Past Seminars

■ 2023

Communication and Persuasion Workshop 13th Meeting

     (joint with Rokko Forum and Rokkodai Theory Seminar)

      Date: December 27 14:30 -18:00 (Japanese Standard Time)

      Location:  Kobe University (Rokkodai 1st Campus), Building III, 1F, Mid-sized Meeting Room

      Speakers/titles:

       1. 14:30 - 16:00 Ming Li (Concordia University) 

  "Verifiability and effective persuasion" (joint with Noémie Cabau)

       2. 16:20 - 17:50 Takeshi Murooka (Osaka University)

  "The Provision of High-Powered Incentives under Multitasking" (joint with Kohei Daido)


Communication and Persuasion Workshop Special Meeting: Communication and Experiments

       Date: March 13, 2023   14:00 - 18:00 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Location: Waseda University (Waseda campus), Bldg 3, 12F, 3-1213

       Speakers/titles:

       1. 14:00 - 15:15 Research Seminar by Ernest Lai (Lehigh University)

       "Mediated Talk: An Experiment" (joint with Andreas Blume and Wooyoung Lim)

       2. 15:30 - 16:15 Round-table Discussion chaired by Kohei Kawamura and Ernest Lai 

       "What Can or Cannot Be Done in the Lab for Communication and Persuasion?"

       3. 16:30 - 17:45 Special Lecture by Ernest Lai (Lehigh University)

       "A Glance at Economic Experiments with a Lens on Strategic Communication Experiments"


■ 2022

◇ 9th Annual Communication Theory Workshop a.k.a. Cheap Talk Festival (joint with CTWE)

       Date: December 27, 2022   14:00 - 18:00 (Japanese Standard Time)

  Location:  Waseda University (Waseda Campus) Bldg 3, 3F, 3-304 

       Speakers/titles:

       1. 14:00 - 14:50 Wataru Kitano (Tokyo University of Science)

       "A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Intentional Disregard under Sequential Persuasion" (joint with Satoshi Nakada)

       2. 15:10 - 16:00 Shunya Nuta (Osaka University)

       "Sequential vs. Hierarchical Persuasion"

       3. 16:20 - 17:50 Yasuhiro Shirata (Otaru University of Commerce)

       "Antitrust Policy under R&D Spillovers and Moral Hazard"

  

Communication and Persuasion Workshop 12th Meeting

       Date: August 27 16:00 -17:00 (Japanese Standard Time)

  Location:  Waseda University (Waseda Campus) Bldg 3, 9F, 3-909 

       Speaker: Takashi Ui (Hitotsubashi University)

       Title: "Impacts of Public Information on Flexible Information Acquisition" 


Communication and Persuasion Workshop 11th Meeting

       Date: July 9 16:00 - 17:30 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Location:  Waseda University (Waseda Campus) Bldg 3, 9F, 3-909 

       Speaker: Susumu Sato (Hitotsubashi University)

       Title: "Watchdog versus Yes Man: News Source and Media Competition" (joint with Daiki Kishishita)


Communication and Persuasion Workshop 10th Meeting

       Date: June 11 16:00 - 17:30 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Location:  Waseda University (Waseda Campus) Bldg 3, 9F, 3-909 

       Speaker: Yichuan Lou (University of Tokyo)

       Title: "Sender-Optimal Learning and Credible Communication"


Communication and Persuasion Workshop 9th Meeting

       Date: May 20  16:30 - 18:00 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Speaker: Shinpei Noguchi (Hitotsubashi University)

        Title: "Information Design with Ex-ante Investment"


Communication and Persuasion Workshop 8th Meeting

       Date: April 23 16:00 - 17:30 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Speaker: Takashi Shimizu (Kobe University)

       Title: "On the Combination of Biased Members" 

 

Communication and Persuasion Workshop 7th Meeting

       Date: March 26 17:00 -18:30 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Speaker: Yusuke Yamaguchi (Toulouse School of Economics)

        Title: "Mediated Bargaining with Two-Sided Uncertainty" 


Communication and Persuasion Workshop 6th Meeting

       Date: January 22 16:00 - 17:30 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Speaker: Hitoshi Sadakane (Kyoto University)

        Title: "Cheap Talk and Lie Detection" (joint with Yin Chi (Terry) Tam)


■ 2021

◇ 8th Annual Communication Theory Workshop a.k.a. Cheap Talk Festival (joint with CTWE)

    Date: December 18, 2021   15:00 - 17:10 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Speakers/titles:

      1. 15:00 - 16:00   Hitoshi Sadakane (Kyoto University)

          Title: "Cheap Talk and Lie Detection" (joint with Yin Chi (Terry) Tam)

      2. 16:10 - 17:10   Junichiro Ishida (Osaka University)

          Title: "Signaling under Double-Crossing Preferences" (joint with Chia-Hui Chen and Wing Suen)


Communication and Persuasion Workshop 5th Meeting (joint with CTWE)

       Date: November 13 16:00 - 17:30 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Speaker: Akifumi Ishihara (University of Tokyo)

       Title: Ignoring Advice for Money 


Communication and Persuasion Workshop 4th Meeting (joint with CTWE)

       Date: October 23 17:00 - 18:30 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Speaker: Takuro Yamashita (Toulouse School of Economics)

       Title: "Bayesian Persuasion Followed by Receiver's Mechanism Design" (joint with Shuguang Zhu)


Communication and Persuasion Workshop 3rd Meeting

       Date: September 25 10:00 - 11:30 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Speaker: Shih En Lu (Simon Fraser University)

       Title: "Monotonic Cheap Talk"


Communication and Persuasion Workshop 2nd Meeting

       Date: August 14 22:00 - 23:30 (Japanese Standard Time)

       Speaker: Ming Li (Concordia University)

       Title: "Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest: Good News or Bad News?" (joint with Ting Liu) 


◇ Communication and Persuasion Workshop 1st Meeting (joint with CTWE)

       Date: July 24 10:00 - 11:30  (Japanese Standard Time)   

       Speaker: Ali Palida (MIT)

       Title: "Designing Protocol to Manage Influence Activities and Promote Information Transmission"


■ 2019

◇ 7th Annual Communication Theory Workshop (joint with CTWE)

      Date: December 27, 2019   14:00 - 18:00

      Location: Waseda University (Waseda campus), Bldg 3, 10F, Conference Room 1

      Speakers/titles:

      1. 14:00 - 14:20   Shintaro Miura (Kanagawa University/Waseda Business School)

          "Corrigendum to Crawford and Sobel (1982) "Strategic Information Transmission"" by Kono and Kandori (2019)

      2. 14:30 - 16:00   Naruto Nagaoka (Kobe Gakuin University)

          "Communication and Information Aggregation for a Trick Question Problem" (joint with Tomoya Tajika)

      3. 16:30 - 18:00   Hitoshi Sadakane (Kyoto University)

           "When Does Diversification Require Decentralization?" (joint with Ming Li)