Symposium on Search Theory in Economics
September 18-19, 2009
SPONSORED BY: Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and Journal of Economic Theory
ORGANIZERS: Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University) and Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
FRIDAY | |
12:00 | Lunch |
1:15 | Opening Remarks |
1:30 | Rasmus Lentz (University Wisconsin-Madison), "Sorting by Search Intensity" [Slides] |
2:30 | Daniel Sanches and Stephen Williamson (Washington University–St. Louis), "Money and Credit with Limited Commitment and Theft" [Slides] |
3:30 | Break |
4:00 | Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania) and Shouyong Shi (University of Toronto), "Block Recursive Equilibria for Stochastic Models of Search on the Job" [Slides] |
5:00 | Rafael Silveira (Bank of America) and Randall Wright (University Wisconsin-Madison), "Liquidity and the Market for Ideas" |
7:30 | Dinner, Ibiza Restaurant, 39 High Street |
SATURDAY | |
8:00 | Continental Breakfast |
9:00 | David Andolfatto (Simon Fraser University), "Essential Interest-Bearing Money" [Slides] |
10:00 | Ehsan Ebrahimy and Robert Shimer (University of Chicago), "Stock-Flow Matching" [Slides] |
11:00 | Break |
11:30 | Jan Eeckhout (University of Pennsylvania and Univ. Pompeu Fabra) and Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania), "Sorting vs. Screening: Prices as Optimal Competitive Sales Mechanisms" |
12:30 | Lunch |
1:30 | Darrell Duffie (Stanford University), Semyon Malamud (ETH Zurich), and Gustavo Manso (MIT), "The Relative Contributions of Private Information Sharing and Public Information Releases to Information Aggregation" [Slides] |
2:30 | Ricardo Lagos (New York University), "Some Results on the Optimality and Implementation of the Friedman Rule in the Search Theory of Money" |
3:30 | Break |
4:00 | James Albrecht, Axel Anderson, and Susan Vroman (Georgetown University), "Search by Committee" [Slides] |
5:00 | Kenneth Burdett (University of Pennsylvania) and Melvyn Coles (Essex University), "Wage/Tenure Contracts with Heterogeneous Firms" |
6:00 | Adjourn |
James Albrecht (Georgetown University) Axel Anderson (Georgetown University) David Andolfatto (Simon Fraser University) Kenneth Burdett (University of Pennsylvania) Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (University of Leicester) Ehsan Ebrahimy (University of Chicago) Rasmus Lentz (University Wisconsin-Madison) Jan Eeckhout (University of Pennsylvania & University Pompeu Fabra) Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania) Ricardo Lagos (New York University) |
Lucy Qian Liu (IMF) Gustavo Manso (MIT) Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania) Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University) Daniel Sanches (Washington University-St. Louis) Susan Schulze (Journal of Economic Theory) Karl Shell (Cornell University) Shouyong Shi (University of Toronto) Susan Vroman (Georgetown University) Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |