Microeconomics Seminar

Spring 2012

Seminars are on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 5:00 in Room 315 at 270 Bay State Road. For more information, contact Miriam Hatoum at mhatoum@bu.edu, 617-353-6822.

Date Speaker Topic
Mar. 6 Andrea Canidio (Central European University visiting BU) “Rewarding Idleness” (joint with Thomas Gall)
Mar. 20 Wojcieck Olszewski (Northwestern) Chip Strategies in Repeated Games with Incomplete Information
Mar. 27 Nageeb Ali (UC San Diego visiting Harvard) “Ostracism”
Apr. 3 Kate Ho (Columbia) “Hospital Choices, Hospital Prices and Financial Incentives to Physicians” (joint with Ariel Pakes)
Apr. 10 Holger Herz (Harvard) How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?
Apr. 17 Dennis Yao (Harvard) “Delay as Agenda Setting”
Apr. 24 Francine Lafontaine (U Michigan) Delegation and Pay-for-Performance
May 1 Larry Samuelson (Yale) “Incomplete-Information Matching”

For previous semester schedule, please see here: http://www.bu.edu/econ/seminars-workshops/seminars/micro/previous/.