3B Theory Workshop
Spring 2026

Date: Saturday, April 4, 2026

Time: 10:00 am - 5:15 pm

Location: Room 315, Department of Economics, Boston University

270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215

Program:

10:00 am - 11:00 am: Breakfast

11:00 am - 12:00 am: Zhengtao Zeng (Boston College), "Production Choice under Refund Frictions and Defect Risks"

12:00 am - 12:10 am: Break

12:10 am - 12:40 pm: Adi Jahic (Brown University), "Investing In Complementarities"

12:40 pm - 2:15 pm: Lunch at Otto Pizza

2:15 pm - 3:15 pm: Marta Bilghese (MIT Sloan)

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm: Break

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm: Seongrae Kim (Boston College), "Bid Compensation in All-pay Auctions"

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm: Sharad Hotha (Brown University), "Designing a Grading Policy for Optimal Job Market Matching"

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Tianxiao (Michael) Xu (Boston University), "Identity, Values, and Networks"

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm: Break

4:45 pm - 5:15 pm:  Professor Roi Orzach (Boston University) talks about presentations, conferences and networking

This workshop meeting is generously funded by the Institute for Economic Development (IED) at Boston University.