First round set of papers.

Matt Jackson and Hugo Sonnenschein (2005), "Overcoming Incentive Constraints by Linking Decisions," forthcoming, Econometrica. Here is a longer version of this paper with more discussion and examples.

tentative assignment: Anja

Andrea Wilson (2003), "Bounded Memory and Biases in Information Processing," mimeo.

tentative assignment: Gil

Marco Battaglini (2005), "Long-Term Contracting with Markovian Consumers," American Economic Review.

tentative assignment: Niyati

Jean-Pierre Benoit and Efe Ok (2005), "Delay Aversion," mimeo. Related to the time-consistency literature.

tentative assignment: Victor

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel and Luis Rayo (2005), "The Power of the Last Word in Legislative Policy Making," forthcoming, Econometrica.

tentative assignment: Pietro

Al Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver (2004), "Kidney Exchange," forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics and "Pairwise Kidney Exchange," forthcoming Journal of Economic Theory.

tentative assignment: Marina

Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray (1999), "Conflict and Distribution," Journal of Economic Theory 87, 379--415. Related to Esteban and Ray (1994), "On the Measurement of Polarization," [JSTOR Link] Econometrica 62(4), 819--851 and J-Y Duclos, Esteban and Ray (2004) "Polarization: Concepts, Measurement, Estimation," Econometrica 72, 1737--1772.

tentative assignment: Maria-Eugenia

Second round set of papers

Networks: Matt Jackson (2005), "The Economics of Social Networks,'' Based on a lecture, to appear in the Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society, edited by Richard Blundell, Whitney Newey, and Torsten Persson, Cambridge University Press.

Also see: Antoni Calvo-Armengol and Matt Jackson (2004), "The Effects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality," American Economic Review 24.

assigned to: Marina

Behavioral: Gul, F. and W. Pesendorfer (2001), "Temptation and Self-Control," Econometrica, and Gul, F. and W. Pesendorfer (2002), "A Theory of Addiction," mimeo.

assigned to: Pietro

Kfir Eliaz, Debraj Ray and Ronny Razin (2005), "Group Decision-Making in the Shadow of Disagreement," forthcoming, Journal of Economic Theory.

assigned to: Anja

Other papers

Eddie Dekel and Yossi Feinberg (2005), "Non-Bayesian Testing of an Expert," and "A Category Test that Cannot be Manipulated." Anybody doing this should read some background literature to some extent.

Bargaining and repeated games: Dilip Abreu and Faruk Gul (2000), "Bargaining and Reputation," Econometrica 68, 85--117. An extension of the behavioral types idea to repeated games is to be found in Abreu and Pearce (2005).

Dynamic Contracting: Garance Genicot and Debraj Ray (2005), "Contracts and Externalities: How Things Fall Apart," forthcoming, Journal of Economic Theory.

Lobbying/Political Economy: Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray (2005), "Inequality, Lobbying and Resource Allocation," forthcoming, American Economic Review.

Mechanisms and Preference Intensities (broadly related to Jackson-Sonnenschein):

Alessandra Casella (2005), "Storable Votes," Games and Economic Behavior 51.

Rafael Hortala-Vallve (2004), "Qualitative Voting," mimeo., London School of Economics.