Here is a list of papers that we will be discussing through the year. It is expected that all of us will have read each paper in advance of the meeting in which that paper is to be discussed.
You are welcome to add papers in your area of interest, but clear them with the instructors first.
Robert Wilson's course page at Stanford.
Some papers:
A. Rubinstein and R. Spiegler, "Money Pumps in the Market."
R. Spiegler, "The Market for Quacks."
R. Spiegler, "Competition Over Agents with Boundedly Rational Expectations."
D. Bergeman and J. Valimaki, "Bandit Problems."
E. Aragones, I. Gilboa, A. Postlewaite, D. Schmeidler, "Fact Free Learning."
Muhamet Yildiz, "Wishful Thinking in Strategic Environments."
J. Glazer and A. Rubinstein, "On Optimal Rules of Persuasion."
J. Esteban and D. Ray, "On the Salience of Ethnic Conflict."
Alessandra Casella (2005), "Storable Votes," Games and Economic Behavior 51.
Rafael Hortala-Vallve (2004), "Qualitative Voting," mimeo., London School of Economics.
H. Bar-Isaac (2003), "Reputation
and Survival: Learning in a Dynamic Signalling Model."
H. Bar-Isaac, G. Caruana and V. Cuñat (2006), "Diversity
and Demand Externalities: How Cheap Information can Reduce Welfare."
C. Hauser and H. Hopenhayn, "Trading Favors: Optimal Exchange and Forgiveness"
P. Dubey and J. Geanakoplos, "Grading Exams: Incentives in Games of Status"
P. Dubey, J. Geanakoplos and O. Haimanko, "Prizes versus Wages with Envy and Pride."
O. Haimanko, M. Le Breton, S. Weber, "The Stability Threshold and Two Facets of Polarization."
Murto and Valimaki: learning in an exit model
http://hkkk.fi/~murto/exp.pdf
Cripps-Keller-Rady on exponenetial bandits
http://www.olin.wustl.edu/faculty/cripps/EB.pdf
"The Wisdom of the Minority." Callandar and Johannes Horner
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/media/seminar-papers/horner.pdf
Meyer-Zweibel, learning and self-re-inforcing behaviour
http://www.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/ls_schmidt/symposium/S_Papers/meyer.pdf