Fall 2024
Location: PCPSE 203
Time: 12:00-01:30pm
| Date | Speaker | Paper Titles | Time |
| 09/09/24 | Ashwin Kambhampati | Proper Robustness and the Efficiency of Monopoly Screening | 12:00-01:00 |
| 09/16/24 | Byunghoon Kim | Serial Experimentation with Career Concerns - Practice Job Talk | 12:00-01:15 |
| 09/23/24 | Marcus Tomaino | Innovation Races with Endogenous Transparency - Practice Job Talk | 12:00-01:15 |
| 09/30/24 | Rakesh Vohra | Persuasion, Posteriors & Polymatroids | 12:00-01:00 |
| 10/07/24 | No Speaker | ||
| 10/14/24 | Matt Murphy |
Reviews and Ratings: Information Loss and Coarsenings
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12:00-01:00 |
| 10/21/24 | Alfonso Maselli |
On Welfare in Over-the-Counter and Centralized Markets Joint with Luigi Falasconi and Clara Xu |
12:00-01:00 |
| 11/11/24 | |||
| 11/18/24 | Natacha Spitzer | On the (Ir)relevance of Information Linkages in Repeated Games | 12:00-01:00 |
| 11/25/24 | Menghia Xia |
Information Acquisition in Fragmented Markets Joint with Xian Wu |
12:00-01:00 |
| 12/02/24 | Alfonso Maselli | TBA | 12:00-01:15 |
| 12/09/24 | Aislinn Bohren | TBA | 12:00-01:00 |
SPRING 2024
Location: PCPSE 100
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
| Date | Speaker | Paper Title | Time |
| 02/05/24 | Ilan Wolff | Welfare Properties of the Taiwan Mechanism | 12:00-01:00 |
| 02/12/24 | Mengjia Xia | Quality Rating Design in an Oligopoly Market | 12:00-01:00 |
| 02/19/24 | Xiao Lin | Commitment and Randomization in Communication | 12:00-01:00 |
| 03/04/24 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| 03/11/24 | Matan Gibson | Optimal Return Policy | 12:00-01:00 |
| 04/01/24 | Marcus Tomaino | Complex Innovation Races | 12:00-01:00 |
| 04/08/24 | Alfonso Maselli | Cautious Dynamic Consistency | 12:00-01:00 |
| 04/15/24 | Natacha Spitzer | Information Linkages in Repeated Games | 12:00-01:00 |
| 04/22/24 | NO PRESENTATION | ||
| 04/29/24 | Alberto Ramirez de Aguilar | Debt, Inflation, and Government Reputation | 12:00-01:00 |
| 05/06/24 | Byunghoon Kim | Serial Experimentation with Career Concerns | 12:00-01:00 |
Fall 2023
Location: PCPSE 101
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
| Date | Speaker | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09/11/23 | ||
| 09/18/23 | Rakesh Vohra | Limits of Price Discrimination Revisited |
| 09/25/23 | ||
| 10/02/23 | ||
| 10/09/23 | Allen Vong | Mediated Repeated Moral Hazard |
| 10/16/23 | Hanming Fang | Why Are Medical Prices So Much Higher for the Uninsured than for the Insured? |
| 10/23/23 | George Mailath | Similarity-Based Learning and Similarity Equilibria |
| 10/30/23 | Juan Sagredo | The Visible Hand - JOB TALK |
| 11/06/23 | Alfonso Maselli | Dynamic Misspecification Aversion |
| 11/13/23 | Siqi Li | Adverse Selection with Partial Commitment |
| 11/27/23 | Marcus Tomaino | Multi-Armed Patent Races |
| 12/04/23 | Alberto Ramirez de Aguilar | Government Debt and Central Bank Reputation |
| 12/11/23 | Gerelt Tserenjigmid | Price Heterogeneity as a Source of Heterogeneous Demand |
Spring 2023
Location: PCPSE 203
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
| Date | Speaker | Paper Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20/23 | Laure Goursat | How Can I Know How Much I Like You? Valuation and V-stability for Matching Markets with Incomplete Information | |
| 02/27/23 | Ricardo Serrano-Padial | Competing Narratives in Action: Belief Cycles Throughout the Pandemic | |
| 03/13/23 | Juuso Toikka | Randomization and Linearity in the Robust Principal-Agent Problem | |
| 03/20/23 | Siqi Li | Positive Biased Evidence Acquisition | |
| 03/27/23 | David Dillenberger | Allocation Mechanisms with Mixture-Averse Preferences | |
| 04/03/23 | Juan Sagredo | Vig Data | |
| 04/10/23 | Mengjia Xia | Mechanism Design Approach to the Organization of Scientific Research | |
| 04/17/23 | Byunghoon Kim | Serial Experimentation with Career Concern Joint with Marcus Tomaino | |
| 04/24/23 | Alfonso Maselli | Dynamic Misspecification Averse Preferences | |
| 05/01/23 | Alberto Ramirez de Aguilar Wille | Cancelled | |
| 05/08/23 | Javiera Garcia | Policy Take-Up: The role of Reputation | |
