Juli Plant Grainger Theory Seminar

Important note:

The Theory Seminar meets Fridays at 3:45 pm in Room 7142 Social Science (Morton Room)
Faculty organizer: Marek Weretka

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/11	Bruno Strulovici	Northwestern	Public Insurance Design Under Electoral Competition
9/18	Larry Samuelson	UW–Madison (Emeritus)	Dual Rat Races
10/9	Ana Sofia Teixeira Teles	UW–Madison	Misspecification-Aware Sequential Social Learning
11/11 *(Please Note: 12:20pm)	Tsz Fung Ngai	UW–Madison	Rational Search with Learning
11/13	Rodrigo Yañez Naudon	UW–Madison	Dangerous Talk
11/18 (Please Note: 12:20pm)	Jinzhe Wang	UW–Madison	TBA
11/20	Yannai Gonczarowski	Harvard	TBA
12/4 (Virtual)	Scott Kominers	Harvard	TBA

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
2/27	Agathe Pernoud	Chicago Booth	Bundling against Learning
3/06	Théo Durandard	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Robust Regulation of Labour Contracts
4/10	Giacomo Lanzani	UC Berkeley	Resilience vs. Fragility: Global Properties of Economies with Endogenous Production Networks
04/17	Bruno Strulovici	Northwestern	Public Insurance Design and Coverage Gaps under Electoral Competition, joint with Maren Vairo (Wharton)
4/24	Kyohei Okumura	UW–Madison	Evaluating the Efficiency of Regulation in Matching Markets with Distributional Disparities
5/1 *2:30-3:45	Benjamin Bernard	UW–Madison	Continuous-time stochastic games: beyond Markov-perfect equilibria

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/12	Aaron Kolb	Indiana, Kelly	Entry Deterrence with Public Signals: Revisiting the Chain-Store Paradox
9/19	George Mailath	UPenn	Belief-Free Equilibria in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring are not Purifiable
11/7	Giovanni Maggi	Yale	Carbon Taxes and Green Subsidies in a Global Economy
11/14	George Georgiadis	Northwestern, Kellogg	Incentives and Selection

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
2/28	Flavio Toxvaerd	Cambridge	Bilateral Monopoly Revisited: Price Formation, Efficiency and Countervailing Powers
3/7	Fedor Sandomirskiy	Princeton	Extreme Equilibria: The Benefits of Correlation
3/14	TBD	TBD	TBD
3/21	TBD	TBD	TBD
4/4	Marciano Siniscalchi	Northwestern	Structural Rationality: (some) foundations and applications
4/11	Dilip Mookherjee	Boston University	Misallocation Implications of Security and Collateral Value of Land
4/25	Dirk Bergemann	Yale	Data-Driven Mechanism Design
5/2	Jacob Leshno	Chicago Booth School of Business	On the Viability of Open-Source Financial Rails: Economic Security of Permissionless Consensus

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/13	Omer Tamuz	Caltech	Decomposable Stochastic Choice
9/20	Nicola Persico	Kellogg School of Management	The Evolution of Moral Foundations
9/27	Andres Carvajal	UC Davis	Memorable Events in Financial Markets
10/4	Eduard Talamàs	IESE Business School - University of Navarra	Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy
10/11	Ron Siegel	Penn State	Screening Two Types
11/8	Elliott Lipnowski	Yale	Endogenous Issues
11/15	Marco Battaglini	Cornell	Dynamic Collective Action and the Power of Large Numbers
11/22	Xiaosheng Mu	Princeton	Algorithmic Fairness
12/6	Raphael Boleslavsky	Indiana University - Kelley School of Business	The Design and Price of Influence
12/13	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/1	Annie Liang	Northwestern	The Value of Context: Human versus Black Box Evaluators
3/22	Jacopo Perego	Columbia	Competitive Markets for Personal Data
4/5	Laura Doval	Columbia	The Core of Bayesian Persuasion
4/9	Jean-Marc Robin	Sciences Po, Paris	Individual Wage Dynamics, Continuous Firm Types and Path Dependence
4/12	Dilip Abreu	NYU	Bargaining with Multiple Buyers
4/19	Wouter Dessein	Columbia	Firm Concentration, Innovation and the Dynamics of Competitive Advantage
4/26	David Frankel	Melbourne Business School	Equilibrium Selection in Participation Games: A Unified Framework Security Issuance with Undersubscription Risk
5/3	TBD

