Microeconomics Spring Seminars 2008

MICROECONOMICS SPRING SEMINARS 2008
Sponsored by the Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi" and IGIER

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

MONDAY FEBRUARY 18 AT 12:30 pm, ROOM 15, Via Sarfatti 25***OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Harald GRUBER (European Investment Bank)
"Regulation and Antitrust in Telecommunications: Open Issues"

and

MONDAY FEBRUARY 25 AT 12:30 pm, ROOM 15, Via Sarfatti 25***OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Harald GRUBER (European Investment Bank)
"IO Issues in Radio Spectrum Management"

Tuesday March 4
Massimo MOTTA (University of Bologna)
"Exclusive Dealing: the Interaction between Foreclosure and Investment Promotion" joint with C. Fumagalli and T. Rnde

Tuesday March 11
Dimitri VAYANOS (London School of Economics)
"The Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies: Theory and Applications" joint with M. Rabin

Tuesday March 18
Botond KOSZEGI (U. C. Berkeley)
"Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market" joint with P. Heidhues

Tuesday March 25
NO SEMINAR

Tuesday April 1
Philippe JEHIEL (University College London and CERAS)
"Manipulative Auction Design"

Tuesday April 8
Aldo MONTESANO (Bocconi University)
"The Compensation Principle and the National Income Test"

Tuesday April 15
Claudio MEZZETTI (University of Warwick)
"Aversion to Price Risk and the Afternoon Effect"

Tuesday April 22
Jorgen WEIBULL (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Committee Decisions: Optimality and Equilibrium" joint with Jean-Francois Laslier

MONDAY APRIL 28 AT 12:30, ROOM 35, Via Sarfatti 25***OCCASIONAL
Keith E. MASKUS (IBS, University of Colorado at Boulder)
"International Graduate Students in the US and their Contribution to US Science and Engineering Publications"

Tuesday May 6
Armin FALK (IZA)
"Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting Productivity, Preferences and Gender" joint with T. Dohmen

Tuesday May 13
Giulio SECCIA (University of Southampton)
"Informational Deadlines, Patterns of Trade and the Hirshleifer Effect" joint with A. N. Banerjee

Tuesday May 20
Fausto PANUNZI (Bocconi University)
"Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms" joint with A. Ellul and M. Pagano

MONDAY MAY 26 at 12:45 pm in ROOM N03, Velodromo***OCCASIONAL MICRO SEMINAR
Aviad HEIFETZ (Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv)
"Dynamic Unawareness and Rationalizable Behavior" joint with M. Meier and B. Schipper

Tuesday May 27
Ernst MAUG (University of Mannheim)
"The Optimal Design of Stock Options: A Loss-aversion Approach" joint with O. Spalt

Tuesday June 3
Marc MOLLER (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
"Competition amongst Contests" joint with Ghazala Azmat

FRIDAY JUNE 13, ROOM A, Via Sarfatti 25***OCCASIONAL
Matthew RABIN (U. C. Berkeley)
"Reference-Dependent Consumption Plans" joint with B. Koszegi

Tuesday June 17
Shachar KARIV (U. C. Berkeley) 
"Behind the Veil of Ignorance: Choosing in the Original Position" (with Bill Zame, UCLA)