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This page shows all past events for STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Thursday 05 December 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Confidence in Inference

I study a decision-maker who chooses between objects, each associated with a sample of signals. I axiomatically characterize the set of choices that are consistent with established models of belief updating. A simple tho...Read more...

En Hua Hu (Toronto)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 28 November 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Mediation in Dynamic Contracting

We study communication in dynamic contracting with limited commitment. A firm and a worker interact over time. The worker is privately informed about his productivity. In each period, the firm offers a menu of short-term...Read more...

Doruk Cetemen (Royal Holloway), joint with Dino Gerardi, Lucas Maestri and Ignacio Monzón

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 21 November 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Nested Bundling

A nested bundling strategy creates menus in which more expensive bundles include all the goods of the less expensive ones. We study when nested bundling is optimal and determine which nested menu is optimal, when consume...Read more...

Frank Yang (Stanford)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 November 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Decision Making Under Multidimensional Risk

Choice alternatives are often multidimensional and risky, but how to model a decision maker's evaluation of them is unclear. Three popular approaches are in sharp contrast: One aggregates all dimensions before evaluating...Read more...

Mu Zhang (Michigan), joint with Shaowei Ke (CEIBS)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 November 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Robustly Optimal Income Taxation

We study the design of a tax rule to redistribute income across heterogeneous workers optimally. The social planner faces uncertainty about the possible income choices available to each type of worker, and, therefore, ca...Read more...

Maren Vairo (Northwestern)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 24 October 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Robust Market Design under Opaque Announcements

We introduce a framework where the announcements of a clearinghouse about the allocation process are opaque in the sense that there can be more than one outcome compatible with a realization of type reports. We ask whet...Read more...

Aram Grigoryan (UCSD), joint with Markus Möller (University of Bonn)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 17 October 2024 15:30 - 17:00

News Media as Suppliers of Narratives (and Information)

We present a model in which news media shape beliefs by providing information (signals about an exogenous state) and narratives (models of what determines outcomes). To amplify consumers' engagement, the media maximize t...Read more...

Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv University), joint with Ran Spiegler

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 10 October 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Selling diversity

We provide a general yet tractable model to derive revenue-optimal mechanisms in settings with allocation-dependent externalities. Such externalities are present in settings ranging from concerts and parties to fashion i...Read more...

Vasiliki Skreta (University of Texas at Austin), joint with Suraj Malladi (Northwestern)

MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Thursday 03 October 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Dynamic Evidence Disclosure: Delay the Good to Accelerate the Bad

We analyze the dynamic tradeoff between the generation and the disclosure of evidence. Agents are tempted to delay investing in a new technology in order to learn from information generated by the experiences of others. ...Read more...

Jan Knoepfle (Queen Mary), joint with with Julia Salmi (Hanken School of Economics and Helsinki GSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 13 June 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Statistical discrimination and the distribution of wages

We characterize the conditions under which the wage distributions for two groups are consistent with a general model of statistical discrimination. We adapt this theoretical characterization to develop a novel empirica...Read more...

Rahul Deb (University of Toronto), joint with Prashant Bharadwaj and Ludovic Renou

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 06 June 2024 15:30 - 17:00

The Dynamics of Robust Experimentation

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Sarah Auster (Bonn), joint with Yeon-Koo Che

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 30 May 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Predicting information from Choice

An analyst observes the frequency with which an agent takes actions, but not the frequency with which she takes actions conditional on a payoff relevant state. In this setting, we ask when the analyst can rationalize the...Read more...

Laura Doval (Columbia), joint with Ran Eilat, Tianhao Lu, and Yangfan Zhou

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 23 May 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Pricing for Coordination

A seller prices a good with network externalities. Purchasing decisions being complementary, a pricing policy can yield equilibrium multiplicity. We study how personalized pricing can be used to mitigate this strategic u...Read more...

Marina Halac (Yale), joint with Elliot Lipnowski and Daniel Rappoport

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 16 May 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Dynamic Monitoring Design

This paper introduces flexible endogenous monitoring in dynamic moral hazard. A principal can commit to not only an employment plan but also the monitoring technology to incentivize dynamic effort from an agent. Optimal ...Read more...

Yu Fu Wong (Warwick)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 09 May 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Learning from Viral Content

We study learning on social media with an equilibrium model of users interacting with shared news stories. Rational users arrive sequentially, observe an original story (i.e., a private signal) and a sample of predecesso...Read more...

Kevin He (Penn), joint with Krishna Dasaratha

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 21 March 2024 15:30 - 17:00

When to decide: Timing of choice in Parallel Search

A decision-maker needs to choose one of two alternatives. They have priors about the quality of each and receive signals in continuous time. They need to decide when to stop acquiring information and make a choice, accou...Read more...

Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University), joint with Can Urgun

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 March 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Dynamic Concern for Misspecification

We consider an agent who posits a set of probabilistic models for the payoff-relevant outcomes. The agent has a prior over this set but fears the actual model is omitted and hedges against this possibility. The concern f...Read more...

Giacomo Lanzani (Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 March 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Socially Efficient Approval Mechanisms with Signalling Costs

We consider an approval problem in which an agent with a privately known continuous type always seeks approval, whereas an uninformed principal favours approval only if the agent's type exceeds a certain standard. The ag...Read more...

Ines Moreno de Barreda (Oxford), joint with Evgenii Safonov

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 29 February 2024 15:30 - 17:00

Over- and Underreaction to Information

This paper explores how properties of the learning environment determine how people react to information. We develop a two-stage model of belief formation where people first reduce complexity by channeling attention to a...Read more...

Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 30 November 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Nuclear Brinkmanship and Institution

This paper studies the interplay between political institutions and the likelihood of a nuclear war. In our model, two nuclear powers are in a state of conflict; civilians affect how extractive their institutions are; p...Read more...

Nicolas Bonneton (Mannheim)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 23 November 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Dynamic Screening: Why Weight Isn't Volume

We consider a continuous-time game between a buyer and a seller. The buyer privately knows how often he needs to trade. When he does, he can choose to either engage with the seller, who chooses what utility to supply, or...Read more...

Anna Sankjohanser (Toulouse), joint with Johannes Hörner (TSE CNRS)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 09 November 2023 15:30 - 17:00

CANCELLED: Pricing for Coordination

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Marina Halac (Yale)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 26 October 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the le Chatelier principle

We develop a theory of monotone comparative statics for models with adjustment costs. We show that comparative-statics conclusions may be drawn under the usual ordinal complementarity assumptions on the objective functio...Read more...

Ludvig Sinander (University of Oxford), joint with Eddie Dekel and John K.-H. Quah

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 19 October 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Trust and Respect

This article provides a mechanism that allows for reputation in repeated cheap-talk games to enhance communication and welfare - in contrast to well-known bad-reputation results in existing literature. We relax the commi...Read more...

Sarah Ridout (Vanderbilt)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 October 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Attention Overload

We introduce an Attention Overload Model that captures the idea that alternatives compete for the decision maker?s attention, and hence the attention that each alternative receives decreases as the choice problem becomes...Read more...

Yusufcan Masatlioglu (Maryland), joint with Matias D. Cattaneo, Paul H.Y. Cheung and Xinwei Ma

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 05 October 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Disclosure and Incentives in Teams

We consider a team-production environment augmented with a stage in which the team decides how to communicate their productive outcome to outside observers. In this context, we characterize equilibrium disclosure of team...Read more...

Paula Onuchic (University of Oxford), joint with João Ramos

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 19 September 2023 10:00 - 17:00

LSE-UCL Economic Theory Workshop

LSE and UCL are organising a joint workshop on economic theory on Tuesday 19 September. Researchers from both institutions will present new work in economic theory....Read more...

Various speakers

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 15 June 2023 15:30 - 17:00

The Optimality of Constant Mark-Up Pricing

We consider a nonlinear pricing environment with private information. We provide profit guarantees (and associated mechanisms) that the seller can achieve across all possible distributions of willingness to pay of the b...Read more...

Stephen Morris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Dirk Bergemanny and Tibor Heumannz

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 08 June 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Multidimensional Screening and Menu Design in Health Insurance Markets

We study a general screening model that encompasses the problem facing a price-setting insurer that offers vertically differentiated contracts to consumers with multiple dimensions of private information. We combine theo...Read more...

Hector Chade (Arizona State University), joint with Victoria Marone, Amanda Starc, and Jeroen Swinkels

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 25 May 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Zero-Knowledge Mechanisms

A powerful feature in mechanism design is the ability to irrevocably commit to the rules of a mechanism. Commitment is achieved by public declaration, which enables players to verify incentive properties in advance and t...Read more...

Yannai Gonczarowski (Harvard University), joint with Ran Canetti and Amos Fiat

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 11 May 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Policy

This paper models legislative decision-making with an agenda setter who can propose policies sequentially, tailoring each proposal to the status quo that prevails after prior votes. Voters are sophisticated and the agend...Read more...

Syed Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University), joint with B. Douglas Bernheim (Stanford), Alexander W. Bloedel (UCLA) and Silvia Console Battilana (Auctionomics)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 04 May 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Experimentation in Networks

We introduce a model of strategic experimentation on social networks where forward looking agents learn from their own and neighbours' successes. In equilibrium, private discovery is followed by social diffusion. Social ...Read more...

Moritz Meyer ter-Vehn (University of California, Los Angeles)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 23 March 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Interactions across Multiple Games: Cooperation, Corruption, and Organizational Design

Teams face a variety of strategic situations. It is socially beneficial for teams to cooperate in productive but not in corrupt ones. However, cooperation in one situation may depend on expectations of cooperation in oth...Read more...

Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft), joint with Jonathan Bendor (Stanford), Lukas Bolte (Stanford) and Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 16 March 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Information Aggregation on Networks: an Experimental Study

We study the impact of network architecture on the efficiency of information transmission and dynamics of learning in large networks using laboratory experiments. While the theoretical literature has recently made progre...Read more...

