Seminars 2007-2008
Seminars which took place during the 2007-2008 academic year.
Programme
Jean-Robert Tyran (Copenhagen) - "Tax Illusion and Communication" (with Rupert Sausgruber, University of Innsbruck)
Monday 14 April 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Klaus Schmidt (Munich) - "Reputation and Contract Design"
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Andreu Mas-Colell (UPF, Barcelona)- “Cooperation through bargaining in the strategic form”
Monday 28 April 2008, 4pm - 6pm
DHT Conference Room
Wouter Dessein (Chicago) - "Organizing for Synergies: A Theory of Hybrid Organizations"
Monday 5 May 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Peyton Young (Oxford/Johns Hopkins) - "Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations: Contagion, Social Influence, and Social Learning"
Monday 12 May 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Ran Spiegler (UCL) - “Consideration sets and competitive marketing”
Monday 26 May 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Jeff Campbell (Chicago Fed) - "Last-In First-Out Oligopoly Dynamics"
Tuesday 3 June 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Erica Field (Harvard) - "Muslim family law, prenuptial agreements and the emergence of dowry in Bangladesh"
Friday 6 June 2008, 2pm - 4pm
Attila Ambrus (Harvard) - “A continuous-time model of multilateral bargaining with random arrival times”
Friday 6 June 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Josepa Miquel-Florensa (York, Toronto) - "Tell me what you need: Signalling with limited resources"
Wednesday 11 June 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Colin Stewart (Toronto) - “Testing multiple forecasters”
Monday 23 June 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Conference on Intergenerational Mobility
Saturday 27 June 2009, 10am - 6pm
Seminars (Jan-Mar 2008)
Volker Nocke (Oxford) - "Dynamic Merger Review"
Wednesday 14 January 2009, 4pm - 6pm
Simon Gaechter (Nottingham) - Understanding Social Interaction Effects in the Workplace"
Monday 21 January 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Subir Chattopadhyay (York) - "Economic Survival when Markets are Incomplete"
Sunday 28 September 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Thomas Jeitschko (Michigan State) - "Endogenous entry in markets with adverse selection"
Monday 4 February 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Martin Cripps (UCL) - "Common Learning"
Monday 18 February 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Alexander Berentsen (Basle) - "Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run"
Friday 22 February 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Omar Licrando (European University Institute) - "The child is father of the man: Implications for the demographic transition"
Monday 25 February 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Elu von Thadden (Mannheim) - "Incentives for Unaware Agents"
Monday 3 March 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Espen Moen (NSM) - "Industry Dynamics and Search in the Labor Market"
Monday 10 March 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Imran Rasul (UCL) - "Blissful Ignorance? Evidence From a Natural Experiment on The Effect of Information Feedback on Performance" (joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), and Valentino Larcinese (LSE))
Monday 17 March 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Seminars (Sept-Dec 2007)
Federico Weinschelbaum (San Andres) - "Modelling Informality Formally: Households and Firms"
Monday 24 September 2007, 4pm - 6pm
Karolina Ekholm (Stockholm University) - "Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Occupations, Tasks and Skills"
Jörgen Weibull (Stockholm SE) - "Language, Meaning & Games: A Model of Coordination, Communication & Evolution"
Friederike Mengel (Alicante) - "Learning across games"
Monday 8 October 2007, 4pm - 6pm
Fabien Postel-Vinay (Bristol) - "The timing of aggregate employment expansions: New facts & a new hypothesis"
Monday 22 October 2007, 4pm - 6pm
Simon Clark (Edinburgh) - "Sorting in marriage markets"
Monday 29 October 2007, 4pm - 6pm
Martin Perry (Rutgers) - "Preferred suppliers in auction markets"
Monday 5 November 2007, 4pm - 6pm
Daniel Ferreira (LSE) - "Unbundling Ownership and Control"
Monday 12 November 2007, 4pm - 6pm
SIRE Launch
Monday 19 November 2007, 11.30am - 7pm
Leonardo Felli (LSE) - "Statute Law or Case Law?"
Monday 26 November 2007, 4pm - 6pm
Eric Maskin (Princeton) Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize - "Evolution and Cooperation in Noisy Repeated Games"
Friday 30 November 2007, 10am - 12pm
Eric Maskin (Princeton) Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize Public Lecture - "How should members of parliament be elected?"
Friday 30 November 2007, 4pm - 6pm
Orazio Attanasio (UCL) - "Education choices, subjective expectations and credit constraints"
Monday 3 December 2007, 4pm - 6pm
Conference Room, DHT
Victor Lavy (Hebrew, RHUL) - "Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects"
Tuesday 4 December 2007, 4pm - 6pm
Simon Board (UCLA) - "Relational contracts with on-the-job search"
Wednesday 12 December 2007, 10am - 12pm
F21, Psychology building (7 George Square)