Programme
Programme Overview
Room MHL452
Thursday June 6, 2024
Registration and coffee (Fusion) 09:00-09:50
Welcome remarks 09:50-10:00
Lunch (Fusion) 12:00-13:00
Coffee and Tea (Fusion) 15:00-15:20
Coffee and Tea (Fusion) 17:20-17:40
Coach from DUBS to the Cellar Door 19:00-19:15
Dinner at Cellar Door 19:15-22:15
Friday June 7, 2024
Coffee and Tea (Fusion) 08:30-09:00
Coffee and Tea (Fusion) 11:00-11:20
Lunch (Fusion) 12:20-13:20
Coffee and Tea (Fusion) 15:20-15:40
Taxis from DUBS to Railway Station/City Centre 17:20
Detailed Programme
Thursday June 6, 2024
09:00-09:50 Registration and Coffee
09:50-10:00 Welcome remarks
10:00-12:00 Session 1
Chair: Spyros Galanis (Durham)
Yevgeny Tsodikovich (Bar Ilan). Centrality Measure for Opinion Dynamics.
David Lagziel (Ben-Gurion). The Indoctrination Game.
Anastasiia Parakhoniak (Durham). Popularity or Price: Which Should Determine the Display of Top Firms?
Evgeniya Kudinova (LSE). Exploration, Exploitation, Amelioration: Experimentation with Endogenously Changing Arms.
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 Session 2
Chair: Leslie Reinhorn (Durham)
Ludovic Renou (QMUL and CEPR). Comparing experiments in Discounted Problems.
Margarita Kirneva (CREST, Ecole Polytechnique). Informing to Divert Attention.
Kemal Ozbek (Southampton). Costly Bayesian Learning.
James Best (CMU). Optimal Communication Design.
15:00-15:20 Coffee and Tea
15:20-17:20 Session 3
Chair: Daniel Li (Durham)
Alexei Parakhonyak (Oxford). Strategic Use of Product Delays to Shape Word-of-Mouth Communication.
Andreas Ziegler (Essex). Persuading an Audience: Testing Information Design in the Laboratory.
Min Zhang (St Andrews). Does Public Information Help Social Learning: An Anti-Transparency Result.
Ernesto Rivera Mora (Cowles). Information Selling under Prior Disagreement.
17:20-17:40 Coffee and Tea
17:40-18:40 Keynote Address 1
Stephen Morris (MIT)
Cost-Based Non-Linear Pricing
Chair: M. Bumin Yenmez (WUSTL and Durham)
19:00-19:15 Taxis from DUBS to the Cellar Door
19:15-22:15 Dinner at the Cellar Door
Friday June 7, 2024
08:30-09:00 Coffee and Tea
09:00-11:00 Session 4
Chair: Ayse Yazici (Durham)
Nawaaz Khalfan (Monash). Sequential Information Acquisition and Optimal Search.
Mariann Ollár (NYU Shanghai). Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions.
Bibhas Saha (Durham). Democratic Regulation of AI.
Bertan Turhan (Iowa State). How to Implement Soft Reserves.
11:00-11:20 Coffee and Tea
11:20-12:20 Keynote Address 2
Johannes Hörner (TSE)
What you don't know may be good for you (joint with Larry Samuelson)
Chair: Ehud Lehrer (Durham)
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-15:20 Session 5
Chair: Cole Williams (Durham)
Dominik Karos (Bielefeld). Strategic Information Selection.
Constantine Sorokin (Glasgow). Persuading the Persuaded: A Continuation of Blackwell.
Sujoy Mukerji (Queen Mary). Persuasion with Ambiguous Communication.
Modibo Camara (Stanford). Incentives for Informed Voting.
15:20-15:40 Coffee and Tea
15:40-16:40 Keynote Address 3
Aldo Rustichini (Minnesota)
Genesis of Institutions
Chair: Andis Sofianos (Durham)