Econ 208, Microeconomic Theory Seminar

Spring 2008

Organizer: Professor C M. Shannon
E-mail: cshannon@econ.berkeley.edu

Seminar Room: 639 Evans
Schedule: Monday 4-6P

Jan 28	Tomasz Strzalecki, Northwestern (joint with recruiting in 608-7 Evans)
Feb 4	Kyna Fong, Stanford GSB (joint with recruiting in 608-7 Evans)
Feb 11	No seminar
Feb 18	President's Holiday -- no meeting
Feb 25	Shachar Kariv, UCB "Sequential Equilibrium in Monotone Games: Theory-Based Analysis of Experimental Data" and "Network Architecture, Salience and Coordination"
Mar 3	Harrison Cheng, USC Asymmetric Common-Value Auctions with Applications to Auctions with Resale" (with Guofu Tan)
Mar 10	Frank Riedel, Bielefeld "Do Social Preferences Matter in Competitive Markets?"
Mar 17	Douglas Gale, NYU "Archetypes and Polytypes"
Mar 24	Spring Break -- no meeting
Mar 31	Joint with departmental seminar
Apr 7	Guillaume Frechette, NYU "The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence"
Apr 14	John Zhu, UCB "On Inequality: 0-1 Laws in Markovian Economics"
Apr 21	Emre Ozdenoren, Michigan
Apr 28	John Friedman, UCB "Optimal Gerrymandering in a Competitive Environment"
May 5	Botond Koszegi, UCB