Yale Department of Economics

Microeconomic Theory Workshop, 1999–2007

2007

February 28 William D. Sudderth, University of Minnesota, "Subgame Perfect Equilibria for Stochastic Games" (with Ashok P. Maitra)
March 7 Ennio Stacchetti, New York University, "Insider Trading with Stochastic Valuation" (with Rene Caldentey)
March 28 Larry Epstein, University of Rochester, "Subjective States: A More Robust Model" (with Kyoungwon Seo)
April 4 Nicola Persico, New York University, "Factions and Political Competition" (with Jose Carlos Rodriguez-Pueblita and Dan Silverman)
April 11 Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University, "Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second-Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords" (with Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz)
April 18 Mark Armstrong, University College London, "Competitive Nonlinear Pricing and Bundling" (with John Vickers)
April 25 Joe Halpern, Cornell University, "Lower Bounds on Implementing Robust and Resilient Mediators" (with Ittai Abraham and Danny Dolev)
May 2 William Zame, UCLA, "Incentives, Contracts and Markets: A General Equilibrium Theory of Firms"
September 12 Johannes Horner, Northwestern University and Visitor, Yale, "Public vs. Private Offers in the Market for Lemons" (with Nicolas Vieille)
September 19 Marcin Peski, University of Chicago, "Learning Through Theories"
September 26 Eric Maskin, Princeton University, "Evolution and Repeated Games" (Background material: "Evolution and Cooperation in Noisy Repeated Games"(with Drew Fundenberg))
October 3 Srihari Govindan, University of Iowa, "Decomposition Algorithms for Games," "A Decomposition Algorithm for N-Player Games" (with Robert Wilson), "A Canonical Decomposition Algorithm to Compute Equilibria of N-Player Games with Arbitrary Accuracy" (with Robert Wilson) 
October 10 Bruno Biais, Toulouse School of Economics, "Accident Risk, Limited Liability and Dynamic Moral Hazard" (with T. Mariotti, J.-C. Rochet, and S. Villeneuve) Joint with Finance & Accounting Workshop 
October 17 Jonathan Weinstein, Northwestern University, "Comparative Testing of Experts" (with Nabil I. Al-Najjar)
October 23 Martin Hellwig, Max Planck Institute, "Public-Good Provision in a Large Economy" (with Felix Bierbrauer) (Joint with Micro Theory Lunch)
October 24 Timothy Van Zandt, INSEAD, "Interim Bayesian Nash Equilibrium on Universal Type Spaces for Supermodular Games"
October 31 Jerry Green, Harvard University, "Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement" (with Daniel Hojman)
November 7 Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania, "The Sorting Effect of Price Competition" (with Jan Eeckhout)
November 14 Haluk Ergin, Washington University (St. Louis) "A Unique Costly Contemplation Representation" (with Todd Sarver)
November 28 Marco Ottaviani, LSE, "Aggregation of Information and Beliefs in Prediction Markets" (with Peter Norman Sřrensen)
December 5 Vasiliki Skreta, NYU, Transparency and Commitment, (Based on: "On the Informed Seller Problem: Optimal Information Disclosure")
2006
February 8 Balazs Szentes, University of Chicago, "An Evolutionary Approach Towards Time Preferences" (with Emil Iantchev)
February 15 Bernard DeMeyer, University of Paris-1 (Pantheon Sorbonne), Visiting the Cowles Foundation, "On the Strategic Origin of the Brownian Motion in Finance"
February 22 Lones Smith, University of Michigan (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Caller Number Five: Timing Games that Morph from One Form to Another" (with Andreas Park)
March 1 Jean-Francois Mertens, CORE (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Intergenerational Equity and the Discount Rate for Cost-Benefit Analysis" (with Anna Rubinchik-Pessach)
March 22 Roger Lagunoff, Georgetown University (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Dynamic Stability and Reform of Political Institutions"
March 29 Ori Haimanko, BenGurion University of Negev (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Wages Versus Prizes with Envy and Pride" (with Pradeep Dubey and John Geanakoplos)
April 5 H. Peyton Young, The Brookings Institution, "Learning to Play Nash Equilibrium without Knowing You Have an Opponent" (with Dean P. Foster)
April 12 Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Game Theory on the Universal Type Space, Part 2"
