Programme 

Wednesday June 10, 2026

15:00-16:30 Session 1

Patrick Arnold (Basel and Said Business School)

Common Ownership and Intertemporal Price Discrimination

Dimitri Migrow (Edinburgh)

Voluntary Certification and Project Choice

Nathan Hancart (Oslo)

Selection Procedures in Competitive Admission

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 

17:00-18:30 Session 2

Vasundhara Mallick (EUI)

How Markets Disrupt Mediated Trade

Krittanai Laohakunakorn (Surrey)

Knowledge Economies

Dezsö Szalay (Bonn and CEPR)

Creating Experts: Optimal Delegation vs Information Design

Thursday June 11, 2026

09:00-10:30 Session 3

Alexander Rodivilov (Sabanci)

Efficiency and Collusion-Proofness in Dynamic Mechanism Design

Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey (Berkeley)

Obviously Strategy-Proof Multi-Dimensional Allocation and the Value of Choice

Tan Gan (LSE)

Screening for Choice Sets

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 

11:00-12:30 Session 4

Francisco Poggi (Mannheim)

Selling (Un)finished Products

Angel Hernando-Veciana (Carlos III)

The Simple Economics of Lemons

Frank Yang (Harvard)

Stochastic Optimization and Coupling

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Session 5

Matteo Escudé (Luiss)

Misperception and Informativeness in Statistical Discrimination

Roberto Corrao (Stanford)

Mediation Markets: The Case of Soft Information

Sulagna Dasgupta (Cornell)

Hard Information Design

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Keynote Address 1

Ehud Lehrer (Durham)
Constrained Mediation: Bayesian Implementability of Joint Posteriors

21:00-23:00 Dinner (by invitation) TBA

Friday June 12, 2026

09:00-10:30 Session 6

Tatiana Mayskaya (HSE)

The Effect of Correlation and Payoff Interdependence on R&D

César Barilla (Oxford)

Dynamic Market Design in Large Economies: An Analysis of Dynamic Incentives in Non-transferable Environments

Francesco Squintani (Warwick)

Optimal Overspecified Contracts

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Session 7

Doron Ravid (Michigan)

Monopoly, Quality, and Costly Information

Giacomo Lanzani (Berkeley)

Resilience vs. Fragility: Global Properties of Economies with Endogenous Production Networks

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Session 8

Thomas Brzustowski (HKU)

Mechanism Design with AIs

Matthew Levy (LSE)

Information Design for AI Proxies under Imperfect Recall

14:30-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-16:00 Keynote Address 2

Vassiliki Skreta (Austin and UCL)
Mechanism Design with a Continuum of Agents

Saturday June 13, 2026

09:00-10:30 Session 9

Kostas Koufopoulos (Sussex)

The Dichotomy of Concentration and Pricing Power in Banking

Komal Malik (Shiv Nadar)

Bidding with Securities Against an Informed Insider

Justus Preusser (Bocconi)

Delegated Information Provision

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 10

Théo Durandard (UIUC)

Nonlinear Parabolic PDEs: Economic Applications

Arina Nikandrova (City St George's)

Cutting Back to Move Forward: How Reduced Training Curbs Procrastination

Amirreza Ahmadzadeh (Toulouse)

Trust with Evidence

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Session 11

Pavel Ilinov (St. Gallen)

Sequential Search with Flexible Information

Alexis Ghersengorin (Bonn)

Robust Regulation of Labour Contracts

Suraj Malladi (Northwestern Kellogg)

Guarantees in Price Experimentation

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Keynote Address 3

Johannes Hörner (Toulouse)
Competition and Consumer Search