SCHEDULE – SPRING 2006
March 27
ERIC VAN DEN STEEN, MIT Sloan
"Too Motivated?"
April 3
WILLIAM P. ROGERSON, Northwestern
"Inter-temporal
Cost Allocation and
Investment Decisions."
April 10
DEAN KARLAN, Yale
"Group versus Individual Liability: A Field
Experiment in the Philippines."
http://aida.econ.yale.edu/karlan/papers/GroupversusIndividualLiability.pdf
April 17
ALESSANDRO PAVAN, Northwestern
"Efficient Use of
Information and Welfare
Analysis in Economies with Complementarities
and Asymmetric Information" (with
George-Marios Angeletos).
April 24
AUGUSTIN LANDIER, NYU Stern
"Why Has CEO Pay
Increased So Much?"
(with Xavier Gabaix)
May 1
ILYA SEGAL, Stanford Economics
"Communication in Economic
Mechanisms."
May 8
GEORGE P. BAKER, HBS
"Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in
Firm-Specific Human Capital."
May 15
TRACY LEWIS, Duke
"The Role of Lockups in
Takeover
Contests" with Yeon-Koo Che.
May 22
STEVE KAPLAN, Chicago GSB
"What Are Firms?
Evolution from Early
Business Plans to Public Companies"
with Berk Sensoy and Per Strömberg.
May 30
Memorial Day – No Workshop
June 5
WILLIAM FUCHS, Chicago
Econ
"Contracting with
Repeated Moral
Hazard and Private Evaluations."
SCHEDULE – AUTUMN 2005
September 26
ROLAND BÉNABOU, Princeton
"Incentives and Prosocial Behavior"
(with Jean Tirole).
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11535.pdf
October 3
No workshop this week.
October 10
DAVID McADAMS, MIT
"Bargaining with and without
Intermediaries" (with Michael Schwarz).
http://www.mit.edu/~mcadams/papers/renegotiate/mcadams_schwarz_bargaining.pdf
October 17
No meeting.
October 24
GUILLAUME PLANTIN, Carnegie Mellon
"'Weight of Money' Pricing and
Speculative Dynamics" (with
Hyun Song Shin).
October 31
JEREMY STEIN, Harvard & NBER
"Academic Freedom,
Private-Sector Focus,
and the Process of Innovation" (with
Phillippe Aghion and Mathias Dewatripont).
November 7
WOUTER DESSEIN, UofC GSB
"The Use of Knowledge in
Organizations"
(with Ricardo Alonso and Niko Matouschek)
No paper will be available at this time.
November 14
No meeting.
November 21
MARKUS BRUNNERMEIER, Princeton
"Market Liquidity and Funding Liquidity"
(with Lasse Pedersen).
http://www.princeton.edu/~markus/research/papers/liquidity
November 28
LANCE FORTNOW, UofC
"Distributed Information
Markets"
[based on 2 papers: "Computation in a
Distributed Information Market"
(with
J. Feigenbaum, D. Pennock, and R. Sami)
and "Betting
Boolean Style: A
Framework for Trading in
Securities Based on Logical Formulas"
(with J. Kilian, D. Pennock, and M. Wellman)]
December 5
PHILIP BOND, Wharton
"Information, Trade, and Common
Knowledge
with Endogenous Asset Values"
(with
Hülya Eraslan).
Workshop Papers: When possible, workshop papers are posted to the Workshop
website. Hard copies of the above
workshop papers will be available in GSB 344 preceding the workshop.
Contact information: Joyce Van Grondelle (Workshop Assistant) joyce@chicagogsb.edu, 773-834-8171, GSB 344.
As of 6/1/06