Economic Theory Seminar

Summer 2023

Seminars will be held on Fridays from 3:30pm to 4:50pm in the Koo Room unless otherwise specified. Please contact Hanzhe Zhang for Zoom meeting information.

Organizer: Hanzhe Zhang (hanzhe@msu.edu)

Seminar schedule coming soon.

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Date	Presenter
April 21 2023 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Thomas Jungbauer, Cornell The strategic decentralization of recruiting
April 14 2023 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Ellen Muir, MIT Sloan Optimal Hotelling Auctions
April 7 2023 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Kai Hao Yang, Yale SOM Extreme Points and First-Order Stochastic Dominance: Theory and Applications
March 24 2023 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Alberto Bisin, NYU On the joint evolution of culture and political institutions: Elites and civil society
March 3 2023 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:40 - 11:50 Virtual	Jakub Steiner, CERGE-EI & Zurich Consistency in Large and Small
February 22 2023 (Wednesday) 3:30 - 4:50	Antonio Nicolo, Padua & Manchester Dynamic one-sided matching
December 9 2022 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 11:45	Matt Elliott, Cambridge Market Segmentation Through Information
November 18 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Quan Wen, U Washington Group Rationality and Group Stable Equilibrium
November 9 2022 (Wednesday) 3:30 - 4:50	Amanda Friedenberg, Michigan Two Approaches to Iterated Reasoning in Games
November 2 2022 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 4:40 Virtual	Marzena Rostek, Wisconsin Decentralized-Market Design
October 28 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50 100 Berkey Hall	Jeongbin Kim, Florida State Patience Is Power: Bargaining And Payoff Delay
October 12 2022 (Wednesday) 3:30 - 4:50	Mu Zhang, Michigan A Theory of Choice Bracketing under Risk
September 23 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Cesar Martinelli, George Mason Razor-Thin Elections
September 16 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50 Virtual	Balazs Szentes, LSE Smart Contracts and the Coase Conjecture
September 9 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50 100 Berkey Hall	Snehal Banerjee, UCSD Feedback Effects with Risk Aversion: An Application to Climate Risk
September 2 2022 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:45 - 11:55 Virtual	Ran Spiegler, Tel Aviv & UCL False Narratives and Political Mobilization
April 27 2022 (Wednesday) 3:30 - 4:50	Mike Powell, Northwestern Organizing Modular Production Note: in-person
April 22 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Philipp Kircher, Cornell Cheap Talk In Labor Markets Note: virtual
April 15 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Hector Chade, Arizona State Multidimensional Screening, Menu Design, and Health Insurance Markets Note: virtual
April 13 2022 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 3:00 - 4:15	Colin Sullivan, Purdue Eliciting Preferences over Life and Death: Experimental Evidence from Organ Transplantation Note: in-person
April 1 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Bumin Yenmez, Boston College Design on Matroids: Diversity vs. Meritocracy Note: virtual
March 25 2022 (Friday) Seminar time was 9:00 - 10:10	Jingfeng Lu, NUS Optimal Orchestration of Rewards and Punishments in Rank-Order Contests Note: virtual
March 18 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Ed Hopkins, Edinburgh Cardinal Sins? Conspicuous Consumption, Cardinal Status and Inequality Note: Virtual
March 4 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Asher Wolinsky, Northwestern Auctions with Frictions Note: virtual
February 11 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Ayca Kaya, Miami Paying with information Note: in-person
February 4 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Pierpaolo Battigalli, Bocconi Belief Change, Rationality, and Strategic Reasoning in Sequential Games Note: Virtual
January 21 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Jonathan Libgober, USC Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specifications: Theory and Applications
January 14 2022 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Thomas Wiseman, Texas Dynamics and Efficiency in Decentralized Online Auction Markets
December 10 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Teddy Kim, Emory Competitive Advertising and Pricing
December 3 2021 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 11:40	Paula Onuchic, Oxford Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects Note: Virtual
November 19 2021 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 11:45	Esteban Peralta, Michigan Matching, Information, And Wage Dispersion
November 12 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Deepal Basak, Indiana Panics and Early Warnings
October 29 2021 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 11:45	Marek Pycia, Zurich Auctions of Homogeneous Goods: A Case for Pay-as-Bid Note: Virtual
October 15 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Maciej Kotowski, Notre Dame The Property Rights Theory of Production Networks
October 9 2021 (Saturday) Seminar time was 4:15 - 5:45 C202/204 Snyder	Vijay Krishna, Penn State (Midwest Theory) Panics and Prices
September 17 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Eduardo Azevedo, Wharton A/B Testing with Fat Tails Note: Virtual
September 10 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Andrew McClellan, Chicago Booth Outside Options And Optimal Bargaining Dynamics
