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CRETA Past Seminars

SET: Seminars in Economic Theory

SET & CRETA Theory Seminars – Programme 2023/24

Date Speaker
2023/2024
Term 3

5th June

Giacomo Lanzani (Harvard)
Title: Dynamic Concern for Misspecification

28th May

Leeat Yariv (Princeton)
Title: Strategic Decentralized Matching: The Effects of Information Frictions

22nd May

Ravi Jagadeesan (Stanford)
Title: Multidimensional Screening with Returns

15th May

Miaomiao Dong (Penn State)
Title: Strategic Disclosure in Research Races

8th May

Rahul Deb (Toronto)
Title: Statistical Discrimination and the Distribution of Wages
2023/2024
Term 2

13th March

Roberto Serrano (Brown)
Title: Mediated (Anti)Persuasive Communication

6th March

Omer Tamuz (Caltech)
Title: Decomposable stochastic choice

28th February

Matthew Elliott (Cambridge)
Title: Market segmentation through information.

21st February

Joao Thereze (Duke)
Title: Adverse Selection and Endogenous Information

14th February

Alex Frankel (Chicago)
Title: Comparisons of Signals
2023/2024
Term 1
6th December

Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse)
29th November

Shota Ichihashi (Queen’s University)
Title: Information and Policing
22nd November

Zi Yang Kang (Harvard)
Title: Optimal Indirect Regulation of Externalities
15th November

Johannes Horner (Toulouse)
Title: Dynamic Screening : Why Weight isn’t Volume
8th November

Sarah Auster (Bonn)

Title: Persuasion with Limited Data: A Case-Based Approach
1st November

Ina Taneva (Edinburgh)
Title: Strategic Ignorance and Information Design
25/10/2023

Kai Hao Yang (Yale)
Title: Privacy Preserving Signals
18/10/2023

Teck Young Tan (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Title: Price Discrimination with Manipulable Observables.
25/10/2023

Kai Hao Yang (Yale)
Title: Privacy Preserving Signals
01/11/2023

Ina Taneva (Edinburgh)
Title: Strategic Ignorance and Information Design
08/11/2023

Sarah Auster (Bonn)
Title: Persuasion with Limited Data: A Case-Based Approach
15/11/2023

Johannes Horner (Toulouse)
Title: Dynamic Screening : Why Weight isn’t Volume
22/11/2023

Zi Yang Kang (Harvard)
Title: Optimal Indirect Regulation of Externalities
29/11/2023

Shota Ichihashi (Queen’s University)
Title: Information and Policing
06/12/2023

Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse)
Title: Personalized Pricing and Competition

SET & CRETA Theory Seminars – Programme 2022/23

Date Speaker
2021/2022
Term 1
04/10/2022
(SET)

Jakub Steiner(University of Zurich and CERGE-EI)
Title: Decision Theory and Stochastic Growth
12/10/2022

Lucas Maestri (FGV)
Title: Dynamic Contracting with Multiple Agents under Limited Commitment
19/10/2022

Ann-Katrin Roesler (Toronto)
Title: How informed do you want your principal to be?
26/10/2022

No seminar - Icebreaking workshop
01/11/2022
(SET)		 Nicolas Lambert (USC)
Title: "Elicitability"
02/11/2022 Marcus Pivato (CY Cergy Paris Université)

Title: Weighted representative democracy
09/11/2022

Mark Whitmeyer (ASU)
Title: Buying Opinions
16/11/2022

Mengxi Zhang (Bonn)
Title: Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses and Adverse Selection
23/11/2022

Weijie Zhong (Stanford)
Title: Martingale Embeddings: Theory and Applications
28/11/2022

Gregorio Curello (Bonn)

Title : Incentives for collective innovation
06/12/2022
(SET)

Anqi LiLink opens in a new window (Virginia Polytechnic and State University)
Title: Rational Inattentive Statistical Discrimination: Arrow meets Phelps
07/12/2022

Tommaso Denti (Cornell)
Title : Blackwell correlated equilibrium
2022/2023
Term 2
09/01/2023
(SET)

Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado (Columbia University)
Title: The Behavioral Implications of Statistical Decision Theory
10/01/2023
(SET)

Ernesto Rivera Mora (University of Arizona)
Title: Neutral Mechanisms: On the Feasibility of Information Sharing
12/01/2023
(SET)

Sophie KreutzkampLink opens in a new window (University of Bonn)
Title: Endogenous Information Acquisition in Cheap-Talk Games
16/01/2023
(SET)

