Microeconomic Seminars Spring 2006

MICROECONOMICS SPRING SEMINARS 2006
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER

All Seminars are held in ROOM 35, Third Floor
via Sarfatti, 25 at 12.45 unless otherwise indicated

 March

Tuesday, March 14th
Heski Bar-Isaac (Stern School of Buisiness, NYU)
"How to Organize Crime" joint with Mariagiovanna Baccara

Tuesday, March 21st
Giovanni Cespa (Università di Salerno)
"Information Sales and Insider Trading with Long-Lived Information"

Wednesday, March 22nd in Aula: 23
Roman Inderst (LSE)
"Price Discrimination in Input Markets" joint with Tommaso Valletti

Friday, March 24th   OCCASIONAL SEMINAR  Aula D
Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University)
"Learning, Multiplicity and the Timing of Attacks in a Dynamic Global Game of  Regime Change" Joint with George-Marios Angeletos and Christian Hellwig

Tuesday, March 28th
Salvatore Modica (Università di Palermo)
"Open Source without Free-Riding" joint work with Philippe Aghion

 April

Monday, April 3rd in Aula: 32
Elena Quercioli (University of Michigan)  OCCASIONAL  SEMINAR 
"Counterfeit Money" and "A Theory of Diseases, Counterfeit Money, and Other Contagious Matching Games" joint work with Lones Smith

Tuesday, April 4th
Robert Kast (LAMETA/CNRS - University of Montpellier)
"Upstating time non-separable Discount factors for uncertain cash flows"

Wednesday, April 26th in Aula: P01 (Via Bocconi, 12)
Luis Cabral (Stern School of Buisiness, NYU)
"A Theory of Asymmetric Price Adjustment"

 May

Tuesday, May 2nd
Enrico Minelli (Università di Brescia)
"Afriat's Theorem for General Budget Sets" (joint with F. Forges)

Tuesday, May 9th
Jean Gabszewicz (CORE - University of Louvain)
"Markets with Cross Network Externalities as Vertically Differentiated Markets"
joint with Xavier Y. Wauthy

Tuesday, May 16th
Paolo Garella (Università di Bologna)
"Relying on the Information of Others: Debt Rescheduling with Many Lenders"
joint with C.D Fluet

Tuesday, May 23rd
Giovanni Ponti (Universitat d'Alacant)
"Social Preferences and Contracts: an Experiment on Corporate Culture", joint with Antonio Cabrales, Raffaele Miniaci and Marco Piovesan

Wednesday, May 31st        in room: 31
Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton)
"The War of Information" joint with Faruk Gul

 June

Tuesday, June 6th
Helios Herrera (ITAM)
"Turnout and Quorum in Referenda" joint with Andrea Mattozzi


Thursday, June 8th - CESPRI-IGIER Seminar in Via San Mansueto at 12:30
Bronwyn Hall (Berkely at University of California)
"The Private Value of Software Patents" joint with Megan MacGarvie

Tuesday, June 13th
Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Toulouse)
"Must-take cards and the tourist test" joint with Jean Tirole