Microeconomics Autumn Seminars 2007

MICROECONOMICS AUTUMN SEMINARS 2007
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER

All seminars are held from 12.45 to 2.00 pm in ROOM E, Via Sarfatti 25 unless otherwise indicated.

September

Tuesday Sept. 11, ROOM 202, Via Sarfatti 25
Dilip ABREU (Princeton University)
"Reputational Values for Dynamic Games" joint with D. Pearce
The following paper published in Econometrica (May 2007), may serve as useful background material for the seminar:
"Bargaining, Reputation and Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games with Contracts"

Tuesday Sept. 18, ROOM 202, Via Sarfatti 25
Denis GROMB (LBS)
"Financially Constrained Arbitrage and the Cross-section of Market Liquidity" joint with D. Vayanos

Tuesday Sept. 25***ROOM C, Via Sarfatti 25
Antoine FAURE-GRIMAUD (LSE)

"Satisficing Contracts" joint with Patrick Bolton

October

Tuesday Oct. 2
John HEY (LUISS, Rome and University of York)
"Choquet OK?" joint with G. Lotito and A. Maffioletti (+ Appendix)

Tuesday Oct. 9***ROOM N25, VELODROMO, Piazza Sraffa
Alfredo DI TILLIO (Bocconi University)
"Uniform Topology on Types and Strategic Convergence" joint with E. Faingold

Tuesday Oct. 16
Francesco SQUINTANI (University of Brescia)
"Mediation, Arbitration and Negotiation" joint with M Goltsman, J. Haorner and G. Pavlov

Tuesday Oct. 23
Klaus M. SCHMIDT (University of Munich)
"Reputation and Contract Design" joint with B. Bartling and E. Fehr

Tuesday Oct. 30
Sophie BADE (Penn State University)
"Ambiguous Act Equilibria"

November

Tuesday Nov. 13
Matthias MESSNER (Bocconi University)
"Collective Decision Making under Uncertainty"

Tuesday Nov. 20
Patrick LEGROS (Universit Libre de Bruxelles and ECARES)
"Competitive Prices and Organizational Choices" joint with A. F. Newman

Tuesday Nov. 27
Timothy VAN ZANDT (INSEAD)
"Interim Bayesian Nash Equilibrium on Universal Type Spaces for Supermodular Games"

December

Tuesday Dec. 4
Ariel RUBINSTEIN (NYU and Tel Aviv University)
"A Study in the Pragmatics of Persuasion: a Game Theoretical Approach" joint with J. Glazer

Tuesday Dec. 11
Jernej COPIC (UCLA)
"Two-Sided Communication", joint with Debrah C. Meloso

Tuesday Dec. 18
Alberto BISIN (NYU)
"A Mirleesian Theory of Ramsey Taxation" joint with A. Rampini (Duke University)