2022 Economic Theory Festival
Bounded Rationality, Information and Markets
Bounded Rationality, Information and Markets
The 2022 version of the Economic Theory Festival features a two-day mini-course by Ran Spiegler, the Aaron Rubinstein Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University and a Professor of Economics at University College London. A collection of talks in the afternoons will complement Professor Spiegler's course.
05 - 06
December 2022
BUS Lounge, Level 6 Business School Building, UNSW Sydney
Ran Spiegler
Professor of Economics and Strategy | Tel Aviv University (TAU) and University College London (UCL)The Economic Theory Festival is an in-person only event organised by Juan Carlos Carbajal and Antonio Rosato, and supported by the UNSW School of Economics, the UQ School of Economics, and the Australian Research Council.
For further information contact jc.carbajal@unsw.edu.au or a.rosato@uq.edu.au
9:30 - 10:30
Ran Spiegler (UCL), Lecture 1
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00
Ran Spiegler (UCL), Lecture 2
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:15
Antonio Rosato (UQ), Taste Projection in Markets
14:15 - 15:00
Pei-Cheng Yu (UNSW), Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Present-Biased Agents
15:00 - 15:30
Coffe Break
15:30 - 16:15
Yves Zenou (Monash), Perceived Competition in Networks
16:15 - 17:00
Tom Wilkening (UniMelb), Preventing Search with Wicked Defaults
9:30 - 10:30
Ran Spiegler (UCL), Lecture 3
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Ran Spiegler (UCL), Lecture 4
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:15
Simon Grant (ANU), Ulysses Revisited
14:15 - 15:00
Benjamin Balzer (UTS), Arbitrating Endogenous Optimistic Parties
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15
Zachary Breig (UQ), Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism
16:15 - 17:00
Steven Callander (Stanford), Dynamic Monopoly with Malleable Preferences