Raghav MalhotraLink opens in a new window (University of Warwick)
Title: Price Changes and Welfare Analysis: Measurement under Individual Heterogeneity
23/01/2023
(SET)

Zi Yang KangLink opens in a new window (Stanford University)
Title: The Public Option and Optimal Redistribution
15/02/2023

Simone Cerreia Vioglio (Bocconi)
Title: Nonlinear Fixed Points and Stationarity: Economic Applications

21/02/2023

Simon Quinn (Oxford)
Title: Asset-based microfinance for microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan
22/02/2023

Stephan Lauermann (Bonn)
Title: Auctions with Frictions
24/03/2023

David Ahn (Wustl)
Title: Incentives and Efficiency in Constrained Allocation Mechanisms
2022/2023
Term 3

04/05/2023

Dirk Bergemann (Yale University)
Title: Cost Based Nonlinear Pricing

10/05/2023

Nageeb Ali (Penn State)
Title: Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Polity

17/05/2023

Lones Smith (Wisconsin)
Title: Accept this Paper

23/05/2023

Graciela Chichilnisky
Title: The Topology of Quantum Theory and Social Choice

24/05/2023

Antonio Penta (UPF)
Title: Attitude towards success and failure

SET & CRETA Theory Seminars – Programme 2021/22

Date Speaker
2021/2022
Term 1
12/10/2021

 Ludvig Sinander (Oxford)
Title: Agenda-manipulation in ranking
13/10/2021
(SET)		 Meg Meyer (Oxford University)
Title: A Welfare Analysis of a Steady-State Model of Observational Learning
15/10/2021

 Paula Onuchic (NYU)
Title: Signaling and Discrimination in Colaborative Projects
20/10/2021
(SET)		 Simone Cerreia Vioglio (Bocconi University)
Title: Making Decisions under Model Misspecification
26/10/2021 Daniel Gottlieb (LSE)
Title: Stochastic Impatience and the Separation of Time and Risk Preferences
27/10/2021
(SET)		 Andres Carvajal (UC Davis)
Title: Idiosyncratic Risk and the Equity Premium
02/11/2021 Quitze Valenzuela-Stookey (Duke)
Title: Market-Based Mechanisms
03/11/2021
(SET)		 Sarah Auster (University of Bonn)
Title: Dynamic Information Acquisition under Ambiguity
10/11/2021
(SET)		 George Lukyanov (Ecole Polytechnique)
Title: Reputation for Learning with Moral Hazard
16/11/2021 Aditya Kuvalekar (Essex)
Title: Selling to a Group
17/11/2021
(SET)		 Filipe Martins da Rocha (Sao Paulo School of Economics- FGV)
Title: Second Order Expected Utility: An Anscombe—Aumann Approach
23/11/2021 Joao Ramos (QMUL)
Title:
24/11/2021
(SET)		 Gilat Levy (LSE)
Title: Short-term Political Memory and the Inevitability of Polarisation
30/11/2021 Daniel Garrett (Essex)
Title: Relational Contracts: Public versus Private Savings'
01/12/2021
(SET)		 Mehmet Ekmekci (Boston College)
Title: Informal Elections with Dispersed Information: Protests, Petitions, and Nonbinding Voting
08/12/2021
(SET)

Miaomiao Dong (PSU)
Title: Strategic Disclosure in Research Races
15/12/2021
(SET)

Linda Schilling (Washington University in St Louis)
Title: Voters, Bailouts, and the Size of the Firm
2021/2022
Term 2

10/01/2022
(SET)

Modibo CamaraLink opens in a new window (Northwestern University)
Title: Computationally Tractable Choice

12/01/2022
SET)

Enrico de Magistris (Boston University)
Title: Investing in Outside Options in Bargaining

14/01/2022
(SET)

Evgenii Safonov (Princeton University)
Title: Slow and Easy: a Theory of Browsing

17/01/2022
(SET)

Yingkai Li (Northwestern University)
Title: Optimization of Scoring Rules

18/01/2022
(SET)

Ellen Muir (Stanford University)
Title: Contracting and vertical control by a dominant platform

21/01/2022
(SET)

Sara Shahanaghi (Columbia University)
Title: Competition and Errors in Breaking News

24/01/2022
(SET)

Daniel Clark (MIT)
Title: The Informed Principal with Agent Moral Hazard

26/01/2022
(SET)

