Presentation Schedule

Semester 1, 2013

Mondays, 12:00-1:00PM except when noted otherwise

Date	Speaker	Title	Location and other notes
Jan-21	1. Steffen Lippert (U of Otago) 2. Simona Fabrizi (Massey U)	1. Learning and collusion in new markets with uncertain entry costs (with F Bloch, Ecole Polytechnique, and S Fabrizi, Massey U) 2. Corruption and the public display of wealth (with S Lippert, U of Otago)	12:00-13:30 ASB205
Mar-4	Anton Kolotilin	Relational Advice	ASB115
Mar-11	Murali Agastya (U of Sydney)	Comparing Teaching Evaluations With(out) Agnostic Students	ASB115
Mar-18	Tibor Besedes (GeorgiaTech)	Economic Integration Agreements and Stability of International Trade: A Micro Perspective (with V Nitsch, Tech U Darmstadt and CESifo)	ASB119
Mar-25	Bill Schworm	Discounting and Time Consistency with Non-Stationary Preferences	ASB119
Apr-8	Hodaka Morita	Does Group Identity Discourage Inefficient Investment in Outside Option? An Experimental Investigation (with M Servatka, U of Canterbury)	ASB119
Apr-15	Toru Suzuki (UTS)	Directives, Expressives, and Motivation	ASB119
Apr-22	Andreas Ortmann & Valentyn Panchenko	The Allais Paradox: Perception and Evidence (with P Blavatskyy)	ASB119
Apr-29	Jonathan Newton (U of Sydney)	Bargaining and Evolution	ASB119
May-6	Richard Holden	A Theory of Rule Development (with G Ellison, MIT)	ASB119
May-13	Chris Bidner	Property Rights Over Marital Transfers	ASB119
May-20	Guillaume Roger	TBA	ASB119
May-27	Alberto Motta	TBA	ASB119
Jun-3	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	ASB119
Jun-10	Queen's Birthday	NA	NA
Jun-17	TBA	TBA	TBA
Jun-24	TBA	TBA	TBA
Jul-1	TBA	TBA	TBA

Semester 2, 2012

Mondays, 12:00-1:00PM except when noted otherwise

Date	Speaker	Title	Location and other notes
Jul-30	Bhaskar Dutta (U of Warwick)	Recent Developments in Group Formation	11am-1pm QUAD1001
Aug-06	Luis Corchón (Carlos III)	Relative Difference Contest Success Function	ASB107
Aug-13	Jay Choi	Patent Pools, Litigation, and Innovation	ASB107
Aug-20	Richard Holden	Gaming and Strategic Ambiguity in Incentive Provision (with M Meyer, Oxford U, and F Ederer, UCLA)	ASB107
Aug-27	Shuai Niu	Licensing between affiliated competitors	ASB107
Sep-03	Carlos Pimienta	A comment on forward induction	ASB107
Sep-10	Suraj Prasad	Implicit Incentives in Problem Solving Teams (with K Meagher, ANU)	ASB107
Sep-17	Jonathan Newton (U of Sydney)	Coalitional Behaviour, Tipping Points and Step by Step Convergence	ASB107
Sep-24	Chris Bidner	Prematch Investment with Rejection (with G Roger and J Moses)	ASB107
Oct-01	Anton Kolotilin	Dynamic Relational Contracts in Continuous Time (with Jin Li, Northwestern U)	ASB107
Oct-08	Marco LiCalzi (Ca' Foscari U of Venice)	The Power of Diversity over Large Solution Spaces (with O Suruku, LUISS)	ASB107
Oct-15	Jae Sung	CANCELLED	ASB205
Oct-22	Tony Berrada (U of Geneva)	Industry Equilibrium in Continuous Time	ASB205
Oct-29	Peter Bardsley (U of Melbourne)	Endogenous Reputation in Microcredit Markets (with R Meager, U of Melbourne)	ASB205
Nov-05	Hamid Sabourian (U of Cambridge)	Repeated Implementation with Finite Mechanisms, Complexity and Incomplete Information (with Jihong Lee, Seoul National U)	ASB205
Nov-12	Gabriele Gratton	Understanding Terrorism: Fear and Reputation (with S Ghosh, Boston U, and C Shen, Shanghai U of Finance and Econ)	ASB205
Nov-19	Jae Sung (Ajou U and UNSW)	Information Asymmetry, Talent Competition, and the Decline in Incentives with Firm Size: Theory (with P Swan)	ASB205

