Microeconomics Seminars Autumn 2006
MICROECONOMICS AUTUMN SEMINARS 2006
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER
All seminars start at 12.45 unless otherwise indicated, and last about an hour. Please note that from November 6th until the end of December, ALL seminars will be held in ROOM 24, Via Sarfatti 25 unless otherwise indicated.
| September |
Tuesday September 5th (ROOM N39 Velodromo, Piazza Sraffa)
Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics )
"Asset Price Dynamics When Traders Care About Reputation" joint with Andrea Prat
Tuesday September 12th (ROOM N39 VElodromo, Piazza Sraffa)
Alessandro Citanna (HEC, Paris)
"Posterior Stable Matching" joint with Archishman Chakraborty
Tuesday September 19th (ROOM D, Via Sarfatti 25)
Pierpaolo Battigalli (Bocconi University)
"Buyer Power and Quality Improvements" joint with Chiara Fumagalli and Michele Polo
Tuesday September 26th (ROOM D, Via Sarfatti 25)
Tore Nilssen (University of Oslo)
"Advertising on TV: Under- or Overprovision?" joint with Hans Jarle Kind and Lars Sorgard
| October |
Wednesday October 4th (ROOM 35, Via Sarfatti 25) - OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Mrio Pscoa (University of Lisbon)
"Collateral, Bubbles and Monetary Equilibrium" joint with A. Araujo and J. P. Torres-Martnez
Tuesday October 10th (ROOM N33 Velodromo, Piazza Sraffa)
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)
"Debt Enforcement around the World" joint with Simeon Djankov, Oliver Hart and
Caralee McLeish
Tuesday October 17th (ROOM N33 Velodromo, Piazza Sraffa)
Peter Bossaerts (California Institute of Technology)
"Equilibration under Competition in Smalls: Theory and Experimental Evidence"
Tuesday October 24th (ROOM N33 Velodromo, Piazza Sraffa)
Francis Bloch (University of Aix-Marseilles II)
"Messengers, Gatekeepers and Speakers: The Power of Intermediaries in Contracting" joint with Garance Genicot from Georgetown University
Tuesday October 31st (ROOM N33 Velodromo, Piazza Sraffa)
Paolo Ghirardato (Torino University)
"Ambiguity and Asset Prices: An Experimental Perspective" joint with Peter Bossaerts, Serena Guarnaschelli and William Zame
| November |
Tuesday November 7th
Satya R. Chakravarty (Indian Statistical Institute)
"A Deprivation-Based Characterization of the Bonferroni Index of Inequality"
Tuesday November 21st
Alberto Bennardo (University of Salerno)
"Information Gathering, Disclosure and Contracting in Competitive Markets"
Tuesday November 28th
David Thesmar (HEC, Paris)
"How Do Firms React to Balance Sheet Shocks? Evidence from Land Holdings" joint with T. Chaney and D. Sraer
| December |
Tuesday December 5th
Franoise Forges (Paris-Dauphine University, CEREMADE)
"Long Persuasion Games" joint with F. Koessler
Tuesday December 12th
David Rahman (Carlos III University)
"Secret Contracts for Efficient Partnerships" joint with I. Obara
Friday December 15th - OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Muhamet Yildiz (MIT, Massachusetts)
"Learning and Disagreement in an Uncertain World" joint with Daron Acemoglu and Victor Chernozhukov
Tuesday December 19th - AT 2:00 PM *
Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University)
"Parental Guidance and Supervised Learning" joint with Marciano Siniscalchi