April 19 Massimo Marinacci, Universitŕ di Torino, "Static and Dynamic Variational Preferences." Based on the following: "Ambiguity Aversion, Robustness, and the Variational Representation of Preferences" and "Dynamic Variational Preferences" (both with Fabio Macceroni and Aldo Rustichini)
April 26 Stony Brook Conference to Honor Robert Aumann
May 3 Abraham Neyman, Hebrew University (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Optimal Use of Communication Resources" (with Olivier Gossner and Penelope Hernandez)
September 15-17 Cowles Conference: Aggregation of Opinions
September 20 Yuliy Sannikov, UC Berkeley, "Agency Problems, Screening and Increasing Credit Lines"
September 27 Daron Acemoglu, MIT and Visitor, Yale, "Learning and Disagreement in an Uncertain World" (with Victor Chernozukov and Muhamet Yildiz)
October 4 Wojciech Olszewski, Northwestern and Visitor, Yale, "Strategic Manipulation of Empirical Test" (with Alvaro Sandroni)
October 11 Ulrich Horst, UBC Vancouver, "Dynamic Systems of Social Interactions"
October 18 Anat Admati, GSB Stanford, "The "Wall Street Walk" and Shareholder Activism: Exit as a Form of Voice" (with Paul Pfleiderer)
October 25 Jeroen Swinkles, Washington University "Moral Hazard with Bounded Payments" (with Ohad Kadan)
November 01 Faruk Gul, Princeton University, "The War of Information" (with Wolfgang Pesendorfer)
November 08 Olivier Gossner, MEDS Northwestern, "When Is the Reservation Value in a Repeated Game Equal to the Minmax Payoff?*" (with Johannes Horner)
November 15 Antoni Calvo-Armengol, UAB, "Investing in the Creation of Synergies: Building Socio-economic Networks*" (with Antonio Cabrales and Yves Zenou)
November 29 Sergei Izmalkov, MIT, "Perfect Implementaion of Normal-Form Mechanisms" (with Matt Lepinski and Silvio Micali)
December 6 Andrea Wilson, Harvard, "Sustainable Reputations with Finite Memory"
2005
February 15 Rajnish Mehra, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Junior is Rich: Bequests as Consumption" (with George M. Constantinides, John B. Donaldson)
February 23 KUZNET LECTURE SERIES: Robert Townsend, University of Chicago, "The Thai Economy: Growth, Inequality and the Evaluation of Financial Systems"
March 2 Paolo Siconolfi, Columbia University, "General Equilibrium in Economies with Asymmetric Information" (with Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota) Paper 1 | Paper 2
March 23 Alvaro Sandroni, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, "Testing Knowledge"
March 30 David Cass, CARESS and University of Pennsylvania, "Multiple Equilibria and Sunspots in Securities Markets with Investment Restrictions" (with Suleman Basak, London Business School; Juan Manuel Licari, University of Pennsylvania; and Anna Pavlova, Sloan School, MIT) Slides | CARESS Rules
April 6 Helios Herrera, ITAM-CIE, "Group Formation and Voter Participation" (with C. Martinelli)
April 13 Yossi Feinberg, Graduate Schoool of Business, Stanford University, "Games with Incomplete Awareness" ("Subjective Reasoning — Games with Unwareness" and "Games with Incomplete Awareness")
April 20 Max Amarante, Columbia University, "States, Models and Unitary Equivalence: A Reconsideration of Ellsberg's Paradox"
September 7 Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University, "Clock Games: Theory and Experiments" (with John Morgan)
September 16-18 Cowles Foundation Workshop Coordination on Games
September 21 Sudipto Bhattacharya, London School of Economics, "Knowledge Licensing, Patents, and Optimal Organization of Research and Development" (with Sergei Guriev)
September 28 George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania, "Repeated Games with Private Monitoring: What Have We Learned"   Joint with Cowles Lunch Talk
October 6 Hao Li, University of Toronto, "Competing for Talents" (with Ettore Damiano and Wing Suen)  Joint with Applied Micro Workshop
October 12 Matthew Jackson, California Institute of Technology, "Social Networks and Economic Behavior"  Joint with Cowles Lunch Talk
October 19 Eytan Sheshinski, Hebrew University, "Socially Desirable Limits on Choice" (Second paper:  "Optimal Policy to Influence Individual Choice Probabilities")
October 26 Adam Brandenburger, Stern School of Business, NYU, "Can Hidden Variables Explain Correlation?" (with Amanda Friedenberg)
November 2 Johannes Horner, Northwestern University, "The Folk Theorem for Games with Private Almost-Perfect Monitoring" (with Wojciech Olszewski)
November 9 Larry Samuelson, University of Wisconsin, "Optimal Bunching without Optimal Control" (with Georg Nöldeke)
