Workshop Series

Apart from the main seminar series, CRETA runs weekly internal workshop series:

Microeconomics Work in Progress (MIWP): This workshop series consists of both internal and external speakers. The aim is to provide feedback to early-stage research ideas.

Microeconomics Reading Group (MIRG): This workshop series consists of internal speakers, mainly research students. The aim is to have a critical discussion of the current trends in the economic theory literature.

MIRG & MIWP - Programme 2023/24

Date	Speaker
20th June (MIWP)	Yatish Arya (Ashoka University) Title: Inequality and Efficient Distribution of Essentials: Market Segmentation as a Policy Instrument
13th June (MIWP)	Christopher Burnitt (Warwick PGR) Title: Let them vote (to stay): Independence movements and secession clauses
6th June (MIWP)	Gautam Bose (UNSW) Title: "Affirmative action, equal opportunity, or just tax the rich? Development, efficiency, and the pursuit of equity Debraj Ray (Warwick) Title: "Coalitional Nash Bargaining: An Axiomatic Approach
30th May (MIWP)	Ehud Kalai (Northwestern) Title: Contagious Implementation in Prisoner’s Dilemma and Beyond
23rd May (MIWP)	Massimiliano Furlan (Warwick PGR) Title: Deep Learning to play games
16th May (MIWP)	Raghav Malhotra (Leicester) Title: Finite Tests from Functional Characterizations
7th May (MIWP)	Kevin He (Penn) Title: Learning from Viral Content
2nd May (MIWP)	Peter Hammond (Warwick) Title: Prerational Behaviour in Decision Trees Admitting Timed Consequence Nodes with or without Menu Consequences
25th April (MIWP)	Xueying Zhao (PGR Warwick) Title: Selling data with private information source
14th March (MIWP)	Harry Pei (Northwestern) Title: Community Enforcement with Endogenous Records
23rd November (MIWP)	Arina Nikandrova (City) Title: The Effect of Mergers on Innovations
16th November (MIWP)	Massimiliano Furlan (MRes, Warwick) Title: Cheap Talking Algorithms
9th November (MIWP)	Raghav Malhotra (Leicester) Title: Inequality and Taxation of Bundles: Market Segmentation as a Policy Instrument
2nd November (MIWP)	Alkis Georgiadis-Harris (Warwick) Title: “Smart Banks"
19th October (MIWP)	Pablo Beker (Warwick) Title: If You’re NOT So Smart, Why Are You Rich? Robust Market Selection with General Recursive Preferences
18th October (MIWP)	Phil Reny (Chicago) Title: Natural Language Equilibrium: Signaling Games

MIRG & MIWP - Programme 2022/23

Date	Speaker
27th October (MIWP)	Francesco Rocciolo (Imperial) Title: Responsible Investing under Ambiguity Induced by Climate Uncertainty
3rd November (MIWP)	Monica Giovanniello (University of Balearic Islands) Title: What about equity in a spatial model of public services
10th November (MIWP)	Hyungmin Park (Warwick) Title: Subcontracting Away Strategic Uncertainty
24th November (MIWP)	Agustin Troccoli Moretti (Warwick) Title: History-Dependent Self-Control and Emotional Decision-Making
1st December (MIWP)	Doruk Cetemen (City University of London) Title: Dynamic Predation and Entry Deterrence
23rd February (MIWP)	Xueying Zhao (Warwick) Title: Signaling effect of information design
9th March (MIWP)	Nick Scholz (Warwick) Title: Partition Dependent Expected Utility
16th March (MIWP)	Peter Hammond (Warwick) Title: Quantum Observables as Kolmogorov Random Variables
1st June (MWIP)	Pablo Beker (Warwick) Title: The Market Selection Hypothesis with Recursive Preferences: A General Framework and Robustness Analysis

MIRG & MIWP - Programme 2021/22

Date	Speaker
11th November (MIWP)	Dimitri Migrow (U.Calgary) Title: Strategic Observational Learning
17th February (MIWP)	Yating Yuan Title: Herding and versioning
24th February (MIWP)	Jose Rivero Wildemauwe (CY Cergy Paris Universite) Title: Bargaining with Moral Agents
3rd March (MIWP)	Peter Hammond Title: Rationality of Decisions That Avoid Predictably Regrettable Consequences
10th March (MIWP)	Nick Scholz Title: A continuous time health mechanism without money and increasing need for treatment
17th March (MIWP)	Agustin Troccoli Moretti Title: Lead Us Not Into Temptation: on the Dynamics of History Dependent Self-Control
19th May (MIWP)	Adrien Vigier (Nottingham) Title:

