Maastricht Lecture Series in Economics

Fall 2011


MLSE is a (mostly) bi-weekly event jointly organized by the Department of Economics and the Department of Quantitative Economics.
It aims to give researchers the opportunity to present their ongoing work and to facilitate cooperation among them.

   

      September 2011:

  • Date and Location: Monday, September 12, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenters: Christian W. Bach & Andrés Perea
    Title: Common Belief in Utility Proportional Beliefs
    Authors: Christian W. Bach & Andrés Perea (KE / EpiCenter + KE)
    abstract

     

  • Date and Location: Monday, September 26, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Jan Klingelhofer
    Title:
    The Swing Voters' Blessing
    Authors: Jan Klingelhofer (RWTH Aachen)
    abstract
    paper
     

      October 2011:

  • Date and Location: Monday, October 3, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: János Flesch
    Title:
    Subgame-perfect Equilibria in Games with Perfect Information
    Authors:
    János Flesch
    & Jeroen Kuipers & Gijs Schoenmakers & Koos Vrieze (KE / DKE / DKE / DKE)
    abstract
     

  • Date and Location: Monday, October 17, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Li Xinyu
    Title:
    Strategic Information Disclosure
    Authors: Li Xinyu & Ronald Peeters (AE1 / AE1)

    abstract

     

  • Date and Location: Monday, October 31, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Manu Muńoz-Herrera
    Title:
    Productive Exchange Network Games
    Authors: Manu Muńoz-Herrera,
    Jacob Dijkstra, Rafael Wittek (University of Groningen)
    abstract
     

      November 2011:

  • Date and Location: Monday, November 7, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Matthijs van Veelen
    Title: In and out of equilibrium: evolution of strategies in repeated games with discounting and population structure
    Author: Matthijs van Veelen, Julián García (University of Amsterdam)
    abstract

     

  • Date and Location: Monday, November 14, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Murat Öztürk
    Title: 
    Strategy-proofness under tow-dimensional single-dipped preferences
     Authors: Murat Öztürk, Hans Peters, Ton Storcken
    abstract
     

  • Date and Location: Monday, November 21, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Nikita Krugljakov
    Title: Social closure and  social norms - an experimental test of Coleman (1988)
    Authors: Nikita Krugljakov & Martin Strobel (AE1 / AE1)
    abstract

     

  • Date and Location: Monday, November 28, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Elnaz Bajoori
    Title: On the definition of perfect equilibrium in Bayesian Games
    Authors: Elnaz Bajoori, János Flesch, Dries Vermeulen
    abstract
     

      December 2011:

  • Date and Location: Monday, December 19, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Vasilis Gkatzelis
    Title: Decentralized Welfare-Optimizing Mechanisms for Scheduling Games
    Authors: Richard Cole, Jose Correa, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Vahab Mirrokni, and Neil Olver
    abstract
    paper
     


 2012

 

January 2012:

  • Date and Location: Monday, January 16, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Zsombor Z. Méder
    Title: Optimal choice for finite and infinite horizons
    Author: János Flesch & Zsombor Z. Méder & Ronald Peeters (KE / AE1 / AE1)
    abstract
     

    February 2012:

 

 

  • Date and Location: Monday, February 27, 12:00, room A1.22 (Meteor Seminar)
    Presenter: Mamoru Kaneko (University of Tsukuba)
    Title: Critical Comparisons between the Nash Noncooperative Theory and Rationalizability

 

 

 

March 2012:

 

  • Date and Location: Monday, March 5, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Dominik Karos (University of Saarbrücken & KE)
    Title:
    Coalition formation

 

 

  • Date and Location: Monday, March 12, 12:00, A 0.23 (METEOR Seminar)
    Presenter: Arkadii Slinko (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
     

 

 

  • Date and Location: Monday, March 19, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Angie Mounir (KE)
    Title:
    Common Belief in Approximate Rationality
    Author: Angie Mounir,
     Andres Perea, Elias Tsakas
    abstract (upcoming)

 

 

  • Date and Location: Monday, March 26, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Akira Yokotani
    Title: Knowledge-Belief Space Approach to Robust Implementation
    Author: Akira Yokotani (KE)
    abstract

 

 

April 2012:

 

  • Date and Location: Monday, April 16, 12:00, A 0.23
    Presenter: Michele Lombardi (KE)
    Title: Natural implementation with partially honest agents
    Author: Michele Lombardi, Naoki Yoshihara
    abstract

 

      Note: MLSE spring 2011 lectures are available here

 

Organizers: Zsombor Méder (AE1), Elnaz Bajoori (KE)