Jaden Chen (Cornell University)
Title: Sequential Learning under Informational Ambiguity

28/01/2022
(SET)

Ravi Jagadeesan (Stanford University)
Title: Matching and Prices

09/02/2022
(SET)

Srihari Govindan (University of Rochester)
Title: Large Auctions

16/02/2022
(SET)

Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University)
Title: Expectation Conformity in Strategic Cognition

23/02/2022
(SET)

Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht University)
Title: Expectational Equilibria in Many-to-one Matching Models with Contracts - A Reformulation of Competitive Equilibrium

02/03/2022
(SET)

Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University)
Title: Caution and Reference Effects

09/03/2022
(SET)

 Bart Lipman (Boston University)
Title: Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition

15/03/2022

Sebastian Maes (KU Leuven)
Title: Price Changes and Welfare Analysis: Measurement under Individual Heterogeneity

16/03/2022
(SET)

Adam Brandenburger (NYU Stern)
Title: Agreement and Disagreement in a Non-Classical World

23/03/2022
(SET)

Andrea Attar (Toulouse School of Economics)
Title: Keeping the Agents in the Dark: Private Disclosures in Competing Mechanisms

30/03/2022
(SET)

Leslie Marx (Duke University)
Title: Vertical Integration with Incomplete Information

06/04/2022
(SET)

Kai Hao Yang (Yale University)
Title: Market-Minded Informational Intermediary and Unintended Welfare Loss

27/04/2022
(SET)

 Caroline Thomas (UT Austin)
Title: Social Choice Under Gradual Learning

04/05/2022
(SET)

 Ina Taneva (University of Edinburgh)
Strategic Ignorance and Information Design

04/05/2022

 Ellen Muir (Stanford)
Title: Wage dispersion, minimum wages and involuntary unemployment: A mechanism design perspective

11/05/2022

 Marcus Pivato (CY Cergy Paris Université)
Title: Autonomy and meta preferences

18/05/2022

 Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA)
Title: Dynamic Value Shading

25/05/2022

 Nima Haghpanah (Penn State)
Title: A Cooperative Theory of Market Segmentation by Consumers

01/06/2022

 Jacopo Perego (Columbia Business School)
Title: The Value of Data Records

07/06/2022
(SET)

 Olivier Gossner (Ecole Polytechnique, IP-Paris; LSE)
Title: Rationalizable Outcomes in Games with Incomplete Information

08/06/2022

 Eliot Lipnowski (Columbia)
Title: Predicting Choice from Information Costs

15/06/2022

 Pablo Schenone (Fordham)
Title: Causality: a Decision-Theoretic Foundation

SET Seminars – Programme 2020/21

Date Speaker
2020/2021
Term 1
07/10/2020
(SET)

Yingni Guo (Northwestern University)
Title: Robust Monopoly Regulation
14/10/2020
(SET)

Costis Daskalakis (MIT)
Title: Min-max Optimization and the Foundations of Deep Learning
21/10/2020
(SET)

Takuo Sugaya (Stanford University)
Title: Do a Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel? Cooperation in Large Populations with Incomplete Information
28/10/2020
(SET)

Alexander Wolitzky (MIT)
Title: The Economics of Partisan Gerrymandering
04/11/2020
(SET)

Pawel Dziewulski (University of Sussex)
Title Normal demand and comparison of multi-prior beliefs- Comparative statics in optimisation problems with linear objectives
11/11/2020
(SET)

Rahul Deb (University of Toronto)
Title: When are Dynamic Choices Consistent with Learning from Common Information?
18/11/2020
(SET)

Rossella Argenziano (University of Essex)
Title: Information Revelation and Privacy Protection
25/11/2020
(SET)

Marek Pycia (University of Zurich)
Title: Auctions of Homogeneous Goods: A Case for Pay-as-Bid
02/12/2020
(SET)

Gabriel Carroll (Stanford University)
Title: Dynamic Incentives in Incompletely Specified Environments
09/12/2020
(SET)

Wioletta Dziuda (University of Chicago)
Title: Voters and the Policy Stability versus Responsiveness Trade off
16/12/2020
(SET)

Harry Di Pei (Northwestern University)
Title: Reputation Building under Observational Learning
2020/2021
Term 2
13/01/2021
(SET)

Omer Tamuz (Caltech)
Title: Monotone Additive Statistics
20/01/2021
(SET)

Ludvig Sinander (Northwestern University)
Title: Screening for Breakthroughs
22/01/2021
(SET)