November 16 Francesco Squintani, University College London, "Preemption Games with Private Information" (Hugo Hopenhayn)
November 30 Douglas Gale, New York University, "Decision Making under Uncertainty" (with Syngjoo Choi, Ray Fisman, and Shachar Kariv)
December 1 Philip J. Reny, University of Chicago, "On the Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in Bayesian Games"
December 7 Luis Rayo, University of Chicago Grad. School of Business, "Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness" (with Gary Becker)  Joint with Applied Micro Workshop
2004  
February 18 Andy Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, "Sunk Investments Lead to Unpredictable Prices"
February 24-25 Paul Milgrom, "Auctions, Matching and the Law of Aggregate Demand" Tjalling C. Koopman Memorial Lectures
March 3 Kfir Eliaz, New York University, "Group Decision-Making in the Shadow of Disagreement" (with Debraj Ray and Ronny Razin)
March 24 Roger Myerson, University of Chicago, "Federalism and Incentives for Success of Democracy"  Joint with Seminar on Formal Models in Politics
March 31 Leonardo Felli, LSE, visiting New York University, "Firm-Specific Training" (with Chris Harris)
April 7 Marco Battaglini, Princeton University, "Pareto Efficient Income Taxation with Stochastic Abilites" (with Stephen Coate)
April 15 Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University, "The Storable Good Monopolist" (with Igal Hendel and Aviv Nevo) Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop CANCELLED
April 21 Shmuel Zamir, Hebrew University, visiting Yale, "On the Existence of Pure Strategy Monotone Equilibria in Asymmetric First-Price Auctions" (with Philip J. Reny)
September 9 Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University, "Storable Good Monopoly: The Role of Commitment" (with Paolo Dudine and Igal Hendel)  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
September 15 William Sandholm, University of Wisconsin, "Excess Payoff Dynamics, Potential Dynamics, and Stable Games"
September 22 Mark Armstrong, University College London, "Competition in Two-sided MarketsJoint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
September 29 Rani Spiegler, University of Tel Aviv, "Competition over Agents with Boundedly Rational Expectations"
October 6 Klaus Schmidt, University of Munich, visiting Yale, "Contracts, Fairness and Incentives" (with Ernst Fehr and Alexander Klein)
October 8–10 Cowles Conference on Uncertainty in Economic Theory
October 13 Pierpaolo Battigalli, University of Bocconi, visiting New York University, "Dynamic Psychological Games" (with Martin Dufwenberg)
October 20 Hector Chade, Arizona State University, "Simultaneous Search" (with Lones Smith)
October 27 Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University, visiting New York University, "Information Dynamics and Multiplicity in Global Games of Regime Change" (with G.M. Angeletos and C. Hellwig)
November 3 Benny Moldovanu, University of Bonn, visiting Yale, "Priority Auctions and Queue Disciplines that Depend on Processing Times" (with Thomas Kittsteiner)
November 10 Sandro Brusco, Stony Brook, "Simultaneous Ascending Auction with Multiple Objects and Known Budget Constraints" (with Pino Lopomo)
November 17 Olivier Compte, ENPC.CERAS, Paris, "Bargaining over Randomly Generated Offers: A New Perspective on Multi-Party Bargaining" (with Philippe Jehiel)
December 1 Thomas Wiseman, University of Texas at Austin, "Capacity Choice Counters the Coase Conjecture" (with Preston McAfee)
2003
March 5 Herakles Polemarchakis, Brown University, "Pareto Improving Taxes and Observability" (with P.J.J. Herings)
March 26 Ehud Kalai, Northwestern University, "Large Robust Games" and Ex-post Stability in Large Games"
April 2 Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley, "Piecemeal Preferences"
April 8 Hyun Song Shin, London School of Economics, "Beauty Contests, Bubbles and Iterated Expectations in Asset Markets" (with Franklin Allen and Stephen Morris)  Joint with Macroeconomic Workshop
April 16 George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania, "Imperfect Monitoring and Impermanent Reputations" (with Martin W. Cripps and Larry Samuelson)
April 23 Peter Norman, University of Wisconsin, "An Efficiency Rationale for Bundling of Public Goods" (with Hanming Fang)
May 21 Thomas Quint, University of Nevada, Reno, "On Houseswapping, the Strict Core, Segmentation, and Linear Programming" (with Jun Wako)
