Schedule - Acedemic Year 2007-2008
| September 10 |
Organizational meeting with students (at 4:00pm) |
| September 10* |
Barry Weingast (Stanford University, Dept. of Political Science)
''Self-Enforcing Constitutions: With an Application to Democratic Stability in America's First Century'' |
| September 17 |
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (University of California Los Angeles)
''Mechanism Design when Participaton is Costly'' |
| September 24 |
Simon Board (University of California Los Angeles)
''Relational Contracts with On-the-job Search'' PDF |
| September 24* |
Joanna Shepherd (Emory Law School)
''Finger to the Wind: The Influence of Retention Politics on Judges' Decisions'' |
| October 1 |
Alejandro Manelli (Arizona State University) ''Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation in the Independent Private Values Model'' |
| October 8 |
Harrison Cheng and Guofu Tan (University of Southern California) ''Asymmetric common value auctions with applications to auctions with resale'' |
| October 15 |
Li, Hao (University of Toronto) ''Delay in Strategic Information Aggregation'' |
| October 22 |
Bernard Cornet (University of Kansas) ''Spatial Economies: A General Equilibrium Approach'' PDF |
| October 29 |
Antonio Rangel (Caltech) ''Visual attention guides the computation of values in simple economic choice'' |
| November 5 |
Scott Page (University of Michigan) ''Interpreted and Generated Signal'' PDF |
| November 5 * |
Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University) ''Transparency and Economic Policy'' |
| November 12 |
Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate University & Center for Neuroeconomics Studies) "The neuroeconomics of trust'' PDF |
| November 19 |
Christian Hellwig (University of California Los Angeles) "Knowing what others know: coordination motives in information acquisition'' PDF |
| November 26 |
Matias Iaryczower (Caltech) "Strategic Voting in Sequential Committees" PDF |
| December 3 |
Pierre-Olivier Weill (University of California Los Angeles) "Learning from Private and Public Observations of Others’ Actions" PDF |
| January 28 |
Andrea Mattozzi (Caltech) "Differentiation and Entry in Alternative Electoral Systems" |
| February 4 |
Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt University) "Communicating Quality: A Unified Model of Disclosure and Signaling" PDF |
| February 11 |
Hector Chade (Arizona State University) "Optimal Insurance under Adverse Selection" PDF |
| February 25 |
Bill Zame (University of California Los Angeles) "Behind the Veil of Ignorance" |
| March 10 |
Ricardo Alonso (Marshall School of Business, USC) "Shared Control and Strategic Communication" PDF |
| March 24 |
David Miller (University of California San Diego) "A theory of disagreement in repeated games with renegotiation" |
| March 31* |
Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School) "Inducement prizes and innovation" |
| March 31 |
Matthew Rabin (University of California Berkeley) "Reference-Dependent Consumption Plans" |
| April 7 |
Jernej Copic (University of California Los Angeles) "A two-sided dynamic communication problem" |
| April 28 |
Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota) Cancelled |
| April 28 |
Simon Wilkie (University of Southern California) "Ordinal bargaining: The egalitarian solution" |
| May 5 |
Luis Corchon (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) "Computing Welfare Losses from Data under Imperfect Competition with Heterogeneous Goods" PDF |