Marina Agranov (California Institute of Technology), joint with Ben Gillen and Dotan Persitz

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 09 March 2023 15:30 - 17:00

An Axiomatic Approach to the Law of Small Numbers

We show that the evidence supporting the Law of Small Numbers (Tversky and Kahneman (1974)) can be reduced to either of two basic properties of beliefs: Streak Aversion and Mean Reversion. We formalize these properties i...Read more...

Jawwad Noor (Boston University), joint with Fernando Payro

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 02 March 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Should the Timing of Inspections be Predictable?

A principal hires an agent to work on a long-term project that culminates in either a breakthrough or a breakdown. Arrival rates of breakthroughs and breakdowns are governed by the agent's hidden actions: working increas...Read more...

Ian Ball (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 23 February 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Sequential Sampling Equilibrium

This paper introduces an equilibrium framework based on sequential sampling in which players face strategic uncertainty over their opponents’ behavior and acquire information to resolve it. Sequential sampling equilibriu...Read more...

Duarte Goncalves (University College London)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 16 February 2023 15:30 - 17:00

Gerrymandering the Swing Voters

Gerrymandering is the strategic redrawing of the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts. We develop a new theoretical model of gerrymandering. We embrace the fact that there is a difference between t...Read more...

Laurent Bouton (Georgetown University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 15 December 2022 15:30 - 17:00

TBC

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David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 08 December 2022 15:30 - 17:00

CANCELLED: Encouraging a Go-Getter

This paper considers a decision maker who receives a reward if he takes a costly action above an unknown threshold. A designer controls the information available to the decision maker about the threshold. The designer’s ...Read more...

Thomas Brzustowski (LSE)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 01 December 2022 15:30 - 17:00

The comparative models of persuasion

In the canonical persuasion model, comparative statics has been an open question. We answer it, delineating which shifts of the sender's interim payoff lead her optimally to choose a more informative signal. Our first th...Read more...

Gregorio Curello (University of Bonn)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 24 November 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Martingale Embeddings: Theory and Applications

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Weijie Zhong (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 17 November 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Outside options, reputations, and the partial success of the Coase conjecture

A buyer and seller bargain over a good's price in continuous time, the buyer has a private value v and a positive outside option w. Additionally, bargainers can either be rational or committed to some fixed price. When t...Read more...

Jack Fanning (Brown University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 10 November 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition

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Eddie Dekel (Northwestern University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 November 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Slow and Easy: A Theory of Browsing

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Evgenii Safonov (Princeton University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 20 October 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Dominance and Optimality

This paper proposes a general theory of dominance among choices that encompasses strict and weak dominance among strategies in games, Blackwell dominance among experiments, and first or second order stochastic dominance ...Read more...

Tilman Börgers (University of Michigan), joint with Xienan Cheng

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 06 October 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Screening with frames: Implementation in Extensive Form

We study a decision-framing design problem: a principal faces an agent with frame-dependent preferences and designs an extensive form with a frame at each stage. This allows the principal to circumvent incentive compat...Read more...

Franz Ostrizek (Sciences Po)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 29 September 2022 15:30 - 17:00

On the principal agent model

Harmonising incentive compatibility and individual rationality can be a challenge. Let A be the finite set of possibilities and D(A) its probability simplex. With a continuous function defined on D(A) representing what t...Read more...

Robert Simon (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 16 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Incentive Design for Talent Discovery

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Erik Madsen (New York University), joint with Basil Williams and Andrzej Skrzypacz

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SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 09 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Sequential Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information

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Andreas Kleiner (Arizona State University), joint with S. Nageeb Ali and Navin Kartik

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 02 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

TBC

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Thursday 26 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Incentive Compatibility in Dynamic Information Design

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Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University), joint with George Georgiadis and Luis Rayo

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 19 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Keeping the Agents in the Dark: Private Disclosures in Competing Mechanisms

We study competing-mechanism games, in which several principals contract with several privately informed agents. We show that enabling the principals to engage into private disclosures—whereby a principal sends to the ag...Read more...

Thomas Mariotti (Toulouse School of Economics), joint with Andrea Attar, Eloisa Campioni and Alessandro Pavan

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Mechanisms without transfers for fully biased agents

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Deniz Kattwinkel (University College London), joint with Axel Niemeyer, Justus Preusser and Alexander Winter

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 05 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Communication Under Scrutiny

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Nemanja Antic (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University), joint with Archishman Chakraborty and Rick Harbaugh

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SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 31 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

TBC

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Thursday 24 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Optimal Political Career Dynamics

e examine politicians’ career dynamics generated by political accountability, characterizing voter-optimal equilibrium play under repeated moral hazard. When moral hazard binds, equilibrium play is non-stationary: Re-el...Read more...

Joao Ramos (Queen Mary University of London)

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SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 17 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Auctions with Frictions

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Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn), joint with Asher Wolinsky

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ONLINE

Thursday 10 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics

We study optimal minipublic design with endogenous evidence. A policymaker selects a group of citizens—a minipublic—for advice on the desirability of a policy. Citizens can discover local evidence but might be deterred b...Read more...

Arjada Bardhi (Duke University), joint with Nina Bobkova

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection

We study the effect of diminishing search frictions in markets with adverse selection by presenting a model in which agents with private information can simultaneously contact multiple trading partners. We highlight a ne...Read more...

Piero Gottardi (University of Essex), joint with Sarah Auster and Ronald Wolthoff

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 24 February 2022 15:30 - 17:00

Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms

Many scarce public resources are allocated at below-market-clearing prices, and sometimes for free. Such “non-market” mechanisms necessarily sacrifice some surplus, yet they can potentially improve equity. In this paper,...Read more...

Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern University), joint with Mohammad Akbarpour and Scott Duke Kominers

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 09 December 2021 15:30 - 17:00

CANCELLED

Much of the work on auction theory focuses on design aspects in situations motivated by formally organized auctions, like those held by government agencies. However, auction models are also convenient abstractions of les...Read more...

Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn), joint with Asher Wolinsky

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ONLINE

Thursday 25 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Dynamic persuasion and games with Incomplete Information on one side

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Galit Ashkenazi-Golan (LSE)

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ONLINE

Thursday 18 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Making Decisions under Model Misspecification

We use decision theory to confront uncertainty that is sufficiently broad to incorporate “models as approximations.” We presume the existence of a featured collection of what we call “structured models” that have explici...Read more...

Simone Cerreia-Vioglio (Bocconi University), joint with Lars Peter Hansen, Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci

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Thursday 18 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Making Decisions under Model Misspecification

We use decision theory to confront uncertainty that is sufficiently broad to incorporate “models as approximations.” We presume the existence of a featured collection of what we call “structured models” that have explici...Read more...

Simone Cerreia-Vioglio (Bocconi University), joint with Lars Peter Hansen, Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci

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ONLINE

Thursday 11 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Dynamic Incentives in Incompletely Specified Environments

Consider a repeated interaction where it is unknown which of various stage games will be played each period. This framework captures the logic of intertemporal incentives even though numeric payoffs to any strategy prof...Read more...

Gabriel Carroll (Stanford University)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Thursday 11 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Dynamic Incentives in Incompletely Specified Environments

Consider a repeated interaction where it is unknown which of various stage games will be played each period. This framework captures the logic of intertemporal incentives even though numeric payoffs to any strategy prof...Read more...

Gabriel Carroll (Stanford University)

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ONLINE

Thursday 04 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Screening and Information-Sharing Externalities

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Quitze Valenzuela-Stookey (Duke University and University of California, Berkeley)

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ONLINE

Thursday 04 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Screening and Information-Sharing Externalities

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Quitze Valenzuela-Stookey (Duke University and University of California, Berkeley)

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ONLINE

Thursday 28 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Moderate Expected Utility

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Paulo Natenzon (Washington University in St Louis)

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SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 28 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Moderate Expected Utility

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Paulo Natenzon (Washington University in St Louis)

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SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 21 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Coasian Dynamics Under Informational Robustness

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Jonathan Libgober (University of Southern California), joint with Xiaosheng Mu

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Thursday 21 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Coasian Dynamics Under Informational Robustness

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Jonathan Libgober (University of Southern California), joint with Xiaosheng Mu

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Thursday 14 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Conjugate Persuasion

We consider a class of persuasion games in which the sender has rank-dependent preferences. Like much of the recent Bayesian persuasion literature, we assume the receiver’s action depends only on her posterior expectatio...Read more...

Daniel Quigley (University of Oxford), joint with Ian Jewitt

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Thursday 14 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Conjugate Persuasion

We consider a class of persuasion games in which the sender has rank-dependent preferences. Like much of the recent Bayesian persuasion literature, we assume the receiver’s action depends only on her posterior expectatio...Read more...

Daniel Quigley (University of Oxford), joint with Ian Jewitt

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Thursday 07 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Efficient Investment and Search in Matching Markets

We study a two-sided search-and-matching model in which agents invest before entry. In every period, agents incur an additive search cost, pairs meet at random and bargain over prices. Inefficiencies can be caused by a p...Read more...

Michael Richter (Royal Holloway, University of London), joint with Alp Atakan and Matan Tsur

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Thursday 07 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Efficient Investment and Search in Matching Markets

We study a two-sided search-and-matching model in which agents invest before entry. In every period, agents incur an additive search cost, pairs meet at random and bargain over prices. Inefficiencies can be caused by a p...Read more...

Michael Richter (Royal Holloway, University of London), joint with Alp Atakan and Matan Tsur

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Thursday 30 September 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Costly monitoring in signaling games

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Tommaso Denti (Cornell University)

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SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 30 September 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Costly monitoring in signaling games

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Tommaso Denti (Cornell University)

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SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 17 June 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Agency-Constrained Information Design: Regulating Financial Analysts

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Mallesh Pai (Rice University), joint with Rahul Deb, University of Toronto and Maher Said, NYU Stern School of Business

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Thursday 10 June 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Information Acquisition, Efficiency, and Non-Fundamental Volatility’

This paper analyzes non-fundamental volatility and efficiency in a class of large games (including e.g. linear-quadratic beauty contests) that feature strategic interaction and endogenous information acquisition. We adop...Read more...