September 3 Itzhak Gilboa, Tel-Aviv and Yale University, "Probabilities: Frequencies Viewed in Perspective" Abstract
September 11 Susan Athey, Stanford University, "Dynamic Auctions with Persistent Private Information" (with Kyle Bagwell, Columbia University)  (Abstract)   Joint with Applied Micro Workshop and SOM Micro Strategy Workshop
September 17 Andy Skrzypacz, GSB Stanford University, "Bidding with Securities: Auctions and Security Design"
September 24 In-Koo Cho, UIUC, "Montonicity and Rationalizability in a Large First Price Auction"
October 1 Elchanan Ben-Porath, Hebrew University, Israel, "Rationalizable Expectations" (with Aviad Heifetz)
October 8 David Levine, UCLA, "Steady State Learning and the Code of Hammurabi" (with Drew Fudenberg)
October 15 Muhamet Yildiz, MIT and Yale University, "Rationalizability and Impact of Higher-Order Beliefs on Equilibrium Actions" (withJonathan Weinstein), based on the following: "Rationalizability and Finite-Order Implications of Equilibrium" and "Impact of higher-Order Uncertainty"
October 22 Peter Eso, Northwestern University, "Optimal Information Disclosure in Auctions and the Handicap Auction" (with Balazs Szentes)
November 5 Felix Kubler, Stanford University, "The Accuracy of Numerical Solutions For Dynamic GEI Models" (with K. Schmeddlers)
November 12 Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Columbia University, "College Admissions with Affirmative Action"
November 20 Michael Riordan, Columbia  University GSB and Yale University, "Vertical Integration, Exclusive Dealing, and Ex Post Cartelization" (with Yongmin Chen)  Joint with Applied Micro Workshop and SOM Micro Strategy Workshop
December 3 Bart Lipman, Boston University, "Temptation-Driven Preferences" (with Eddie Dekel and Aldo Rustichini)
December 10 Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Princeton University, "Electoral Competition with Asymetrically Informed Voters" (with Faruk Gul)
2002  
April 3 Chris Shannon, University of California, Berkeley, Uncertainty and Risk in Financial Markets (with Luca Rigotti)
April 10 Timothy Van Zandt, INSEAD, Hierarchy Size and Environmental Uncertainty (with Kieron Meagher and Hakan Orbay)
April 17 Joel Watson, University of California, San Diego, Contract, Mechanism Design, and Technological Detail
April 24 Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University, Why Did the Elites Extend the Suffrage? Democracy and the Scope of Government, With an Application to Britain's 'Age of Reform' (with Nicola Persico)
May 1 Philippe Henrotte, HEC, On Pricing Kernels and Dynamic Portfolios
May 9 Alvin Roth, Harvard University, Last-minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-prize Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet (with Axel Ockenfels) Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
September 4 Hanming Fang and Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University "Overconfindence, Morale and Wage Setting Policies"
September 11 Luis Rayo, GSB Chicago University, "Relational Team Incentives and Ownership" Joint with Micro/Strategy Workshop
September 18 Phil Reny, University of Chicago, "Reinterpreting Mixed Equilibria: A Unification of the Classical and Baynesian Views"
September 25 Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, "When is Reputation Bad?"
October 2 Edward E. Schlee, Arizona State University, "Expected Consumer's Surplus as an Approximate Welfare Measure"
October 9 Yossi Feinberg, GSB Stanford University, "Subjective Reasoning in Dynamic Games"
October 16 Itzhak Gilboa, Tel Aviv University and Yale University, "Accuracy vs. Simplicity: A Complex Trade-Off"
October 17 Steve Coate, Cornell University, "On the Desirability of Campaign Contribution Limits"   Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar
October 23 Dino Gerardi, Yale University, "Putting Your Ballot Where Your Mouth Is — An Analysis of Collective Choice with Communication"
October 30 Ilya Segal, Stanford University and Institute for Advanced Studies, "Optimal Pricing Mechanisms with Unknown Demand"
November 6 Rajiv Vohra, Brown University, "The Ex Ante Incentive Compatible Core in the Absence of Wealth Effects"
November 13 Colin Campbell, Rutgers University, "Implementation and Orderings of Public Information"
November 20 Benny Moldovanu, University of Bonn, "Potentials and Implementation:  A Generic Impossibility Theorem"
December 4 Attila Ambrus, Harvard University and Yale University, "Coalitional Rationality in Normal and Extensive Form Games."
