!!!Note: day and time will be set in September!!!
Week 6 (December 12-16), 2011
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Week 5 (November 28 - December 2), 2011
Speaker: Giovanni Ursino
Title: TBA
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Week 4 (November 14-18), 2011
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Week 3 (October 31 - November 4), 2011
Speaker: Filippo Pavesi
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Week 2 (October 17-21), 2011
Speaker: Emilio Calvano
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Week 1 (October 3-7), 2011
Speaker: Piero Tedeschi
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SUMMER!!!
June 17, 2011
Speaker: Vardan Baghdasarya
Title: Voter turnout in large elections: two ways to explain turnout in costly voting environment
Paper(s): (1) Feddersen, Timothy and Alvaro Sandroni, "A Theory of Participation in Elections", American Economic Review, Vol. 96, No. 4 (Sep., 2006), pp. 1271-1282; (2) Taylor, Curtis R. and Huseyin Yildirim, "Public information and electoral bias", Games and Economic Behavior 68 (2010) 353–375
June 10, 2011
Speaker: Claudia Meo
Title: Information sharing within coalitions in asymmetric information economies
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.
May 27, 2011
Speaker: Alessandro Fedele
Title: Italian moneycracy
Paper: Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci, "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions", Contemporary Educational Psychology 25, 54–67 (2000)
Slides: here
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
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 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.
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.
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
February 4, 2011
Speaker: Carlos Pimienta
Title/Paper: On the Equivalence between (Quasi-)Perfect and Sequential Equilibria.
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