Micro Theory Lunch | Department of Economics

SPRING 2025 - PCPSE 225 - MONDAYS AT 12:00PM
DATE	NAME	PAPER TITLE	TIME
02/10/25	Matt Murphy	Reviews or Ratings: Quantifying Information Loss from Coarsening	12:00pm
02/17/25
02/24/25	Aislinn Bohren	Over-and Underreaction to Information	12:00pm
03/03/25	Rakesh Vohra	Information Design with Many Parameters	12:00pm
03/17/25
03/24/25	George Mailath	On the Nonpurifiability of Belief-Free Equilibria in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring	12:00pm
03/31/25	Eduardo Faingold	N-Player Continuous-Time Repeated Games	12:00pm
04/28/25	Mengxi Zhang	Dynamic (in) Consistency, Revelation Principle, and Full Surplus Extraction Joint with David Ahn	12:00pm
05/05/25	Natacha Spitzer	Title 1: Monitoring of AI with Reputation Concerns Title 2: On the irrelevance of Information Linkages in Repeated Games	12:00pm Rm 101
05/12/25	Alfonso Maselli	Dynamic Smooth Ambiguity and Bayesian Updating	12:00pm Rm 101

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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	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			12:00-01:15
12/09/24			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