December 11 Francoise Forges, Cergy-Pontsoise, "The Ex-Ante Incentive Compatible Core of the Assignment Game"
2001
February 14 Bill Sudderth, University of Minnesota, "N-person Games of Survival"
February 21 Menahem Yaari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "A Credit Market a la David Hume"  Joint with Cowles Seminar
February 28 Ilya Segal, Stanford University, "Collusion, Exclusion and Inclusion in Random-Order Bargaining"
March 21 Jeremy Bulow, Chief, Federal Trade Commission, "Selling a Company: When to Run an Auction"
March 28 Michael Mandler, Royal Holloway College, University of London, "Compromises between Cardinality and Ordinality in Preference Theory and Social Theory"
April 11 Svetlana Boyarchenko, University of Pennsylvania, "Capital Accumulation under Non-Gaussian Processes and the Marshallian Law"
April 18 Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago, "Robustness and Pricing with Uncertain Growth"  Joint with Cowles Seminar and Macroeconomics Workshop
May 3 Michael Whinston, Northwestern University, "Robust Predictions for Bilateral Contracting with ExternalitiesJoint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
September 12 John Roemer, Department of Political Science, Yale University, "Does Democracy Engender Equality"
September 19 Debraj Ray, Department of Economics, New York University, "Persistent InequalityJoint with International and Development Workshop
Sept. 24-25 Cowles Conference: Psychology and Economics
September 28 Cowles Conference: Debates and Rhetoric
October 3 David Schmeidler, Tel Aviv University, "Inductive Inference: An Axiomatic Approach" (with Itzhak Gilboa)
October 10 Tzachi Gilboa, Tel Aviv University, "Contextual Separation Theorems" (with David Schmeidler)
October 17 Larry Samuelson, University of Wisconsin, "Information-Based Relative Consumption Effects"
October 24 Steve Tadelis, Stanford University, "The Market for Reputations as an Incentive Mechanism"
October 31 Antonio Rangel, Stanford University, "Addiction, Conditioning, and the Visceral Brain" (with Douglas Bernheim)
November 7 Matthew Jackson, California Institute of Technology, "Social Networks and the Dynamics of Employment and Wages" (with Toni Calvo-Armengol)
November 14 John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Rothschild-Stiglitz Reconsidered" (Based on CFDP 1305 and CFDP 1315)
November 28 Ennio Stachetti, University of Michigan, "Aspirational Bargaining" (with Lones Smith)
December 5 Christoper Harris, Institute of Advanced Studies, "Instantaneous Gratification" (with David Laibson)
2000  
March 1 Efe Ok, New York University, "Utility Theory with Incomplete Preferences (with Juan Dubra)
March 22 Yaw Nyarko, New York University, "An Experimental Study of Belief Learning Using Real Beliefs" (with Andy Schotter)
March 29 Sergiu Hart, Hebrew University, "Simple Procedures, Approachability and Correlated Equilibria, or You Won't Regret It" (with Andreu Mas-Colell)
April 4 Roland Benabou, Princeton, "Self-Confidence: Intrapersonal Strategies" (with Jean Tirole)  Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop
April 5 Sandeep Baliga, MEDS, Northwestern, Not Invented Here
April 19 Aldo Rusticini, Boston University, "Representing Preferences with a Unique Subjective State Space" (with Eddie Dekel and Bart Lipman)
April 27 Pierre-André Chiappori, Chicago, "Econometric Models of Insurance under Asymmetric InformationJoint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop and Workshop Trade and Development
September 6 Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University, "The Law of Large Demand for Information'' (with Lones Smith)
September 13 Muhamet Yildiz, MIT, "Sequential Bargaining without a Recognition Device Part I: Model and Sequential Bargaining without a Recognition Device Part II: Reaching an Agreement"
September 20 Larry Blume, Cornell and Yale University, "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? Belief Selection in Complete and Incomplete Markets"
September 27 Adam Brandenburger, Harvard Business School, "Epistemic Conditions for Iterated Admissibility" (with H. Jerome Keisler)
October 4 Marco Battaglini, Princeton University, "Multiple Referrals and Multidimensional Cheap Talk"
October 11 Martine Quinzii, "Capital Markets Equilibrium with Moral Hazard" (with Michael Magill, UC/Davis and Yale University)