September 3 2021 (Friday) Seminar time was 12:00 - 1:15	Jordi Blanes i Vidal, London School of Economics The Effect of Advisors' Incentives on Clients' Investments Note: Virtual
April 23 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Benny Moldovanu, Bonn Optimal Auctions: Non-expected Utility with Constant Risk Aversion
April 16 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Mariagiovanna Baccara, WUSTL Task Allocation and On-the-job Training
April 9 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Yuhta Ishii, Penn State Dispersed Behavior and Perceptions in Assortative Societies
March 26 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Arjada Bardhi, Duke Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics
March 19 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	SangMok Lee, WUSTL Preference Learning in School Choice Problems
February 26 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Axel Anderson, Georgetown The Comparative Statics of Sorting
February 12 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Jose Apesteguia, UPF Random Utility Models with Ordered Types and Domains
February 5 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Eduard Talamas, IESE Business School Bargaining foundations for price taking in matching markets
January 29 2021 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Ilwoo Hwang, Miami Herbert Business School Agenda-Setter Power Dynamics: Learning in Multi-Issue Bargaining
December 11 2020 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Vasiliki Skreta, UT Austin Test design under unobservable falsification
November 20 2020 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Qingmin Liu, Columbia Strategic Exploration: Preemption and Prioritization
November 6 2020 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Hao Li, UBC Unobserved Mechanisms
October 16 2020 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Jacob Leshno, Chicago Price Discovery and Efficiency in Waiting Lists: A Connection to Stochastic Gradient Descent
October 2 2020 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia Keeping the Listener Engaged: a Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion
September 18 2020 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Jorge Lemus, UIUC TBA
December 6 2019 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Teddy Mekonnen, Brown U. Random versus Directed Search for Scarce Resources
November 22 2019 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Federico Echenique, Caltech Fairness And Efficiency For Probabilistic Allocations With Endowments
November 15 2019 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Doron Ravid, U. Chicago Learning Before Trading: On the Inefficiency of Ignoring Free Information
October 18 2019 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	George Mailath, U. Pennsylvania Fragile Financial Coalitions Under Belief Coordination Frictions
October 11 2019 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Shengwu Li, Harvard U. Credible Mechanisms
October 4 2019 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Sylvain Chassang, New York U. Secure Survey Design in Organizations: Theory and Experiments
September 20 2019 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50 100 Berkey Hall	Harry Di Pei, Northwestern U. Crime Entanglement, Deterrence, and Witness Credibility
April 24 2019 (Wednesday) 3:30 - 4:50	Xu Tan, University of Washington Locally Bayesian Learning in Networks
April 11 2019 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:50	Laura Doval, Caltech Mechanism Design with Limited Commitment Note: Koo Room
April 4 2019 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:50	Caroline Thomas, University of Texas Community Enforcement of Trust with Bounded Memory
March 28 2019 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:50 319 Berkey Hall	Elliot Lipnowski, U of Chicago Fostering Collaboration
March 22 2019 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Chen Cheng, Johns Hopkins A Theory of Multiplexity: Sustaining Cooperation with Multiple Relationships
March 20 2019 (Wednesday) 3:30 - 4:50	Yiqing Xing, Johns Hopkins University Screening with Network Externalities
December 6 2018 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:50	Daniel Barron, Northwestern Kellogg The Use and Misuse of Coordinated Punishments
November 16 2018 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Yan Chen, University of Michigan Motivating Contributions to Public Information Goods: A Field Experiment on Wikipedia
October 19 2018 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Yaron Azrieli, Ohio State University Monitoring Experts
October 5 2018 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50 112A Berkey Hall	Navin Kartik, Columbia University Lemonade from Lemons: Information Design and Adverse Selection
September 21 2018 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50 106A Berkey Hall	Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University TBA
September 14 2018 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50 110 Berkey Hall	Jack Fanning, Brown University Mediation in Reputational Bargaining
April 12 2018 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:50 114 Berkey Hall	Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford Test Design and Minimum Standards Note: Coordinated with UM
February 23 2018 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Jidong Zhou, Yale Multiproduct Intermediaries and Optimal Product Range
February 13 2018 (Tuesday) Seminar time was 4:00 - 5:20	Tilman Börgers, Michigan Strategically Simple Mechanisms
February 2 2018 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Yingni Guo, Northwestern The Interval Structure of Optimal Disclosure