MIRG & MIWP - Programme 2020/21

Date	Speaker
1st October (MIRG)	Yating Yuan Title: Information design in the hold up problem
15th October (MIRG)	Xueying Zhao Title: Bayesian Persuasion with Heterogeneous Priors
22nd October (MIRG)	Nick Scholtz Title: On the Identification of Changing Tastes
29th October (MIRG)	Augustin Troccoli Moretti Title: Indecisiveness, Undesirability and Ovearload Revealed Through Rational Choice Deferral
12th November (MIRG)	Xueying Zhao Title: Media bias in the marketplace
26th November (MIRG)	Raghav Malhotra Title: A general theory of tests
1oth December (MIWP)	Costas Cavounidis Title: Multidimensional Human Capital and General Equilibrium
4th March (MIRG)	Ilan Kremer "Persuasion with Multiple Actions" (joint with Davit Khantadze and Andrzej Skrzypacz)
11th March (MIRG)	Peter Hammond Rationality in Enlivened Decision Trees
18th March (MIRG)	Nick Scholtz A Comprehensive Approach to Revealed Preference Theory
23rd March (MIWP)	Raghav Malhotra Introducing Market Segregation as a Policy Instrument
22nd April (MIRG)	Anastasios Dosis On the Informed Principal Model with Common Values
29th Apr (MIRG)	Costas Cavounidis A somewhat general theory of workers, skills, jobs and General Equilibrium. Who does what - and why
6th May (MIRG)	Costas Cavounidis Education and Human Capital in General Equilibrium: Who does what - and why
27th May (MIRG)	Raghav Malhotra Variance based of aggregate demand
17th June (MIRG)	Costas Cavounidis Losing by Betting on Success
24th June (MIRG)	Jacob Glazer Data-Based Predictions: Holistic and Atomistic Procedures

MIWP - Programme 2019/20

Date	Speaker
10th October 2019	Shurojit Chatterji (SMU)
24th October 2019	Costas Cavounidis (Warwick Economics)
14th November 2019	Ayush Pant (Warwick PGR student)
21st November 2019	Daniel Habermacher (Warwick PGR student)
20th February 2020	Daniele Condorelli (Warwick Economics)
05th March 2020	Raghav Malhotra (Warwick PGR student)
12th March 2020	Anastasios Dosis (ESSEC Business School)
TERM 3	Transferred to seminar slots due to COVID-19

MIWP - Programme 2018/19

Date	Speaker
4th October 2018	Dezso Szalay (Bonn)
25th October 2018	Davit Khantadze (Warwick - PGR student) Title: Two-Dimensional Information Design
31st October 2018	Dimitri Migrow (Calgary) Title: Designing Organizations in Volatile Markets
1st November 2018	Raghav Malhotra (Warwick - PGR student)
14th November 2018	Federico Trombetta (Warwick - PGR student) Title: The Newsroom Dilemma: Media Competition, Speed and the Quality of Journalism
22nd November 2018	Daniel Habermacher (Warwick - PGR student) Title: Authority and Information Acquisition in Cheap Talk with Informational Interdependence
28th November 2018	Olga Gorelkina (Liverpool) Title: Collusion via Information Sharing and Optimal Auctions
7th February 2019	Thomas Epper (University of St. Gallen)
6th March 2019	Can Urgun (Princeton University)
7th March	Kaustav Das (University of Leicester)
2nd May 2019	Irina Kholodenko (Warwick PGR student)
9th May 2019	Sambuddha Ghosh (Boston University)
23rd May	Ayush Pant (Warwick PGR student)

MIWP - Programme 2017/18

Date	Speaker
June 5th	Debraj Ray Title: "Games of Love and Hate"
May 23rd	Harry Di Pei (MIT) Title: "Repeated Interactions without Commitment"
May 16th	Anqi Li (Washington in St. Louis) Title: "The Politics of Attention
May 9th	Pablo Beker Title: TBC
May 2nd	John Thanassoulis (WBS) Title: "Does Competition Encourage (or Deter) Unethical Firm Behaviour?"
March 14th	Angel Hernando-Veciana Title: "A Geometric Approach to the Complexity of Mechanisms"
March 8th	Efthymios Smyrniotis Title: "Strategic Bankruptcy: A Game of Coordination and the Effects of Stress tests"
February 21st	Sinem Hidir Title: "Information Acquisition and Credibility in Cheap Talk"
November 29th	Giulio Trigilia (Rochester) Title: "Voluntary disclosure under dynamic moral hazard"
November 22nd	Wentao Fu Title: "Optimal contract to reward private experimentation"
November 9th	Tatiana Mayskaya (Higher School of Economics (ICEF and FES)) Title: TBC
November 1st	Guillem Ordonez Calafi Title: "Blockholder Disclosure Thresholds and Hedge Fund Activism"
October 25th	Davit Khantadze Title: "Two-Dimensional Bayesian Persuasion"
October 18th	Yair Antler (Essex) Title: "Multilevel Marketing: Pyramid-Shaped Schemes or Exploitation Scams?"

