Microeconomics Archive
Fall 2020
Microeconomics Seminar: Dimitar Simeonov, Boston College
October 30
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Dimitar Simeonov, Boston College
"Formation of Teams in Contests"
Spring 2020
Microeconomics Seminar: The Microeconomics Seminars Have Been Cancelled for the Remainder of the Semester
March 18
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
The Microeconomics Seminars Have Been Cancelled for the Remainder of the Semester
Fall 2019
Microeconomics Seminar: Kentaro Tomoeda, University of Technology Sydney
September 04
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Kentaro Tomoeda, University of Technology Sydney
" Sophistication and Cautiousness in College Applications "
Microeconomics Seminar: Laura Doval, Caltech
September 11
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Laura Doval, Caltech
Microeconomics Seminar: Elliot Lipnowski, University of Chicago
September 18
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Elliot Lipnowski, University of Chicago
"Cheap Talk with Transparent Motives"
Microeconomics Seminar: Bhaskar Dutta, University of Warwick
September 25
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
Bhaskar Dutta, University of Warwick
Microeconomics Seminar: Ralph Ossa (Trade), University of Zurich
October 02
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Ralph Ossa (Trade), University of Zurich
Microeconomics Seminar: Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University
October 09
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University
"Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money"
Microeconomics Seminar: Emel Filiz-Ozbay, University of Maryland
October 23
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Emel Filiz-Ozbay, University of Maryland
Microeconomics Seminar: Philipp Strack, University of California-Berkeley
October 30
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Philipp Strack, University of California-Berkeley
Microeconomics Seminar: Marcelo Fernandez, Johns Hopkins University
November 06
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Marcelo Fernandez, Johns Hopkins University
"Deferred Acceptance and Regret-Free Truth-Telling"
Microeconomics Seminar:Takuo Sugaya, Stanford Graduate School of Business
November 13
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Takuo Sugaya, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Microeconomics Seminar: Heski Bar-Isaac, Rotman School of Management-University of Toronto
November 20
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Heski Bar-Isaac, Rotman School of Management-University of Toronto
Spring 2019
Microeconomics Seminar: Arthur Robson, Simon Fraser University
February 13
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Arthur Robson, Simon Fraser University
"Evolved Attitudes to Idiosyncratic and Aggregate Risk in Age-Structured Populations"
Microeconomics Seminar: Natalia Ramondo, University of California San Diego
February 20
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Natalia Ramondo (Trade), University of California San Diego
Microeconomics Seminar: Debraj Ray, New York University
March 13
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Debraj Ray, New York University
"Games of Love and Hate"
Microeconomics Seminar: Olivier Tercieux, Paris School of Economics
March 20
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Olivier Tercieux, Paris School of Economics
Microeconomics Seminar: Marco Battaglini, Cornell University
April 03
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Marco Battaglini, Cornell University
Microeconomics Seminar: Rodrigo Velez, Texas A&M
April 10
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Rodrigo Velez, Texas A&M
"Empirical strategy-proofness"
Microeconomics Seminar: Thibault Fally (Trade), University of California-Berkeley
April 24
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Thibault Fally (Trade), University of California-Berkeley
"Generalized Separability"
Microeconomics Seminar: Jonathan Dingel (Trade), University of Chicago
May 01
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Jonathan Dingel (Trade), University of Chicago
"Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate"
Fall 2018
Microeconomics Seminar: Nick Arnosti, Columbia University
August 29
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Nick Arnosti, Columbia University
Design of Lotteries and Waitlists for Affordable Housing Allocation
Microeconomics Seminar: Yinghua He, Rice University
September 12
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Yinghua He, Rice University
"Strategic 'Mistakes': Implications for Market Design Research"
Microeconomics Seminar: Erik Eyster, University of California Santa Barbara
September 19
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Erik Eyster, University of California Santa Barbara
