Microeconomics Spring Seminars 2007
MICROECONOMICS SPRING SEMINARS 2007
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER
All seminars are held in ROOM 24 in Via Sarfatti 25, from 12.45 to 14.00 unless otherwise indicated.
| January |
Tuesday January 23rd
Sara F. Ellison (MIT)
"Internet Retail Demand: Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition" joint with Glenn Ellison
| February |
Tuesday February 6th
Yves Balasko (University of York)
"Do Short-Run Efficiency and Optimal Capacity Imply Long-Run Efficiency?"
| March |
Tuesday March 6th
Eduardo Faingold (Yale)
"Reputation Effects and Equilibrium Degeneracy in Continuous-Time Games" joint with Y. Sannikov
Tuesday March 13th
Jordi Brandts (Institute of Economic Analysis, Barcelona)
"Leadership and Overcoming Coordination Failure with Asymmetric Costs"
Tuesday March 20th
Pierpaolo Battigalli (Bocconi University)
"Guilt in Games" joint with Martin Dufwenberg
Tuesday March 27th
Martin Meier (Instituto de Analisis Economico-CSIC, Barcelona)
"Unawareness, Beliefs and Games" joint with Aviad Heifetz and Burkhard C. Schipper
| April |
Tuesday April 3rd -- Seminar organized by IMQ
Alessandro Sbuelz (University of Verona)
"Systematic Equity-Based Credit Risk: A CEV Model with Jump to Default" (Abstract)
THURSDAY APRIL 12th***OCCASIONAL
Ennio Stacchetti (NYU)
"Insider Trading with Stochastic Valuation" joint with R. Caldentey
Tuesday April 17th
David Martimort (IDEI, Toulouse)
"Mechanism Design with Private Communication" joint with V. Dequiedt
| May |
Tuesday May 8th
Erik Eyster (LSE)
"Inferential Naivety in Games" joint with Matthew Rabin
Tuesday May 15th***ROOM 14, Via Sarfatti 25***
Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Favoritism or Markets in Capital Allocation?" joint with Xiaoyun Yu
FRIDAY MAY 18th AT 10.30AM, ROOM D, VIA SARFATTI 25***OCCASIONAL
Xavier Vives (IESE Business School)
"Dynamic Trading, Asset Prices, and Bubbles" joint with G. Cespa
Tuesday May 22nd
Bernhard Von Stengel (LSE)
"Hard-to-Solve Bimatrix Games" (Erratum, 12 May 2006) joint with R. Savani
Tuesday May 29th***ROOM 14, Via Sarfatti 25***
Joel Sobel (University of California, San Diego)
"Information Aggregation and Group Decisions"
June |
Tuesday June 5th -- Seminar organized by IMQ
Frank Riedel (University of Bonn)
"Optimal Stopping under Ambiguity"
Monday June 11th (joint Development & Institutions-Microeconomics seminar)
Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE)
"The De Soto Effect: Markets, Networks, and the Political Economy of Property Rights" joint with T. Besley
MONDAY JUNE 25th AT 11:00 AM, ROOM 23, VIA SARFATTI 25***OCCASIONAL
Adam Brandenburger (NYU)
"How Much Coordination is Possible via Correlation?"