Topics in Economic Theory, Spring-Summer 2000

Ariel Rubinstein

TAM V'NISHLAM!!!!

We have completed this year 17 meetings. I learnt a lot. I hope you did as well.

It is not clear if and when we will resume the seminar.

Have an enjoyable summer

Ariel

Participants:
Name e-mail
Dudi Dillenberger dudid@netvision.net.il
Oren Drori drorio@post.ac.il
Kfir Eliaz eliaz@post.tau.ac.il
Uri Halperson urihal@post.tau.ac.il
Yoram Hamo yoram@econ.tau.ac.il
Michal Ilan michalil@netvision.net.il
Sigal Leviatan sigall@math.tau.ac.il
Shai Nathaniel ramn@netvision.net.il
Orit Ronen rorit@post.tau.ac.il

Here are some (Tali, Uri, Sigal, Michal, Shai) of the particpants in the seminar in 1999-2000 in a typical position.

Future Topics
Number Topic Description References
1 The coase Theorem A critical discussion of this famous paper Economics and Philosophy October 1999.
2 Writing costs and Contract Incompleteness An attempt to embed BR into contract incompleteness Battigalli, P. and G. Maggi "Writing Costs and Contract Incompleteness"
3 Markets and Complexity A Model of Markets with complexity considerations. Sabourian, H. "Bargaining and Markets: complexity and the Walrasian outcome"
4 Inflation and Welfare Apresnetation of a major economic issue.  I look for a critical presentation. Lucas, R. Inflation and Wlefare, Econometrica, 68, 247-274.
5 Fair Queuing Moulin, H. and Stong, R. Fair Queuing and other Probablisitic Al;location Methods, Rice Univ April 2000
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Previous talks this year:

Number Speaker Topic References
1 Rani Dynamic Voting Roberts, K: "Dynamic Voting in Clubs"
2-3 Yoram Entropy Neyman A. and D.Okada Repeated Games with Bounded Entropy
4 Tali Coase
5 Ariel Procedural Rat Equilibrium Games with Procedurally Rational Players, with M.Osborne, American Economic Review 88 (1998), 834-847.
6 Orit  (2/3) Logics and GT  Card games: H.P. van Ditmarsch, The logic of knowledge games: showing a card . In: Proceedings of the Netherlands/Belgium Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 99), 35-42. Maastricht University 1999.

Friedman, D. (1998), Monty Hall's 3 doors:..."AER, 88, 933-946.

See http://www.wiskit.com/marilyn/marilyn.html (yoram's suggestion)

7 Uri (9/3) Self control in decision making Last year we read Gul ,F. and W.pesendorfer "Temptation and self Control"  and my suggestion for this year "Self control and the Theory of Consumption"
8 Kfir (16/3) His paper
9 Sigal (30/3) Newcomb Paradox Nozick, R. "Newcamb's Problem and two Principles of Choice".
10 Oren

(13/4)

Welfare and Time Caplin,A. and J.Leahy:

"The optimal suppression of Information"

11 Yoram

(4/5)

Logic and Games Johan van-Bentham  Lecture notes on Logic and Games
12 Dudi

(11/5)

Rany's unified proof of Arrow+Gibbard Reny, P.  "Arrow's Theorem and the Gibbard-Satterwhaite Theorem: A Unified Approach"
13 ariel

(18/5)

On the logic of argumentation in debates Glazer, K. and A.Rubinstein "Debates and Decisions, On a Rationale of Argumentation Rules"
14 Kfir (2/6) Arguments in debates Spiegler, Rani "Pro arguments, con arguements..."
15 Kfir

(13/7)

Incomplete contracts with costs Battigalli, P. and G. Maggi "Writing Costs and Contract Incompleteness".
16 Oren D.

(20/7)

Hyperbolic discounting "Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting" - David Laibson, QJE, 1997, 443-77. 
17 Michal

(10/8)

Economics and Reciprocity Fehr,E. and S.Gachter "Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity"