Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2005

Thursday Sproul 2206 4:10 – 5:30 p.m. (unless otherwise specified)

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
1/13/2005	Joel Watson UCSD- Economics Department	“Contract, Mechanism Design, and Technological Detail”
1/19/2005*	Prasanta Pattanik UC Riverside- Economics Department *NOTE: Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm	Joint with the PED seminar “On some difficulties in standard of living comparisons based on functionings”
1/27/2005	David Ellerman UC Riverside	“On a Difficulty in Welfare Economics: The Reversibility of the ‘Efficiency’ and ‘Equity’ Distinction in the Marshall-Pigou-Kaldor-Hicks Tradition of Non-Paretian Welfare Economics”
2/3/2005	Economics Department	Department Recruitment
2/10/2005	Economics Department	Department Recruitment
2/17/2005	Economics Department	Department Recruitment
2/25/2005*	Michael Schwartz UC Berkeley *NOTE: Friday	“Many-to-One Bargaining over a Depreciating Object” (joint work with David McAdams)
3/3/2005*	Preston McAfee Caltech- Economics Department *NOTE: joint with Thomas Wiseman	“Capacity Choice Counters the Coase Conjecture”
3/10/2005	Hongbin Cai UCLA- Economics Department	“Firm Reputation and Horizontal Integration”
3/14/2005*	Eric Maskin Princeton- Advanced Studies *NOTE: Monday	“Uncertainty and Hyperbolic Discounting”