Benjamin Hebert (Stanford University), joint with Jennifer La’O

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Thursday 03 June 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Online Appendix to Optimal Technology Design: Risk-averse Agent

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Alex Smolin (Toulouse School of Economics), joint with Daniel Garrett, George Georgiadis, and Bálazs Szentes

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Thursday 27 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Post-liberalisation India Has Become More Unequal

Bitcoin provides its users with transaction-processing services which are similar to those of traditional payment systems. This article models the novel economic structure implied by Bitcoin’s innovative decentralized de...Read more...

Jacob Leshno (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

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Thursday 20 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Subjective Causality in Choice

An agent makes a stochastic choice from a set of lotteries. She infers the outcomes of her options using a subjective causal model represented by a directed acyclic graph, and consequently may misinterpret correlation as...Read more...

Andrew Ellis (LSE), joint with Heidi Thysen

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Thursday 13 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Screening for breakthroughs

We identify a new and pervasive dynamic agency problem: that of incentivising the prompt disclosure of productive information. To study it, we introduce a model in which a technological breakthrough occurs at an uncertai...Read more...

Ludvig Sinander (University of Oxford), joint with Gregorio Curello (University of Bonn)

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Thursday 06 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Competitive Advertising and Pricing

We consider an oligopoly model in which each firm chooses not only its price but also its advertising strategy regarding how much product information to provide. Unlike most previous studies on advertising, we impose no ...Read more...

Kyungmin Kim (Emory University), joint with Ilwoo Hwang and Raphael Boleslavsky

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Thursday 25 March 2021 15:30 - 17:00

A network solution to robust implementation: the case of identical but unknown distributions

We consider mechanism design environments in which agents commonly know that others’ types are identically distributed, but without assuming that the actual distribution is common knowledge, nor that it is known to the d...Read more...

Antonio Penta (ICREA, Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona School of Economics)

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Thursday 18 March 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Information Acquisition and Disclosure by Advisors with Hidden Motives

A sender acquires a signal about an object’s quality and commits to a rule to disclose its realizations to a receiver, who then chooses to buy the object or to keep an outside option of privately known value. Optimal dis...Read more...

Paula Onuchic (University of Oxford)

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Thursday 11 March 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Revealed Statistical Consumer Theory

We provide a microfoundation for using aggregated data (e.g. mean purchases) when evaluating consumer choice data. We present a model of statistical consumer theory where the individual maximizes their utility with respe...Read more...

John Rehbeck (Ohio State University)

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Thursday 04 March 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Global manipulation by local obfuscation

We study information design in a regime change context. A continuum of agents simultaneously choose whether to attach the current regime and will succeed if and only if the mass of attackers outweighs the regime's streng...Read more...

Fei Li (University of North Carolina), joint with Yangbo Song and Mofei Zhao

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Thursday 25 February 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Two-stage majoritarian choice

We propose a class of decisive collective choice rules that rely on a linear ordering to partition the majority relation into two acyclic relations. The first relation is used to obtain a shortlist of the feasible altern...Read more...

Sean Horan (University of Montreal), joint with Yves Sprumont

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Thursday 10 December 2020 15:30 - 17:00

The Price of Data

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Jacopo Perego (Columbia Business School), joint with Simone Galperti and Aleksanr Levkun

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Thursday 03 December 2020 15:30 - 17:00

Robust Monopoly Regulation

We study the regulation of a monopolistic firm using a non-Bayesian approach. We derive the policy that minimizes the regulator’s worst-case regret, where regret is the difference between the regulator’s complete-informa...Read more...

Yingi Guo (Northwestern University)

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Thursday 26 November 2020 15:30 - 17:00

The Behavioral SIR Model, with Applications to the Swine Flu and COVID-19 Pandemic

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Lones Smith (University of Wisconsin–Madison), joint with Sam Engle, Marianna Kudlyak, Jussi Keppo, Elena Quercioli, and Andrea Wilson

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Thursday 19 November 2020 15:30 - 17:00

Behavioural Neural Networks

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Chen Zhao (The University of Hong Kong)

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Thursday 12 November 2020 15:30 - 17:00

TBC

We study the welfare consequences of allowing the mechanism designer to withhold or damage resources in the optimal mechanism for bilateral trade with independent private values. We show that withholding monetary transfe...Read more...

Mihai Manea (Stony Brook University)

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Thursday 18 June 2020 15:30 - 17:00

Stochastically Quadratic

We provide a model of stochastic choice where the choice function is the outcome of an optimization procedure with respect to a quadratic loss function. Although choice probabilities are the result of deliberate randomi...Read more...

Collin Raymond (University of Oxford), joint with Chris Chambers and Yusufcan Masatlioglu

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Thursday 11 June 2020 15:30 - 17:00

Conventions and Coalitions in Repeated Games

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Syed Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University), joint with Ce Liu

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Thursday 04 June 2020 15:30 - 17:00

A Double Revelation 'Principle' for Maxmin Auction Design

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Ben Brooks (University of Chicago), joint with Songzi Du

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Thursday 28 May 2020 15:30 - 17:00

Relational Contracts: Public versus Private Savings

We study relational contracting with an agent who has consumption-smoothing preferences as well as the ability to save to defer consumption (or to borrow). Our focus is the comparison of principal-optimal relational con...Read more...

Daniel Garrett (University of Essex), joint with Francesc Dilme

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Thursday 14 May 2020 15:30 - 17:00

Misinterpreting Social Outcomes and Information Campaigns

This paper explores learning in a setting with social perception biases. Individuals learn from others’ outcomes but have a misspecified model of their preferences. When individuals systematically overestimate the simila...Read more...

Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Daniel N. Hauser

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Thursday 26 March 2020 15:30 - 17:00

Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism

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Ronny Razin (LSE), joint with Gilat Levy and Alwyn Young

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Thursday 26 March 2020 15:30 - 17:00

Information Acquisition, Efficiency, and Non-Fundamental Volatility

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Benjamin Hebert (Stanford University), joint with Jennifer La’O

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Thursday 19 March 2020 15:30 - 17:00

TBC

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Mihai Manea (Stony Brook University)

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Thursday 27 February 2020 15:30 - 17:00

Attention Please!

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Jakub Steiner (University of Edinburgh and CERGE-EI), joint with Colin Stewart

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Thursday 12 December 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Rationalizing Committee Votes

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Ludovic Renou (Queen Mary University of London), joint with Rahul Deb

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Thursday 05 December 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Keeping the Listener Engaged: a Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion

We consider a dynamic model of Bayesian persuasion. Over time, a sender performs a series of experiments to persuade a receiver to take a desired action. Constraints on information flow force the sender's persuasion to t...Read more...

Konrad Mierendorff (University College London), joint with Yeon-Koo Che and Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim

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Thursday 28 November 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Long-term contracting with time-inconsistent agents

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Daniel Gottlieb (Department of Management, LSE), joint with Xingtan Zhang

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Thursday 21 November 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Blackwell Equilibria

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Costas Cavounidas (University of Warwick)

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Thursday 14 November 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Compromise, don't optimize: A prior-free alternative to Bayesian Nash equilibrium

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Andriy Zapachelnyuk (University of St Andrews), joint with Karl Schlag

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Thursday 07 November 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Inferring Cognitive Heterogeneity from Aggregate Choices

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Paola Manzini (University of Sussex), joint with Valentino Dardanoni, Marco Mariotti and Chris Tyson

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Thursday 31 October 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Acquisition of/Stochastic Evidence

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Bart Lipman (Boston University), joint with Elchanan Ben-Porath and Eddie Dekel

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Thursday 13 June 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Fostering Collaboration

We study optimal project selection by a firm that must choose between different workers’ preferred projects. The firm faces a basic tradeoff between fostering collaboration among its employees and efficiently adapting it...Read more...

Elliot Lipnowski (Columbia University), joint with Aditya Kuvalekar and Joyee Deb

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Thursday 06 June 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Information Choice in Auctions

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Nina Bobkova (European University Institute)

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Thursday 30 May 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Coalition Formation and History Dependence

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Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick), joint with Hannu Vartiainen

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Thursday 23 May 2019 15:30 - 17:00

An Attention-Based Theory of Mental Accounting

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Filip Matejka (CERGE-EI), joint with Botond Koszegi

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Thursday 16 May 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Self-enforcing agreements and forward induction reasoning

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Emiliano Catonini (HSE, ICEF, Moscow)

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Thursday 02 May 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Normative Equilibrium: The permissible and the forbidden as devices for bringing order to economic environments

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Ariel Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv University and New York University), joint with Michael Richter

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Thursday 21 March 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Time Lotteries and Stochastic Impatience

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David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania)

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Thursday 14 March 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Misinterpreting Others and the Fragility of Social Learning

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Mira Frick (Yale University), joint with Ryota Iijima and Yuhta Ishii

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Thursday 07 March 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Moral Hazard and Time Inconsistency: Dynamic Contracting with Non-Exponential Discounting

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Can Urgun (Princeton University), joint with Doruk Cetemen and Felix Zhiyu Feng

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Thursday 28 February 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Mechanism Design with Limited Commitment

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Vasiliki Skreta (University of Texas at Austin), joint with Laura Doval

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Thursday 21 February 2019 15:30 - 17:00

Quantifying information and uncertainty

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Emir Kamenica (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), joint with Alexander Frankel

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Thursday 13 December 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Reputation and Information Design

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Laurent Mathevet (New York University), joint with David Pearce and Ennio Stacchetti

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Thursday 06 December 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Repeated Choice: A Theory of Stochastic Intertemporal Preferences

Abstract: We provide a repeated choice foundation for models of stochastic choice. An agent chooses from a menu repeatedly over time generating a time series of choices. We study the limit frequency of these choices and ...Read more...