November 17 2017 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Scott Kominers, Harvard Business School Collusion in Markets with Syndication
November 2 2017 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:50 214 Berkey Hall	Jacopo Perego, New York University Media Competition and the Source of Disagreement
October 6 2017 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto Adverse Selection, Efficiency and the Structure of Information
September 28 2017 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:50 214 Berkey Hall	Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University Mediated Learning
September 22 2017 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50 217 Berkey Hall	Christopher Cotton, Queen's University Persistence of Power: On Stationary Equilibrium in Dynamic Bargaining
September 7 2017 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:50 214 Berkey Hall	Fei Li, University of North Carolina Revenue Management Without Commitment: Dynamic Pricing and Periodic Fire Sales
April 20 2017 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:50	Larry Samuelson, Yale Implementation Duality
April 14 2017 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Fahad Khalil, U Washington Optimal Contract for Experimentation and Production
March 31 2017 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Alex Wolitzky, MIT Maintaining Privacy in Cartels
March 24 2017 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Juan Ortner, Boston U Collusion in Auctions with Constrained Bids: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement
March 17 2017 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Srihari Govindan, University of Rochester On The Existence of Equilibria in Bayesian Allocation-Mechanisms
February 15 2017 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 1:40 - 2:50 107 Berkey Hall	Kfir Eliaz, Michigan Incentive-Compatible Advertising on a Social Network
December 2 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Hanna Halaburda, Bank of Canada Dynamic Competition with Network Externalities: Why History Matters
October 21 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Mehmet Ekmekci, Boston College Market Selection and the Information Content of Prices
October 14 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50 120 Berkey Hall	Charles Zheng, Western Ontario A sufficient and necessary condition for conflict-preempting settlements
October 7 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Anne-Katrin Roesler, Michigan Private Learning and Exit Decisions in Collaboration
September 30 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Seungjin Han, McMaster Firm-CEO Matching With Pre-CEO Executive Skill Accumulation
September 21 2016 (Wednesday) 3:30 - 4:50	Jeff Ely, Northwestern Dynamic Information Design
September 9 2016 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00 120 Berkey Hall	Terence Johnson, Notre Dame Assortative Exchanges
September 2 2016 (Friday) Seminar time was 1:40 - 3:00 120 Berkey Hall	Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern Matching Plans for Agents with Vertically and Horizontally Differentiated Preferences
April 21 2016 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:50 103 Berkey Hall	Johannes Horner, Yale Optimal Design for Social Learning
April 15 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Nageeb Ali, Penn State Bargaining and Resale in the Market for Information
April 13 2016 (Wednesday) 3:30 - 4:50	Doh-Shin Jeon, Toulouse School of Economics Dominance And Credible Bundling
April 8 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	V. Bhaskar, U. Texas The Ratchet Effect: A Learning Perspective
April 1 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Shaowei Ke, University Of Michigan Boundedly Rational Backward Induction
March 18 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Odilon Camara, USC Political Disagreement and Information in Elections
February 26 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Laurent Mathevet, NYU Information Design: The Random Posterior Approach (joint with Jacopo Perego and Ina Taneva)
February 19 2016 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Alex Frankel, Chicago Booth Selecting Applicants
November 20 2015 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Paul J. Healy, Ohio State University Epistemic Foundations For The Failure of Nash Equilibrium
November 13 2015 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Ananth Ramanarayanan, University of Western Ontario Imported Inputs, Irreversibility, and International Trade Dynamics
November 6 2015 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Renee Bowen, Stanford Graduate School of Business Dynamic Coalitions
October 30 2015 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50 118 Berkey Hall	George Georgiadis, Northwestern University Achieving Efficiency in Dynamic Contribution Games
October 23 2015 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Financing: A Signaling Perspective
October 16 2015 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Heng Liu, University of Michigan A tale of two lemons: multi-good dynamic adverse selection
October 9 2015 (Friday) 3:30 - 4:50	Huanxing Yang, Ohio State University Targeted Search, Endogenous Market Segmentation, and Wage Inequality
October 2 2015 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:35am - 11:55am 111 Berkey Hall	Richard Van Weelden, University of Chicago Selling to Polarized Buyers (joint with Pablo Montagnes)
May 1 2015 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00 104 Berkey Hall	Hyeongjun Bang, Michigan State University Corruption Traps and Economic Growth