| 05/15/23 | Natacha Spitzer | Selection in Networks with Cardinal Information | |
| 05/22/23 | Kevin He | Cancelled | |
| 05/29/23 | DO NOT SCHEDULE HERE |
Fall 2022
Location: PCPSE 101
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
| This semester the talks will be at noon in PCPSE101, in a hybrid format with Zoom. A link will be sent to everyone before the presentation starts. If you want to sign up for a talk, you can either type your name on your preferred slot or email arawille@sas.upenn.edu, tomaino@sas.upenn.edu, or masellia@sas.upenn.edu |
| Date | Speaker | Paper Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/12/22 | Cuimin Ba | Robust Model Misspecification and Paradigm Shifts | Practice Job Talk |
| 09/19/22 | Nawaaz Khalfan | Optimal Allocation with Noisy Inspection | |
| 09/26/22 | Rakesh Vohra | Bayesian Bullshit | |
| 10/03/22 | Alice Gindin | Dynamic Political Investigations: Obstruction and the Optimal timing of Accusations | |
| 10/10/22 | Marcus Tomaino | Affirmative Action and Instrumental Discrimination | |
| 10/17/22 | Xiao Lin | Robust Information Aggregation | |
| 10/24/22 | Ravideep Sethi | Identity-Based Elections | |
| 10/31/11 | Hanming Fang | Affirmative Action in Contest Design: Information vs. Allocation Rules | |
| 11/14/22 | Aislinn Bohren | The Behavioral Foundations of Model Misspecification: A Decomposition | |
| 11/21/22 | Alfonso Maselli | Notes on Multidimensional Signaling | |
| 11/28/22 | |||
| 12/05/22 | Byunghoon Kim | Serial Experimentation with Career Concerns | |
| 12/12/22 | |||
Spring 2022
Location: PCPSE 202
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
| Date | Speaker | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|
| 03/14/22 | Alice Gindin | Dynamic Obstruction |
| 03/21/22 | ||
| 03/28/22 | Alberto Ramirez de Aguilar | Public Goods Provision and Informality |
| 04/04/22 | Rakesh Vohra | Bayesian Persuasion: Reduced Form Approach |
| 04/11/22 | Byunghoon Kim | |
| 04/18/22 | Pedro Solti | Social Learning with Heterogeneous Preferences |
| 04/25/22 | David Dillenberger | Caution and Reference Effects |
| 05/02/22 | Do not sign up here | |
| 05/09/22 | Cuimin Ba - Room 101 | |
| 05/16/22 | ||
| 05/23/22 | ||
Fall 2021
Location: PCPSE 101
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
| Date | Speaker | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 20, 2021 | Rodrigo Morales Mendoza | Neighbors |
| September 27, 2021 | Changhwa Lee | Optimal Recommender System |
| October 4, 2021 | Nawaaz Khalfan | |
| October 18, 2021 | Sherwin Lott | Redefining Information and Efficiency to Understand Technical Analysis |
| October 25, 2021 | Pedro Solti | Social Learning with Heterogeneous Preferences |
| November 1, 2021 | Hanming Fang | Data Neutrality and Market Competition |
| November 8, 2021 | Nawaaz Khalfan | Noisy Search and Information Acquisition |
| November 15, 2021 | ||
| November 22, 2021 | Alice Gindin | |
| November 29, 2021 | Marcus Tomaino | |
| December 6, 2021 | Alberto Ramirez de Aguilar | |
| December 13, 2021 | Cuimin Ba |
Spring 2021
Location: Zoom
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
*This semester the talks will be at noon on zoom. A link will be sent to everyone before the presentation starts. If you want to sign up for a talk, you can either type your name on your preferred slot or email solti@sas.upenn.edu, agindin@sas.upenn.edu or cuiminba@sas.upenn.edu.
| Date | Speaker | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|
| February 8, 2021 | Kevin He | Dissemination Noise and p-Hacking |
| February 15, 2021 | Changhwa Lee | Optimal Recommender System Design |
| February 22, 2021 | Nawaaz Khalfan | Strategic Market Research |
| March 1, 2021 | David Dillenberger | Allocation Mechanisms Without Reduction |
| March 15, 2021 | Cuimin Ba | Robust Model Misspecification and Paradigm Shifts |
| March 29, 2021 | Bobby Pakzad-Hurson | Equal Pay Laws: A Matching Theory Approach |
| April 19, 2021 | Ashwin Kambhampati | The Optimal Assortativity of Teams Inside the Firm |
| April 26, 2021 | Changhwa Lee | Taste-Based Discrimination with Endogenous Behavior and Commitment |
| May 24, 2021 | Alice Gindin | TBA |