NetEcon Group

EECS Department, UC Berkeley

Members:

  • Faculty: Prof. Jean Walrand, Prof. Venkat Anantharam, Prof. John Musacchio (UCSC), Prof. Pravin Varaiya
  • Graduate Students:  Nikhil Shetty, Assane Gueye, Christophe Choumert, Libin Jiang, Jiwoong Lee
  • Undergraduate: Harsha Tummala
  • Visitors: Dr. Shyam Parekh, Galina Schwartz, Siamak Ayani, Dr. Rahul Jain
  • Alumni: Yusuf Butun (IU Germany), Antonis Dimakis

Meetings and Announcements:

  • Meeting Time
    • Monday 1:30 – 300 pm 258 Cory Hall, Qualcomm Room.
  • Announcements
    • Pick a paper from the Reading Group Papers list or your own ideas to present and mail NIKHILS [AT] EECS to schedule.

Broad Schedule of Talks:

Reading Group Papers:

If you have an interesting paper which may be discussed at the meetings, please mail me at NIKHILS [AT] EECS.

·         “The problem of social cost” – Ronald H. Coase.

·         “How much is enough?” – Kevin Soohoo.

·         “Computer Security Strength & Risk: A Quantitative Approach” – Schechter.

·         “The Market for “Lemons”” – George Akerlof.

·         “System Reliability and Free Riding” – Hal Varian.

·         “Internalizing Externalities of Loss-Prevention using Insurance Monopoly” – Annete Hofmann.

Presentations & Reviews:

·         11/20/06 – Siamak Ayani on Transaction Costs as introduced by R H Coase.

·         12/04/06 – Nikhil Shetty on Computer security from Kevin Soohoo’s thesis.

·         12/11/06 – Galina Schwartz on Uncertainty, Lemons and Missing Markets using Akerlof’s result.

·         01/22/07 – Christophe on System Reliability and Free Riding by Hal Varian.

·         01/29/07 – Galina on Free Riding in Networks with applications to network security and reliability.

·         02/05/07 – Galina on Internalizing Externalities of Loss-Prevention using Insurance Monopoly by Annete Hofmann.

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