"Non-Common Priors, Private Information and Trade"
Microeconomics Seminar: Francesc Dilme, Bonn University
October 03
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Francesc Dilme, Bonn University
Microeconomics Seminar: Pietro Ortoleva, Princeton University
October 10
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Pietro Ortoleva, Princeton University
"Competing Models"
Microeconomics Seminar: Kfir Eliaz, Tel Aviv University
October 17
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Kfir Eliaz, Tel Aviv University
“A Model of Competing Narratives”
Microeconomics Seminar: Nicolas Sahuguet, HEC Montreal
October 24
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Microeconomics Seminar: Lucas Maestri, FGV/EPGE
October 31
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Lucas Maestri, FGV/EPGE
"A Continuous-Time Model of the Ratchet Effect"
Microeconomics Seminar: Daniel Marszalec, University of Tokyo
November 02
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Daniel Marszalec, University of Tokyo
“Auctions for Complements: Theories vs Experiments”
Microeconomics Seminar: Sven Seuken, University of Zurich
November 07
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Sven Seuken, University of Zurich
Microeconomics Seminar: Rahul Deb, University of Toronto
November 14
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Rahul Deb, University of Toronto
"Compromising Quality to Improve Reputation"
Microeconomics Seminar: Daniel Garrett, Toulouse School of Economics
November 28
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Daniel Garrett, Toulouse School of Economics
"Payoff Implications of Incentive Contracting"
Microeconomics Seminar: Chiara Margaria, Boston University
December 05
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Chiara Margaria, Boston University
"Queueing to Learn"
Spring 2018
Microeconomics Seminar: Selcuk Ozyurt, Carnegie Mellon and Sabanci University
February 28
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
"Efficient and Incentive Compatible Mediation: An Ordinal Mechanism Design Approach"
Selcuk Ozyurt, Carnegie Mellon and Sabanci University
Microeconomics Seminar: Huseyin Yildirim, Duke University
March 14
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
"Social Pressure, Transparency, and Voting in Committees"
Huseyin Yildirim, Duke University
Microeconomics Seminar: Nenad Kos, Bocconi University
March 21
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Nenad Kos, Bocconi University
Microeconomics Seminar: Muhamet Yildiz, MIT
April 04
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
"Crises: Equilibrium Shifts and Large Shocks"
Muhamet Yildiz, MIT
Microeconomics Seminar: Aurélien Baillon, Erasmus University of Rotterdam
April 09
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
Aurélien Baillon, Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Microeconomics Seminar: Aislinn Bohren, University of Pennsylvania
April 11
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Fulton Hall, 310
"Bounded Rationality And Learning: A Framework and A Robustness Result"
Aislinn Bohren, University of Pennsylvania
Microeconomics Seminar: Jacob Leshno, Columbia University
April 18
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Fulton Hall, 310
"The Cutoff Structure of Top Trading Cycles in School Choice"
Jacob Leshno, Columbia University
Microeconomics Seminar: Dave Donaldson, MIT
April 25
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
“Geography and Path Dependence”
Dave Donaldson, MIT
Microeconomics Seminar: Qingmin Liu, Columbia University
May 02
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Fulton Hall, 310
Qingmin Liu, Columbia University
Microeconomics Seminar: Scott Kominers, Harvard Business School
May 09
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Fulton Hall, 310
Scott Kominers, Harvard Business School
Fall 2017
Microeconomics Seminar: Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Princeton University
September 06
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
"Evaluation Ambiguous Random Variables and Updating by Proxy"
Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Princeton University
Microeconomics Seminar: Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University
September 13
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University
Microeconomics Seminar: Lars Ehlers, University of Montreal
September 20
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
"(Il)legal Assignments in School Choice"
Lars Ehlers, University of Montreal
Microeconomics Seminar: Attila Ambrus, Duke University
September 27
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
Informal Risk Sharing with Local Information
Attila Ambrus, Duke University
Microeconomics Seminar: Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania
October 04
