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The EDN hosts an annual Winter School on advanced topics related to Economic Design. The purpose of the Winter School is to provide access to advanced teaching in topics at the research frontier for PhD students and early career researchers.
The EDN provides full travel and accommodation scholarships for PhD students, and charges no tuition fee to EDN members.
The EDN Winter schools have been exceptional. They have been instrumental in getting excellent researchers to the Australian region and the interaction with them has been very beneficial, both in terms of talking and learning about their research and getting comments on our research. – EDN Program Participant Survey Responses
This is a BRILLIANT initiative for our young researchers. Advanced coursework is now an integral part of every top-tier PhD programme internationally, but it is very expensive to implement at each individual Australasian University. The PhD Winter School provides a cost-effective alternative. It gives our students access to intensive courses in frontier theory/method delivered by world leading scholars. – EDN Program Participant Survey Responses
This is a fantastic opportunity for PhDs and ECRs to hear the best international scholars in their areas of expertise. My PhD students have participated with substantial broadening of their horizons and deepening of their knowledge. – EDN Program Participant Survey Responses
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| EDNWS2010: New Developments in Decision Theory |
Dates & Venue: 19 July – 23 July 2010, University of Queensland
Presenters: Professor Simon Grant (Rice University, Texas) and Professor Bob Chambers (University of Maryland)
Decision making under uncertainty is an integral part of economic theory and practice. The School of Economics, University of Queensland will host a 5-day workshop on this topic with two prominent international economists, Professor Bob Chambers of the University of Maryland and Professor Simon Grant of Rice University. Both are internationally recognised experts in the field. The course will cover models of production, consumption and general decision making, running from the basic foundations of the theory to recent developments. Topics will include: state-contingent production, production-based asset pricing, production insurance, the equity-premium paradox, subjective expected utility, alternatives to expected utility theory, modeling unforeseen contingencies and subjective state spaces, and ambiguity.
For more information on the EDN Winter School please visit:
http://pluto.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/winterschool2010/
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| EDNWS09: Repeated Games and Reputations |
Dates & Venue:15 Jul 2009 to 21 Jul 2009, The University of New South Wales
Presenters: Presenters: Professor George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania) and Professor Larry Samuelson (Yale University)
The 2009 Winter School will be devoted to the study of repeated games and reputations. The course will begin with the basics of repeated games of complete information, including the formulation of the problem, equilibrium concepts, and basic analytical techniques such as the one-shot deviation principal and self-generation. These will be used to derive the basic folk theorem results and explore applications. Attention will then turn to the theory of games of imperfect public monitoring, with particular emphasis on techniques for bounding sets of equilibrium payoffs, again culminating in a folk theorem. The course will continue to cover recent work on repeated games of private monitoring and reputations.
For more information on the EDN Winter School please visit:
http://pluto.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/winterschool2009/
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| EDNWS08: Money and Pricing |
Dates & Venue:04 Jul 2008 to 08 Jul 2008, University of Melbourne
PRESENTERS: Professor R. Preston McAfee (Caltech & Yahoo Research) Professor Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)
TOPICS: "Money and Pricing": lectures in monetary theory and pricing.
Professor McAfee's lectures will focus on pricing. Topics include monopoly pricing, price discrimination, peak-load pricing, matching problems, dynamic pricing, price dispersion, experience goods, the Coase conjecture, and auction theory. The emphasis will be on the common framework that binds these topics together, contrasting results, and on choosing which framework to use in different modelling environments.
Professor Wright's lectures will focus on monetary theory in a frictional environment. Topics will include the foundations of money as a medium of exchange, search and bargaining models of money and prices, the application of monetary theory to monetary data, and policy analysis. Emphasis will be placed on the development of an internally consistent theory of money based on game theoretic microfoundations.
For more information on the EDN Winter School please visit:
http://pluto.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/winterschool2008/
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| EDNWS07: Topics in Auctions: theory & experiments |
Dates & Venue:07 Jun 2007 to 13 Jun 2007, University of Sydney
PRESENTERS: Professor Jacob Goeree (Caltech) Professor Vijay Krishna (Pennsylvanis State University)
TOPICS: The Topics in Auctions: Theory and Experiments (TATE) workshop will consist of two related components.
Professor Vijay Krishna: This five-lecture course will be a self-contained
survey of the economics of auctions and bidding using tools from
game theory. Features of the common auction formats and how they
compare both in terms of revenue and economic efficiency will be
studied. Privatization policy and the design of auction
mechanisms for this purpose will also be discussed.
Professor Jacob Goeree: This five-lecture course will be a self-contained
survey of laboratory studies of auctions. In addition to discussing the
literature, there will be web-based auction experiments the laboratory to
compare alternative formats in terms of revenue and economic
efficiency. There will also be a discussion of how auction experiments can guide privatization
policy and improve the design of high-stakes license auctions.
For more information on the EDN Winter School please visit:
http://pluto.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/ednetwork/SydneySummerWorkshop/index.html
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