Past Seminars: 2022
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15 Dec 2022, Ellen Muir (Harvard), "Wage dispersion, involuntary unemployment and minimum wages under monopsony and oligopsony" (with Simon Loertscher). Guest panellist: Scott Duke Kominers.
8 Dec 2022, Jacob Leshno (Chicago Booth), "Price Discovery in Waiting Lists" (with Itai Ashlagi, Pengyu Qian, and Amin Saberi). Guest panellist: Francis Bloch.
1 Dec 2022, VSET-WiET Best Paper Award presentation: Cuimin Ba (UPenn), "Robust Misspecified Models and Paradigm Shifts". Guest panellists: Drew Fudenberg and Botond Koszegi.
17 Nov 2022, Nathan Yoder (Georgia), "Matching with Strategic Consistency" (with Marzena Rostek). Guest panellist: David Delacretaz and Ravi Jagadeesan.
10 Nov 2022, Luciano Pomatto (Caltech), "The Cost of Information" (with Philipp Strack, and Omer Tamuz). Guest panellists: David Walker Jones and Jeffrey Mensch.
3 Nov 2022, Andy Skrzypacz (Stanford GSB), "Persuasion with Multiple Actions", (with Davit Khantadze and Ilan Kremer). Guest panellists: Fei Li and Alex Smolin
27 Oct 2022, Mira Frick (Yale), "Welfare Comparisons for Biased Learning" (with Ryota Iijima and Yuhta Ishii). Guest panellists: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch and Jakub Steiner.
20 Oct 2022, Weijie Zhong (Stanford GSB), "Martingale Embeddings: Theory and Applications" (with Yuliy Sannikov). Guest panellists: Bruno Strulovici and Tommaso Denti
13 Oct 2022, Eduardo Perez-Richet (Sciences Po), "Fraud-proof non-market allocation mechanisms" (with Vasiliki Skreta). Guest panellists: Julien Combe and James Schummer
6 Oct 2022, Ludvig Sinander (Oxford), "The Comparative Statics of Persuasion" (with Gregorio Curello). Guest panellists: Philipp Strack and Itai Arieli
30 Jun 2022, Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard), "To Infinity and Beyond: Scaling Economic Theories via Logical Compactness" (with Yannai Gonczarowski and Ran Shorrer). Guest Panelists: Ben Brooks and Fuhito Kojima.
23 Jun 2022, Laura Veldkamp (Columbia GSB), "A Model of the Data Economy" (with Maryam Farboodi). Guest Panellists: Philippe Aghion and Robert Ulbricht.
16 Jun 2022, Peter Sorensen (Copenhagen), "Comparison of Experiments in Monotone Problems" (with Marco Ottaviani and Alfredo Di Tillio). Guest Panellists: Ian Jewitt and Bruno Strulovici.
No video.
9 Jun 2022, Ying Chen (Johns Hopkins), “Strategic Investment in Technology and the Dynamics of Public Good Provision” (with Liuchun Deng, Minako Fujo, and M. Ali Khan). Guest Panellists: Salvatore Nunnari and Roger Lagunoff.
Previously advertised as: “Technology Investment under Power Fluctuation”
No video.
2 Jun 2022, Ben Brooks (Chicago), "On the Structure of Informationally Robust Optimal Mechanisms" (with Songzi Du). Guest Panellist: Marzena Rostek.
Previous title: "On the Structure of Informationally Robust Optimal Auctions"
26 May 2022, Kai Hao Yang (Yale), "Distributions of Posterior Quantiles and Economic Applications” (with Alexander Zentefis). Guest Panellists: Piotr Dworczak and Wolfgang Pesendorfer.
19 May 2022, Maria Titova (Vanderbilt), "Persuasion with Verifiable Information". Guest Panellists: Andrew Little and Elliot Lipnowski.
12 May 2022, Simone Galperti (San Diego), “False Narratives and Political Mobilization” (with Kfir Eliaz and Ran Spiegler). Guest Panellists: Gilat Levy and Andrea Prat.
5 May 2022, Francesco Squintani (Warwick), "Optimal Overspecified Contracts". Guest Panellists: Luca Anderlini.
28 Apr 2022, Kevin He (UPenn), "Private Private Information" (with Fedor Sandomirskiy and Omer Tamuz). Guest Panellists: Weijie Zhong and Doron Ravid.
7 Apr 2022, Federico Echenique (Caltech), "Screening p-hackers: dissemination noise as bait" (with Kevin He). Guest panellists: Marco Ottaviani and Peter Sorensen.
31 Mar 2022, Nina Bobkova (Rice), "Information choice in auctions". Guest panellists: Angel Hernando-Veciana and Xianwen Shi.
24 Mar 2022, Yuhta Ishii (Penn State), “Learning Efficiency of Multi-Agent Information Structures” (with Mira Frick and Ryota Iijima), Guest panellists: Jakub Steiner and Xiaosheng Mu.
17 Mar 2022, Anna Sanktjohanser (Yale), "Too much of a good thing? The dynamics of trust and loyalty" (with Johannes Hörner). Guest panellists: In-Uck Park and Mikhail Safronov.
10 Mar 2022, Sarah Auster, (Bonn), "Timing decisions under model uncertainty" (joint with Christian Kellner). Guest panellists: Mira Frick and Simone Galperti.
3 Mar 2022, Yannai Gonczarowski (Harvard), "Zero-Knowledge Mechanisms" (with Ran Canetti and Amos Fiat). Guest panellists: Piotr Dworczak and Jacob Leshno.
24 Feb 2022, Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford), "Designing Teams: How interaction across multiple repeated games influences cooperation and corruption" (with Jonathan Bendor, Lukas Bolte, and Nicole Immorlica). Guest panellists: Alex Wolitzky.