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Monday, November 14th, 2011

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Social Image: Virtuous, Shame, and Temptation

Kota Saito, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

An Estimable Demand System for a Large Auction Platform Market

Gregory Lewis, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Contagion and Uninvadability in Social Networks with Bilingual Option (joint with Daisuke Oyama)

Satoru Takahashi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Effective Affirmative Action in School Choice

Isa E. Hafalir, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Information Aggregation and Optimal Structure of the Executive

Francesco Squintani, Department of Economics, University of Essex,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Costly Self Control and Random Self Indulgence

Bart Lipman, professor of economics, Boston University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Rational and Naive Herding

Matthew Rabin, professor of economics, UC Berkeley,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Is it all connected? Understanding the Relationship Between Behavioral Phenomena

Pietro Ortoleva, assistant professor of economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Approximately Optimal Mechanism Design via Differential Privacy

Rann Smorodinsky, associate professor of economics and finance, Israel Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Search and Satisficing

Mark Dean, associate professor of economics, Brown University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Collective Dynamic Choice: The Necessity of Time Inconsistency (joint with Matthew O. Jackson)

Leeat Yariv, professor of economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

History-Dependent Risk Attitude

Kareen Rozen, assistant professor of economics, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Searching a Bargain: Power of Strategic Commitment

Selcuk Ozyurt, assistant professor of economics, Sabanci University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Optimal Compensation with Earnings Manipulation: Managerial Ownership and Retention

Thomas A. Gresik, professor of economics, University of Notre Dame,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Vote Markets

Thomas R. Palfrey, Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

On the Comparative Statics of Equilibrium Points

Rabah Amir, professor of economics, University of Arizona, and visiting professor of economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Rational and Irrational Bubbles: An Experiment

Sébastien Pouget, professor of finance, University of Toulouse,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

A Restatement of the Theory of Monopoly with Applications to Merger Analysis

Glen Weyl, junior fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

The Effect of News on Trading, Adverse Selection and Dynamic Signaling

Brendan Daley, assistant professor of economics, Duke University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Time Preference: Experiments and Foundations

Jawward Noor, assistant professor of economics, Boston Univeristy,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Improving Efficiency in Matching Markets with Regional Caps: The Case of the Japan Residency Matching Program

Fuhito Kojima, assistant professor of economics, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Interdependent Preferences and Strategic Distinguishability

Stephen Morris, professor of economics, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor

Abhijit Banerjee, professor of economics, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Observational Learning and Demand for Search Goods

Thomas Wiseman, associate professor of economics, the University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Attributes (joint paper with Diego Klabjan and Asher Wolinsky)

Wojciech Olszewski, professor of economics, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Reason-Based Choice: A Bargaining Rationale for the Attraction and Compromise Effects

Kfir Eliaz, associate professor of economics, Brown University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Uncertainty Equivalents: Linear Tests of the Independence Axiom

James Andreoni, professor of economics, UC San Diego,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

The Twilight of the Setter? Local School Finance in a Time of Institutional Change (joint work with Sean Corcoran, NYU and Thomas Romer, Princeton)

Howard Rosenthal, Visiting Professor of Economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences

James Andreoni, Professor of Economics, UC San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Expected Uncertain Utility and Multiple Sources

Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Economics Department, Princeton University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Dynamic Decision Models: Identification and Estimation

Matthew Shum, Professor of Economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

How Does Life Settlement Affect the Primary Life Insurance Market? (with Edward Kung)

Hanming Fang, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Combinatorial Voting

David Ahn, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments

Erik Snowberg, Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Dynamic Incentive Accounts

Tomasz Sadzik, Department of Economics, New York University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

A Computational Substrate For Goal-Directed Behavior

Matthew Botvinick, Princeton Neuroscience Institute,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action in a Real-Effort Tournament

Pedro Rey Biel, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Visiting Assistant Professor, Rady School of Management (UCSD),

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Temporal Resolution of Uncertainty and Recursive Models of Ambiguity Aversion

Tomasz Strzalecki, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Hierarchical Cheap Talk (joint with Eduardo Azevedo and Yuichiro Kamada) -- Legislative Committees as Information Intermediaries: a Unified Theory of Committee Selection and Amendment Rules (joint with Eduardo Azevedo, Yuichiro Kamada, Yuki Takag)

Attila Ambrus, Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Mapping Intelligence in the Brain: A Large-scale Lesion Analysis of IQ

Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

The Value of Information in the Court. Get it Right, Get it Tight

Matias Iaryczower, assistant professor of economics and political science, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Strategic Interaction and Networks

Rachel Kranton, Professor of Economics, Duke University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Bargaining and Reputation: Experimental Evidence on Bargaining in the Presence of Irrational Types

Guillaume Frechette, assistant professor of economics, New York University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Exploratory Behavior During A Financial Forecasting Task Points To Simulated Annealing

Peter Bossaerts, William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Management and Professor of Finance, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Cooperation and Community Responsibility: A Folk Theorem for Repeated

Joyee Deb, assistant professor economics, Stern School of Business, New York University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Why was it that Europeans Conquered the World? The Politics and Economics of World Conquest

Philip T. Hoffman, Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics and Professor of History, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

An Axiomatic Foundation for Multidimensional Spatial Models of Elections with a Valence Dimension

Yaron Azrieli, assistant professor of economics, Ohio State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Measuring Trust in Peruvian Shantytowns

Markus Mobius, associate professor economics, Harvard University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

A computational experiment on a non-economic model of the discovery and diffusion of knowledge via learning-by-doing with network-mediated matching with an application to a problem in economic history

Kim C. Border, professor of economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Liquidity Shocks and Order Book Dynamics

Pierre-Olivier Weill, assistant professor of economics, UCLA,

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