Theory Workshop
 
    
 
    Friday, 3:45-5:15 pm, 7324 SS
    Coordinator: Marzena Rostek

 

September

24 (Th)

 Randy Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Joint with Macro, Thursday
 "Information, Liquidity, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy" (with B. Lester and A. Postlewaite)

 

25

 Eyal Winter (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
 "Mental Equilibrium and Rational Emotions" (with I. Garcia-Jurado, J. Mendez-Naya and L. Mendez-Naya)

October

2

 Ignacio Monzón (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Job market candidate)
 "Observational Learning with Position Uncertainty" (with Michael Rapp)

 

9

 Paul Milgrom (Stanford University)
 "Assignment Messages and Exchanges" (Link requires access to AEA journals)

 

14 (W)

 Volker Nocke (Mannheim University and Oxford University), Joint with IO, Wednesday
 "Dynamic Merger Review" (with M. Whinston)

 

21 (W)

 Todd Sarver (Northwestern University),  at noon
 "A Subjective Model of Temporal Preferences" (with H. Ergin)

 

23

 Jason Hartline (Northwestern University, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
 "The Bayesian Foundations of Prior-free Optimal Mechanism Design" Based on
 "Optimal Mechanism Design and Money Burning" (joint with T. Roughgarden)

 

28 (W)

 Shuchi Chawla (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Computer Science), at noon
 "Randomness and approximation in multi-dimensional mechanism design"; Based on:
 "Sequential Posted Pricing and Multi-parameter Mechanism Design"
 and "Pricing Randomized Allocations"

November

3 (T)

 Danqing Hu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Job market candidate), 1:30pm

 

6

 Alvaro Sandroni (Kellogg, Northwestern University)
 "Rationalization and Warm-Glow Theory" and "The Foundations of the Warm-Glow Theory"

 

20

 Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)
 "Increasing Interdependence of Multivariate Distributions" (with Margaret Meyer)

 

27

 Thanksgiving week

December

11

 Piero Gottardi (EUI), Joint with Macro
 "Equilibrium Corporate Finance" (with A. Bisin and G. Ruta)

 

16(W)

 Dai Zusai (University of Wisconsin-Madison), noon
 "Excess Liquidity against Unverifiable Predation"

 

18

 Lones Smith (University of Michigan)
 "Dynamic Deception" (with A. Anderson)