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Cowles Foundation for
Research in Economics
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)
List of Attendees |
| FRIDAY |
12:00–1:15 |
Lunch |
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1:15–1:30 |
Opening Remarks |
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1:30–2:30 |
Rasmus Lentz (University
Wisconsin-Madison), "Sorting by Search Intensity" [Slides] |
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2:30–3:30 |
Daniel Sanches and Stephen Williamson
(Washington University–St. Louis), "Money
and Credit with Limited Commitment and Theft" [Slides] |
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3:30–4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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4:00–5:00 |
Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania)
and Shouyong Shi (University of Toronto), "Block
Recursive Equilibria for Stochastic Models of Search on the Job" [Slides] |
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5:00–6:00 |
Rafael Silveira (Bank of America) and
Randall Wright (University Wisconsin-Madison), "Liquidity and the Market for
Ideas" |
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7:30 |
Dinner, Ibiza Restaurant, 39 High Street,
New Haven |
| SATURDAY |
8:00–9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00–10:00 |
David Andolfatto (Simon Fraser University),
"Essential Interest-Bearing Money"
[Slides] |
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10:00–11:00 |
Ehsan Ebrahimy and Robert Shimer
(University of Chicago), "Stock-Flow Matching" [Slides] |
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30–12:30 |
Jan Eeckhout (University of Pennsylvania
and Univ. Pompeu Fabra) and Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania), "Sorting vs. Screening: Prices as Optimal
Competitive Sales Mechanisms" |
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12:30–1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30–2:30 |
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" |
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2:30–3:30 |
Ricardo Lagos (New York University),
"Some Results on the Optimality and Implementation of the Friedman Rule in the Search
Theory of Money" |
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3:30–4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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James Albrecht, Axel Anderson, and Susan
Vroman (Georgetown University), "Search by
Committee" [Slides] |
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Kenneth Burdett (University of
Pennsylvania) and Melvyn Coles (Essex University), "Wage/Tenure Contracts with
Heterogeneous Firms" |
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6:00 |
Adjourn |