Economic Theory
Workshop Schedule 2024-2025
Program Director:
Fall Term 2024
Monday, Sept. 9, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
"Support, Resistance, and Technical Trading"
Monday, Sept. 16, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Anqi Li (University of Waterloo)
"Learning Source Biases: Multisourced Misspecifications and Consequences for Predictions"
(joint with Junnan He, Lin Hu, and Matthew Kovac)
Monday, Oct. 21, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Itai Arieli (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
"Persuading While Learning"
(joint with Yakov Babichenko, Dimitry Shaiderman and Xianwen Shi)
Monday, Oct. 28, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Alvaro Sandroni (Northwestern University)
"The Evolution of Incompetence"
Monday, Nov. 25, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Wilfried Youmbi Fotso (Western University)
"Nonparametric Analysis of Random Preference Models that Allows for Nontransitivity"
Monday, Dec. 2, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Dazhuo Wei (Western University)
"Random Attention Span"
Winter Term 2024
Monday, Mar. 3, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Robert McCann (University of Toronto)
"Valuing Multiple Dimensions of Private Information: the Monopolist's Free Boundary Problem in the Plane"
Wednesday, Mar. 5, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University)
"Queueing Market Design"
Short-Term Visitor
Student Seminar
Thursday, Mar. 6, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University)
"Optimal Auction Design for Dynamic Stochastic Environments: Myerson Meets Naor"
Short-Term Visitor
Monday, Mar. 24, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Mark Whitmeyer (Arizona State University)
"How to Make an Action Better"
(joint with Marilyn Pease)
Monday, Mar. 31, via Zoom, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
"Non-Discriminatory Personalized Pricing"
Monday, Apr. 7, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
William Zame (UCLA)
"Do Index Funds Benefit Investors?"
(joint with Martin Schmalz)
Wednesday, Apr. 9, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
William Zame (UCLA)
"Linking Social and Personal Preferences: Theory and Experiment"
(joint with Bertil Tungodden, Erik Sorensen, Shachar Kariv, and Alexander Cappelen)
Summer Term 2025
Monday, Apr. 28, via Zoom, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Xin Wang (Western)
"Convex Order and its Economic Application"
Student Talk
Monday, May 5, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Dawei Li (Western)
"Strategic Disclosure for Attention"
Student Talk