Jay Lu (University of California, Los Angeles), joint with Kota Saito

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Thursday 29 November 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Fake Persuasion

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Helios Herrera (University of Warwick), joint with Jacob Glazer and Motty Perry

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Thursday 22 November 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Choosing Joint Distributions: Theory and Applications to Information Design

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Margaret Meyer (University of Oxford)

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Thursday 15 November 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Price Discovery in a Large Auction with Costly Information

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Alp Atakan (Queen Mary University of London), joint with Mehmet Ekmekci

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Thursday 01 November 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Asymmetric Information and Security Design under Knightian Uncertainty

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Anton Tsoy (Einaudi Institute for Economics & Finance), joint with Andrey Malenko

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Thursday 07 June 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Groupthink and the Failure of Information Aggregation in Large Groups

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Philipp Strack (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Matan Harel, Elchanan Mossel and Omer Tamuz

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Thursday 31 May 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Competitive Information Design

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Frederic Koessler (Paris School of Economics), joint with Marie Laclau and Tristan Tomala

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Thursday 24 May 2018 15:30 - 17:00

"Auctions" by Invitation

∙ Focus is on costly recruitment of bidders - Rounding up bidders is costly - Obviously an important aspect of auction-like market situations ∙ Different issues to be discus...Read more...

Asher Wolinsky (Northwestern University)

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Thursday 17 May 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Bargaining and Competition in Thin Markets

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Francesc Dilmé (University of Bonn)

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Thursday 10 May 2018 15:30 - 17:00

TBC

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Kristof Madarasz (LSE)

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Thursday 03 May 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Desirability

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Dov Samet (Tel Aviv University), joint with David Schmeidler

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 26 April 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Differentiated Durable Goods Monopoly: A Robust Coase Conjecture

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Francesco Nava (Department of Economics, LSE), joint with Pasquale Schiraldi

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Thursday 22 March 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Thickness and Information in Dynamic Matching Markets

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Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford University), joint with Shengwu Li and Shayan Oveis Gharan

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Thursday 15 March 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Credible Mechanisms

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Shengwu Li (Harvard University), joint with Mohammad Akbarpour

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Thursday 08 March 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Overabundant Information and Learning Traps

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Annie Liang (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Xiaosheng Mu

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Thursday 01 March 2018 15:30 - 17:00

A Theory of Auctions with Endogenous Valuations

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Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), joint with B. Moldovanu and P. Strack

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Thursday 22 February 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Cheap Talk with Transparent Motives

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Doron Ravid (University of Chicago), joint with Elliot Lipnowski

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Thursday 15 February 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Incomplete Information Games with Ambiguity Averse Players

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Sujoy Mukerji (Queen Mary University of London), joint with Eran Hanany and Peter Klibano

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Thursday 14 December 2017 15:30 - 17:00

The Silent Treatment

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Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv University), joint with Geoffroy de Clippel and Kareen Rozen

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Thursday 07 December 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Revelation Principles in Multistage Games

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Alexander Wolitzky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Takuo Sugaya

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Thursday 30 November 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Investing into Bargaining Power

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Nenad Kos (Bocconi University), joint with Sarah Auster and Salvatore Piccolo 

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Thursday 23 November 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Multilevel Marketing: Pyramid-Shaped Schemes or Exploitative Scams

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Yair Antler (University of Essex)

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Thursday 16 November 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Social Discounting and Individual Long-Run Discounting

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Shaowei Ke (University of Michigan), joint with Tangren Feng

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Thursday 09 November 2017 13:30 - 15:00

Information disclosure and monopolistic screening

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Daniel Kraehmer (University of Bonn)

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Thursday 02 November 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Pledge-and-Review Bargaining

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Bard Harstad (University of Oslo)

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Thursday 26 October 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Mechanism Design with Evidence: Commitment and Robustness

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Elchanan Ben-Porath (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), joint with Eddie Dekel and Barton Lipman

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Thursday 19 October 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Robust incentives for teams

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Juuso Toikka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Tianjiao Dai

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Thursday 08 June 2017 15:30 - 17:00

TBC

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Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University)

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Thursday 01 June 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Preference Identification

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Christopher Chambers (University of California, San Diego), joint with Federico Echenique and Nicolas Lambert

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Thursday 25 May 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Dynamic Random Utility

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Tomasz Strzalecki (Harvard University), joint with Mira Frick and Ryota Iijima

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Thursday 18 May 2017 15:30 - 17:00

On the Possibility of Information Aggregation in Large Elections

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Sourav Bhattacharya (Royal Holloway, University of London), joint with Paulo Barelli and Lucas Siga

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Thursday 11 May 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Naivete about Temptation and Self-Control: Foundations for Naive Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting

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David Ahn (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Ryota Iijima and Todd Sarver

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Thursday 04 May 2017 15:30 - 17:00

The Perverse Politics of Polarization

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Syed Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University), joint with Maximilian Mihm and Lucas Siga

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Thursday 27 April 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Intermediate Microeconomics with Exponential Satisficing Agents

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Christopher Tyson (Queen Mary University of London)

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Thursday 23 March 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Crises: Equilibrium Shifts and Large Shocks

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Stephen Morris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Muhamet Yildiz

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Thursday 16 March 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Deliberately Stochastic

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Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University), joint with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, David Dillenberger and Gil Riella

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Thursday 09 March 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Rational Inattention Dynamics: Inertia and Delay in Decision-Making

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Colin Stewart (University of Toronto), joint with Jakub Steiner and Filip Matìjka

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Thursday 02 March 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Search: Breadth vs Depth

We consider a fundamental trade-off in search: when choosing between multiple unknown alternatives, is it better to learn a little about all of them (breadth) or a lot about a single one (depth)? Generally, we find that ...Read more...

Michael Richter (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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Thursday 23 February 2017 15:30 - 17:00

A Theory of Small Campaign Contributions

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Laurent Bouton (Georgetown University), joint with Micael Castanheira and Allan Drazen

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Thursday 08 December 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Altruism in Networks

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Yann Bramoulle (Marseille University), joint with Renaud Bourlès and Eduardo Perez-Richet

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Thursday 01 December 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Making Corruption Harder: Asymmetric Information, Collusion and Crime

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Juan Ortner (Boston University), joint with Sylvain Chassang

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Thursday 24 November 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Private Learning and Exit Decisions in Collaboration

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Anne-Katrin Roesler (University of Michigan), joint with Yingni Guo

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Thursday 17 November 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Multidimensional Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency with Application to the Labour Market

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Heski Bar-Isaac (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto), joint with Ian Jewitt and Clare Leaver

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Thursday 10 November 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Structural Rationality in Dynamic Games

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Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University)

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Thursday 03 November 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Markovian implementation

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Johannes Horner (Yale University)

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Thursday 27 October 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Collusion Constrained Equilibrium

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Rohan Dutta (McGill University), joint with David K. Levine and Salvatore Modica

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Thursday 20 October 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Asset allocation and trade under heterogeneous ambiguity aversion

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Jean-Marc Tallon (Paris School of Economics), joint with H. Ozsolyev and S. Mukerji

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Thursday 13 October 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Commitment vs. Flexibility with Costly Verification

We introduce costly verification into a general delegation framework. A principal faces an agent who is better informed about the efficient action but biased towards higher actions. An audit verifies the agent's informat...Read more...

Marina Halac (Yale), joint with Pierre Yared

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Thursday 29 September 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Dynamic Nonmonetary Incentives

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Daniel Bird (Tel Aviv University), joint with Alexander Frug

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Thursday 09 June 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Expectations, Networks, and Conventions

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Ben Golub (Harvard University), joint with Stephen Morris, Princeton

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Thursday 02 June 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Revealed Willpower

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Emre Ozdenoren (London Business School), joint with Yusufcan Masatlioglu and Daisuke Nakajima

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Thursday 26 May 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Public protests and policy making

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Marco Battaglini (Cornell University)

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Thursday 19 May 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Random Evolving Lotteries and Preference for Intrinsic Information

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Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton University), joint with Faruk Gul and Paulo Natenzon

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Thursday 12 May 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Testing the Quantal Response Hypothesis

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Kirill Pogorelskiy (University of Warwick), joint with Emerson Melo and Matthew Shum

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Thursday 05 May 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Auctions with Bidder Solicitation

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Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn), joint with Asher Wolinsky

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Thursday 28 April 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Communication with Evidence in the Lab

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Jeanne Hagenbach (Ecole Polytechnique), joint with Eduardo Perez-Richet

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Thursday 24 March 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Average Choice

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Federico Echenique (California Institute of Technology), joint with David Ahn and Kota Saito

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Thursday 17 March 2016 15:30 - 17:00

A Theorem on Bayesian Updating and Applications to Signaling Games

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Navin Kartik (Columbia University), joint with Frances Xu Lee and Wing Suen

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Thursday 10 March 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Even up: Maintaining relationships

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Larry Samuelson (Yale University), joint with Ennio Stacchetti

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Thursday 03 March 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Robustness and Separation in Multidimensional Screening

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Gabriel Carroll (Stanford University)

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Thursday 25 February 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Dynamic Choice with Subjective Information Constraints

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Philipp Sadowski (Duke University), joint with R.V. Krishna and D. Dillenberger

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Thursday 18 February 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Complexity, Correlation and Choice

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Andrew Ellis (LSE), joint with Michele Piccione (LSE)

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Thursday 17 December 2015 15:30 - 17:00

Informational Size

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Andrew Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Richard P McLean

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Thursday 10 December 2015 15:30 - 17:00

Strategic Gradual Learning and Information Transmission

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Alex Frug (Pompeu Fabra University)

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Thursday 03 December 2015 15:30 - 17:00

Delegating Resource Allocations in a Multidimensional World

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Simone Galperti (University of California, San Diego)

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Thursday 19 November 2015 15:30 - 17:00

First price auctions with general information structures: Implications for bidding and revenue

This paper explores the impact of private information in sealed bid first price auctions. For a given symmetric and arbitrarily correlated prior distribution over values, we characterize the lowest winning bid distributi...Read more...