Ashwin Kambhampati (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Robust Performance Evaluation
27/01/2021
(SET)

Suraj Malladi (Stanford University, GSB)
Title: Delegated Screening and Robustness
29/01/2021
(SET)

Florian Brandl (Princeton University)
Title: Belief-Averaged Relative Utilitarianism
03/02/2021
(SET)

Paula Onuchic (New York University)
Title: Advisors with Hidden Motives
05/02/2021
(SET)

Krishna Dasaratha (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Innovation and Strategic Network Formation
10/02/2021
(SET)

Heidi Thysen (LSE)
Title: Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations
12/02/2021
(SET)

Duarte Goncalves (Columbia University)
Title: Sequential Sampling and Equilibrium
17/02/2021
(SET)

Satoru Takahashi (National University of Singapore)
Title: Implementation via Information Design in Binary-Action Supermodular Games
24/02/2021
(SET)

Nikhil Vellodi (Paris School of Economics)
Title: Ratings Design and Barriers to Entry
03/03/2021
(SET)

Todd Sarver (Duke University)
Title: An Evolutionary Perspective on Updating Risk and Ambiguity Preferences
10/03/2021
(SET)

Kareen Rozen (Brown University)
Title: Communication, Perception and Strategic Obfuscation
17/03/2021
(SET)

Lones Smith (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Title: The Behavioral SIR Model, with Applications to the Swine Flu and COVID-19 Pandemics
24/03/2021
(SET)

Ben Brooks (University of Chicago)
Title: A Strong Minimax Theorem for Informationally-Robust Auction Design
2020/2021
Term 3
31/03/2021
(SET)		 Julien Combe (Ecole Polytechnique)

Title: Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money
07/04/2021
(SET)		 Navin Kartik (Columbia University)
Title: Lemonade from Lemons: Information Design with Interdependent Values
14/04/2021
(SET)		 Georgios Gerasimou (University of St Andrews)
Title: The Decision-Conflict Logit
21/04/2021
(SET)		 Pierre Boyer (Ecole Polytechnique-CREST)
Title: Pareto-Improving Tax Reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit
28/04/2021
(SET)		 Bruno Strulovic (Northwestern University)
Title: Can Society Function Without Ethical Agents? An Informational Perspective
05/05/2021
(SET)		 Martin Cripps (UCL)
Title: Divisible Updating
12/05/2021
(SET)		 Siyang Xiong (UC Riverside)
Title: An Extensive-Form Representation of Continuous-Time Games with Reaction Lags
19/05/2021
(SET)		 David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Allocation Mechanisms Without Reduction
26/05/2021
(SET)		 Zhen Zhou (Tsinghua University)
Title: Timely Persuasion
02/06/2021
(SET)		 Chiara Margaria (Boston University)
Title: Exit Dilemma. The Role of Private Learning on Firm Survival
09/06/2021
(SET)		 Marina Halac (Yale University)
Title: Monitoring Teams
16/06/2021
(SET)		 Deniz Kattwinkel (UCL)
Title: Allocation with Correlated Information: Too good to be true
23/06/2021
(SET)		 Laura Doval (Columbia Business School)
Title: Optimal Mechanism for the Sale of a Durable Good
30/06/2021
(SET)		 Annie Liang (Northwestern University)
Title: Data and Incentives

CRETA Theory Seminars – Programme 2019/20

Date Speaker
2019/2020
Term 1
09/10/2019 Daniele Condorelli (University of Essex)
Title: Information Design in the Hold-up Problem
16/10/2019 Thomas Wisemann (University of Texas Austin)
Title: How to Sell in a Sequential Auction Market
23/10/2019 Nicolas Klein (University of Montreal)
Title: Overcoming Free-Riding in Bandit Games
30/10/2019 Dhruva Bhaskar (QMUL)
06/11/2019 Eric Danan (University of Cergy-Pontoise)
Title: Partial Utilitarianism
13/11/2019 Harry Di Pei (Northwestern University)
20/11/2019 Alessandro Citanna (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Title: A re-examination of naive present bias in credit markets
27/11/2019 Jingyi Xue (SMU)
04/12/2019 Adrien Vigier (Norwegian Business School)
Title: Who Acquires Information in Dealer Markets?
2019/2020
Term 2
12/02/2020 Luciano Pomatto (Caltech)
Title: A Foundation for Smooth Ambiguity Preferences
19/02/2020 Georgios Gerasimou (University of St. Andrews)
Title: Simple Preference Intensity Comparisons
04/03/2020 Filip Matejka (CERGE-EI)
Title: Choice Simplification: A Theory of Mental Budgeting and Naive Diversification
11/03/2020 Annie Liang (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Data Linkages and Incentives

