Applied Theory Workshop
(formerly Workshop in the Theory of Organizations)
in conjunction with the Center for Applied Theory
Schedule and Location
Mondays 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the Harper Center Conference Room 3BWhen possible workshop papers are posted to the Workshop website.
Joyce Van Grondelle
Workshop Assistant
joyce@chicagobooth.edu
773.834.8171
Harper Center Room 344
Spring 2009
March 30 (Week 1)
"No Firm Is an Island: The Institutional Structure of Production in the Presence of the Price Mechanism" (with Robert Gibbons and Michael Powell)
Richard Holden, University of ChicagoApril 6 (Week 2)
"Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs"
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, University of ChicagoApril 13 (Week 3)
"Bayesian Persuasion" (with Matthew Gentzkow)
Emir Kamenica, University of ChicagoApril 20 (Week 4)
"Optimal Auction Design: A Field Experiment" (no paper)
Michael Schwartz, Yahoo! Research (Center for Applied Theory visitor for this week)April 27 (Week 5)
No Meeting
May 4 (Week 6)
"Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium" (with Robert Shimer and Randall Wright)
Veronica Guerrieri, University of ChicagoMay 11 (Week 7)
"Public Agency Games with Aggregate Representations" (with David Martimort)
Lars Stole, University of ChicagoMay 18 (Week 8)
No Meeting
May 25 (Week 9)
Holiday -- Memorial Day
Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford (Center for Applied Theory visitor for this week)June 1 (Week 10)
"Organize to Compete" (with Wouter Dessein and Ricardo Alonso)
Niko Matouschek, Northwestern
Past Workshops