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Economic Theory

Spring 2013

The economic theory seminar meets for one and half hours in the Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall, at 10:30 - 12:00 on Fridays unless otherwise noted.

Organizer: Thomas Jeitschko (jeitschk@msu.edu) and Arijit Mukherjee (arijit@msu.edu)

DatePresenter
February 8 (Friday)
10:30 - 12:00
John Turner, University of Georgia
Patent Thickets, Trolls and Unproductive Entrepreneurship
February 15 (Friday)
10:30 - 12:00
Huseyin Yildirim, Duke University
(Un)Informed Charitable Giving
February 22 (Friday)
10:30 - 12:00
Camelia Bejan, Rice University
Limited Enforcement, Bubbles and Trading in Incomplete Markets
March 15 (Friday)
10:30 - 12:00
Lixin Ye, Ohio State
Monopolistic Nonlinear Pricing with Costly Information Acquisition
March 18 (Monday)
3:30 - 5:00
Jon Vogel, Columbia
International Trade, Technology, and the Skill Premium
March 22 (Friday)
1:30-3:00
Siyang Xiong, Rice University
Genericity and Robustness of Full Surplus Extraction
Incentive Compatibility Versus Surplus Extraction
March 25 (Monday)
3:30 - 5:00
Tai-Wei Hu, Northwestern, Kellogg
On the Coexistence of Money and Higher-Return Assets and its Social Role
March 27 (Wednesday)
3:30 - 5:00
Stephan Lauermann, University of Michigan
A Common Value Auction with Bidder Solicitation
April 12 (Friday)
10:30 - 12:00
Garance Genicot, Georgetown
Aspirations and Inequality

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