Programme Overview

Room WB2003 at the Waterside Building (DH1 1SL)

Thursday June 5, 2025

Registration and coffee (WB1001)                                                             09:00-09:50

Welcome remarks                                                                                       09:50-10:00

Session 1                                                                                                   10:00-12:00

Lunch                                                                                           12:00-13:00

Session 2                                                                                                  13:00-15:00

Coffee and Tea                                                                                     15:00-15:20

Session 3                                                                                                   15:20-16:50

Coffee and Tea                                                                                     16:50-17:10

Keynote Address 1 – George Mailath (UPenn)                                          17:10-18:10

Dinner (by invivtation) at St. Johns College (DH1 3RJ)                                 18:50-21:00

 Friday June 6, 2025

Coffee and Tea                                                                                       08:30-09:00

Session 4                                                                                                      09:00-11:00

Coffee and Tea                                                                                             11:00-11:20

Keynote Address 2 – Leeat Yariv (Princeton)                                               11:20-12:20

Lunch                                                                                                            12:20-13:20

Session 5                                                                                                     13:20-15:20

Coffee and Tea                                                                                             15:20-15:50

 Lunches and coffee breaks take place at WB1001.

Detailed Programme

Thursday June 5, 2025

09:00-09:50 Registration and Coffee

09:50-10:00 Welcome remarks

10:00-12:00 Session 1

Chair: Spyros Galanis (Durham) 

Daniel Li (University of Durham) 

Information Disclosure to Bidders with Heterogeneous Preferences

Dimitri Migrow (University of Edinburgh)

Disclosure of Causal vs. Correlational Information in Markets with Correlation Neglect

Kemal Ozbek (University of Southampton)

Flexible Learning via Noise Reduction

Pauline Vorjohann (University of Exeter)

Fake News, Trolling, and Information Transmission

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 Session 2

Chair: Leslie Reinhorn (Durham) 

Bary Pradelski (CNRS)

Satisficing Equilibrium

Alexandros Rigos (Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) & Lund University)

Preferences as Heuristics

Bassel Tarbush (University of Oxford)

Game connectivity and adaptive dynamics

Mehmet Barlo (Sabanci University)

Anonymous Implementation

15:00-15:20 Coffee and Tea

15:20-16:50 Session 3

Chair: Anastasiia Parakhoniak (Durham)

Caio Lorecchio (Universitat de Barcelona)

Information Acquisition in Deliberative Democracies

Mauro Bambi (University of Durham)

Different Strokes for Different Folks:  Behavioral Factors versus Ability   in the Higher Education Tenure System

Steven Kivinen (University of Graz)

Renegotiation-Proof Cheap Talk

16:50-17:10 Coffee and Tea

17:10-18:10 Keynote Address 1 

George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania) 

On the Nonpurifiability of Belief-Free Equilibria in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring

Chair: Nejat Anbarci (University of Durham) 

18:50-21:00 Dinner (by invitation) at St. Johns College (DH1 3RJ)

Friday June 6, 2025

08:30-09:00 Coffee and Tea

09:00-11:00 Session 4

Chair: Ayse Yazici (Durham)

Byeong-hyeon Jeong (University of Zurich)

Optimality of Two-tier Quotas in Selection

Yating Yuan (University of Warwick)

Costless Coordination: Optimal Mechanism for Teamwork

Amirreza Ahmadzadeh (Toulouse School of Economics)

Mechanism Design with Costly Inspection

Sumit Goel (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Multi-Agent Contract Design with a Budget

11:00-11:20 Coffee and Tea

11:20-12:20 Keynote Address 2

Leeat Yariv (Princeton University)

Strategic Decentralized Matching: The Effects of Information Frictions

Chair: Ehud Lehrer (Durham)

12:20-13:20 Lunch

13:20-15:20 Session 5

Chair: Cole Williams (Durham) 

Suraj Malladi (Kellogg MEDS)

Guarantees in Price Experimentation

Georgios Gerasimou (University of Glasgow)

Intensinist social welfare and ordinal intensity-efficient allocations

K. Kivanc Akoz (HSE University)

Search in a Non-exclusive Online Matching Platform

Barton Lee (ETH Zurich)

When Growth leads to Zero-sum Conflict

15:20-15:50 Coffee and Tea