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 | |
| 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 | |
| 6 | |||
| 7 |
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" |