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/15	Ben Brooks	University of Chicago	Robust predictions with restricted information
9/22	Ravi Jagadeesan	Stanford University	Auctions with Withdrawal Rights: A Foundation for Uniform Price (joint work with Alexander Haberman)
9/29	NONE	-	-
10/06	Joel Watson	UC San Diego	Contractual Chains (new version)
10/13	NONE	-	-
10/20	Sylvain Chassang	Princeton	Scoring and Cartel Discipline in Procurement Auctions
10/27	NONE	-	-
11/03	Juuso Toikka	The Wharton School	Randomization and the Robustness of Linear Contracts
11/10	Evan Sadler	Columbia University	Making a Swap: Network Formation with Increasing Marginal Costs
11/17	NONE	-	-
12/01	Selman Erol	Carnegie Mellon University	Regulating Clearing in Networks
12/08	Joyee Deb	Yale	#Change
12/15	NONE	-	-

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/24	Navin Kartik	Columbia University	Beyond Unbounded Beliefs: How Preferences and Information Interplay in Social Learning
3/31	Romans Pancs	ITAM at Northwestern University	One Man, One Vote
4/07	Marco Ottaviani	Bocconi University	Grantmaking (with Jerome Adda)
4/12 (Wednesday)	John Hatfield	University of Texas, Austin	Facilitating Collusion with Spot-Price Contracting
4/21	Fernando Vega-Redondo	Bocconi University	Revealing information -- or not -- in a social network of traders
4/28	Yeon-Koo Che	Columbia University	Predictive Enforcement

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/9	Anne-Katrin Roesler	University of Toronto	"MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCREENING: BUYER-OPTIMAL LEARNING AND INFORMATIONAL ROBUSTNESS "
9/16	Simon Board	UCLA	Experimentation on Networks
9/30	Rajiv Vohra	Brown	Signaling, Screening, and Core Stability
10/7	Chen Lyu	UW–Madison	Information Design for Platform Recommendations
10/14	Erik Madsen	NYU	Incentive Design for Talent Discovery
10/21	Emir Kamenica	Chicago Booth	Comparison of signals (w/ Ben Brooks & Alex Frankel)
10/28	Nima Haghpanah	Penn State	Stable Segmentations
11/04	Axel Anderson	Georgetown	The Comparative Statics of Sorting
12/02	In-Koo Cho	Emory	Learning Underspecified Models
12/09	Marina Halac	Yale	Pricing for Coordination

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
TBD

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/17	Gary Baker	UW–Madison	Consumer Theory for Cheap Information
10/8	Yixi Yang	UW–Madison
10/15	Ziwei Wang	UW–Madison	Rationalizable Stability in Matching with One-Sided Incomplete Information
Wednesday 11/10 Begins at noon	Shuhei Otani	UW–Madison	Transparency, Informed Large Dealers, and Treasury Revenue

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/5	Yixi Yang and Yue Li	UW–Madison
3/26	Dan Quint	UW–Madison
4/2	Ziwei Wang and Chen Lyu	UW–Madison
4/16	Shuhei Otani	UW–Madison
4/30	Chen Lyu	UW–Madison

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
10/16	Gary Baker	UW–Madison	Consumer theory for cheap information
12/4	Ziwei Wang and Yixi Yang	UW–Madison	Short & informal talks about their research
12/16 This seminar will begin at 12 pm	Xavier Vives	IESE	Exchange Competition, Entry, and Welfare
12/18	Yue Li and Shuhei Otani	UW–Madison

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
2/28	Vasiliki Skreta	UT-Austin	Test Design Under Falsification
3/6	Sanjeev Goyal	Cambridge	Large Scale Experiments on Networks
3/27	~~Eduard Talamas~~	IESE	Nash Bargaining with Endogenous Outside Options
4/10	~~Stephen Morris~~	MIT
4/17	~~Federico Echenique~~	Caltech
4/24	~~David Myatt~~	London Business School

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/20	Anna Bykhovskaya	UW–Madison	Stability in Matching Markets with Peer Effects
10/4	Doron Ravid	University of Chicago	Learning Before Trading: On the Inefficiency of Ignoring Free Information
10/18	Niccolo Lomys	Toulouse School of Economics	Learning while Bargaining: Experimentation and Coasean Dynamics
10/25	Rakesh Vohra	University of Pennsylvania
11/1	Ozan Candogan	Chicago Booth	Optimality of Double Intervals in Persuasion: A Convex Programming Framework
11/8	Gabriel Martinez	UW–Madison	Bayesian Persuasion in the Digital Age
11/15	Pedro Guinsburg	UW–Madison	Information Design and Sensitivity to Market Fundamentals
12/6	Dmitry Orlov	UW–Madison	Intermediated Asymmetric Information, Compensation and Career Prospects

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/5	Christopher Chambers	Georgetown	Market Supply
3/29	Simon Board	UCLA	Learning Dynamics in Social Networks
4/12	Rajiv Sethi	Barnard College	Culture and Communication
4/19	Brian Swenson	Princeton Electrical Engineering	Continuous Best-Response Dynamics in Potential Games
4/26	Sofia Moroni	University of Pittsburgh	Preferences for Mates and the Evolution of Social Norms