CRETA Theory Seminars – Programme 2018/19

Date Speaker
2018/2019
Term 1

03/10/2018

Yves Sprumont (University of Montreal)
Title: Strategy-proof Choice of Act

10/10/2018

Julia Wirtz (University of Bristol)
Title: Rationalizing Mindsets. A Bandit Model of Two-Dimensional Uncertainty

17/10/2018

Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt University)
Title: Own experience bias in a labor market with heterogeneous rewards

24/10/2018

Andrew Ellis (LSE)
Title: Correlation Concern

31/10/2018

Ina Taneva (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Information Design and Higher-Order Reasoning

07/11/2018

Martin Meier (University of Bath)
Title: Perfect Quasi-Perfect Rationalizability

21/11/2018

Sourav Bhattacharya (RHUL)
Title: Full Information Equivalence in Large Elections

28/11/2018

Joao Ramos (USC Marshall)
Title: Repeated Delegation

14/02/2019

Konrad Mierendorf (UCL)
Title: Optimal Dynamic Allocation of Attention

20/02/2019

Andre Veiga (Imperial College)
Title: Migration between platforms

27/02/2019

Itzhak Gilboa (TelAviv / HBC)
Title: Second-Order Induction and Statistical Games

06/03/2019

Simon Board (UCLA )
Title: Learning Dynamics in Social Networks

13/03/2019

 Martin Kaae Jensen (University of Surrey)

Title:
2018/2019
Term 3

01/05/2019

Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv/NYU)
Title: Normative Equilibrium: The permissible and the forbidden as devices for bringing order to economic environments

08/05/2019

Roland Benabou (Princeton)
Title: Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

15/05/2019

Simon Anderson (University of Virginia)
Title:

22/05/2019

Juan Ortner (Boston University)
Title: Data Driven Regulation :Theory and Application to Missing Bids

10/06/2019

Tim Bond (Purdue)
Title: Stalled racial progress and Japanese trade in the 1970s and 1980s

12/06/2019

Sander Heinsalu (Australian National University)
Title: Herding driven by the desire to differ

CRETA Theory Seminars – Programme 2017/18

Date Speaker
2017/2018
Term 1
11/10/2017

Frederic Koessler (PSE)
Title: Competitive Information Design: The Statistic Case
18/10/2017

Prajit Kumar Dutta (Columbia)
Title: A Welfare Theorem for Asynchronous Games with Transfers: Part II - Infinite Horizon
25/10/2017

Stephen Morris (Princeton)
Title: Crises: Equilibrium Shifts and Large Shocks
01/11/2017

Thomas Mariotti (Toulouse)
Title:
08/11/2017

Juuso Valimaki (Aalto)
Title:
16/11/2017

Piero Gottardi (University of Essex)
Title:
22/11/2017

Johannes Horner (Yale)
Title:
29/11/2017

Dezso Szalay (Bonn)
2017/2018
Term 2

21/02/2018

Doron Ravid (Chicago)
Title: Cheap Talk with Transparent Motives

28/02/2018

 Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern)
Title: Judicial Mechanism Design

07/03/2018

 David Levine (EUI)
Title: Peer Monitoring, Ostracism and the Internalization of Social Norms

07/03/2018

 Niko Matouschek (Northwestern)
Title: Survival of the Weakest: Why the West Rules

14/03/2018

 Shengwu Li (Harvard)
Title: Credible Mechanisms
2017/2018
Term 3

02/05/2018

 Tilman Borgers (Michigan)
Title: Strategically Simple Mechanisms

09/05/2018

 Jonathan Eaton (Penn State)
Title: Firm-to-Firm Trade: Exports, Imports, and the Labor Market

16/05/2018

 Asher Wolinsky (Northwestern)
Title: Auctions by Invitation

23/05/2018

 Muhamet Yildiz (MIT)
Title: Culture and Communication

30/05/2018

 Larry Samuelson (Yale)
Title: The Wisdom of a Confused Crowd: Model Based Inference

18/06/2018

 Patrick O'Callaghan (University of Queensland)
Title: Prudent Case-Based Prediction when Experience is Lacking