Citibank Workshop in Economic Theory

Mondays, 4:00 pm-5:30 pm, Robinson 301. Organized by Pedro Dal Bo and Roberto Serrano.

September 15, 2009
Public Disagreement
Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University)
Muhamet Yildiz (MIT)
Tuesday – joint workshop with Race and Inequality

September 21, 2009
An Economic Theory of Fidelity in Network Formation: Statics, Dynamics, and the Spread of HIV/AIDS
Roland Pongou (Brown University)
Background Paper

September 28, 2009
Satisficing and Information Search
Mark Dean (Brown University)
Background Paper

October 5, 2009
Observational Learning and the Demand for Serach Goods
Ken Hendricks (University of Texas at Austin)

October 19, 2009
Signaling to a Network of Consumers
Jim Campbell (Brown University)

October 26, 2009
Nonmanipulable Bayesian Testing
Colin Stewart (University of Toronto)

November 2, 2009
Implementation with Evidence: Complete Information
Navin Kartik (Columbia University)

November 9, 2009
Choice by Iterative Search
Daisuke Nakajima (University of Michigan)

November 16, 2009
Selective Trials, Information Production and Technology Diffusion
Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University)

November 23, 2009
An Agenda-Setting Model of Electoral Competition
Humberto Llavador (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Princeton University)

November 30, 2009
“Do the Right Thing:” The Effects of Moral Suasion on Cooperation
Pedro Dal Bo (Brown University)

December 7, 2009
TBA
Andrew Schotter (NYU)