MIRG - Programme 2017/18

Date	Speaker
February 15th	Federico Trombetta Title: “When to Drop a Bombshell” by Gratton, Holden, and Kolotilin
February 8th	Zeinab Aboutalebi Title: “Discriminatory Information Disclosure” by Li and Shi
February 1st	Raghav Malhotra Title: “Almost fully revealing cheap talk with imperfectly informed senders” by Ambrus and Lu
November 30th	Ayush Pant Title: "Moving the Goalposts" by Ely and Szydlowski
November 23rd	Yatish Arya Title: TBC
November 15th	Daniel Habermacher Title: "Rational Inattention and Organizational Focus" (Dessein et al, 2016)

MIWP - Programme 2016/17

Date	Speaker
May 24th	Tobias Deiler (University of Bristol) Title: "Anonymous Lending with Insurance"
May 17th	Spyros Terovitis (University of Warwick) Title: "The Impact of Credit Rating Agencies on Capital Markets"
May 10th	Rahul Deb (University of Toronto) Title: "Evaluating Strategic Forecasters"
March 8th	Guillem Ordonez (University of Warwick) Title: "TBC"
March 1st	Jacopo Bizzotto (University of Oslo) Title: "How to Persuade a Long-Run Decision Maker"
February 22nd	Matteo Foschi (EUI) Title: "Temptation in Markets with no Commitment: Type-Ordering Reversal"
February 15th	Johannes Schneider (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Title: "Managing a Conflict"
December 7th	Daniel Habermacher (University of Warwick) Title: "Multidimensional Cheap Talk with Correlated Information"
November 23rd	Raghul Venkatesh (University of Warwick) Title: "Activism, Costly Participation, and Polarization"
November 16th	Guillem Ordonez (University of Warwick) Title: "Network Capital"
November 9th	Antonio Rosato (University of Technology Sydney) Title: "Loss Aversion and Competition in Vickrey Auctions: Money Ain’t No Good"
November 2nd	Spyros Terovitis (University of Warwick) Title: "Motivating Information Acquisition Under Delegation"
November 1st	Tasos Dosis (ESSEC) Title: "On the Informed Principal Model with Common Values"
October 26th	Christoph Wolf (Mannheim) Title: "Information Milestones in Experimentation"

MIRG - Programme 2015/16

Date	Speaker
June 1st	Yatish Arya Title: "Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking" (Benabou and Tirole , JPE 2016) Bénabou and Tirole
May 11th	Irina Kholodenko Title: "Ostracism and Forgiveness" (Ali and Miller, AER 2016)
March 9th	Spyros Terovitis Title: "Dynamic Disclosures and the Secondaty Market for Loan Sales" (Cianciaruso et al., WP)
March 2nd	Zeinab Aboutalebi Title: "Suspense and Surprise"(Ely et al., JPE 2015)
March 23rd	Nika Koreli Title: "Selling Information" (Horner and Skrzypacz, JPE forthcoming)
February 16th	Federico Trombetta Title: "Persuading Voters "(Alonso and Camara, AER 2016)
February 9th	Daniel Habermacher Title: "Bayesian persuasion with heterogenous priors" (Alonso and Camara, JET 2016)
January 26th	Sinem Hidir Title: "The design and price of information" (Bergemann et al., WP)
December 1st	Daniel Habermacher Title: "Strategic Information Acquisition and Transmission" (Argenziano et al., AEJ 2016)
November 24th	Federico Trombetta Title: "The sound of silence: Political accountability and libel law" (Gratton, EJPE 2015)
November 17th	Yatish Arya Title: "Implementing the wisdom of the crowd" (Kremer et al., JPE 2014)
November 10th	Zeinab Aboutalebi Title: "Dynamic Delegation of Experimentation" (Guo, AER 2016)
November 31st	Felix Forster Title: "Social Experimentation with Interdependent and Expanding Technologies" (Garfagnini and Strulovici, REStud 2016)
October 27th	Sinem Hidir Title: "Timing Decisions in Organizations: Communication and Authority in a Dynamic Environment" (Grenadier et al. AER 2016)
October 20th	Ayush Pant Title: "Learning, Experimentation and Information Design" (Horner and Skrzypacz, Survey)

Microeconomics Reading Group in Macroeconomic Theory (MIMA)

This weekly seminar series consists of internal (mainly research students) and external speakers. The aim of the talks are to have a critical discussion on the seminal papers on theoretical foundations of macroeconomics and public policy, as well as review the latest developments in the literature.