April 22 2015 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Ricardo Alonso, London School of Economics Persuading Voters
April 17 2015 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Rowena Pecchenino, NUI Maynooth Despair Not? The Implications of Despair for Economic Analysis and Policy Design
April 10 2015 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Attila Ambrus, Duke University Social Investments, Informal Risk-Sharing and Inequality
April 3 2015 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Pau S. Pujolàs Fons, McMaster University Nonlinear Gravity
March 27 2015 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Marcin Peski, University of Toronto Large Matching Models
March 20 2015 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Byung-Cheol Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology The Economics of Right-to-be Forgotten
March 6 2015 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University Credit Supply and the Housing Boom
December 5 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00 111 Berkey Hall	Christian Diego Alcocer, Michigan State University Naïve versus Sophisticated Mixing: Experimental Evidence from a Two-Stage Design with Computer Bots
November 21 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Daniela Hochfeller, University of Michigan, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Do High-Skilled Immigrants Find Jobs Faster than Low-Skilled Immigrants
November 7 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Mark Tremblay, Michigan State University Vertical Relations Between Platforms and Providers
October 31 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 2:30 - 4:00 Koo Room	Fernando M. Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Value of Discretion in Government Policy
October 24 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Gaurab Aryal, University of Chicago An Empirical Analysis of Competitive Nonlinear Pricing
October 17 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Jin Yeub Kim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Why Forecasters Disagree? A Global Games Approach
October 10 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Dmitriy Stolyarov, University of Michigan Low-frequency Technology Shocks, Creative Destruction, and the Equity Premium
October 3 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Roberto Burguet, Institute for Economic Analysis-CSIC, BGSE
September 26 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00 107 BH	Edward Schlee, Arizona State University Coverage Denial: Excluding Bad Risks, Inefficiency, and Pooling in Insurance
September 19 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 1:30 - 3:00	Adrian Masters, University at Albany, SUNY Job Creators, Job Creation and the Tax Code
September 5 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Tony Doblas-Madrid, Michigan State University Credit-Fuelled Bubbles
April 18 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Frances Xu, University of Hong Kong Multi-Sender Disclosure of Verifiable Information
April 4 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Soren Anderson, Michigan State University Hotelling Under Pressure
March 28 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Sergio Parreiras, University of North Carolina Asymmetric All-Pay Auctions With Incomplete Information, The Two Player Case Redux
March 21 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Fabio Schiantarelli, Boston College Productivity and the Welfare of Nations
March 14 2014 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Ting Liu, SUNY-Stony Brook Incentives for Motivated Experts in a Partnership
November 18 2013 (Monday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Michael Waldman, Cornell University Performance, Career Dynamics, and Span of Control
November 15 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 1:30 - 3:00	John Asker, New York University Dynamic Inputs and Resource (Mis)Allocation Note: Joint with Applied
November 7 2013 (Thursday) Seminar time was 1:00-2:30	Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University Capital Controls: Growth vs. Stability
November 1 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Nick Sly, University of Oregon Cherries for Sale: The Incidence and Timing of Cross-Border M&A
October 18 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University A Pareto Efficiency Rationale for the Welfare State
October 4 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Luis Cabral, New York University We're Number 1: Price Wars for Market Share Leadership
September 27 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00 207 Berkey Hall	Alessandro Bonatti, MIT The Politics of Compromise
September 13 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Michael Grubb, Boston College Consumer Inattention and Bill-Shock Regulation
September 6 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Jon Eguia, New York University Discrimination and Assimilation
April 12 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	Garance Genicot, Georgetown Aspirations and Inequality
March 27 2013 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Stephan Lauermann, University of Michigan A Common Value Auction with Bidder Solicitation
March 25 2013 (Monday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Tai-Wei Hu, Northwestern, Kellogg On the Coexistence of Money and Higher-Return Assets and its Social Role
March 22 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 1:30-3:00	Siyang Xiong, Rice University Genericity and Robustness of Full Surplus Extraction Incentive Compatibility Versus Surplus Extraction
