New Research in Economic Theory

Student Workshop G31.3001.001 (call # 31219)

Instructor: Debraj Ray

Location: Room 624, 19 West Fourth Street

Time: Thursdays from 4:15-6:15 p.m.

Our first meeting on September 6 will be organizational. We anticipate that presentations will start the week after.

The course will involve paper presentations by graduate students. We will choose papers that we feel represent exciting new research in various areas of economic theory. Of course, your original research is also welcome but not mandatory.

The workshop will contain both students at a more advanced level in their research as well as new students coming in for the first time (usually second year students). This second group of students must register for credit. No new student can simply sit in on the course.

The course will last for one year but will count as a single-semester, four-credit course.

We will divide our two hours of time each week into two presentations of 45-50 minutes each, with a break in the middle. Students will begin by presenting "referee reports" on papers that they read --- not summaries --- and subsequently move on to presenting research proposals and papers.

This course is a requirement for anyone taking Economic Theory as a field, but it will also be a good course for anyone broadly interested in theory (micro, macro, applied). The idea is to push aggressively towards developing and implementing research ideas.