Informal Theory Meetings – Spring 2008


Meetings on Tuesdays at 11:00am, in the Morton Room

Fall 2007 List


Schedule

Date Paper Speaker
5/19 TBA TBA
5/13 Lones Smith and Peter Sorensen
Pathological Outcomes of Observational Learning
Econometrica, vol. 68(2), pages 371-398, March 2000
Fernando Louge
4/28 Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov, and Muhamet Yildiz
Learning and Disagreement in an Uncertain World
Working Paper
Ricardo Serrano-Padial
4/21 Mark Satterthwaite and Artyom Shneyerov
Dynamic Matching, Two-Sided Incomplete Information, and Participation Costs: Existence and Convergence to Perfect Competition
Econometrica, Vol. 75, No. 1 (January, 2007), 155–200
Michael Rapp
4/14 Dinah Rosenberg, Eilon Solan, Nicolas Vieille
Social Learning in One-Arm Bandit Problems
Econometrica 75 (6), 1591–1611 (2007)
Ignacio Monzon
4/07 Ilan Kremer and Andrzej Skrzypacz
Information Aggregation and the Information Content of Order Statistics
Working Paper, 2003
He, Chao
3/25 Bruno Biais & Peter Bossaerts
Asset Prices and Trading Volume in a Beauty Contest
The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 65, No. 2. (Apr., 1998), pp. 307-340
Hu, Danqing
3/11 Zvika Neeman and Gerhard O. Orosel
Herding and the Winner's Curse in Markets with Sequential Bids
Journal of Economic Theory 85, 91-121 (1999)
Carl Sanders
3/04 Douglas Gale and Shachar Kariv
Bayesian learning in social networks
Games and Economic Behavior 45 (2003) 329–346
Fernando Louge
2/26 Abhijit Banerjee and Drew Fudenberg
Word-of-mouth learning
Games and Economic Behavior 46 (2004) 1–22
Ignacio Monzon
2/19 Asher Wolinsky
Information Revelation in a Market with Pairwise Meetings
Econometrica, Vol 58, No 1 (January 1990), 1 - 23
Michael Rapp

Reading List Suggested by Ricardo (not including those already assigned)

Paper
Timothy N. Cason & Daniel Friedman
Price formation in double auction markets
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 20 (1996) 1307-1337
Douglas Gale and Shachar Kariv
Financial Networks
Working Paper, 2007
Douglas Gale and Shachar Kariv
Trading in Networks: A Normal Form Game Experiment
Working Paper, April 2007
Paolo Colla and Antonio Mele
Information Linkages and Correlated Trading
Working Paper, January 2008

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