March 18 2013 (Monday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Jon Vogel, Columbia International Trade, Technology, and the Skill Premium
March 15 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	Lixin Ye, Ohio State Monopolistic Nonlinear Pricing with Costly Information Acquisition
February 22 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	Camelia Bejan, Rice University Limited Enforcement, Bubbles and Trading in Incomplete Markets
February 15 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	Huseyin Yildirim, Duke University (Un)Informed Charitable Giving
February 8 2013 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	John Turner, University of Georgia Patent Thickets, Trolls and Unproductive Entrepreneurship
December 7 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	Jaesoo Kim, IUPUI Consumer Learning and Price Discrimination
November 9 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	Karna Basu, Hunter College, City University of New York Time-inconsistency, Renegotiation, and Firm Ownership
October 19 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University Biased Recommendations
October 5 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	Nate Miller, Dept. of Justice Approximating the Price Effects of Mergers: Numerical Evidence and an Empirical Application
September 28 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	Maria Goltsman, Univ. of Western Ontario Communication in Cournot Oligopoly
September 12 2012 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Ying Chen, Arizona State Mandatory Versus Discretionary Spending: the Status Quo Effect
September 7 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 10:30 - 12:00	Tony Doblas-Madrid, Michigan State University Credit-Fuelled Bubbles
May 4 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Marina Halac, Columbia University Investment and Contracting in Repeated Relationships
April 20 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Yingying Shi, Michigan State University The Role of Infrastructure Capital in China's Regional Economic Growth
April 16 2012 (Monday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Luca Dedola, European Central Bank
April 13 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Gabor Virag, University of Toronto Learning and Price Discovery in a Search Model
March 30 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Francois Gourio, Boston University Credit Risk and Disaster Risk
March 23 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Gabriele Camera, Purdue University Understanding the Distributional Impact of Long-Run Inflation
March 2 2012 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Julia Thomas, Ohio State University Credit Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity
December 2 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Andrew Webb, Michigan State University Competition, Cooperation or Coordination: An innovation Model
November 18 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan The Global Welfare Impact of China: Trade Integration and Technological Change
November 9 2011 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Michael Whinston, Northwestern Property Rights and the Efficiency of Bargaining Note: Please note this seminar will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 9th.
November 4 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Kinda Hachem, University of Chicago, Booth School
October 28 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Braz Camargo, São Paulo School of Economics - FGV Career Concerns: A Human Capital Perspective
October 21 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Raoul Minetti and Luis Araujo, Michigan State University
October 14 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Oscar Lau, Michigan State University Soft Transactions
September 23 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00 117 Berkey Hall	Christopher Otrok, University of Missouri-Columbia News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
September 19 2011 (Monday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Pietro Peretto, Duke University
September 16 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Cyril Monnet, University of Bern Repurchase Agreements
April 15 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Vivian Lei, UW Milwaukee Differentiated Assets: An Experimental Study on Bubbles
April 8 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Kevin Lansing, SF Fed Speculative Growth and the Welfare Cost of Technology-Driven Bubbles
April 1 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Wouter Dessein, Columbia Pandering to Persuade
March 25 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Andreas Park - Canceled, Toronto Greed, Fear and Rushes
March 18 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton Trade and Labor Market Outcomes Labour Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment
March 4 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Marcelo Arbex, Windsor Optimal Taxation and Social Networks
March 3 2011 (Thursday) Seminar time was 3:30	Barbara Rossi, Duke Out-of-Sample Forecast Tests Robust to the Window Size Choice
March 2 2011 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Alessandro Tarozzi, Duke University Micro-loans, Insecticide-Treated Bednets and Malaria: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Orissa (India)
February 28 2011 (Monday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Simon Board, UCLA Reputation for Quality A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics
February 25 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Joyee Deb, NYU Mobility and Conflict: Resource Sharing Among Groups
