Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2020

Fridays, 2:30-3:50 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Urmee Khan

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE NAME TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/02/2020 Alexander Wolitzky (MIT) Do a Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel? Cooperation in Large Populations with Incomplete Information
10/09/2020 Wojciech Olszewski (Northwestern Univ.) Efficient Dynamic Allocations in Endowment Economies with Linear Utilities and Private Information
10/16/2020 Shengwu Li (Harvard) Investment incentives in near-optimal mechanisms
10/23/2020 Luca Rigotti (University of Pittsburgh) Uncertainty in Mechanism Design
10/30/2020 Nageeb Ali (Penn State University) How to Sell Hard Information
11/06/2020 Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern Univ.) Structural Rationality in Dynamic Games
11/13/2020 Qingmin Liu (Columbia Univ.) Strategic Exploration: Preemption and Prioritization
11/20/2020 Itai Sher (University of Mass., Amherst) Global Consequences of Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights
12/04/2020 Larry Samuelson (Yale) Substitutes
12/11/2020 Shahir Safi   (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) Job Market Signalling Via Social Ties