MIMA Programme - 2022/23

Date	Speaker
1st March	MIMA 1 day workshop

MIMA Programme - 2021/22

Date	Speaker
20th Oct	Agustin Troccoli - Advances in economics and econometrics:
27th Oct	Alperen Tosun - Temptation and Taxation.
17th Nov	Carolina Kansikas - Memory, Attention, and Choice.
12th Jan	Diego Calderon - The Tail That Wags the Economy: Beliefs and Persistent Stagnation
19th Jan	Chen Lian (Berkeley) - Determinacy without the Taylor Principle
26th Jan	Nikolaos Kokonas (Bath) - Equilibrium unemployment and vacancies under exponential satisficing behaviour
2nd Feb	Carolina Kansikas - Memory, Attention, and Choice
9th Feb	Asgerdur Petursdottir (Bath) - Central Bank Account for All: Efficiency and Risk Taking
16th Feb	George Ferridge - Peak-End Theory and the Structure of Memory
23rd Feb	Jean-Jacques Herings (Tilburg) - Moved to the SET seminar
2nd Mar	Lingsi Wei (Bath) - Cancelled
9th Mar	Bogdan Marcu - cancelled
16th Mar	Theofanis Papamichalis (Oxford) - Belief Heterogeneity and Risk Amplification
31st May	Oliver Pfäuti (Yale) Title: A Behavioral Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian Model

MIMA Programme - 2020/21

Date	Speaker
2nd Oct	H. Alperen Tosun - Golosov, Tsyvinski and Werning (2006)
14th Oct	Angelica Martinez Leyva - Michael Woodford (2020)
21st Oct	Edoardo Tolva - Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodriguez-Clare (2012)
28th Oct	See Yu Chan - Mian, Straub and Sufi (2020)
4th Nov	Gabriele Guaitoli - Guerrieri-Lorenzoni-Straub-Werning(2020)
11th Nov	Ivan Yotzov - Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography, and Sorting
18th Nov	Yaolang Zhong - The AI Economist: Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policies
25th Nov	Lingsi Wei (University of Bath) - Financial Innovation, Macro-prudential Policies and Leverage Cycles
2nd Dec	Aruhan Shi - Forward Guidance and Durable Goods Demand // Lumpy Durable Consumption Demand and the Limited Ammunition of Monetary Policy
9th Dec	Julian Ashwin (Oxford) - Resolving indeterminacy with neural network learning : sinks become sources
20th Jan	Efthymis Smyrniotis (Bristol) - The Optimal Degree of Discretion in Monetary Policy.
27th Jan	See Yu Chan - The State of New Keynesian Economics: A Partial Assessment
3rd Feb	H. Alperen Tosun - Monetary Policy and Multiple Equilibria
10th Feb	Raghav Malhotra - What Fiscal Policy Is Effective at Zero Interest Rates
17th Feb	Cancelled
24th Feb	Nikos Kokonas (Bath) - Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy
3rd Mar	Nikos Kokonas (Bath) Continued
10th Mar	Anshumaan Tuteja - The Forward Guidance Puzzle
17th Mar	Lingsi Wei (Bath) - Monetary policy, bounded rationality, and incomplete markets
24th Mar	Diego Calderon - Credit booms, Financial cycles and Macroprudential policies
26th May	Lingsi Wei (Bath) - Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Consumers
2nd June	Alperen Tosun - Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs
16th June	Puru Gupta - Local martingales, Bubbles and Option Prices
30th June	Amedeo Andriollo - Ambiguity, Learning, and Asset Returns
14th July	Oliver Pfäuti - Monetary Policy in Times of Low Attention

MIMA Summer Programme - 2020

Date	Speaker
3rd June	H. Alperen Tosun - Fiscal-Monetary Theories of Inflation
10th June	H. Alperen Tosun - Ten Monetary Doctrines
17th June	Herakles Polemarchakis - OLG Models
24th June	Nick Scholz - Bewley Incomplete Market Models
3rd July	Raghav Malhotra - Foundations of Fiscal Policy
10th July	Raghav Malhotra - Taxation
15th July	Gabriele Guaitoli - Optimal fiscal and monetary policy in an economy without capital
22nd July	Gabriele Guaitoli - continuation of last weeks presentation
29th July	H. Alperen Tosun - An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation.
5th August	H. Alperen Tosun - continuation of last weeks presentation
26th August	Ivan Yotzov - Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Cyclical Investment
2nd September	Nikos Kokonas - Imperfect Common Knowledge and the Effects of Monetary Policy