Ben Brooks (University of Chicago), joint with Dirk Bergemann and Stephen Morris

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Thursday 12 November 2015 15:30 - 17:00

Coalitional Expected Utility Theory

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Efe Ok (New York University), joint with Kazuhiro Hara and Gil Riella

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Thursday 05 November 2015 15:30 - 17:00

The value of linking: Efficiency and public punishment

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Jimmy Hing Chan (Shanghai University of Finance & Economics), joint with Wenzhang Zhang

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Thursday 29 October 2015 15:30 - 17:00

Collusion in Auctions with Constrained Bids: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement

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Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University), joint with Juan Ortner

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Thursday 25 June 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Disclosure and Choice

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Eddie Dekel (Northwestern University), joint with Elchanan Ben-Porath and Barton L. Lipman

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Thursday 18 June 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Decentralized Bargaining: Efficiency and the Core

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Francesco Nava (Department of Economics, LSE), joint with M Elliott

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Thursday 11 June 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Mechanism design and information disclosure

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Takuro Yamashita (Toulouse School of Economics), joint with Tong Su

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Thursday 04 June 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Segregation in Education and Labour Market Discrimination: The Role of Peer Beliefs

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Gilat Levy (Department of Economics, LSE), joint with Ronny Razin

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Thursday 28 May 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Strategic Trading in Informationally Complex Environments

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Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford University), joint with Nicolas Lambert and Mikhail Panov

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Thursday 21 May 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Collective Search with Private Information

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Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Nageeb Ali

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Thursday 14 May 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Durability, Deadline, and Election Effects in Bargaining

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Alp Simsek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Muhamet Yildiz

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 May 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Comparative Measures of Naiveté

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Todd Sarver (Duke University), joint with David S Ahn and Ryota Iijima

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Thursday 30 April 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Sequential equilibrium in multi-stage games with infinite sets of types and actions

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Roger Myerson (University of Chicago)

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Thursday 19 March 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Beeps

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Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 March 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Collusion with Private Monitoring and Private Information

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Suehyun Kwon (University College London), joint with Martin Cripps

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 05 March 2015 16:00 - 17:30

A General and Intuitive Envelope Theorem

Previous envelope theorems establish differentiability of value functions or policy functions only. Our envelope theorem applies to all functions whose derivatives appear in first-order conditions. For example, in Stacke...Read more...

Andrew Clausen (University of Edinburgh)

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Thursday 26 February 2015 16:00 - 17:30

Stochastic Complementarity

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Marco Mariotti (Queen Mary University of London), joint with Paola Manzini and Levent Ülkü

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 18 December 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Social Learning with Differentiated Products

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Arthur Campbell (Yale University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 11 December 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Repeated Games with Endogenous Discounting

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Asen Kochov (University of Rochester), joint with Yangwei Song

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 04 December 2014 16:00 - 17:30

A New Look at Local Expected Utility

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Simone Cerreia-Vioglio (Bocconi University), joint with F. Maccheroni and M. Marinacci

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 27 November 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Manipulated electorates and information aggregation

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Mehmet Ekmekci (Boston College), joint with Stephan Lauermann

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 20 November 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Optimal Search on Rugged Landscapes

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Steve Callander (Stanford Graduate School of Business), joint with Niko Matouschek

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 13 November 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Broad matching and the market for search platforms

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Rani Spiegler (University College London), joint with Kfir Eliaz

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 06 November 2014 16:00 - 17:30

A Behavioral Analysis of Stochastic Reference Dependence

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Collin Raymond (University of Oxford), joint with Yusufcan Masatlioglu

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 30 October 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Military moral hazard and the fate of empires

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Charles Zheng (University of Western Ontario)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 02 October 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Dynamic Contracting: An Irrelevance Result

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Balazs Szentes (LSE), joint with Péter Eso

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 19 June 2014 16:00 - 17:30

No-Betting-Pareto Dominance

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Itzhak Gilboa (Tel Aviv University), joint with Larry Samuelson and David Schmeidler

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Thursday 12 June 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Temptation with Uncertain Normative Preferences

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John Stovall (University of Warwick)

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Thursday 05 June 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Enforcing Social Norms: Trust building and Community Enforcement

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Joyee Deb (New York University)

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Thursday 29 May 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Efficient Bilateral Trade

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Marek Pycia (University of California, Los Angeles), joint with Rod Garratt

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Thursday 22 May 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Paper 1: Testable Implications of Quasi-Hyperbolic and Exponential Time Discounting; Paper 2: Savage in the Market

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Kota Saito (California Institute of Technology), joint with (1) Taisuke Imai and (2) Federico Echenique

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Thursday 15 May 2014 16:00 - 17:30

The Consistency of Social and Individual Choices

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Alvaro Sandroni (Northwestern University)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 08 May 2014 16:00 - 17:30

A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics

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Simon Board (University of California, Los Angeles), joint with Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn

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Thursday 01 May 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Prioritizing Diversity in School Choice

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Aytek Erdil (King's College, Cambridge), joint with Taro Kumano

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Thursday 20 March 2014 16:00 - 17:30

An Equilibrium Framework for Players with Misspecified Models

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Ignacio Esponda (NYU Stern School of Business), joint with Demian Pouzo (UC Berkeley)

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Thursday 13 March 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Circles of Trust

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Nikita Roketskiy (University College London), joint with Samuel Lee and Petra Persson

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Thursday 06 March 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Robust Predictions in Dynamic Screening

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Juuso Toikka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Thursday 27 February 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Geometry, Auctions, Matching and the Existence of Equilibrium with Indivisibilities

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Paul Klemperer (University of Oxford), joint with Elizabeth Baldwin (Oxford University & (from March) postdoc, LSE Grantham Institute)

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Thursday 20 February 2014 16:00 - 17:30

Finding truth even if the crowd is wrong

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Drazen Prelec (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Sebastian Seung (Princeton) and John McCoy (MIT)

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Thursday 12 December 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Two(!) Good To Be True

How to sell goods optimally? While the mechanism-design literature has solved this problem neatly when there is only one good, the multiple goods case turns out to be extremely difficult, mathematically and conceptually....Read more...

Sergui Hart (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), joint with Phil Reny and Noam Nisan

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Thursday 05 December 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Selling through referrals

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Vasiliki Skreta (University of Texas at Austin), joint with Daniele Condorelli and Andrea Galeotti

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 28 November 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Queues and Strategic Experimentation

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Caroline Thomas (University of Texas Austin), joint with Martin Cripps

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 21 November 2013 16:00 - 17:30

A mechanism design approach to the Tiebout hypothesis

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Philippe Jehiel (Paris School of Economics and University College London), joint with Laurent Lamy

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 November 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Efficient Matching under Distributional Constraints: Theory and Applications

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Fuhito Kojima (Stanford University), joint with Yuichiro Kamada

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 November 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Large Contests

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Wojciech Olszewski (Northwestern University), joint with Ron Siegel

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 31 October 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Random Utility Maximization with Indifference

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Faruk Gul (Princeton University), joint with Wolfgang Pesendorfer

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 October 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Moral Hazard and Long-Run Incentives

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Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 20 June 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Collective Dynamic Choice: The Necessity of Time Inconsistency

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Leeat Yariv (California Institute of Technology), joint with Matthew O Jackson

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 06 June 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Bayes Correlated Equilibrium and the Comparison of Information Structures

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Dirk Bergemann (Yale University), joint with Stephen Morris

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 30 May 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Calibrated Incentive Contracts

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Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University)

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 23 May 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Behavioral competitive equilibrium and extreme prices

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Tomasz Strzalecki (Harvard University), joint with F. Gul and W. Pesendorfer

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 16 May 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Robustness of Full Revelation in Multidimensional Cheap Talk

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Ines Moreno de Barreda (University of Oxford), joint with Margaret Meyer and Julia Nafziger

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 March 2013 16:00 - 17:30

Search with Incomplete Information

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Andriy Zapachelnyuk (University of St Andrews), joint with Tymofiy Mylovanov

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 March 2013 16:00 - 17:30

How Risk Averse Should I be? Cautious Expected Utility and the Certainty Effect

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Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 06 December 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Three Steps Ahead

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Yuval Heller (Nuffield College, Oxford)

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Thursday 29 November 2012 16:00 - 17:30

A Model of Persuasion with a Boundedly Rational Agent

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Ariel Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv University and New York University), joint with Jacob Glazer

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Thursday 22 November 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Implementing the 'Wisdom of the Crowds'

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Motty Perry (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), joint with Ilan Kremer and Yishay Mansur

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Thursday 15 November 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Flexible Renegotiation and Persistent Private Information

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Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)

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Thursday 08 November 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Reallocation Costs and Efficiency

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Yuval Salant (Northwestern University), joint with Ron Siegel

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Thursday 01 November 2012 16:00 - 17:30

'A network centrality approach to coalitional stability', and 'Providing public goods efficiently when preferences are private'

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Matt Elliot (California Institute of Technology), joint with Ben Golub

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Thursday 25 October 2012 16:00 - 17:30

On Time-Inconsistency in Bargaining

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Sebastian Kodritsch (LSE)

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Thursday 11 October 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Contagion and multiplicity: global games with endogenous information

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Toni Ahnert (LSE)

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Thursday 28 June 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Job satisfaction and the wage gap

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Eddie Dekel (Northwestern University), joint with Ady Pauzner

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Thursday 21 June 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Collective Self Control

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Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University), joint with Leeat Yariv

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Thursday 14 June 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Poverty and self-control (preliminary version)

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Debraj Ray (New York University), joint with D. Bernheim and S. Yeltekin

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Thursday 07 June 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Base-Rate Neglect: Model and Applications

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Matthew Rabin (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Daniel Benjamin and with Aaron Bodoh-Creed

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Thursday 31 May 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Mental Processes and Decision Making

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Andrew Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Olivier Compte

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Thursday 24 May 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Preference for Flexibility and Random Choice

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David Ahn (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Todd Sarver

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Thursday 17 May 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Strategic Interaction and Networks

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Rachel Kranton (Duke University), joint with Yann Bramoullé and Martin D’Amours

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Tuesday 08 May 2012 16:00 - 17:30