February 21 2011 (Monday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Guido Lorenzoni, MIT Credit Crises, Precautionary Savings and the Liquidity Trap
February 18 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Jonas Fisher, Chicago Fed Mortgage Choices and Housing Speculation
February 9 2011 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Daniela Puzzello, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign An Experimental Study of Bubble Formation using the Tatonnement Trading Institution
February 4 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Vincent Sterk, University of Amsterdam Home equity, Mobility and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
January 31 2011 (Monday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Andrew Foerster, Duke University Financial Crises and Occasional Unconventional Monetary Policy
January 28 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Cynthia Wu, UC-San Diego Identification and Estimation of Gaussian Affine Term Structure Models
January 14 2011 (Friday) Seminar time was 2:45 - 4:15	Philip Bond , Carlson School (Minnesota) Investment banking careers: An Equilibrium Theory of Overpaid Jobs
December 6 2010 (Monday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Volker Nocke, University of Mannheim Merger Policy with Merger Choice
November 12 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 1:30 - 3:00	Jonathan Levin, Stanford University Department of Economics Seller Experiments and Consumer Behavior Note: Held with Applied Micro Seminar
November 5 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Yuk-Fai Fong, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management Information Revelation in Relational Contracts
October 29 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Proposal presentations
October 22 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 1:30 - 3:00	Ted O'Donoghue, Cornell University Department of Economics The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices Note: Held with Applied Micro Seminar
October 15 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Marco Ottaviani, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management How (Not) to Pay for Advice
October 8 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	A. Kerem Cosar, University of Chicago Adjusting to Trade Liberalization: Reallocation and Labor Market Policies
April 28 2010 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Tracy Lewis, Duke TBA
April 23 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Maher Said, University of Washington at St. Louis Auctions with Dynamic Populations: Efficiency and Revenue Maximization
April 16 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Andy Newman, Boston University Loopholes: Social Learning and the Evolution of Contract Form
April 2 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Kenichi Ueda, IMF Investment and Institutions
March 26 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Jan Zabojnik, Queens/NU Subjective evaluations with performance feedback
March 19 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Albert Ching-To Ma, Boston University Optimal public rationing and price response
March 5 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 1:30 - 3:00	Richard Schmalensee, MIT Failure to Launch: Critical Mass in Platform Businesses
February 12 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 1:30 - 3:00	Jim Tybout, Pennsylvania State University Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover And Wage Distributions In An Open Economy Note: Held with Applied Economics Seminar
January 22 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Allan Collard-Wexler, NYU Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry
January 15 2010 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Gordon Hanson, UCSD Birth Rates and Border Crossings: The Demographic Push behind Latin American Emigration Note: Dunaway Lecture
December 11 2009 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Rudi Bachmann, University of Michigan The Cross-section of Firms over the Business Cycle: New Facts and a DSGE Exploration
December 4 2009 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Scott Schaefer, University of Utah The Returns to Attending a Prestigious Law School
November 20 2009 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Young-Ro Yoon, Wayne State University Strategic Disclosure of Meaningful Information within Competitive Environment
November 13 2009 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Jin li, Northwestern University (Kellogg) Relational Contracts, Limited Liability, and Employment Dynamics
November 6 2009 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Stephen Salant, University of Michigan The Partnership Solution to the Common-Property Problem: An Experimental Test of the Theory
October 16 2009 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Jing Zhang, University of Michigan Structural Transformation in an Open Economy
October 7 2009 (Wednesday) Seminar time was 3:15 - 4:45 Berkey 106B	Pietro Versonesi, GSB Chicago What ties return volatility to valuations and fundamentals?
September 25 2009 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University Liquidity, Business Cycles and Monetary Policy
September 25 2009 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University Note: Cancelled
September 18 2009 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Lucy White, Harvard University (HBS) Note: Cancelled
September 4 2009 (Friday) Seminar time was 3:30 - 5:00	Thomas Jeitschko, Michigan State University Signaling, Learning and Screening Prior to Trial: A Theory of Preliminary Injunctions