| microeconomics seminar schedule | ||
| fall 2005 | ||
| 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 |
| Sep 13 | Itzhak Gilboa (Tel Aviv and Yale) |
"Empirical Similarity and Objective Probabilities" paper 1 and 2 |
| Sep 20 | Gary Biglaiser (UNC) |
"Durable Goods Monopoly with Quality Improvements Over Time" |
| Sep 27 | Eyal Winter (Hebrew U) |
"Co-location and Incentives" |
| Oct 04 | Muhamet Yildiz (MIT) |
"Generic Uniqueness and Continuity of Rationalizable Strategies" |
| Oct 11 *cancelled |
Tamar Kugler (U of Arizona) |
"Choice of Routes in Congested Traffic Networks: Experimental Tests of the Braess Paradox" paper 1 and 2 |
| Oct 18 | Michael Manove (BU) |
"Network Size and Network Capture" |
| Oct 25 | Steven Shavell (Harvard) |
"Contracts, Holdup, and Legal Intervention" |
| Nov 01 | Aviad Heifetz (Open U of Israel) |
"Aspiration Traps" |
| Nov 08 | Kathryn Spier (Northwestern) |
"Strategic Judgment Proofing" |
| Nov 15 | Hanming Fang (Yale) |
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| Nov 18 *pls note that it is Friday. |
Larry Epstein (Rochester) *time: 2-3:30pm, place: Room 416 |
"Cognitive Dissonance and Choice" |
| Nov 29 | Haluk Ergin (MIT) | "A Unique Costly Contemplation Representation" |
| Dec 06 |
Andrea Wilson (Harvard) |
"Optimal Finite Memory: Behavioral Implications and an Application to Reputation Games" |