 November |
Rahul Deb (Yale) "Intertemporal Price Discrimination with Stochastic Values" |
| 1 December |
James Choy (Yale) "Community
Enforcement Intermediaries" & Ji Shen (Yale) "Price Setting in a
Decentralized Search Lemon Market" |
| 8 December |
Kareen Rozen (Yale) "Preferences for
Information" |
| 15 December |
Anne Guan (Yale) "Matching
Couples" and Eric Lu (Yale) "Bargaining in Contractual Renegotiation" |
| Spring 2008 |
|
| February 26 |
Qingmin Liu, Stanford University, based on
"Formulation of Incomplete Information and Redundant
Type Structure" |
| March 4 |
Maher Said, Yale University, "Information Revelation and Random Entry in Sequential
Ascending Auctions" |
| March 25 |
Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University, "Continuous-Time Screening Contracts" |
| April 1 |
Rahul Deb, Yale University, "Two
Nonparametric Models of Household Consumption" |
| April 8 |
Luigi Balletta, Yale University,
"Optimal Taxation of Family Income: The 2 x 2 Case" |
| April 15 |
Lucas Maestri, Yale University, "Bonus
Payments versus Efficiency Wages in the Repeated Principal-Agent Model with Subjective
Evaluations" |
| April 22 |
Richard van Weelden, Yale University,
"Candidates, Campaigns and Credible Promises" |
| May 6 |
Kareen Rozen, Yale University,
"Revealed Conflicting Preferences" |
| September 9 |
Fuhito Kojima, Yale University, "Asymptotic Equivalence of Probabilistic Serial &
Random Priority Mechanisms" (with Yeon-Koo Che) |
| September 16 |
Hema Yoganarasimhan, Yale University,
"Cloak or Flaunt? The Firm's Fashion Dilemma" |
| September 30 |
Lucas Maestri, Yale University, "A Principal-Agent Model of Sequential Testing"
(with Dino Gerardi) |
| October 7 |
Gil Kalai, Hebrew University & Yale
University, "Social Indeterminacy" and "Noise Sensitivity and Chaos in Social Choice
Theory" |
| October 14 |
Johannes Hörner, Yale University,
"Belief-free Equilibria in Games of Incomplete Information" (with Stefano Lovo
& Tristan Tomala) |
| October 21 |
Eduardo Faingold, Yale University,
"Common Belief, Rationalizability and Proximity of Types" |
| October 28 |
Julian Jamison, Yale University,
"Persona Games" (with David Wolpert) |
| November 4 |
Bruno Biais, University of Toulouse, "Equilibrium Discovery & Preopening Mechanisms in an
Experimental Market" |
| November 11 |
Richard Van Weelden, Yale
University,"Candidates and Commitment in Repeated Elections" |
| November 18 |
Luigi Balletta, Yale University, "Full
Extraction of Surplus in Dynamic Auctions" |
| December 2 |
Kareen Rozen, Yale University, "Need I
Remind You?" (with David Miller) |
| December 9 |
Maher Said, Yale University, "Auctions with Dynamic Populations: Efficiency &
Revenue Maximization" |
| December 11 |
Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University, "Menu Pricing and Learning" |
| 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" (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 and
Aner Sela) |
| 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" |
