Informal Theory Meetings - Fall 2007


Meetings on Mondays at 10:50am, in Room 7408

Spring 2008 List


Schedule

Date Paper Speaker
12/10 Willemien Kets
The Minority Game: An Economics Perspective
Discussion Paper (June 2007)
Hu, Danqing
12/03 Ilan Eshel, Larry Samuelson, and Avner Shaked
Altruists, Egoists, and Hooligans in a Local Interaction Model
American Economic Review, March 1998, 157-179
Fernando Louge
11/26 Bill Sandholm
Pigouvian pricing and stochastic evolutionary implementation
Journal of Economic Theory 132 (2007) 367 – 382
Katsuhiko Aiba
11/19 E. Hopkins and R. Seymour
The Stability of Price Dispersion under Seller and Consumer Learning
International Economic Review 43:1157-1190 (2002)
Michael Rapp
11/12 J. Hofbauer, S. Sorin and Y. Viossat
Time Average Replicator and Best Reply Dynamics
Working Paper (June 2007)
Bill Sandholm
11/05 Ignacio Monzón
Imitation and Learning: The Role of Contrarian Agents
Working Paper
Ignacio Monzón
10/29 Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier
The Economics of Cultural Transmission and the Dynamics of Preferences
Journal of Economic Theory 97, 298-319 (2001)
Zhang, Ker
10/22 John H. Nachbar
Prediction, Optimization, and Learning in Repeated Games
Econometrica 65, 275–309 (March 1997)
Fernando Louge
10/15 Thomas Tröger
Why Sunk Costs Matter for Bargaining Outcomes:
An Evolutionary Approach

Journal of Economic Theory 102, 375-402 (2002)
For reference, check:
H. P. Young
An Evolutionary Model of Bargaining
Journal of Economic Theory 59, 145-168 (1993)
Hu, Danqing
10/08 Philippe Jehiel
Analogy-based expectation equilibrium
Journal of Economic Theory 123, 81–104 (2005)
Katsuhiko Aiba
10/01 Michael Rapp
Anticipating Cycles
Working Paper
Michael Rapp
09/24 Lawrence E. Blume and David Easley
Optimality and Natural Selection in Markets
Journal of Economic Theory 107, 95–135 (2002)
Zhang, Ker
09/17 George Ehrhardt, Matteo Marsili and Fernando Vega Redondo
Networks emerging in a volatile world
Working Paper
Hu, Danqing
09/10 Bill Sandholm and Ady Pauzner
Evolution, Population Growth, and History Dependence
Games and Economic Behavior 22 (1998), 84-120.
Ignacio Monzón
09/05
Special time:
Wed at 11am
Bill Sandholm and Timur Kuran
Cultural Integration and Its Discontents
Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies.
Bill Sandholm
08/28 Dale O. Stahl
Evolution of Smart_n Players
Games and Economic Behavior, 5, pp. 604-617, (1993)
Fernando Louge
08/21 Michihiro Kandori; George J. Mailath; Rafael Rob
Learning, Mutation, and Long Run Equilibria in Games
Econometrica, Vol. 61, No. 1. (Jan., 1993), pp. 29-56.
Ignacio Monzón
08/14 A. Matsui and K. Matsuyama,
An approach to equilibrium selection,
J. Econ. Theory 65 (1995), 415-434
Michael Rapp
08/07 Matthew O. Jackson and Alison Watts,
On the formation of interaction networks in social coordination games
Hu, Danqing
07/31 Edward Droste, Cars Hommes, and Jan Tuinstra,
Endogenous fluctuations under evolutionary pressure in Cournot competition
Zhang, Ker
07/24 Larry Samuelson and Jeroen Swinkels,
Information, evolution and utility
Ignacio Monzón
07/17 Efe A. Ok and Fernando Vega-Redondo,
On the Evolution of Individualistic Preferences: An Incomplete Information Scenario
Fernando Louge
07/10 Dilip Abreu and Rajiv Sethi,
Evolutionary stability in a reputational model of bargaining
Michael Rapp

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