Past Seminars: 2020

• 17 December: Chiara Margaria (Boston), "Signaling What You Don't Want" (paper, joint with Doruk Cetemen). Guest panellists: Aaron Kolb and Pauli Murto.

• 10 December: Doron Ravid (Chicago), "Learning Before Trading: On the Inefficiency of Ignoring Free Information", (paper, with Anne-Katrine Roesler and Balazs Szentes). Guest panellists: John Leahy, Benjamin Hébert.

• 3 December: Wioletta Dziuda (Harris-Chicago), "Voters and the Policy Stability versus Responsiveness Tradeoff" (paper in preparation, joint with Antoine Loeper). Guest panelists: Hülya Eraslan, Alessandro Riboni.

• 26 November: Nicolas Lambert (MIT), "The Power of Referential Advice" (paper, with Steven Callander and Niko Matouschek). Guest panelist: Eyal Winter.

• 19 November: Ron Siegel (Penn State), "How to Sell Hard Information" (paper, with Nageeb Ali, Nima Haghpanah, Xiao Lin). Guest panelist: Dan Barron.

• 12 November: Jeanne Hagenbach (CNRS, Sciences Po Paris), "Selective Memory of a Psychological Agent" (abstract, with Frédéric Koessler). Guest panellist: Elliot Lipnowski.

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• 5 November: Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern), "Are Simple Mechanisms Optimal when Agents are Unsophisticated?" (paper, with Jiangtao Li). Guest panellists: Yannai Gonczarowski and Peter Troyan.

• 29 October: Inga Deimen (Arizona), "Authority in a theory of the firm" (paper, with Dezsö Szalay). Guest panellists: Wouter Dessein and Dimitri Migrow.

• 22 October: Tilman Börgers (Michigan), "Similarity-Based Learning and Similarity Equilibria" (joint work with George Mailath).

• 15 October: Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern), "Can Society Function Without Ethical Agents? An Informational Perspective" (paper). Guest panellist: Laura Doval.

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• 8 October: Navin Kartik (Columbia), "Delegation in Veto Bargaining" (paper, with Andreas Kleiner and Richard Van Weelden). Guest panellists: Ricardo Alonso and Andy Zapechelnyuk.

• 1 October: Renee Bowen (San Diego), "Agenda-Setter Power Dynamics: Learning in Multi-issue Bargaining" (paper, with Ilwoo Hwang and Stefan Krasa). Guest panellists: Nageeb Ali, Georgy Egorov, Juan Ortner.

• 24 September: Eyal Winter (Lancaster and Hebrew), "On Stars and Galaxies: Exploiting Social Influence in Networks" (paper, with Vlad Nora). Guest panellists: Sanjeev Goyal and Fernando Vega-Redondo.

• 2 July: Marina Halac (Yale), "Rank Uncertainty in Organizations" (with Elliot Lipnowski and Daniel Rappoport). Guest Panelist: Ilya Segal (Stanford).

• 25 June: Aislinn Bohren (UPenn), "Misinterpreting Social Outcomes and Information Campaigns" (with Daniel Hauser). Guest Panelists: Kevin He (Caltech) and Pooya Molavi (Chicago).

• 18 June: Bård Harstad (UiO), "The Conservation Multiplier". Guest Panelist: Tim Besley (LSE).

• 11 June: Yingni Guo (Northwestern), "Robust Monopoly Regulation" (with Eran Shmaya). Guest Panelists: Dirk Bergemann (Yale) and Daniel Garrett (TSE).

• 4 June: Flavio Toxvaerd (Cambridge), "Social Distancing with Asymptomatic Infection: Beliefs, Fatalism and Testing". Guest Panelist: Pietro Garibaldi (Collegio Carlo Alberto and Un. di Torino).

• 28 May: Kfir Eliaz (TAU and Utah) "Cheating with (Recursive) Models" (with Ran Spiegler and Yair Weiss ). Guest panelist: Ignacio Esponda (UC Santa Barbara).

• 21 May: Nora Szech (KIT) "The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance" (with Marta Serra-Garcia).

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• 14 May: M. Utku Ünver (Boston College) "Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing" (with Parag Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, and M. Bumin Yenmez). Guest Panelist: Alex Teytelboym (Oxford).

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• 7 May: Miltos Makris (Kent) "Covid and Social Distancing with a Heterogeneous Population". Discussant: Flavio Toxvaerd (Cambridge).