CANCELED: 2024 Minnesota Lecture: Myrna Wooders

" From cooperation to price-taking. equilibrium in economies with clubs, with monopolists of information, and with local public goods; an elementary approach"
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Event Location
Hanson Hall 1-108

1925 S 4th St
Minneapolis, MN 55455

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED

Join us on April 5 at 4:00 pm for Myrna Wooders' presentation: "From cooperation to price-taking. equilibrium in economies with clubs, with monopolists of information, and with local public goods; an elementary approach."

This presentation will use mathematical techniques accessible to first year graduate students in economics but illustrates that, unless small groups are effective for the realization of all or almost all games to coalition formation, economies with many players are not competitive. While some of the research studying these topics, is far more mathematical, this presentation will involve only economies with quasi-linear preferences (transferable utility).  She will start with her thesis and finish with research in progress, pointing to other literature as she goes along.
 
Following the presentation is a catered reception for graduate students and faculty in the 3rd floor library.
 

Our speaker:

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Professor Wooders (Vanderbilt) is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Economic Theory Fellow, and a Fellow of the Game Theory Society.  Among her activities, she is a Visiting Research Professor at NYUAD, Editor of Journal of Public Economic Theory, a VU Faculty Senator, a Member of GetPreCiSe (an NIH Center for Excellence in Ethics Research), and President of the Association of Public Economic Theory.

Myrna Wooders’ research has concentrated on game theory and its applications, including public economics and information economics. Her recent work has focused on problems of team/coalition formation from the perspectives of non-cooperative game theory and simulation experiments, supported by data from the field.  Her research with GetPreCiSe focuses on issues of genetic privacy and identity. Experiments using techniques from experimental economics are in the development stage for both these lines of research. Her research is currently supported by the NSF and the NIH.  She is also working on issues of prejudice and discrimination, developing theory and testing theory in the lab.

Her specializations include: Public Economics, Game Theory and Microeconomic Theory

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