Seminars are held Fridays from 2:30-4:00 p.m. in Room 747 in the Politics Department at 726 Broadway.

Coordinators:
Prof. Catherine Hafer @ (212) 992-9679 or catherine.hafer@nyu.edu
Prof. Alessandro Lizzeri @ (212) 998-8907 or alessandro.lizzeri@nyu.edu

February 28 Mattias K. Polborn (University of Western Ontario) "Robust Political Equilibria Under Plurality and Runoff Rule." (with Matthias Messner)

March 7 Sandro Brusco (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid/NYU, Stern) "On Enhanced Cooperation." (with Massimo Bordignon)

March 14 Eric Maskin (Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton) "The Politician and the Judge: Accountability and Judgement." (with Jean Tirole)

March 28 David Austen-Smith (Northwestern) "Deliberation and Voting Rules." (with Tim Feddersen)

April 11 Branislav Slantchev (University of California, San Diego) "The Principle of Convergence in Wartime Negotiations." (Note that it depends heavily on results in the more technical "Markov Perfect Equilibrium in a Stochastic Bargaining Model.")

April 18 David Epstein (Columbia) "Democratic Transitions." (with Robert Bates, Jack Goldstone, Ida Kristensen, and Sharyn O'Halloran)

April 25 Matthew O.Jackson (Caltech) "The Linking of Collectove Decisions and Efficiency." (with Hugo F. Sonnenschein)

May 2 Marco Battaglini (Princeton, visiting at MIT) "Trust, Coordination and the Industrial Organization of Political Activism." (with Roland Benabou)