European Economic Theory Conference

19-20 September 2025, Bonn

The European Economic Theory Conference (EETC) is an annual event that brings together researchers in economic theory across Europe and beyond. The EETC welcomes submissions in all areas of economic theory. The conference will be single file (no parallel sessions) with 30-minute presentations and will take place on September 19-20, 2025, in Bonn. All presentations will take place at the University Club Bonn, Konviktstraße 9, 53113 Bonn.

Program

Day 1 (Friday, Sep 19)

Chair: Botond Köszegi

09:00 – Daniel Hauser (Aalto University): The Behavioral Foundations of Model Misspecification (with A. Bohren)

09:30 – Daniele Pennesi (Univeristy of Torino): Rational Inattention with Constraints

10:00 – Shani Cohen (Hebrew University): What You Can't See: Contingent Thinking Failures in Dynamic Markets

10:30 Coffee Break

Chair: Kristof Madarasz

11:15 – Pia Ennuschat (UPF): Targeted Information Design

11:45 – Alex Frug (UPF): Clerks (with K. Eliaz and D. Fershtman)

12: 15 Lunch

Chair: Andy Kleiner

13:45 – Julien Combe (École Polytechnique): Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools (with Umut Dur and Olivier Tercieux)

14:15 – Pietro Dall'Ara (University of Naples): Screening and Digital Goods (with E. Sartori)

14:45 – Paul-Henri Moisson (PSE): Managing Diversity to Attract Talent (with J. Tirole)

15:15 Coffee Break

Chair: Johannes Hörner

16:00 – Asher Wolinsky (Northwestern): Strategic Costly Sample Selection (with S. Lauermann)

16:30 – Ludmila Matyskova (Alicante): Strategic Attribute Learning (with J.-M. Benkert and E. Starkov)

17:00 – Suraj Malladi (Kellogg): Rediscovery (with M. Banchio)

19:00 – Conference Dinner at Matthieu's

Day 2 (Saturday, Sep 20)

Chair: Sarah Auster

09:00 – Elchanan Ben-Porath (Hebrew University): Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition (with E. Dekel and B. Lipman)

09:30 – Frederic Koessler (HEC Paris): A Belief-Based Approach to Signaling (with M. Laclau and T. Tomala)

10:00 – Amit Dekel (Aix-Marseille School of Economics): Free Play Equilibrium

10:30 Coffee Break

Chair: Deniz Kattwinkel

11:15 – Nicolas Motz (Complutense University of Madrid): A General Measure of Bargaining Power for Non-Cooperative Games (with J.-S. Görlach)

11:45 – Lorenzo Bozzoli (Tor Vergata): Mediated Renegotiation (with A. Attar and R. Strausz)

12: 15 Lunch

Chair: Nenad Kos

13:45 – Andreas Asseyer (FU Berlin): Information Design with Competing Receivers (with D. Ravindran)

14:15 – Edwin Lock (Oxford University): Implementing Walrasian Equilibrium: The Languages of Product-Mix Actions (with E. Baldwin and P. Klemperer)

14:45 – Christian Hellwig (TSE): Dynamic Mirrlees Taxation with Non-Separable Preferences

15:15 Coffee Break

Chair: Stephan Lauermann

16:00 – Anne-Katrin Roesler (University of Toronto): Whistleblowing (with Ayca Kaya and Aniko Oery)

16:30 – Franz Ostrizek (Sciences Po): The Noise in the Mind: Existence of Trading Equilibria with Transparent Prices (with E. Sartori)

17:00 – Harry Pei (Northwestern): Community Enforcement with Endogenous Records

17:30 – Aperitivo at the venue

About the Conference Series:

The European Economic Theory Conference is a collaborative initiative launched by several prominent European economics departments. As a rotating event, it will take place each year at a different institution, providing a lively setting for academic exchange and fostering the European theory community. The first edition will be hosted by the University of Bonn.

Scientific Committee:

Sarah Auster (Bonn), Johannes Hörner (TSE), Deniz Kattwinkel (UCL), Nenad Kos (Bocconi), Botond Köszegi (Bonn), Kristóf Madarász (LSE), Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi), Antonio Penta (UPF), Alex Smolin (TSE)

Local Organizers 2025:

Sarah Auster, Florian Brandl, Francesc Dilmé, Andreas Kleiner, Stephan Lauermann, Mengxi Zhang

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