University of Chicago Department of Economics & Graduate School of Business Joint Workshop in Economic Theory / Theory of Organizations Fall, 2002 Schedule
September 23*	Robert Gibbons, MIT ”s Happens: The (Long-Dormant) Relational-Adaptation Theory of the Firm" and “Four Formal(izable) Theories of the Firm"  *PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE TO ROSENWALD 301!
September 30	Ulf Axelson, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business "Bundling, Rationing, and Dispersion Strategies in Private and Common Value Auctions”
October 7	Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University ”Competing Auctions” and “Knife-Edge or Plateau: When do Market Models Tip.”
October 14	Robert Townsend, University of Chicago, Department of Economics ”Mechanism Design and Assignment Models”
October 21	Maxwell Stinchcombe, University of Texas, Austin ”Finiticity in Measurable -Continuous Games”
October 28	Augustin Landier, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business ”Entrepreneurial Pressure, Innovation, and Rent Cannibalization”
November 4	Boyan Jovanovic, NYU / University of Chicago, Department of Economics ”Bidder Discounts and Target Premia in Takeovers.” (joint with Serguey Braguinsky)
November 11	Mathias Dewatripont, Free University of Brussels ”Moral Hazard and Capital Structure Dynamics”
November 18	Peter Klibanoff, Northwestern University ”A Smooth Model of Decision Making Under Ambiguity"
November 25	Jose Maria Liberti, University of Chicago, Department of Economics (Job market student) ”Initiative, Incentives and Soft Information: How Does Delegation Impact the Role of Bank Relationship Managers?.”
December 2	Balazs Szentes, University of Chicago, Department of Economics ”TBA”

Meeting Information

The workshop meets in Rosenwald 405 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Papers can be downloaded from this web page. In addition, a limited number of copies will be available at the seminar. 

Organizers: Ulf Axelson, GSB (834-4079, ulf.axelson@gsb.uchicago.edu), Roger Myerson, Dept. of Economics (702-9013, myerson@uchicago.edu), and Per Strömberg, GSB (702-0471, per.stromberg@gsb.uchicago.edu).

Administrative assistants: Ada Barbosa, Social Science Building 522 (702-6576, abarbosa@uchicago.edu) and Gwen Tillman, Rosenwald 331 (702-0053, gwen.tillman@gsb.uchicago.edu)

Past WTO Workshops

Spring 02

Fall 01

Spring 01

Fall 00

Spring 00

Fall 99

Spring 99

Fall 98

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Last updated October 1, 2002  by Per Strömberg