Micro Theory Lunch

SPRING 2024

Location: PCPSE 100
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm

 

    Date                Speaker                             Paper Title     Time
01/29/24      12:00-01:00
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
02/26/24      12:00-01:00
03/04/24   SPRING BREAK    
03/11/24   Matan Gibson   Optimal Return Policy  12:00-01:00
03/18/24      12:00-01:00
03/25/24       12:00-01:00
04/01/24       12:00-01:00
04/08/24   Alfonso Maselli    12:00-01:00
04/15/24   Natacha Spitzer    12:00-01:00
04/22/24   NO PRESENTATION    
04/29/24   Alberto Ramirez de Aguilar      12:00-01:00
05/06/24   Byunghoon Kim    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