Past Seminars: 2021

• 16 Dec 2021, Ian Ball (MIT), "Should the Timing of Inspections be Random?" (with Jan Knoepfle). Guest panellists: Brett Green and Curtis Taylor.

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• 9 Dec 2021, Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research), "Communication with Anecdotes" (with Nika Haghtalab, Brendan Lucier, Markus Mobius and Divya Mohan). Guest panellists: Nageeb Ali and Annie Liang.

• 2 Dec 2021, Simon Board (UCLA): "An Equilibrium Model of Experimentation on Networks" (with Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn)

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• 25 Nov 2021, Anqi Li (WUSTL): "A Rational Inattention Theory of Echo Chamber" (with Lin Hu and Xu Tan). Guest panellists: Krishna Dasaratha.

• 18 Nov 2021, Caroline Thomas (UT Austin), "Social choice under gradual learning", (with Yiman Sun and Takuro Yamashita). Guest panellists: Margaret Meyer and Juuso Valimaki.

• 11 Nov 2021, Shengwu Li (Harvard) "Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms", (with Mohammad Akbarpour, Scott Duke Kominers, and Paul Milgrom). Guest panellists: Nicole Immorlica and Yannai Gonczarowski.

• 4 Nov 2021, Nima Haghpanah (Penn State), "Selling to a Group" (with Aditya Kuvalekar and Elliot Lipnowski). Guest panellist: Alex Smolin and Mallesh Pai.

• 28 Oct 2021, Steven Callander (Stanford) "Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach" (with Dana Foarta and Takuo Sugaya). Guest panellist: Arjada Bardhi and Heski Bar-Isaac. Slides

• 21 Oct 2021, Sarah Ridout (Vanderbilt), "Choosing for the Right Reasons". Guest panellists: Alvaro Sandroni and Yucheng Liang.

• 14 Oct 2021, Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia), "Optimal Queue Design" (with Olivier Tercieux). Guest panellists: Laura Doval and Chiara Margaria.

• 7 Oct 2021, Julia Salmi (Copenhagen), "Gradual Learning from Incremental Actions" (with Tuomas Laiho and Pauli Murto). Guest panellists: Francesc Dilme and Yingni Guo.

• 1 July: Eddie Dekel (Northwestern): "Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition", (with Elchanan Ben Porath and Barton L. Lipman). Slides

• 24 June: Rahul Deb (Toronto): "Multi-Dimensional Screening: Buyer-Optimal Learning and Informational Robustness", (with Anne-Katrin Roesler). Guest panellists: Nima Haghpanah and Gregory Pavlov.

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• 17 June: Aniko Öry (Yale): "Aiming for the Goal: Contribution Dynamics of Crowdfunding" (with Joyee Deb and Kevin R. Williams). Guest panellists: Azarakhsh Malekian and Roland Strausz.

• 10 June: Konrad Mierendorff (UCL): "Keeping the Listener Engaged: A Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion" (with Yeon-Koo Che and Kyungmin Kim). Guest panellists: Simone Galperti and Eduardo Perez-Richet.

• 3 June: Ben Golub (Northwestern): "Social Learning in a Dynamic Environment," joint with Krishna Dasaratha and Nir Hak. Guest panellist: Kevin He (Caltech)

• 27 May: Meg Meyer (Oxford), “A Welfare Analysis of a Steady-State Model of Observational Learning” (with Eszter Kabos). Guest panellists: Nageeb Ali and Peter Norman Sorensen.

• 20 May: Vasiliki Skreta (UT Austin, UCL and CERP): "Information Design by an Informed Designer" (with Frederic Koessler). Guest panellists: Simone Galperti and Thomas Troeger.

• 13 May: Can Urgun (Princeton), "Collective Progress: Dynamics of Exit Waves" (with Doruk Cetemen and Leeat Yariv). Guest panellists: Arjadha Bardhi and Heikki Rantakari.

• 6 May: Christoph Wolf (Bocconi): "A Quest for Knowledge" (with Johannes Schneider). Guest panellists: Steven Callander and Florian Ederer.

• 29 April: Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey (Northwestern), "Screening and Information-Sharing Externalities". Guest panelists: Marina Halac and Daniel Rappoport.

• 22 April: Elliot Lipnowski (Columbia), "Optimal Political Career Dynamics" (with Avi Acharya and Joao Ramos). Guest panellists: Peter Buisseret and Richard Van Weelden.

• 15 April: Daniel Rappoport (Chicago Booth), "Observational Learning with Ordered States" (with Navin Kartik and SangMok Lee). Guest panellist: Manuel Mueller-Frank.

• 8 April: Francisco Poggi (Northwestern), "The Timing of Complementary Innovations". Guest panellists: Xiaosheng Mu and Jorge Lemus.

• 1 April: Arjada Bardhi (Duke), "Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics" (with Nina Bobkova). Guest panellist: Steven Callander.

• 25 March: Alexander W. Bloedel (Stanford), "The Cost of Optimally Acquired Information" (with Weijie Zhong). Guest panellists: Philipp Strack and Andrew Caplin.

• 18 March: S. Nageeb Ali (Penn State), "Reselling Information" (with Ayal Chen-Zion and Erik Lillethun). Guest panellists: Eduard Talamàs and Mariagiovanna Baccara.

• 11 March: Annie Liang (Northwestern), "Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information" (with Xiaosheng Mu and Vasilis Syrgkanis). Guest panellist: Konrad Mierendorff and Nicole Immorlica.

• 4 March: Amanda Friedenberg (Arizona), "Two Approaches to Iterated Reasoning in Games", paper, (with Adam Brandenburger and Terri Kneeland). Guest panellists: Emiliano Catonini, Paul J. Healy.

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• 25 February: Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern), "Expectation Conformity in Strategic Reasoning ", (joint with Jean Tirole). Guest panellists: Tommaso Denti and Muhamet Yildiz.

• 18 February: Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi), "Grantmaking", paper. Guest panellists: Huseyin Yildirim, Ron Siegel.