October 18 Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University, "Efficient Dominance Solvable Auctions with Interdependent Values" (joint with Kim-Sau Chung)
October 25 Estelle Cantillon, Harvard Business School and Yale University, "Electoral Rules and the Emergence of New Issues Dimensions"
November 1 Akihiko Matsui, Tokyo and Georgetown University, "A Theory of Money with Market Places" (with Takashi Shimizu)  Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop
November 8 Asher Wolinsky, Northwestern University, "Second Opinions and Price Competition"
November 15 Rani Spiegler, Institute for Advanced Studies, "Experimentation and Bargaining Dynamics"
November 29 Phillippe Jehiel, ENPC, University College and Institute for Advanced Studies, "Analogy-Based Expectation Equilibrium"
December 6 Hongbin Cai, University of California, Los Angeles/Yale University, "Optimal Committee Design with Heterogeneous Preferences"
1999  
February 4 Lloyd Shapley, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Walras Core"
February 10 Ben Polak , Yale, "Decomposable Choice Under Uncertainty" (with Simon Grant and Atsushi Kajii)
February 17 Hamid Sabourian, Cambridge University, "Complexity, Equilibrium Selection and Bargaining"
February 24 Marciano Sinischalchi, Princeton University, "Belief, Revision and Forward Induction" (with Pierpaolo Battigalli)
March 3 Ilya Segal, University of California, Berkeley, "The Mirrlees Approach to Mechanism Design with Renegotiation" (with Mike Whinston)
March 24 Ted O'Donoghue, Cornell, "Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility" (with George Loewenstein and Matthew Rabin)
March 31 Bill Zame, University of California, Los Angeles, "Does Market Incompleteness Matter?" (with David K. Levine)
April 7 David Cass , University of Pennsylvania, "Financial Equilibrium with Restricted Market Participation" (with Paolo Siconolfi and Marcos Lisboa)
April 14 Ronel Elul, Brown, "Collateral, Credit-History and the Financial Decelerator"
April 15 Steve Tadelis, Stanford, "Procurement, Contracts: Fixed Price vs. Cost Plus" (with Patrick Bajari)  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
April 21 Sven Rady, Stanford University, GSB, "Market Experimentation in a Dynamic Differentiated-Goods Duopoly"
May 5 Philippe Aghion, UCL, "Capital Market Imperfections and the Instability of Open Economies" (with Banerjee and Bacchetta)  Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop
September 8 Alvaro Sandroni, Northwestern University, "Calibration with Many Checking Rules" (with R. Smorodinsky and R. Vohra)
September 9 Rohan Pitchford, Australian National University, "Incomplete Contracts and the Problem of Social Harm" (with C. M. Snyder)  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
September 15 Nicola Persico, University of Pennsylvania, "Provision of Public Goods Under Alternative Electoral Incentives" (with A. Lizzeri)
September 23 Hyun Song Shin, Nuffield College, Oxford University, "Coordination Risk and the Price of Debt" (with S. Morris)
September 29 Aviad Heifetz, University of Tel Aviv, "Doubting Others' Faultlessness and Cooperation in Centipede Games" (with A. Pauzner)
October 6 Glenn Ellison, MIT, "Evolution of Standards and the Economics Publishing Process"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
October 13 Robert Rosenthal, Boston University, "Coordination Through Reputations: A Laboratory Experiment" (with D. Dale and J. Morgan)
October 20 Faruk Gul , Princeton University, "Temptation and Self-Control" (with W. Pesendorfer)
October 27 Francesca Cornelli, London Business School and Wharton, "Risk Arbitrage in TakeoversJoint with Finance and Accounting Seminar
November 3 Steven Matthews, University of Pennsylvania, "Renegotiating Moral Hazard Contracts Under Limited Liability and Monotonicity"
November 10 Philip Reny, University of Chicago, "An Ex-Post Efficient Auction" (with Motty Perry)
November 17 Michael Schwarz, Harvard University, "Decision Making Under Extreme Uncertainty"
December 1 Jon Levin, Yale University and Stanford University, "The Value of Information in Monotone Decision Problems" (with S. Athey) (Note: No figures available)
December 9 Dirk Bergemann, Yale University, "Information Acquisition and Efficient Mechanism Design"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop