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2011-2012
The
'teacher' in the spring 2012 series will be Professor Tayfun Sönmez, Professor of Economics at Boston College. His mini-course will be on market design.
TayfunSönmez' Mini-Course: "Matching Markets: Theory and Practice"
The Syllabus contains the course description, lecture topics, and reading lists
The Survey contains background reading for 3 of the 4 lectures.
Most of Prof. Sönmez' papers for the course can be downloaded from his webpage
https://www2.bc.edu/~sonmezt/
4 lectures starting May 14
Monday, May 14
12:00-1:30
Jacobs G43
OVERVIEW OF LECTURES
House Allocation & Housing Markets
Slides
Tuesday, May 15
12:00-1:30
Jacobs G43
Kidney Exchange
Slides
Wednesday, May 16
12:00-1:30
Jacobs G43
School Matching
Slides
Thursday, May 17
3:30-5:00
Jacobs G43
Cadet-Branch Matching
Slides
2010-2011
The
'teacher' in the spring 2011 series will be Professor Andrew Caplin, Co-Director, Center for Experimental Social Science, New York University. His mini-course will be on economics
and psychology.
Andrew Caplin's Mini-Course: "Decision Theory, Psychology, and Enriched Choice Data"
3 lectures starting May 17
Tuesday, May 17
12:00-1:15
Jacobs G43
"Anxiety or Surprise? The Need for Data Enrichment "
Reading List
Wednesday, May 18
12:00-1:15
Jacobs G43
"The Axiomatic Approach to Enriched Choice Data: Two Examples"
Reading List
Thursday, May 19
9:30-10:45
Jacobs 166
"Mis-perception and Stochastic Choice: Theory and Tests"
Supplementary Material: Part One and Part Two
2009-2010
There are two "teachers" in the Fall 2009 series: Benny Moldovanu, Chair of Economic Theory II,
University of Bonn, who is visiting the CET and Math Center, and Matthew Jackson, Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University.
Benny Moldovanu's Mini-Course: "Dynamic Mechanism Design"
6 lectures starting Sept. 30
Mon & Weds 12:00-1:30
Mon in Jacobs G44; Weds in Jacobs G43
Reading List
The mini-course will survey several
recent developments in dynamic
mechanism design. Topics included:
sequential assignment models and order statistics,
queueing models,
continuous-time revenue management
models, dynamic Clarke-Groves-Vickrey
mechanisms, Bayesian learning and
implementation, and mechanism design
with interdependent values.
Matthew Jackson's Mini-Course: "Network Formation and Patterns of Behavior"
3 lectures starting Nov. 16
Mon, Tues & Weds 12:10-1:10
Mon & Weds in Jacobs G42; Tues in Jacobs G27
Reading List
SLIDES
The mini-course will provide an overview of some recent research on social network formation as well as how network patterns of interactions affect behavior. This includes discussion of recent models of network formation combining random and strategic approaches, as well as studies of how network structure affects learning, both Bayesian and non-Bayesian, and theoretical and empirical studies of other behavioral contagions and diffusion.
2008-2009
Paul
Milgrom's Mini-Course: "Auction
Consulting: Practical Uses of Economics and Game Theory"
Tuesday,
Oct. 7
"Advising
bidders: how economic and game theoretic analysis has
led to superior bidder performance"
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Jacobs Center Room G42
Tuesday,
Oct. 14
"Advising designers: how economic and game theoretic analysis continues to influence
government auctioneers"
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Jacobs Center Room G42
Yuliy
Sannikov's Mini-Course: "Dynamic Games
in Continuous Time"
Monday,
Oct. 27
Time: 1:00-3:00pm
Jacobs Center Room
2245
Notes
Wednesday,
Oct. 29
Time:1:00-3:00pm
Jacobs Center Room G43
Notes
2007-2008
The inaugural
'teacher' in the series is Professor Arthur
Robson of Simon Fraser University. Robson is the Canada
Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution and Fellow
of the Econometric Society. His mini-course will be on economics
and evolution.
Course
Schedule:
Monday
March 10
12:10-1:10pm
Jacobs Center Room G45
Tuesday
March 11
12:10-1:10pm
Jacobs Center Room G45
Wednesday
March 12
3:30 to 5:00pm
Jacobs Center Room G36
Thursday
March 13
12:10-1:10pm
Jacobs Center Room G45
Friday
March 14
12:10-1:10pm
Jacobs Center Room G43
Topics
will be based on these readings:
INTRODUCTION
Robson, A.J. "The
Biological Basis of Economic Behavior," J. Econ. Lit. 29
(2001), 11-33.
Robson, A.J. "Evolution
and Human Nature," J. Econ. Perspectives 16 (2002), 89-106.
UTILITY Robson, A.J. "Why
Would Nature Give Individuals Utility Functions?," J. Polit.
Econ. 109 (2001), 900-914. Rayo, L., and
Becker, G. "Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness," University
of Chicago WP (2005).
RISK
Bergstrom,
T.C "Storage for Good Times and Bad: Of Rats and Men," UCSB
WP (2005).
Cooper W. S.,
R. H. Kaplan. 1982. Adaptive "coin-flipping": a decision-theoretic
examination of natural selection for random individual
variation. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 94:135--151.
Grafen, A. "Formal
Darwinism, the individual-as-maximizing-agent analogy and
bet-hedging," Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences 266, 799-803.
Karni, E. and
Schmeidler, D. "Self-Preservation as a Foundation of Rational
Behavior Under Risk," J. Econ. Behav. Organ. 1986, 7, 71-82.
Robson, A.J. "A
Biological Basis for Expected and Non-Expected Utility," J.
Econ. Theory, 1996, 68, 397-424.
Robson, A.J. "The
Evolution of Attitudes to Risk: Lottery Tickets and Relative
Wealth," Games Econ. Behav. 1996, 14, 190-207.
ALTRUISM TO KIN
Bergstrom,
T.C. "On the Evolution of Altruistic Rules for Siblings," Amer.
Econ. Rev. 1995, 85, 58-81.
Bergstrom,
T.C. "Economics in a Family Way," J. Econ. Lit. 1996, 34,
1903-1934.
TIME PREFERENCE
Dasgupta, P.
and Maskin, E. "Uncertainty and Hyperbolic Discounting," Amer.
Econ. Rev. 1995, 95, 1290-1299.
Hansson, I.
and Stuart, C. "Malthusian Selection of Preferences," Amer.
Econ. Rev. 1990, 80, 529-544.
Robson, A and
Samuelson L "The Evolution of Intertemporal Preferences",
American Economic Review 97 (2007), 496-500.
_________________________"The
Evolution of Impatience with Aggregate Uncertainty" WP, Yale
and SFU
Robson, A.J.
and Szentes, B. "Evolution of Time Preference by Natural
Selection: Comment'' American Economic Review forthcoming.
Robson, A.J.,
Szentes, B., and Iantchev, E. "On the Evolution of Time Preference," Chicago
WP (2006)
Rogers, A. "Evolution
of Time Preference by Natural Selection," Amer. Econ. Rev.
1994, 84, 460-481.
Sozou, P. "On
Hyperbolic Discounting and Uncertain Hazard Rates," Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London: Series B 265 (1998), 2015-2020.
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