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Econ 208, Microeconomic Theory Seminar

Spring 2008

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

Office Hours: Tu 3:30-5 pm

Seminar Room: 639 Evans
Schedule: Monday 4-6P
Jan 28Tomasz Strzalecki, Northwestern (joint with recruiting in 608-7 Evans)
Feb 4 Kyna Fong, Stanford GSB (joint with recruiting in 608-7 Evans)
Feb 11No 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 24Spring Break -- no meeting
Mar 31Joint with departmental seminar
Apr 7Guillaume 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 21Emre Ozdenoren, Michigan
Apr 28

John Friedman, UCB

"Optimal Gerrymandering in a Competitive Environment"

May 5Botond Koszegi, UCB