Economics » CRETA Seminars in Economic Theory

03/06 4pm-5:30pm: CRETA Theory Seminar - to be advised.

Andrew Taylor — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:13:15 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:30pm, Wed, 03 Jun '26

Where: TBA

Title to be advised.

13/05 10am-11am: CRETA Theory Seminar - Marilyn Pease (Indiana University)

Andrew Taylor — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:00:17 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Wed, 13 May '26

Title: Follow the Leader? Coordination Motives in Sequential Information Acquisition (joint with Mark Whitmeyer)

06/05 4pm-5:30pm: CRETA Seminar - Xiaosheng Mu (Princeton)

Andrew Taylor — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:05:11 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:30pm, Wed, 06 May '26

Where: S2.79

Title to be advised.

27/05 4pm-5:30pm: CRETA Seminar - Rohit Lamba (Cornell)

Andrew Taylor — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:07:10 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:30pm, Wed, 27 May '26

Where: S2.79

Title to be advsied

20/05 4pm-5:30pm: CRETA Theory Seminar - Dilip Abreu (New York)

Andrew Taylor — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:00:55 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:30pm, Wed, 20 May '26

Where: S2.79

Title to be advised.

29/04 4pm-5:30pm: CRETA Seminar - Alex Smolin (Toulouse)

Andrew Taylor — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:58:47 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:30pm, Wed, 29 Apr '26

Where: S2.79

Title: Robust Trust (with Piotr Dworczak)

Abstract: An agent chooses an action based on her private information and a recommendation from an informed but potentially misaligned adviser. With a known probability, the adviser truthfully reports his signal; with the remaining probability, he can send any message. We characterize optimal robust decision rules that maximize the agent's worst-case expected payoff. Every optimal rule is equivalent to a trust-region policy i belief space: the adviser's reported beliefs are taken at face value if they fall within the trust region but are otherwise clipped to the trust region's boundary. We derive alignment thresholds above which advice is strictly valuable and fully characterize the solution in both binary-state and binary-action environments.