Past Economic Theory Joint with Applied Theory Workshops

March 24
Simone Cerreia Vioglio, Bocconi University
Topic: "Nonlinear Fixed Points and Stationarity: Economic Applications"

March 31
Philip Reny, University of Chicago
Topic and abstract: "Natural Language Equilibrium II: Conceivable and Inconceivable Deceptions"

April 7
Richard Holden, Harvard
Topic and paper: "Getting the Picture"

April 14
Luciano Pomatto, California Institute of Technology
Topic and paper: "Modeling information acquisition via f-divergence and duality"

April 21
Sarah Auster, University of Bonn
Topic and paper: "Pandora's Box Reopened: Robust Search and Choice Overload"

April 28
Ashwin Kambhampati, United States Naval Academy
Topic and paper: "Lexicographic Robustness and the Efficiency of Optimal Mechanisms"

May 5
Ryota Iijima, Princeton University
Topic and paper: "Auctions as Experiments"

May 12
Joel Flynn, Yale University
Topic and paper: "Resilience vs. Fragility: Global Properties of Economies with Endogenous Production Networks"

May 19
Theo Durandard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topic and paper: "Robust Regulation of Labour Contracts*"

May 26
Christopher Chambers, Georgetown University
Topic and paper: "Revealed Invariant Preference"

September 30
Zoë Hitzig, Harvard 
Topic and Paper: Contextually Private Mechanisms

October 7
Aram Grigoryan, UC San Diego
Topic and Paper: A Theory of Auditability for Allocation Mechanisms (joint with Markus Möller)

October 14
Roi Orzach, MIT
Topic and Paper: Conformity Concerns: A Dynamic Perspective

October 21
Ariel Rubinstein, New York University
Topic and Paper: Magical Implementation (coauthored with Jacob Glazer)

October 28
Axel Niemeyer, California Institute of Technology 
Topic and Paper: Extreme Points in Multi-dimensional Screening

November 4
Hector Chade, Arizona State University 

November 11
Ludvig Sinander, Oxford
Topic and Paper: Outside Options and Risk Attitude

November 18
Paola Moscariello, Yale

December 2
Tim Roughgarden, Columbia

December 9
Paul Milgrom, Stanford

March 25
Tan Gan, London School of Economics
Topic: “Robust Delegation" (Joint with Ricardo Alonso and Ju Hu)

April 1
Deniz Kattwinkel, University College London
Topic and paper: “The Division of Surplus and the Burden of Proof" (Joint with Justus Preusser)

April 8
Rani Spiegler, Tel Aviv University and University College London
Topic and paper: “News Media as Suppliers of Narratives (and Information)" (Joint with Kfir Eliaz)

April 15
Jeff Ely, Northwestern
Topic: “Screening with Tests"

April 22
Andrew McClellan, Chicago Booth
Topic: “Regulating Dynamic Contracts"

April 29
Gabriel Carroll, University of Toronto
Topic: “Is Equal Opportunity Different from Welfarism?"

May 6
Mengxi Zhang, University of Bonn
Topic: “Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors" (Joint withAlex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, and Philipp Strack)

May 13
Stephen Morris, MIT
Topic: “A Strategic Topology on Information Structures"

May 20
Jereon Swinkels, Northwestern University
Topic and paper: “Initiative"

May 27
George Georgiadis, Northwestern University, Kellogg

October 1
Francesco Squintani, University of Warwick
Topic: “Persuasion in Networks”

October 8
Sam Kapon, Berkeley Haas - BPP Group
Topic: "Persuasion in Evidentiary Mechanisms"

October 15
Maryam Saeedi, Carnegie Mellon University    
Topic: “Aggregating Strategic Information” joint with James Best, Daniel Quigley, and Ali Shourideh

October 22
Cuimin Ba, University of Pittsburgh
Topic: "Robust Misspecified Models and Paradigm Shifts"

October 29
Ian Ball, MIT
Topic: "Robust Robustness"

November 5
Andrea Galeotti, London Business School
Topic: “Robust Market Interventions” joint with Andrea Galeotti, Benjamin Golub, Sanjeev Goyal, Eduard Talamàs, And Omer Tamuz

November 12
Roberto Corrao, MIT    
Topic: “Optimally Coarse Contracts” joint with Joel Flynn and Karthik Sastry

November 19
Emir Kamenica, University of Chicago
Topic: "Commitment and Randomization in Communication"

December 3
Alessandro Bonatti
Topic: “How Do Digital Advertising Auctions Impact Product Prices?”

December 10
Teddy Mekonnen, Brown University
Topic: "Competition, Persuasion, and Search" (joint with Bobak Pakzad-Hurson)

February 20
Ilia Krasikov, University of Chicago
Topic: TBA

February 27
Ben Brooks, University of Chicago
Topic and paper: "On the Structure of Informationally Robust Optimal Mechanisms" with Songzi Du

March 19
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University
Topic: "Market Design for Distributional Objectives in Allocation Problems: An Axiomatic Approach"

March 26
Omer Tamuz, Caltech
Topic and paper: “Decomposable Stochastic Choice”

April 2
Martino Banchio, Google Research
Topic and paper: "Artificial Intelligence and Spontaneous Collusion” 

April 9
Aniko Oery, Carnegie Mellon University
Topic: "Revenue Management with Competition"

April 16
Meeting CANCELLED

April 23
Brett Green, Washington University at St. Louis
Topic: "Stockups, Stockouts, and the Role for Strategic Reserves" (joint with Cyrus Mevorach and Curtis Taylor)

April 30
Collin Raymond, Cornell University
Topic: "Risk and Monotone Comparative Statics without Independence"

May 7
Jacopo Perego, Columbia Business School
Topic and paper: "Competitive Markets for Personal Data"

May 8 - Bonus Workshop
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
Topic: “Cost Based Nonlinear Pricing” (with Tibor Heumann and Stephen Morris)

May 14
Nina Babkova, Rice University
Topic: "Two-dimensional Information Choice in Committees"

May 21
Joao Ramos, USC 
Topic and paper: "Disclosure and Incentives in Teams" (joint with Paula Onuchic)

September 26
Leslie Marx, Duke University
Topic: “Vertical integration with incomplete information “

October 3
Eric Maskin, Harvard University
Topic: "Arrow's Theorem, May's Axioms, Young's Consistency, and Borda's Rule"

October 10
Evan Sadler, Columbia University
Topic: "Making a Swap: Network Formation with Increasing Marginal Costs"

October 17
Drew Fudenberg, MIT
Topic: "Selective Memory Equilibrium"

October 24
Roland Strausz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Topic: "Principled Mechanism Design with Evidence" co-authored with Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch

October 31
Mark Whitmeyer, Arizona State University
Topic: “Making Information More Valuable”

November 7
Thomas Wiseman, University of Texas at Austin
Topic and paper: “Strategic Ignorance and Information Design,” with Ina Taneva (Edinburgh) 

November 14
Phil Reny, University of Chicago
Topic: “Natural Language Equilibrium: Signaling Games”

November 28
Marco Battaglini, Cornell University
Topic: "The Dynamics of Collective Action," joint with Thomas Palfrey

December 5
Alex Bloedel, UCLA
Topic and paper: "The Costly Wisdom of Inattentive Crowds"

December 12
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University
Topic: "A ‘Revision-Game’ Concept of Stability and Cooperation in Games"