2025 Economic Theory Festival
Bounded Rationality, Information and Markets
Bounded Rationality, Information and Markets
Registration deadline: 17 November
The 2025 version of the Economic Theory Festival will feature a two-day mini-course by Erik Eyster, Professor of Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara. Erik will deliver lectures on both mornings, followed by a collection of invited talks in the afternoons. A conference dinner is also planned for the evening of the first day of the Festival.
Wednesday 10 – Thursday 11
December 2025
The University of Queensland – Brisbane
Terrace Room, Sir Llew Edwards Building
The Economic Theory Festival is an in-person only event organised by Antonio Rosato and Juan Carlos Carbajal, and supported by the UQ School of Economics, the UNSW School of Economics, and the Australian Research Council.
For further information contact a.rosato@uq.edu.au or jc.carbajal@unsw.edu.au
9:30 - 10:30
Erik Eyster (UCSB), Approaches to Behavioral Economic Modeling
10:30 - 11:00
Morning Tea
11:00 - 12:00
Erik Eyster (UCSB), Approaches to Behavioral Economic Modeling
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:15
Kun Zhang (UQ), Withholding Verifiable Information
14:15 - 15:00
Nawaaz Khalfan (Monash), Sequential Information Acquisition and Optimal Search
15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon Tea
15:30 - 16:15
Evan Calford (ANU), Validating Incentive Compatibility in Experiments with Stochastic Choice
16:15 - 17:00
Michele Garagnani (UniMelb), Identifying Nontransitive Preferences
9:30 - 10:30
Erik Eyster (UCSB), Errors in Inference and their Implications
10:30 - 11:00
Morning Tea
11:00 - 12:00
Erik Eyster (UCSB), Errors in Inference and their Implications
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:15
Gregory Kubitz (QUT), 'If You Can, You Must.' Reference Dependence, Anticipatory Utility, and Loss Aversion
14:15 - 15:00
Jingni Yang (USyd), The Weak Axiom and Deliberate Stochastic Choice
15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon Tea
15:30 - 16:15
Paul Heidhues (DICE), Misinterpreting Yourself
16:15 - 17:00
Kieran Gibson (UQ), It’s Not You, It’s Me: Prioritizing Personal Interactions Over General Helpfulness in Reciprocity
APIOC 2025 | 12-14 December: https://apios.org.au/apioc-2025/
Micro for Macro Workshop 2025 | 15-16 December: https://e61.in/events/m4m-micro-for-macro-2025-workshop/