Christophe Chamley and I are co-organizing a workshop on social learning and networks on March 28 and 29, 2025 in Barrister's Hall on the first floor of the BU School of Law. The workshop will be Friday morning and afternoon and Saturday morning, ending with lunch Saturday at 1pm. If you're interested in attending it would be helpful if you could register by filling out this form or let me know you'll join!
Conference Program
Friday (March 28)
Breakfast 8:30am-9:30am
9:30-11:10am
Pau Milan, Incentive Contracts and Peer Effects in the Workplace
Andrew Newman, Loopholes: Social Learning and the Evolution of Contract Form
Break 11:10am-11:40am
11:40am-12:30pm
Neha Gondal, Educational Status Hierarchies in the Job Market for Highly Educated U.S. Immigrants
Lunch 12:30pm
2-3:40pm
Evan Sadler, Seeding a Simple Contagion
Benjamin Golub, Robust Interventions in Networks
Break 3:40pm-4:10pm
4:10pm-5pm
Margaret Meyer, A Welfare Analysis of a Steady-State Model of Observational Learning
Saturday (March 29)
Breakfast 8am-9am
9am-10:40am
Lones Smith, The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds
Aislinn Bohren, Over- and Underreaction to Information: the Role of Complexity in Belief-Updating
Break 10:40-11:10am
11:10am-12:50pm
Kevin He, Attention and Social Learning
Drew Fudenberg, Endogenous Attention and the Spread of False News
Lunch 1pm