Microeconomic Theory
Program Organizer: Aaron Bodoh-Creed
All workshops are on Mondays at 4:30 p.m. in Uris Hall 498 unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker |
| Thurs., March 7 4:30 p.m. 105 Ives Hall |
Frank Knight Lecture Andrew Chesher (University College London) Incomplete Models and Ambiguity in Economics |
| March 11 | Matt Elliott (Caltech) Financial Networks and Contagion (joint w/Benjamin Golub & Matthew Jackson) |
| March 25 | Alex Wolitzky (Stanford University) (joint w/Public
Econ) Cycles of Conflict: An Economic Model (joint w/Daron Acemoglu) |
| Thur., March 28 4:30 p.m. 305 Ives Hall |
George Staller Lecture Daron Acemoglu (MIT) Why Nations Fail |
| April 1 | Ignacio Esponda (New York University) Steady-State Learning in Bayesian-Markov Decision Processes (joint w/Demian Pouzo) |
| April 8 | Dirk Bergemann (Yale University) (joint w/Computer
Science) Bayes Correlated Equilibrium and the Comparison of Information Structures (joint w/Stephen Morris) |
| April 15 | Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University) Government Policy with Time Inconsistent Voters (joint w/Alberto Bisin & Leeat Yariv) |
| April 22 | Brent Hickman (University of Chicago) Pre-College Human Capital Investment and Affirmative Action: A Structural Policy Analysis of US College Admissions Slide Presentation |
| April 29 | Caroline Thomas (University of Texas, Austin) Strategic Experimentation with Congestion - Public and Private Monitoring |
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Department of Economics
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