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Mini-course on reputational bargaining
12–14 November 2024
AB 2.1 (above the Lodge), St Catherine's College, Oxford
Taught by Jack Fanning (Brown)

This mini-course offers a graduate-level introduction to reputational bargaining.
Slides


Schedule:

Tuesday       12 November       9:15–10:45       lecture 1 of 3      
Wednesday       13 November       9:15–10:45       lecture 2 of 3      
Thursday       14 November       9:15–10:45       lecture 3 of 3      


More Jack:

Friday       6 December       10:00–12:30       1-on-1 meetings Brock Room, Nuffield
Friday       6 December       14:15–15:30 seminar Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building
Friday       6 December       16:00–18:00       1-on-1 meetings       2120, Manor Road Building



Mini-course on relational contracts and related topics
13–17 May 2024
Seminar Room A / Skills Lab, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Taught by Joel Watson (UCSD)

This mini-course offers a graduate-level introduction to relational contracts and related topics.
Tentative syllabus13 May:   Introduction to contracts and relational contracting;   Overview of some models and ideas in the literature.
14 May:   Modeling production and external enforcement;   Recursive methods for analysis of repeated games.
15 May:   Settings with trivial external enforcement;   Inactive contracting;   Active contracting.
16 May:   Settings with nontrivial external enforcement, active contracting;   Further topic 1.
17 May:   Further topic 2.
Possible further topics:   matching and relational contracting;   shocks and fragility;   asymmetric information;   multilateral relational contracts;   coalitions.
Readings:   A good starting point is this issue of JITE (we will sample some of the papers) and this AR article.


Schedule:

Monday       13 May       9:15–10:45       Seminar Room A       lecture 1 of 5       slides       video recording
Tuesday       14 May       9:15–10:45       Seminar Room A       lecture 2 of 5       video recording
Wednesday       15 May       9:15–10:45       Skills Lab       lecture 3 of 5       video recording
Thursday       16 May       9:15–10:45       Seminar Room A       lecture 4 of 5       video recording
Friday       17 May       9:15–10:45       Seminar Room A       lecture 5 of 5       slides       video recording


More Joel:

Friday       3 May       10:00–12:30       1-on-1 meetings JCR, Nuffield
Friday       3 May       14:15–15:30 seminar Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building
Friday       3 May       16:00–18:00       1-on-1 meetings       2120, Manor Road Building



Mini-course on repeated games and reputations
4–7 March 2024
Skills Lab, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Taught by Harry Pei (Northwestern)

This mini-course offers a graduate-level introduction to repeated games and reputations.


Schedule:

Monday       4 March       15:00–16:30       lecture 1 of 3       slides       video recording
Wednesday       6 March       15:30–17:00       lecture 2 of 3       slides       video recording
Thursday       7 March       10:30–12:00       lecture 3 of 3       slides       video recording


More Harry:

Friday       8 March       10:00–12:30       1-on-1 meetings JCR, Nuffield
Friday       8 March       14:15–15:30 seminar Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building
Friday       8 March       16:00–18:00       1-on-1 meetings       2120, Manor Road Building



Mini-course on dynamic mechanism design
8–11 May 2023
Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Taught by Rohit Lamba (Penn State)

This mini-course offers a graduate-level introduction to dynamic mechanism design.
Tentative syllabus


Schedule:

Monday       8 May       10:00–11:30       lecture 1 of 3       video recording
Tuesday       9 May       10:00–11:30       lecture 2 of 3       video recording
Thursday       11 May       10:00–11:30       lecture 3 of 3       video recording


Participants:
Dağhan Carlos Akkar,  Elizabeth Baldwin,  Yayun Chen,  Péter Eső,  Brooklyn Han,  Chris Hyland,  Ian Jewitt,  Hao Jiang,  Sanjari Kalantri,  Stefania Merone,  Meg Meyer,  Inés Moreno de Barreda,  Paula Onuchic,  Matthew Oulton,  Aleksei Parakhonyak,  Manos Perdikakis,  Ludvig Sinander,  Ahmed Tohamy,  Hubert Wu


More Rohit:

Tuesday       9 May       14:00–17:30       one-on-one meetings      JCR, Nuffield      
Thursday       11 May       13:00–14:00       Rohit presenting in Departmental seminar       Seminar Room A, Manor Road Building