February 4, 2011
Speaker: Carlos Pimienta
Title/Paper: On the Equivalence between (Quasi-)Perfect and Sequential Equilibria.
February 18, 2011 (postponed to Feb 25)
Speaker: Paolo Balduzzi
Title: Herding Behavior
Papers: (1) Banerjee, A. V., "A Simple Model of Herd Behavior", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 107, No. 3 (Aug., 1992), pp. 797-817; and (2) Bikhchandani, S., D. Hirshleifer and I. Welch, "A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 100(5) (Oct. 1992), 992-1026
March 4, 2011
Speaker: Massimo Bordignon
Title: Exit and voice. Yardstick versus fiscal competition across governments.
Paper(s): Exit and voice. Yardstick versus fiscal competition across governments.
April 1, 2011
Speaker: Elena Manzoni
Title: Citizen-candidate models and the puzzle of the spoiler candidate
Paper: T. Besley and S. Coate, An Economic Model of Representative Democracy, QJE, 112 (Feb. 1997), 85-114.
April 15, 2011
Speaker: Stefano Colombo
Title: Oligopolistic spatial frameworks
Paper: Lederer, P. and Hurter, A. 1986. "Competition of Firms: Discriminatory Pricing and Location". Econometrica. 54, No. 3. (May): 623-640.
April 29, 2011
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Paper(s): TBA
May 13, 2011
Speaker: Emanuele Tarantino
Title: Communication and disclosure among competitors
Paper(s): Stein, J. C. "Conversations among Competitors". American Economic Review 98(5), Dec. 2008, 2150–2162
May 27, 2011
Speaker: Alessandro Fedele
Title: Italian moneycracy
Paper: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions
June 10, 2011
Speaker: Claudia Meo
Title: TBA
Papers: (1) Wilson, Robert B, 1978. "Information, Efficiency, and the Core of an Economy," Econometrica, vol. 46(4), p. 807-16; and (2) Allen, Beth, 2006. "Market games with asymmetric information: the core", Economic Theory 29, p. 465–487.
June 17, 2011
Speaker: Vardan Baghdasarya
Title: TBA
Paper(s): TBA
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