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania
Microeconomics Seminar: Vijay Krishna, Pennsylvania State University
October 11
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
"Communication and Cooperation in Repeated Games"
Vijay Krishna, Pennsylvania State University
Microeconomics Seminar: Jeff Ely, Northwestern University
October 18
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
Jeff Ely, Northwestern University
Microeconomics Seminar: Yingni Guo, Northwestern University
October 25
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
"The Interval Structure of Optimal Disclosure"
Yingni Guo, Northwestern University
Microeconomics Seminar: Ron Harstad, University of Missouri
November 01
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
"Efficiency Measurement via Revealed Thresholds, Without Knowing Valuations"
Ron Harstad, University of Missouri
Microeconomics Seminar: Eduardo Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania
November 08
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
"Market Failure in Kidney Exchange"
Eduardo Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania
Microeconomics Seminar: Wing Suen, University of Hong Kong
November 15
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
"A Theorem on Bayesian Updating and Applications to Communication Games"
Wing Suen, University of Hong Kong
Microeconomics Seminar: Aaron Bodoh-Creed, University of California-Berkeley
November 29
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Maloney Hall, Room 313
"Optimizing for Distributional Goals in School Choice”
Aaron Bodoh-Creed, University of California- Berkeley
Microeconomics Seminar: Christopher Chambers, Georgetown University
December 07
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Maloney Hall, 313
"Preference Identification"
Christopher Chambers, Georgetown University
Spring 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| March 15 | Cancelled | |
| March 22 | Federico Echenique, California Institute of Technology | On Multiple Discount Rates |
| March 29 | Fuhito Kojima Stanford University |
Stability and Strategy-Proofness for Matching with Constraints: A Necessary and Sufficient Condition |
| April 5 | Joshua Schwartzstein Harvard University |
Channeled Attention and Stable Errors |
| April 12 | Shengwu Li Harvard University |
Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms |
| April 19 | Martin Cripps, University College London | Bayesian Experimentation and Learning who to Treat |
| April 26 | Mohammad Akbarpour Stanford University |
Thickness and Information in Dynamic Matching Markets |
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 21 | Maciej Kotowski, Harvard University | Endowments, Exclusion, and Exchange |
| September 28 | Hector Chade, Arizona State University | Disentangling Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection |
| October 5 | Cancelled | |
| October 12 | George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania | Fragile Financial Coalitions: The Interaction Between Real Returns and Social Capital |
| October 19 | Michihiro Kandori, University of Tokyo | Labor Union as an OLG Repeated Game: A Case Study of Dynamic Network Formation |
| October 26 | Brendan Daley, Duke University | Bargaining and News |
| November 2 | Daniel Gottlieb, Washington University in St. Louis | Simple Contracts with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard |
| November 9 | Brian Baisa, Amherst College | Efficient Multi-unit Auctions for Normal Goods |
| November 16 | Zvi Safra, University of Warwick | Fairness and Utilitarianism Without Independence |
| November 30 | Juuso Toikka, MIT | Value of Persistent Information |
Spring 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| March 2 | Pauli Murto Aalto University |
Waiting for my Neighbors |
| March 9 | Antonio Romero Medina Charles III University of Madrid |
Take-it-or-Leave-it Contracts in Many-to-Many Matching Markets |
| March 16 | Stephan Lauermann Bonn University |
Learning and Price Discovery in a Search Model |
| March 23 | Ran Shorrer Harvard University |
“Strategic” Behavior in a Strategy-proof Environment |
| March 30 | Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research New England |
Descending Price Coordinates Approximately Efficient Search |
| April 6 | Hanzhe Zhang Michigan State University |
A Marriage-Market Perspective of the College Gender Gap |
| April 13 | Eric Budish University of Chicago |
Experiments as a Bridge from Market Design Theory to Market Design Practice: Changing the Course Allocation Mechanism at Wharton |
| April 20 | Heng Liu University of Michigan |
A Tale of Two Lemons: Multi-Good Dynamic Adverse Selection |
| April 27 | Doron Ravid University of Chicago |
Bargaining with Rational Inattention |
| May 4 | Botond Koszegi Central European University |
Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning |
| May 11 | Pol Antràs Harvard University |
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis |
Fall 2015
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 2 | David Dillenberger, University of Pennsylvania |
Skewed Noise |
| Sept. 9 | Juan Ortner, Boston University | Collusion in Auctions with Constrained Bids: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement |
| Sept. 16 | Guillaume Haeringer, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business | Two-sided Matching with (Almost) One-sided Preferences |
| Sept. 23 | Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University | Can Cooperation be Sustained Without Punishing the Innocent? A Limit of Self-Regarding Behavior |
| Sept. 30 | Simone Galperti, University of California-San Diego | Delegating Resource Allocation: Multidimensional Information vs. Decisions |
| Oct. 7 | Christian List, London School of Economics | Reason-based Choice and Context-dependence: An Explanatory Framework |
| Oct. 14 | Eun Jeong Heo, Vanderbilt University | Kidney Exchange with Immunosuppressants |
| Oct. 21 | Thayer Morrill, North Carolina State University | Pareto Dominating Deferred Acceptance in Equilibrium |
| Oct. 28 | Ron Siegel, Pennsylvania State University | Effort-Maximizing Contests |
| Nov. 4 | Jidong Zhou, Yale University | Competitive Bundling |
| Nov. 11 | Lones Smith, University of Wisconsin | Rushes in Timing Games |
| Nov. 16 Mon. 1:30 p.m. |
M. Bumin Yenmez, Carneigie Mellon University |
Matching with Externalities |
| Nov. 18 | Tomasz Strzalecki, Harvard University | Stochastic Choice and Optimal Sequential Sampling |
| Dec. 2 | Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University | Entitlements |
Spring 2015
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February 25, 12-1:15 | Sushil Bikhchandani, UCLA | "Two-sided Matching with Incomplete Information" |
| March 11 | Nenad Kos, Bocconi University | "Selling to the Mean" |
| March 19 (Thursday) | Rob Feenstra, UC Davis | "Restoring the Product Variety and Pro-competitive Gains from Trade with Heterogeneous Firms and Bounded Productivity" |
| March 25, 12-1:30, Cushing 209 | Nikhil Agarwal, MIT | "Demand Analysis using Strategic Reports: An Application to a School Choice Mechanism" |
| March 25 | Jakub Steiner, Cerge-Ei, Prague | "Rational Inattention Dynamics: Inertia and Delay in Decision-Making" |
| March 27 (Friday) | Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago | "The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms" |
| March 30 (Monday) | Isa Hafalir, Carnegie Mellon University | "College Admissions with Entrance Exams: Centralized versus Decentralized" |
| April 1 | Philipp Kircher, University of Edinburgh | "Efficient Competition through Cheap Talk: The Case of Competing Auctions" |
| April 8 | Juuso Välimäki, visiting Yale, Helsinki | "Common Value Auctions with Costly Entry" |
| April 15 | Andy Skrzypacz, Stanford University | "Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia, Front-Running and Relationship Banking" |
| April 22 | Alp Atakan, Koc University | TBA |
| April 29 | Leeat Yariv, Caltech | "Optimal Dynamic Matching" |
| May 4 | Ozgur Yilmaz | "Student Exchange Under Partial Fairness" |
| May 6 | Szilvia Pápai, Concordia University | "Circulation Under Responsive Preferences" |
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
Sept. 3 |
Alex Teytelboym, MIT | "Cascades in Networks: A Simple Theory and Applications" |
| Sept. 10 |
Marco Ottaviani, Bocconi University | "Research and the Approval Process" |
| Sept. 17 | Alexander Frankel, The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business | "Muddled Information" |
| Sept. 24 | Efe Ok, New York University | "Decision-Making under Subjective Risk: Toward a General Theory of Pessimism" |
| Oct. 1 | Philip Bond, University of Washington, Foster School of Business | "Measuring the Informativeness of Economic Actions and Market Prices" |
| Oct. 8 | No seminar |
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| Oct. 15 | Nageeb Ali, University of California, San Diego | "Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining" |
Oct. 22 |
Hülya Eraslan, Johns Hopkins University |
"Dynamic Agenda Setting" |
Oct. 29 |
Alessandro Bonatti, MIT |
"Monitoring in Strategic Experimentation" |
| Oct. 31 (Friday) |
Jacques Thisse, Université catholicque de Louvain | "Toward a Theory of Monopolistic Competition" |
Nov. 5 |
Marek Pycia, UCLA |
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| Nov. 12 | SangMok Lee, University of Pennsylvania |
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Nov. 19 |
Navin Kartik, Columbia University |
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Dec. 3 |
Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
"Decentralized Exchange" |