How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

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Oliver Hart (Harvard University), joint with Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder

Graham Wallace Room, 5th Floor, Old Building, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE

Thursday 03 May 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Ostracism

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Syed Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University)

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Thursday 26 April 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Pricing in Social Networks

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Francis Bloch (Paris School of Economics), joint with Nicolas Quérou

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Thursday 15 March 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Assigning Resources to Budget-Constrained Agents

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Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University), joint with Ian Gale and Jinwoo Kim

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Thursday 08 March 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Optimal Allocation with Costly Verification

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Elchanan Ben-Porath (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), joint with Eddie Dekel and Barton Lipman

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Thursday 23 February 2012 16:00 - 17:30

Who owns this firm? A theoretical foundation for the stakeholder corporation

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Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Zurich and Toulouse School of Economics), joint with M.Magill (USC) and M.Quinzii (UC Davis)

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Thursday 08 December 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Congested Observational Learning

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Navin Kartik (Columbia University), joint with Andrea Gaelotti, Erik Eyster, and Matthew Rabin

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Thursday 01 December 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Assortative Matching with Large Firms: Span of Control over More versus Better Workers

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Philipp Kircher (LSE), joint with Jan Eeckhout

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Thursday 24 November 2011 16:00 - 17:30

A Structure Theorem for Rationalizability in Infinite-Horizon Games

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Muhamet Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Jonathan Weinstein

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Thursday 17 November 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Learning in contest

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Juuso Valimaki (Aalto University School of Business), joint with Robin Mason

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Thursday 10 November 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Behavioral Implications of Shortlisting Procedures

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Scott Tyson (University of Michigan)

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Thursday 03 November 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Models of subjective learning

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David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Philipp Sadowski

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Thursday 27 October 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Efficiency in Repeated Two-Action Games with Local Monitoring

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Francesco Nava (Department of Economics, LSE), joint with Michele Piccione

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Thursday 20 October 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Walking Wounded or Living Dead? Making Banks Foreclose Bad Loans

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Max Bruche (Center for Monetary & Financial Studies (CEMFI)), joint with Gerard Llobet

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Thursday 13 October 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Leverage Stacks and the Financial System

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John Moore (Department of Economics, LSE)

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Thursday 06 October 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Bilateral Trading and Renegotiation

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Soenje Reiche (University of Cambridge), joint with Robert Evans

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Thursday 30 June 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Time to Decide: Information Search and Revelation in Groups

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Johannes Spinnewijn (CEP, LSE), joint with Arthur Campbell (Yale) and Florian Ederer (UCLA)

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Thursday 23 June 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Dynamic Adverse Selection: A Theory of Illiquidity, Fire Sales, and Flight to Quality

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Veronica Guerrieri (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), joint with Robert Shimer

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Thursday 16 June 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Costly Self Control and Random Self Indulgence

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Eddie Dekel (Northwestern University), joint with Barton L. Lipman

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Monday 13 June 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Does Retail Advertising Work? Measuring the Effects of Advertising on Sales via a Controlled Experiment on Yahoo!

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David Reiley (Yahoo! Research)

CKK 5.21, 5th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

Thursday 09 June 2011 16:00 - 17:30

The Free Rider Problem: a Dynamic Analysis

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Marco Battaglini (Cornell University), joint with Salvatore Nunnari and Thomas Palfrey

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Thursday 02 June 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Continuous Time Contracting: Hidden Action and Hidden Information

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Tomasz Sadzik (New York University)

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Thursday 26 May 2011 16:00 - 17:30

An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains

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Arnaud Costinot (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang

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Thursday 19 May 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Banking: A Mechanism Design Approach

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Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin–Madison), joint with Fabrizio Mattesini and Cyril Monnet

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Thursday 12 May 2011 11:00 - 12:30

Task Juggling

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Nicola Persico (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University), joint with Decio Coviello and Andrea Ichino

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Thursday 05 May 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Common Learning in the Presence of Intertemporal Dependence

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George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Martin Cripps, Jeff Ely and Larry Samuelson

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Thursday 24 March 2011 16:00 - 17:30

The Form of Incentive Contracts: Agency with Moral Hazard, Risk Neutrality and Limited Liability

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Joaquin Poblete (Department of Management, LSE), joint with Daniel Spulber

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Thursday 17 March 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Career Patterns and Career Concerns

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Johannes Horner (Yale University), joint with Alessandro Bonatti

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Thursday 10 March 2011 16:00 - 17:30

A Personal Journey in the Neuro-Economics Wonderland

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Ariel Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv University and New York University)

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Thursday 03 March 2011 16:00 - 17:30

Communication, Correlation, Cooperation

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Menachem Yaari (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Thursday 24 February 2011 16:00 - 17:30

First-Price Auctions with Budget Constraints

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Maciej Kotowski (University of California, Berkeley)

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Thursday 09 December 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Financial Intermediation and Credit Policy in Business Cycle Analysis

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Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University), joint with Mark Gertler

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Thursday 02 December 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Placebo Reforms

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Rani Spiegler (Tel Aviv University and University College London)

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Thursday 25 November 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Search Committees

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Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn), joint with Xianwen Shi

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Thursday 25 November 2010 13:00 - 14:30

Persuasion and Strategic Thinking

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Stefan Penczynski (Cornell University and STICERD, LSE)

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Tuesday 23 November 2010 16:30 - 18:00

Loopholes: Social Learning and the Evolution of Contract Form

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Andrew Newman (Boston University)

Room 321, Drayton House,, UCL, 30 Gordon Street, WC1

Thursday 18 November 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Optimal Information Disclosure

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Luis Rayo (University of Utah and Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Ilya Segal

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Thursday 18 November 2010 13:00 - 14:30

The Interaction of Formal and Implicit Contracts with Adverse Selection

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Aki Ishihara (STICERD, LSE)

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Thursday 11 November 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Strategic Information Transmission in Networks

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Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick), joint with Andrea Galeotti and Christian Ghiglino

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Thursday 04 November 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Cheap Talk with Two-Sided Private Information

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Ines Moreno de Barreda (University of Oxford)

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Thursday 28 October 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Nash Equilibrium in Discontinuous Games

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Phil Reny (University of Chicago)

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Thursday 21 October 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Mediocracy

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Andrea Mattozzi (Harvard), joint with Antonio Merlo

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Thursday 14 October 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Search with Adverse Selection

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Asher Wolinsky (Northwestern University)

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Thursday 07 October 2010 16:00 - 17:30

On the Gradual Progression of Irreversible Political Processes

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Ronny Razin (LSE), joint with Gilat Levy

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Thursday 24 June 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Some Unpleasant Bargaining Arithmetics?

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Antonio Merlo (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Hulya Eraslan

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Thursday 17 June 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Regular Prices and Sales

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Botond Koszegi (Central European University), joint with Paul Heidhues

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Thursday 10 June 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Spontaneous Discrimination

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Balazs Szentes (LSE)

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Thursday 03 June 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Estimating Time Preferences from Convex Budgets

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Jim Andreoni (University of California San Diego), joint with Charles Sprenger

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Thursday 27 May 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Measuring Trust in Peruvian Shantytowns

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Adam Szeidl (Central European University), joint with Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius and Tanya Rosenblat

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Thursday 20 May 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Multi-dimensional Uncertainty in Oligopoly Markets: a first step towards a model with simultaneous Stackelberg leaders

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Esther Hauk (IAE-CSIC and LSE Visiting Fellow), joint with Albert Marcet (LSE)

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Thursday 13 May 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Head Starts in All-Pay Contests

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Ron Siegel

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Thursday 06 May 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Coordination Failure in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring

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Satoru Takahashi, joint with Takuo Sugaya

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Thursday 29 April 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Information aggregation, learning, and non-strategic behavior in voting environments

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Ignacio Esponda (NYU Stern School of Business), joint with Demian Pouzo (UC Berkeley)

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Thursday 18 March 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Incentives for Experimenting Agents

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Larry Samuelson (Yale University), joint with Johannes Hoerner

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Thursday 11 March 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Robust Networks

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Sanjeev Goyal (Christ's College, Cambridge), joint with Adrien Vigier

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Thursday 04 March 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Will You Never Learn? Self-Deception and Biases in Information Processing

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Daniel Gottlieb (Department of Management, LSE)

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Thursday 25 February 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Trading Frenzies and their Impact on Real Investment

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Emre Ozdenoren (London Business School), joint with Itay Goldstein (Wharton) and Kathy Yuan (LSE)

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Thursday 18 February 2010 16:00 - 17:30

Approximate Non-linear Pricing

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Kristof Madarasz (LSE), joint with Andrea Prat

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Thursday 10 December 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Affective Decision Making: A Behavioral Theory of Choice

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Anat Bracha (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston), joint with Donald J Brown

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Wednesday 02 December 2009 17:00 - 18:30

Limited cognition and the market reaction to liquidity shocks: Limit orders and algorithmic trading

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Bruno Biais (Toulouse 1 University Capitole), joint with Pierre-Olivier Weill

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Thursday 26 November 2009 16:00 - 17:30

On transparency in organizations

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Philippe Jehiel (Paris School of Economics and University College London)

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Thursday 19 November 2009 16:00 - 17:30

A Subjective Model of Temporal Preferences

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Haluk Ergin (Washington University)

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Thursday 12 November 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Throwing a Part: Contracting with Heterogeneous Externalities

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Eyal Winter (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), joint with Shai Bernstein

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Thursday 05 November 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Monitoring with collective memory

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Kareen Rozen (Yale University), joint with David A Miller

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Thursday 29 October 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Rational and Naive Herding

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Erik Eyster (LSE), joint with Matthew Rabin

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Thursday 22 October 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Assortative Learning

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Jan Eeckhout (University College London), joint with Xi Weng

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Thursday 15 October 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Uncertainty in Mechanism Design

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Luca Rigotti (Duke University), joint with Pino Lopomo and Chris Shannon

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Thursday 08 October 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Bargaining in Stationary Networks

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Mihai Manea (Stony Brook University)

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Thursday 25 June 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Statute Law or Case Law?

