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Boston College Microeconomics Seminar

Fall 2009 Schedule

Organizers:
Tayfun Sönmez and Utku Ünver

Papers will generally be available from this page as .pdf files.
Click on the paper title to download the paper.

All seminars are held on Wednesdays, 3:30-5 PM, O'Neill 247.

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept. 9

Alexey Kushnir, Pennsylvania State University

"Signaling in Matching Markets" (w/P. Coles and M. Niederle)

 

Sept. 16

Bogachan Celen, Columbia Business School

"On the Role of Information and Strategic Delay in Coordination Games"

 

Sept. 23

Peter Cramton, University of Maryland

"Spectrum Auction Design"

 

Sept. 30

Marc Rysman, Boston University

"Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods" (w/G. Gowrisankaran)

 

Oct. 7

Chiu Yu Ko, Boston College

"Profit-Maximizing Matchmaker" (w/H. Konishi)

 

Oct. 14

Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University

"Implementing Randon Assignments, Part I: A Generalization of the Birkhoff-Von Neumann Theorem" (w/E. Budish, F. Kojima, P. Milgrom)

 

Nov. 4

Dan Vincent, University of Maryland

"Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation in the Independent Private Values Model" (w/A. Manelli)

 

Nov. 11

Jeff Ely, Northwestern University

"Critical Types" (w/M. Peski)

 

Nov. 18

Edi Karni, Johns Hopkins University

"A Theory of Bayesian Decision Making"

 

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