Economics and Finance
Public Events Archive
Economic Theory Seminar - Summer term 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
4.00 p.m.
Tymofiy Mylovanov, Penn State University
"Credibility for Sale - the Effect of Disclosure on Information Acquisition and Transmission"
5.30 p.m.
Roland Strausz, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
"Certification and Exchange in Vertically Concentrated Markets"
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
4.00 p.m.
Pablo Coralio Ballester, Universidad de Alicante
"Moderate Interactions in Games with Induced Complementarities"
5.30 p.m.
Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University
"Partial Cross Ownership and Tacit Collusion under Cost Asymmetries"
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
4.00 p.m.
Radim Bohacek, Economics Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
"Social Security Reform in a Dynastic Life-Cycle Model with Endogenous Fertility"
5.30 p.m.
Martin Meier, IAE and IHS
"Dynamic Unawareness and Rationalizable Behavior"
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
4.00 p.m.
Carlos Alós-Ferrer, University of Konstanz
"Hidden Symmetries and Focal Points"
5.30 p.m.
Mark Armstrong, University College London
"A Model of Delegated Project Choice"
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
4.00 p.m.
Christian Keuschnigg, University of St. Gallen
"Corporate Finance and Comparative Advantage"
5.30 p.m.
Arno Riedl, Maastricht University
"Overcoming coordination failure through neighborhood choice"
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
4.00 p.m.
Antonio Cabrales, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and CEPR
"Social Interactions and Spillovers: Incentives, Segregation and Topology"
5.30 p.m.
Guilherme Carmona, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"Equality Matching: An Optimal Risk Sharing Institution"
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
4.00 p.m.
Ken Kletzer, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt:Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences"
5.30 p.m.
Gino Gancia, UCREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Technological Change and the Wealth of Nations"
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Economic Theory Seminar - Winter term 2008/09
Thursday, January 29, 2009
4.00 p.m. (HSII)
Paul Heidhues, University of Bonn & CEPR
"Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market"
5.30 p.m. (HSII)
R. Anton Braun, University of Tokyo
"The quantitative effects of monetary aggregate targeting in a zero interest rate environment: results from Japan"
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
4.00 p.m. (HSII)
Gerlinde Fellner, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
"Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information - Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field "
5.30 p.m. (HSII)
Larry Blume, Cornell Universit
"Trading Networks with Price-Setting Agents"
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
4.00 p.m. (HSII)
Benny Moldovanu, University of Bonn
"The Theory of Assortative Matching Based on Costly Signals"
5.30 p.m. (HSII)
Uwe Dulleck, Queensland University of Technology
"The Experimental Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Competition, and Reputation"
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
4.00 p.m. (HSII)
Paolo Pin, Universita Ca'Foscari, Venezia
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5.30 p.m. (HSII)
Marc Möller, University Carlos III of Madrid
"Decision Making and Implementation in Teams"
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
4.00 p.m. (HSII)
Chaim Fershtman, University of Tel Aviv
"Finite State dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework of Applied Work"
5.30 p.m. (HSII)
Roman Inderst, University of Frankfurt
"Commissions"
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
4.00 p.m. (HSII)
Rani Spiegler, University College London
"Consideration Sets and Competitive Marketing"
5.30 p.m. (HSII)
Maarten Janssen, University of Vienna
"Do Auctions Select Efficient Firms?"
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
4.00 p.m. (HSII)
Joao Correia da Silva, University of Porto
"Uncertain delivery and the market for lemons"
5.30 p.m. (HSII)
Kartik Athreya, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
"A Quantitative Theory of Information and Unsecured Credit"
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Thursday, October 9, 20084.00 p.m. (HSII)
Helmut Cremer, University of Toulouse
"Tagging and Income Taxation: Theory and an Application"
5.30 p.m. (HSII)
Marco Piovesan, University of Copenhagen
"Team Incentives and Efficient Referrals"
