Departmental Seminars
Department of
Economics
The University of Haifa
Seminar
Coordinator:
Todd R. Kaplan
room: 7065
tel: 04-824-9589, mobile: 050-2262235
todd (at) econ.haifa.ac.il
http://www.toddkaplan.com
Time & Location: Thursdays: 14:15 - 15:35, Rabin Building Room #7052
Academic Year 2009-2010
Second Semester
March 4, 2010:
Departmental Workshop:
14:15-14:35 Alan
Miller, Picnic Tables (with R. Preston McAfee)
14:35-14:55
Todd Kaplan, Benefits of Costly Voting (with Surajeet
Chakravarty and Gareth Myles)
15:00-15:45 Anna Rubinchik and
Jean-François Mertens (CORE), Regularity and
stability of equilibria in an overlapping generations
growth model
(Note Rubinchik
and Mertens will be jointly presenting the paper).
March 11,
2010:
Leif Danziger
Ben-Gurion
University
A Graduated Minimum Wage with Optimal Taxation (with Eliav
Danziger)
March 18, 2010:
Zvika Neeman
"Differential
performance in high vs. low stakes situations." (Yigal
Ataly and Analia Schlosser)
Special Seminars:
April 15, 2010:
12:30-13:50: Ehud Kalai (with
Adam Kalai)
Northwestern University
Engineering
Cooperation in Two-Player Strategic Games
14:15-15:35: Dan Seidmann
Optimal
Delegation with a Finite Number of States
April 22, 2010:
Dotan Persitz
Tel Aviv University
Power and Core-Periphery
Networks
April 29, 2010:
Ilan Fischer
Friend
or Foe: Subjective Expected Relative Similarity as a Determinant of Cooperation
May 6, 2010:
Alex Cukierman
Bailout Uncertainty, Leverage and Lehmann's
Collapse
May 13, 2010:
Menachem Abudy
Tel Aviv University
Non-Marketability and the Value of Equity Based Compensation
May 27, 2010:
Departmental Workshop:
14:15-14:45
Gabi Gayer, Imprecise Datasets as a Source for Ambiguity: A Model
and Experimental Evidence
14:45-15:15 Baruch Gliksberg, Consolidated-Budget
Rules and Macroeconomic Stability with Income-Tax and Finance Constraints
15:15-15:45 Benny Bental, Toxic
Assets in an Overlapping Generations Setting (joint with Dominique Demougin)
June 3, 2010:
Aner Sela
(with Reut Megidish)
Allocation of Prizes in Contests with
Participation Constraints
June 17, 2010:
14:15-15:00 Gilad Aharonovitz
Why Cannot Poor Countries Utilize Existing
Knowledge?
Expansion of Firms and Human Capital
Accumulation by Training
15:00-15:45 Gilad Sorek
SUNY,
Optimal Patent
Breadth for OLG Economy
First Semester
October 29, 2009:
David Wettstein
Ben-Gurion
University
Multilateral Bargaining over Coalitional
Externalities.
(with Peter Borm
and Yuan Ju)
November 5, 2009:
Stanley Fischer
Bank
of Israel
November 12, 2009:
David Weil
Brown University
Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
November 19, 2009:
Ariel Rubinstein
Tel Aviv University
Comments on Neuroeconomics and Choice Theory
November 26, 2009:
Ido Erev
Technion
The description-experience gap in risky choice. (with Ralph Hertwig)
December 3, 2009:
Raphael Frank
Bar Ilan
University
Why did religiosity decrease in the Western World during the twentieth century?Slides
December 10, 2009:
Yaniv Yedid-Levi
Stanford
Why Does Employment in All Major
Sectors Move Together over the Business Cycle?
December 17, 2009:
Itai Ashlagi
Incentive Issues in Kidney Exchange (with Duncan Gilchrist and Alvin E. Roth)
Special Seminar:
Monday:
December 21, 2009:
S.Abraham Ravid
Conflicts in Bankruptcy and the Sequence of Debt Issues (with Arturo Bris)
December 24, 2009:
Ofer Setty
Unemployment Accounts
Special Seminar:
Sunday:
December 27, 2009:
Arie Beresteanu
Duke
Sharp Identification Regions in Models with Convex Predictions: Games, Individual Choice, and Incomplete Data
December 31, 2009:
Oren Levintal
The
Real Effects of Banking Shocks: Evidence from OECD Countries
Special Seminar:
Sunday:
January 3, 2010:
Moshik Lavie
THEMA, University of Cergy-Pontoise
Wage Secrecy and
Matching in a Search Model
(with Jean-Marc Robin)
January 7, 2010:
Elad Dokow
Technion
Aggregation
of Non-Binary Evaluations
Special Seminar:
Sunday:
January 10, 2010:
Alexey Levkov
Brown
The Effect of Competition
on Unions
January 14, 2010:
Yaron Lahav
Ariel
Expectations,
Structure and Mood in Experimental Asset Markets
January 28, 2010:
Yosh Halberstam
Northwestern University
Information Contagion in Coelection Environments: Theory and Evidence from Entry and
Exit of Senators
(with B. Pablo Montagnes)