New Research in Economic Theory

19 West 4th Street Room 624, Th 16.00-18.20 NYU 2019

Instructor: Debraj Ray

Spring 2020

February 06:

Sasha: Matt Jackson – The Friendship Paradox and Systematic Biases in Perceptions and Social Norms (JPE 2019)

Leon: Measuring Mobility (with Genicot and Ray)

February 13: 

Mina: “From Peer Pressure to Biased Norms” by Moti Michaeli and Daniel Spiro (AEJ Micro 2017).

February 20:

Agata: "Evaluating Strategic Forecasters," by Rahul Deb, Mallesh M. Pai, and Maher Said, American Economic Review 2018, 108(10): 3057–3103

Jimena

February 27:

No class

March 05:

No class

March 12:

Sasha

Sofia

March 19:

No class (spring break)

March 26:

Sam

Paula

April 02:

Leon

TBA

April 09:

Agata

Jimena

April 16:

Isaac, "Internally Consistent Choice."

Mina, “Social Norm with Heterogeneous Conformity Preference."

April 23:

Mauricio, "Individual Choice and Social Constraints."

Visha, "Limits of Intermediated Segmentation."

April 30:

No class

May 07:

TBA

TBA

May 14:

Isaac and Mauricio, "Sequential Choice Functions."

TBA

Fall 2019

September 19:

Hargunjeet: "Dynamic Communication with Commissions."

Octavia, "Interracial Marriages and Online Dating."

September 26: 

Mauricio, "Comparative Rationality."

Sam, "Dynamic Incentives for Whistleblowing."

October 03:

Jimena "Adverse Selection in Distributive Politics," by Ali, Mihm and Siga

Isaac, "Seemingly Benevolent Choice."

October 10:

Leon, "Near Feasible Stable Matchings with Couples," by Nguyen and Vohra.

Agata, "Auctions with Limited Commitment," by Liu, Mierendorff, Shi, and Zhong

October 17:

Mina, "Collective Self-Control," by Lizzeri and Yariv

Peter, "Individual Decision Making Under Social Influence"

October 24:

Jimena, "Media Competition and Social Disagreement," by Perego and Yuksel

Sofia

October 31:

Leon

Agata, "Peer-Confirming Equilibrium," by Lipnowski and Sadler

November 07:

Sasha, "Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning," by Benabou, Falk and Tirole

Vishal, "Design Constraints for Information in Markets."

November 14: 

Paula

Yichuan

November 21:

Mina, "Redistribution through Markets," by Akbarpour, Dworczak, and Kominers

Yusufcan

November 28: Thanksgiving Recess

December 05: Sasha, TZ