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Leonardo Felli (LSE), joint with Luca Anderlini and Alessandro Riboni

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Thursday 18 June 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Dynamic Mechanism Design

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Allesandro Pavan (Northwestern University), joint with Ilya Segal and Juuso Toikka

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Thursday 11 June 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Regulating a multi-attribute/multi-type Monopolist

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Dezsö Szalay (University of Bonn)

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Thursday 04 June 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Incentives and the Shadow of the Future: Dynamic Moral Hazard with Learning

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Venkataraman Bhaskar (University College London)

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Tuesday 02 June 2009 16:30 - 18:00

Self Control, Risk Aversion, and the Allais Paradox

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David Levine (Washington University in St Louis), joint with Drew Fudenberg

Room 321, Drayton House,, UCL, 30 Gordon Street, WC1

Thursday 28 May 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Strategic Supply Function Competition with Private Information

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Xavier Vives (IESE and Pompeu Fabra University)

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Thursday 21 May 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Framing Competition

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Rani Spiegler (University College London), joint with Michele Piccione

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Thursday 14 May 2009 16:00 - 17:30

How Homophily Affects Learning and Diffusion in Networks

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Matthew Jackson (Stanford University), joint with Benjamin Golub

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Thursday 07 May 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Gaming and Strategic Ambiguity in Incentive Provision

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Margaret Meyer (University of Oxford), joint with Florian Ederer and Richard Holden

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Thursday 30 April 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Collective Moral Hazard, Maturity Mismatch, and Systemic Bailouts

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Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics)

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Thursday 19 March 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Optimal Shill Bidding in the VCG Mechanism

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Itai Sher

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Thursday 12 March 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Non-Exclusive Competition in the Market for Lemons

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Thomas Mariotti (Toulouse School of Economics), joint with François Salanié and Andrea Attar

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Thursday 05 March 2009 16:00 - 17:30

The subjective approach to ambiguity: A Critical Assessment

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Jonathan Weinstein (Northwestern University), joint with Nabil I. Al-Najjar

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Thursday 05 February 2009 16:00 - 17:30

Property Rights

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Michael Whinston (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Ilya Segal

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Thursday 11 December 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Axiomatic Foundations of Multiplier Preferences

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Tomasz Strzalecki (Harvard University)

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Thursday 04 December 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Strategic Commitment in Bilateral Bargaining: A Theory of Disagreement

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Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics), joint with Topi Miettinen

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Thursday 27 November 2008 16:00 - 17:30

On the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

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Marco Battaglini (Cornell University), joint with Marina Azzimonti and Stephen Coate

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Thursday 20 November 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Testable Implications of Pareto Optimality for Choice Behavior

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Federico Echenique (California Institute of Technology), joint with Christopher Chambers and Eran Shmaya

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Thursday 13 November 2008 16:00 - 17:30

A model of delegated project choice

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Mark Armstrong (University College London), joint with John Vickers

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Thursday 06 November 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market

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Paul Heidhues (University of Bonn), joint with Botond Koszegi

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Thursday 30 October 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Priors and Desires --- a Bayesian model of optimism, pessimism, and the Ellsberg Paradox

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Guy Mayraz (CEP, LSE)

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Thursday 30 October 2008 12:00 - 13:30

What They Don't Know Can't Hurt You: The Benefits of Limited Feedback in Organizations

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Stephen Hansen (UCL)

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Thursday 23 October 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Measurable Ambiguity

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Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton University), joint with Faruk Gul

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Thursday 16 October 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets

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Roland Bénabou (Princeton University)

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Thursday 09 October 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Beliefs and Private Monitoring

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Andy Skrzypacz (Stanford Graduate School of Business), joint with Christopher Phelan

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Thursday 26 June 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Bidding for attention and competing for votes in political debates

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Gilat Levy (Department of Economics, LSE), joint with Ronny Razin

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Tuesday 17 June 2008 16:30 - 18:00

Robust Virtual Implementation

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Stephen Morris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Ricardo Lecture Theatre, Basement, Drayton House, UCL, 30 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AX

Thursday 12 June 2008 16:00 - 17:30

The Law of the Few

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Andrea Galeotti (University of Essex), joint with Sanjeev Goyal

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Thursday 05 June 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Field Centipedes

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Ignacio Palacios-Huerta (LSE), joint with Oscar Volij

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Thursday 29 May 2008 16:00 - 17:30

The Value of a Reputation under Imperfect Monitoring

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Martin Cripps (University College London)

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Thursday 22 May 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Building Routines: Learning, Cooperation and the Dynamics of Incomplete Relational Contracts

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Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University)

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Thursday 15 May 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Folk Theorems with Bounded Recall and (Almost) Perfect Monitoring

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George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Wojciech Olszewski

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Thursday 08 May 2008 16:00 - 17:30

The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence

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Guillaume Frechette (New York University), joint with Pedro Dal Bó

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Thursday 01 May 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Strategic Voting, Bandwagon Effects, and Information Aggregation in Laboratory Committees

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Thomas Palfrey (California Institute of Technology)

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Thursday 13 March 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Dynamic Marginal Contribution Mechanism

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Juuso Valimaki (Aalto University School of Business), joint with Dirk Bergemann (Yale University)

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Thursday 28 February 2008 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Sergei Severinov (Duke University)

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Thursday 21 February 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Aggregation of Information and Beliefs in Prediction Markets.'

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Peter Sorensen (University of Copenhagen)

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Thursday 17 January 2008 16:00 - 17:30

Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points

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Oliver Hart (Harvard University)

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Thursday 13 December 2007 16:00 - 17:30

Learning through Theories

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Marcin Peski (University of Chicago)

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Thursday 06 December 2007 16:00 - 17:30

The Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma under Private Monitoring

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Johannes Horner (Yale University)

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Thursday 29 November 2007 16:00 - 17:30

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Peter Eso (University of Oxford)

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Thursday 22 November 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Satoru Takahashi

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Thursday 15 November 2007 16:00 - 17:30

Personal Influence: Social context and political competition

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Andrea Mattozzi (Harvard)

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Thursday 08 November 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Chris Starmer (University of Nottingham)

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Thursday 01 November 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Amanda Friedenberg (University of Michigan)

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Thursday 25 October 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Toni Calvo

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Thursday 18 October 2007 16:00 - 17:30

Social Decision Theory

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Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota), joint with Maccheroni Marinacci

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Thursday 11 October 2007 16:00 - 17:30

A theory of religious organisations

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Ronny Razin (LSE)

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Thursday 28 June 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Muhamet Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Thursday 21 June 2007 16:00 - 17:30

Level-k Auctions: Can a Non-Equilibrium Model of Strategic Thinking Explain the Winner's Curse and Overbidding in Private-Value Auctions?

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Vincent Crawford (All Souls College, Oxford)

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Thursday 14 June 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Hulya Eraslan (Rice University)

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Thursday 07 June 2007 16:00 - 17:30

When does Coordination Require Centralization?

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Wouter Dessein (Columbia University), joint with Ricardo Alonso and Niko Matouschek

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Thursday 31 May 2007 16:00 - 17:30

Reconciling Introspective Utility with Revealed Preference: Experimental Arguments based on Prospect Theory

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Peter Wakker (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

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Thursday 24 May 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Faruk Gul (Princeton University)

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Thursday 17 May 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Eddie Dekel (Northwestern University)

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Thursday 10 May 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton University)

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Thursday 03 May 2007 16:00 - 17:30

A Reputational Value for Stochastic Games

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Dilip Abreu (Princeton University)

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Thursday 26 April 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Larry Epstein (University of Rochester)

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Thursday 15 March 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Andrea Wilson (Harvard University)

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Thursday 08 March 2007 16:00 - 17:30

When are Auctions Best?

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Paul Klemperer (University of Oxford), joint with Jeremy Bulow

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Thursday 01 March 2007 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn)

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Thursday 07 December 2006 16:00 - 17:30

A Theory of Momentum in Sequential Voting

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Navin Kartik (Columbia University), joint with Nageeb Ali

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Thursday 30 November 2006 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Stanley Zin (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Thursday 23 November 2006 16:00 - 17:30

Likelihood Based Testingn for Fractional Cointegration

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Katarzyna Lasak (Pompeu Fabra University)

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Thursday 23 November 2006 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Leeat Yariv (California Institute of Technology)

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Thursday 09 November 2006 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Stanley Zin (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Thursday 02 November 2006 16:00 - 17:30

A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation and Debt

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Stephen Coate (Cornell University), joint with Marco Battaglini

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Thursday 26 October 2006 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Attila Ambrus (Harvard University)

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Thursday 19 October 2006 16:00 - 17:30

Why Sex? And Why Only in Pairs?

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Motty Perry (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), joint with P Reny and A Robson

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Friday 13 October 2006 13:30 - 15:00

The Role of Context and Team Play in Cross-Game Learning

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John Kagel (Ohio State University)

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Thursday 12 October 2006 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Asher Wolinsky (Northwestern University)

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Thursday 05 October 2006 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Antoine Faure-Grimaud (LSE)

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Thursday 29 June 2006 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Stanley Zin (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Thursday 22 June 2006 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Stanley Zin (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Thursday 15 June 2006 16:00 - 17:30

Non-Bayesian Testing of a Stochastic Prediction

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Eddie Dekel (Northwestern University)

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Thursday 08 June 2006 16:00 - 17:30

Network Games

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Matthew Jackson (Stanford University)

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Thursday 01 June 2006 16:00 - 17:30

Dynamic Reference-Dependent Utility

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Matthew Rabin (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Botond Koszegi

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Thursday 25 May 2006 16:00 - 17:30

Should courts always enforce what contracting parties write?

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Stanley Zin (Carnegie Mellon University), joint with Andrew Postlewaite

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Thursday 18 May 2006 16:00 - 17:30

No seminar

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Oliver Pardo-Reinoso (EOPP)

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Thursday 11 May 2006 16:00 - 17:30

TBC

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Raymond Fisman (Boston University)

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Thursday 04 May 2006 16:00 - 17:30

A mechanism-design approach to speculative trade

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Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv University)

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Thursday 27 April 2006 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Faruk Gul (Princeton University)

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Thursday 16 March 2006 16:00 - 17:30

Imperfect Competition and Quality Signaling

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Jennifer Reinganaum (Vanderbilt University)

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Thursday 09 March 2006 16:00 - 17:30

Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

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Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics)

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Thursday 02 March 2006 16:00 - 17:30

The Afternoon Effect, Information Disclosure, and Revenue Ranking of Sequential and Simultaneous Multi-Unit Auctions with Risk-Averse Bidders

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Claudio Mezzetti (University of Leicester)

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Thursday 08 December 2005 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Christopher Harris (University of Cambridge)

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Thursday 01 December 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Endogenous competitive bargaining

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Jeff Zwiebel (Stanford University), joint with Simon Board

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Thursday 24 November 2005 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Adam Szeidl (Central European University)

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Thursday 17 November 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Optimal voting scheme with costly information acquisition

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Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Thursday 10 November 2005 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Botond Koszegi (Central European University)

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Thursday 03 November 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Mistakes in cooperation: The stochastic stability of Edgeworth's recontracting

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Roberto Serrano (Brown University and Carlos III University of Madrid)

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Thursday 27 October 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Uncoupled dynamics and Nash equilibrium

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Sergui Hart (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Thursday 20 October 2005 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Luis Garicano (CEP, LSE)

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Thursday 13 October 2005 16:00 - 17:30

TBA

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Peter Kondor (Central European University and LSE)

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Thursday 06 October 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Suppliers of priors: A theory of retailing inspired by the market for Chinese antiquities

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John Moore (Department of Economics, LSE), joint with M Ye

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Thursday 30 June 2005 16:00 - 17:30

TBC

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Stanley Zin (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Thursday 23 June 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Contracting in Settings with Durable Trading Opportunities

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Joel Watson (University of California San Diego)

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Thursday 16 June 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Contracting with Imperfect Commitment and Noisy Communication

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Roland Strauss (WZB Berlin Social Science Center), joint with Helmut Bester

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Thursday 09 June 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Competition and Efficiency in Markets with Quality Uncertainty

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Abhinay Muthoo (University of Essex), joint with Suresh Mutuswami

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Thursday 02 June 2005 16:00 - 17:30

TBC

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John Morgan (visiting Cambridge)

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Thursday 26 May 2005 16:00 - 17:30

TBC

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Atila Abdukkadiroglu (Duke University)

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Thursday 19 May 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Aggregation of Expert Opinions

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Dino Gerardi (Yale University), joint with Richard McLean and Andrew Postlewaite

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Thursday 12 May 2005 16:00 - 17:30

TBC

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Soenje Reiche (University of Cambridge)

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Thursday 05 May 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Markets make People look Selfish

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Joel Sobel (University of California San Diego), joint with Uzi Segal

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Thursday 28 April 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Generic Uniqueness and Continuity of Rationalizable Strategies

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Muhamet Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Thursday 17 March 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Herd Behaviour in a Laboratory Financial Market

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Antonio Guarino (University College London)

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Thursday 10 March 2005 16:00 - 17:30

A 'Super' Folk Theorem for Dynastic Repeated Games

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Luca Anderlini (Georgetown University)

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Tuesday 08 February 2005 13:00 - 14:30

Contracting with Diversely Naive Agents

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Rani Spiegler (Tel Aviv University and University College London)

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Thursday 09 December 2004 16:00 - 17:30

t.b.a.

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Dirk Engelmann (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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Thursday 02 December 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Multi-attribute auctions.

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Estelle Cantillon (Harvard Business School)

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Thursday 25 November 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Information acquisition and disclosure in auctions.

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Ian Jewitt (University of Oxford)

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Thursday 18 November 2004 16:00 - 17:30

The sunk cost bias in managerial pricing decision.

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Nabil Al Najjar (Northwestern University), joint with Sandeep Baliga and David Besanko

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Thursday 11 November 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Temptation-driven preferences.

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Bart Lipman (Boston University), joint with Eddie Dekel and Aldo Rustichini

FMG Conference Room, LRB 407, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Thursday 04 November 2004 16:00 - 17:30

The folk theorem for all games with almost perfect monitoring.

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Johannes Horner (Yale University)

FMG Conference Room, LRB 407, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Thursday 28 October 2004 16:00 - 17:30

The communication requirements of social choice rules and supporting budget sets.

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Ilya Segal (Stanford University)

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Thursday 21 October 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Qualitative voting.

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Rafael Hortala-Vallve (LSE)

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Thursday 14 October 2004 16:00 - 17:30

The impact of loss aversion on pricing.

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Paul Heidhues (University of Bonn), joint with Botond Koszegi

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Thursday 07 October 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Knowledge disclosure, patents, and optimal organization of research and development.

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Sudipto Bhattacharya (LSE), joint with Sergei Guriev

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Thursday 01 July 2004 16:00 - 17:30

A Model of Reference-dependent Preferences

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Matthew Rabin (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Botond Koszegi

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Thursday 24 June 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Party Platforms in Electoral Competition with many Constituencies

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Erik Eyster (LSE), joint with Thomas Kittsteiner (Nuffield College and University of Bonn)

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Thursday 17 June 2004 16:00 - 17:30

The Demand for Coordination

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Wouter Dessein (Columbia University), joint with T Santos

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Thursday 10 June 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Robust Implementation: The Role of Large Type Spaces

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Stephen Morris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Dirk Bergemann

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Thursday 03 June 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Rationalizability and Monotonicity in Large Uniform Price and Double Auctions

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In-Koo Cho (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

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Thursday 27 May 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Thinking Ahead: Part I, the decision problem

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Antoine Faure-Grimaud (LSE), joint with Patrick Bolton (Princeton)

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Thursday 20 May 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Self-correcting Information Cascades

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Jacob K Goeree (University of Amsterdam), joint with TR Palfrey, BW Rogers and RD McKelvey

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Thursday 13 May 2004 17:00 - 18:30

Reputational Wars of Attrition with Complex Bargaining Postures

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David Pearce (Yale University)

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Thursday 06 May 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Circulation of Ideas: Firms versus Markets

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Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam), joint with Thomas Hellmann

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Thursday 29 April 2004 16:00 - 17:30

Agreeing Now to Agree Later: Contracts that Rule Out but do not Rule In

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Oliver Hart (Harvard University), joint with John Moore (Edinburgh University and LSE)

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Thursday 21 March 2002 16:00 - 17:30

Bad Reputation

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Juuso Valimaki (Aalto University School of Business), joint with Jeff Ely (Northwestern University)

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Thursday 14 March 2002 16:00 - 17:30

Contract enforcement out of steady state

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Andrei Sarychev (LSE)

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Thursday 07 March 2002 16:00 - 17:30

Unequal Connections

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Sanjeev Goyal (Christ's College, Cambridge), joint with Sumit Joshi (George Washington University)

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Thursday 28 February 2002 16:00 - 17:30

Investment Timing under Incomplete Information

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Thomas Mariotti (Toulouse School of Economics), joint with Jean-Paul Decamps (Toulouse) and Stephan Villeneuve (Evry)

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Thursday 21 February 2002 16:00 - 17:30

Testing Threats in Repeated Games

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Rani Spiegler (University College London)

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Thursday 14 February 2002 16:00 - 17:30

Outsourcing in a Global Economy

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Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University)

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Thursday 07 February 2002 16:00 - 17:30

Subcontractors for Tractors: Theory and Evidence on Asset Specificity and Contracting in a Manufacturer-Supplier Network

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Tom Kemeny (LSE)

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Thursday 31 January 2002 16:00 - 17:30

Skill and Luck in the Theory of Turnover

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Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University)

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Thursday 24 January 2002 16:00 - 17:30

Firm Boundaries, Scope and Delegation

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Oliver Hart (Harvard University), joint with Bengt Holmstrom (MIT)

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Friday 14 December 2001 13:00 - 14:30

Additional, Visceral Activation and Brain Characterization Failure

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Antonio Rangel (Stanford University)

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Thursday 13 December 2001 16:00 - 17:30

Courts of Law and Unforseen Contingencies

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David Levine (Washington University in St Louis), joint with Luca Anderlini (Georgetown University) and Andrew Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania)

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Thursday 06 December 2001 16:00 - 17:30

Perfectly Competitive Innovation

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Leonardo Felli (LSE), joint with Michele Boldrin (Minnesota)

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Thursday 29 November 2001 16:00 - 17:30

Principal and Expert Agent

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James Malcomson (University of Oxford)

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Thursday 29 November 2001 12:30 - 14:00

Career Concerns of Bargainers

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Michael Raith (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), joint with John Fingleton (ICA)

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Thursday 22 November 2001 16:00 - 17:30

The Storable Good Monopolist

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Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University), joint with Igal Hendel (Wisconsin) and Aviv Nevo (Berkeley)

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Thursday 15 November 2001 16:00 - 17:30

Moral hazard and risk taking

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Andrea Prat (Columbia University)

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Thursday 08 November 2001 16:00 - 17:30

A Theory of Quantifable Beliefs

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Simon Grant (Tilburg University), joint with Edi Karni (Johns Hopkins)

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Thursday 01 November 2001 16:00 - 17:30

Liquidity and Asset Prices

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John Moore (Department of Economics, LSE), joint with Nobu Kiyotaki (LSE)

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Thursday 25 October 2001 16:00 - 17:30

'Take it' or 'Leave it' vs Negotiation in Common Agency

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Michael Peters (Yale University)

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Thursday 18 October 2001 16:00 - 17:30

Robust Mechanism Design

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Stephen Morris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Dirk Bergemann (Yale)

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Thursday 11 October 2001 16:00 - 17:30

Platform Competition on Two-Sided Markets

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Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Zurich and Toulouse School of Economics), joint with Jean Tirole (Toulouse and MIT)

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