Semester 1, 2012

Mondays, 12:00-1:00PM

Date	Name	Title	Location
Mar-05	Hodaka Morita	"Choice of product architecture and labor turnover: Theory and evidence"	ASB105
Mar-12	Gabriele Gratton	The sweet sound of silence (http://research.economics.unsw.edu.au/ggratton/NEWSOS.pdf)	ASB105
Mar-19	Paul Pezanis-Christou	Multi-unit auctions	ASB105
Mar-26	Guillaume Roger	Moral hazard and random participation	ASB105
Apr-02	Guillaume Vandenbroucke (USC)	Endgenous Fertility during WWI	ASB105
Apr-09	Easter Monday	n/a	ASB105
Apr-16	Marcus Tomaino	Heterogeneity in mission-oriented organisations	ASB105
Apr-23	Richard Holden	Implementation with a weak preference for honesty	ASB105
Apr-30	Chris Bidner	A theory of Castes	ASB105
May-7	Jean-Etienne de Bettignies (Queens)	On the Economics of Corporate Social Responsibility	ASB105
May-14	Benoit Julien	TBA	ASB105
May-21	Chengsi Wang	TBA	ASB105
May-28	Gautam Bose	TBA	ASB105
Jul-09	Tayfun Somnez (BC)	TBA	ASB105
Jul-16	Ilke Onur	TBA	ASB105

Semester 2, 2011

Mondays, 12:00-1:00PM

Date	Name	Title	Location
Aug-08	Guillaume Roger	Optimal audit under soft information	ASB115
Aug-15	Informal lunch	(Mookherjee Lecture 9am-12pm)	ASB115
Aug-22	Benoit Julien	TBA	ASB115
Aug-29	Richard Holden	On common knowledge and contract incompleteness	ASB115
Sep-5	TBA	TBA	ASB115
Sep-12	Bill Schworm	TBA	ASB115
Sep-19	Jay Pil Choi	TBA	ASB115
Sep-26	Murali Agastya (U. Sydney)	TBA	ASB115
Oct-3	Public Holiday	No workshop	—
Oct-10	Hodaka Morita	TBA	ASB115
Oct-17	Carlos Pimienta	TBA	ASB115
Oct-24	Prabal Roychowdhury (ISI)	TBA	ASB115
Oct-31	Priscilla Man (UQ)	Endogenous Reputation in Repeated Games	ASB115
Nov-7	Corrado di Guilmi (UTS)	TBA	ASB115
Nov-14	Tomohiro Ara	Institution as a source of comparative advantage.	ASB115
Nov-21	Manipushpak Mitra (ISI)	No-Envy, Egalitarian Equivalence and Strategy-proofness in Queuing Problems	ASB115
Nov-28	Paul Pezanis-Christou	Information quality in multi-object auctions	ASB115

Semester 1, 2011

Mondays, 12:00-1:00PM

Date	Name	Title	Location
Mar-28	Informal Lunch	-	6th Floor Lounge
Apr-04	Informal Lunch	-	QUAD 2093
Apr-11	Ralph Winter	"Innovation and the Dynamics of Global Warming"	QUAD 2093
Apr-18	Mike Peters	"Hedonic equilibrium with incomplete markets"	QUAD 2093
May-02	Guillaume Roger	"Conflict in the Boardroom"	QUAD 2093
May-09	Frederique Goy	"Intellectual Property Rights and Market Size"	QUAD 2093
May-16	Murali Agastya	"Continuing wars of attrition"	QUAD 2093
May-23	Jim Andreoni	"Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom"	QUAD 2093
May-30	Chengsi Wang	"Imperfect Observability, Costly Advertising, and Directed Search"	QUAD 2093

Semester 2, 2010

Date	Name	Title	Location
Monday July 26, 1:00-2:00pm	Meg Sato (ANU)	Electoral Redistricting, Incumbency Advantage, and Endogenous Candidate Selection (with Yusaku Horiuchi)	QUAD 2093
Monday August 2, 1:00-2:00pm	-	-	-
Monday August 9, 1:00-2:00pm	-	-	-
Monday August 16, 1:00-2:00pm	Nicolas de Roos (USyd)	-	QUAD 1049 (Note Room Change)
Monday August 23, 1:00-2:00pm	Richard Holden	-	QUAD 1049
Monday August 30, 1:00-2:00pm	Bill Schworm	Intertemporal Preferences and Discounting	QUAD 1049
Monday September 6, 1:00-2:00pm	Chengsi Wang	-	QUAD 1049
Monday September 13, 1:00-2:00pm	Sasan Bakhtiari	Offshoring, Wages and the Growing Skill Gap: Advocating Offshoring without Sectoral Reallocation	QUAD 1049
Monday September 20, 1:00-2:00pm	Arghya Ghosh	A (foot)note on pricing	QUAD 1049
Monday September 27, 1:00-2:00pm	Carlos Pimienta	On the equivalence between (quasi-)perfect and sequential equilibria	QUAD 1049
Monday October 4, 1:00-2:00pm	Public Holiday	-	-
Monday October 11, 1:00-2:00pm	Chris Bidner	Effective governance: the role of leaders and institutions	QUAD 1049
Monday October 18, 1:00-2:00pm	Suraj Prasad	Identity and career concerns	QUAD 1049
Monday October 25, 1:00-2:00pm	Guillaume Roger	Questions of two-sidedness	QUAD 1049
Monday November 1, 1:00-2:00pm	Jorge Rojas (with Murali Agastya)	Weak of will and voting in committees	QUAD 1049
Monday November 8, 1:00-2:00pm	Nicolas de Roos (USyd)	Towards a theory of retail petrol price cycles	QUAD 1049
Monday November 15, 1:00-2:00pm	Arghya Ghosh and Devashish Mitra	TBA	QUAD 1049
Monday November 22, 12:00-1:00pm (NB Different Time)	John Wooders	Auctions with Heterogenous Entry Costs (with Diego Moreno)	ASB 105 (NB Different Room)

Semester 1, 2010

Date	Name	Title	Location
Monday March 8, 12:00-1:00pm	Gautam Bose and Kevin Lang	TBA	QUAD 2063
Monday March 15, 12:00-1:00pm	Chris Bidner	Trust and Vulnerability: The Role of Social Protection in the Promotion of Trade	ASB 130
Monday March 22, 12:00-1:00pm	No Meeting	-	-
Monday March 29, 12:00-1:00pm	No Meeting	-	-
Monday April 5, 12:00-1:00pm	Easter Monday	-	-
Monday April 12, 12:00-1:00pm	Patrick Francois (UBC)	Competition Causes Trust	ASB 130
Monday April 19, 12:00-1:00pm	Guillaume Roger	TBA	ASB 130
Monday April 26, 12:00-1:00pm	Public Holiday	-	-
Monday May 3, 12:00-1:00pm	Sasan Bakhtiari	Offshoring and Wage Differentials	ASB 130
Monday May 10, 12:00-1:00pm	David Goldbaum	TBA	ASB 130
Monday May 17, 12:00-1:00pm	Bill Schworm	TBA	ASB 130
Monday May 24, 12:00-1:00pm	Alberto Motta	TBA	ASB 130
Monday May 31, 12:00-1:00pm	Anna Gunnthorsdottir	Endogenous grouping and "magical" coordination of equilibria - when does the Nash equilibrium predict behavior and when does it not predict?	ASB 130
Monday June 7, 12:00-1:00pm	Benoit Julien	TBA	ASB 130
Monday June 14, 12:00-1:00pm	Public Holiday	-	-
Monday June 21, 12:00-1:00pm	Tomohiro Ara	TBA	ASB 130

Semester 2, 2009

Date	Name	Title	Location
Monday August 31, 12:00-1:00pm*	Bill Schworm	TBA	ASB 205
Monday September 7, 4:00-5:30pm	Mid-Session Break
Monday September 14, 12:00-1:00pm*	Gautam Bose	TBA	ASB 205
Monday September 21, 12:00-1:00pm*	Hodaka Morita	Vertical Keiretsu: Strength or weakness of Japanese firms?	ASB 205
Monday September 28, 12:00-1:00pm*	Chris Bidner	Marriage, Dowry and Property Rights	ASB 205
Monday October 5, 12:00-1:00pm	Public Holiday
Monday October 12, 12:00-1:00pm*	Guillaume Roger	TBA	ASB 205
Monday October 19, 12:00-1:00pm*	-	TBA	ASB 205
Monday October 26, 12:00-1:00pm*	Robert Russell (UC Riverside)	TBA	ASB 205
Monday November 2, 12:00-1:00pm	Kamal Saggi (SMU)	Parallel Import Policies under Endogenous Market Structure	ASB 205
Monday November 9, 12:00-1:00pm*	Jianfei Shen	TBA	ASB 220
Monday November 16, 12:00-1:00pm	Benoit Julien	Banking in Frictional markets	ASB 220
Monday November 23, 12:00-1:00pm			ASB 220
Monday November 30, 12:00-1:00pm			ASB 220
Monday December 7, 12:00-1:00pm			ASB 220
Thursday December 17, 12:00-1:00pm	Hodaka Morita	TBA	ASB 205

Semester 1, 2009

Date	Name	Title	Location
16/03, Monday, 12:00-1:00pm	Hideo Owan	Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation for Inventors	ASB 205
23/03, Monday, 12:00-1:00pm	Jota Ishikawa	Greenhouse-gas Emission Controls and International Carbon Leakage through Trade Liberalization	ASB 205
30/03, Monday, 12:00-1:00pm			ASB 205
06/04, Monday, 4:30-6:00pm	Luis Corchón	Oligopoly and Bankruptcy	Room 397, Merewether Building (USydney)
20/04, Monday, 12:00-1:00pm			ASB 205
27/04, Monday, 12:00-1:00pm	Benoit Julien	Unicity in Directed Search with Money	ASB 205
04/05, Monday, 4:30-6:00pm			TBA
11/05, Monday, 12:00-1:00pm			ASB 205
18/05, Monday, 12:00-1:00pm	Suraj Prasad	Promotions, Skill Acquisition and Labor Markets	ASB 205
25/05, Monday, 12:00-1:00pm			ASB 205
01/06, Monday, 12:00-1:00pm	Devasish Mitra		ASB 205