Paper-tasting on mathematical economics and the real world - Wed., 21 May

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

Paper-tasting on mathematical economics and the real world

On Wednesday May 21st, from 9:30 to 12:30, in the UNESCO room of Galileo 
guesthouse, the students of the QLS Diploma will give presentations on
some foundational papers in mathematical economics.

Each presentation aims at giving the main flavor of the paper and it 
will last 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes of discussion, according to the
schedule below.

You are all most welcome to attend

9:30 - 9:45 Annette Diffo: Ants, rationality, and recruitment A Kirman, 
The Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 1993

9:45 - 10:00 Asia Munaza: Nowak, M. A. (2006) "Five Rules for the 
Evolution of Cooperation."
Science, 314(5805), 1560–1563.

10:00 - 10:15 Juan Velez: The logic of asymmetric contests JM Smith, GA 
Parker
Animal behaviour, 1976

10:15 - 10:30 Layal Tannous: Evolutionarily stable preferencesI Alger
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023

11:00 - 11:15 Meli Djou: Duncan Black (1948). "On the Rationale of Group 
Decision-making."
Journal of Political Economy, 56(1), 23–34.

11:15 - 11:30 Mohau Phohleli: Morris, S., & Shin, H. S. (1998). "Unique 
Equilibrium in a Model of
Self-Fulfilling Currency Attacks."
American Economic Review, 88(3), 587–597.

11:30 - 11:45 Rolland Alinda: Bikhchandani, S., Hirshleifer, D., & 
Welch, I. (1992). "A Theory of
Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades."
Journal of Political Economy, 100(5), 992–1026.

11:45 - 12:00 Simo Dikande: Gale, D., & Shapley, L. S. (1962). "College 
Admissions and the Stability
of Marriage."
The American Mathematical Monthly, 69(1), 9–15.

12:00 - 12:15 Solafa Fadlallah: The role of institutions in the revival 
of trade: The law merchant,
private judges, and the champagne fairs
PR Milgrom, DC North, BR Weingast, Economics & Politics, 1990

12:15 - 12:30 Theophilus Frimpong: Glosten, L. R., & Milgrom, P. R. 
(1985). "Bid, Ask and Transaction
Prices in a Specialist Market with Heterogeneously Informed Traders."
Journal of Financial Economics, 14(1), 71–100.