Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

SYMPOSIUM ON SEARCH THEORY IN ECONOMICS

September 18 – 19, 2009

SPONSORS
Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics
and Journal of Economic Theory		 ORGANIZERS
Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University)
Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Location: Yale University, 202 Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT

List of Attendees

As of July 23, 2009, please check back for updates

FRIDAY, September 18, 2009
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:30 Opening Remarks
1:30-2:30 Sorting by Search Intensity
     Rasmus Lentz (University Wisconsin-Madison)
2:30-3:30 Money and Credit with Limited Commitment and Theft  [Slides]
     Daniel Sanches (Washington University–St. Louis)
     Stephen Williamson (Washington University–St. Louis)
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:00 Block Recursive Equilibria for Stochastic Models of Search on the Job  [Slides]
     Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania)
     Shouyong Shi (University of Toronto)
5:00-6:00 Liquidity and the Market for Ideas
     Rafael Silveira (Bank of America)
     Randall Wright (University Wisconsin-Madison)
7:30 Dinner, Ibiza Restaurant, 39 High Street, New Haven

SATURDAY, September 19, 2009
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Essential Interest-Bearing Money  [Slides]
     David Andolfatto (Simon Fraser University)
10:00-11:00 Stock-Flow Matching
     Ehsan Ebrahimy (University of Chicago)
     Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Sorting vs. Screening: Prices as Optimal Competitive Sales Mechanisms
     Jan Eeckhout (University of Pennsylvania and Univ. Pompeu Fabra)
     Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 The Relative Contributions of Private Information Sharing and Public Information Releases to Information Aggregation
     Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
     Semyon Malamud (ETH Zurich)
     Gustavo Manso (MIT)
2:30-3:30 Some Results on the Optimality and Implementation of the Friedman Rule in the Search Theory of Money
     Ricardo Lagos (New York University)
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:00 Search by Committee
     James Albrecht (Georgetown University)
     Axel Anderson (Georgetown University)
     Susan Vroman (Georgetown University)
5:00-6:00 Wage/Tenure Contracts with Heterogeneous Firms
     Kenneth Burdett (University of Pennsylvania)
     Melvyn Coles (Essex University)
6:00 Adjourn
ATTENDEES
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)
Jan Eeckhout (University of Pennsylvania and
   University Pompeu Fabra)
Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania)
Ricardo Lagos (New York University)
Rasmus Lentz (University Wisconsin-Madison)		 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)

Last Updated: September 16, 2009