Caltech Economic Theory at the Time of Cholera: Online Seminar

California Institute of Technology ∗

Since March 25, 2020

Abstract

An online econ theory seminar. Recurs weekly on Wednesdays at noon pacific time. Live streamed on twitch.tv/caltechecontheory, where viewer questions are forwarded to the speaker. Each talk is accompanied by two or three “guests”: experts in the subject matter who offer additional questions, perspectives and discussion points. See updates and announcements on twitter.com/CaltechEconThry, or add our google calendar.

1 How to view
2 Upcoming talks
3 Past talks

∗ Organizing committee: Luciano Pomatto, Marina Agranov, Federico Echenique, Kota Saito and Omer Tamuz.

1 How to view

Sign up for a free twitch.tv account, and tune in Wednesdays at noon pacific time on twitch.tv/caltechecontheory. You will be able to ask questions on the twitch chat.

2 Upcoming talks

June 23, noon pacific time. Eric Mbakop (University of Calgary). “Identification of auctions with incomplete bid data in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity”. Joined by guests Yi Xin, Yao Luo and Daniel Quint.

3 Past talks

June 16. Sophie Bade (Royal Holloway). “Matching and equilibrium over an infinite horizon” with Michael Mandler. Joined by guests Alex Teytelboym and Ran Shorrer.
June 9. Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University / NYU). “The permissible and the forbidden” with Michael Richter. Joined by guests Itai Sher, Xiaosheng Mu and Rakesh Vohra.
June 2. Amanda Friedenberg (University of Arizona). “Two Approaches to Iterated Reasoning in Games” with Adam Brandenburger and Terri Kneeland. Joined by guests Byung Soo Lee, Antonio Penta and Marciano Siniscalchi.
May 26. Mallesh Pai (Rice University). “The Wisdom of the Crowd and Higher-Order Beliefs” with Yi-Chun Chen and Manuel Mueller-Frank. Joined by guests Ben Roth, Jakša Cvitanić, Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko, and Rann Smorodinsky.
May 12. Marina Halac (Yale University). “Monitoring Teams” (with Ilan Kremer and Eyal Winter). Joined by guests Ayça Kaya and Takuro Yamashita.
May 5. Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv University & University College London). “Rational Anabolic Persuasion” (with Kfir Eliaz). Joined by guest Laura Doval.
April 28. Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford). “Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money” (with Julien Combe, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimerk and Olivier Tercieux).
April 21. Itai Ashlagi (Stanford). “Stochastic Price Adaptation, Waiting Lists, and Stochastic Gradient Descent” (with Jacob Leshno, Amin Saberi and Pengyu Qian). Joined by guests Adam Wierman, Philipp Strack and Yash Kanoria.
April 14. Adam (Microsoft Research) and Ehud (Northwestern) Kalai. “From Nash to Dominant: The Natural Index of Strategic Stability.” Joined by guest Vincent Crawford, Rosemarie Nagel and Jörgen Weibull.
April 7. Antonio Penta (Barcelona GSE). “A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the case of Identical but Unknown Distributions” (with Mariann Ollár). Joined by guests Annie Liang, Ben Golub and Rene Saran.
March 31. Benny Moldovanu (Universität Bonn). “Optimal Auctions: Non-Expected Utility and Constant Risk Aversion” (with Alex Gershkov, Philipp Strack and Mengxi Zhang). Joined by guests David Dillenberger, Andreas Kleiner, and Uzi Segal.
March 24. Jay Lu (UCLA) and Kota Saito (Caltech). “Mixed Logit and Pure Characteristics Models.” Joined by guests Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Giovanni Compiani, Simone Cerreia Vioglio and Tomasz Strzalecki.
March 17. Lars Ehlers (Université de Montréal). “Robust Minimal Instability of the Top Trading Cycles Mechanism” (with Battal Doğan). Joined by guests Thayer Morrill and Ran Shorrer.
March 10. Teddy Mekonnen (Brown University). “Random versus Directed Search for Scarce Resources.” Joined by guests Yeon-Koo Che and Nikhil Vellodi.
March 3. Nicolas Lambert (MIT). “The power of referential advice” (with Steve Callander and Niko Matouschek). Joined by guests Marina Halac and Bruno Strulovici.
February 24. Luciano Pomatto (Caltech). “Background Risk and Small-Stakes Risk Aversion” (with Xiaosheng Mu, Philipp Strack and Omer Tamuz). Joined by guests Kate Huang, Po-Hsuan Lin and Aldo Lucia.
December 2. Shaowei Ke (University of Michigan). “Behavioral Neural Networks.” (with Chen Zhao, Zhaoran Wang and Sung-Lin Hsieh). Joined by guests Pietro Ortoleva and Paulo Natenzon.
November 18. Inés Moreno de Barreda (Oxford). “Persuasion with Correlation Neglect” (with Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin). Joined by guests Ina Taneva and Itai Arieli.
November 11. Philip Reny (University of Chicago). “Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem.” Joined by guests Tayfun Sönmez and Utku Ünver.
November 4. S. Nageeb Ali (Penn State). “How to Sell Hard Information” (with Nima Haghpanah, Xiao Lin, and Ron Siegel). Joined by guests Elliott Lipnowski and Philipp Strack.
October 28. Gonzalo Cisternas (MIT). “Signaling with Private Monitoring” (with Aaron Kolb). Joined by guests Juuso Toikka and Mehmet Ekmekci.
October 21. Jonathan Libgober (University of Southern Califonia). “Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specification: Theory and Application” (with Kevin He). Joined by guests Ryota Iijima and Joshua Schwartzstein.
October 14. Yoram Halevy (University of Toronto). “Hard-to-Interpret Signals” (with Larry Epstein). Joined by guests Peter Wakker and Aurelien Baillon.
October 7. Anqi Li (Washington University in St. Louis). “The Politics of News Personalization” (with Lin Hu and Ilya Segal). Joined by guests Tom Palfrey and Filip Matějka.
September 30. Federico Echenique (Caltech). “Constrained pseudo-market equilibrium” (with Antonio Miralles and Jun Zhang).
September 23. Kirby Nielsen (Caltech). “When Choices are Mistakes” (with John Rehbeck). Joined by guests Nageeb Ali and Yoram Halevy.
September 16. Ran Shorrer (Penn State). “Simultaneous Search: Beyond Independent Successes.” Joined by guests Caterina Calsamiglia and Guillaume Haeringer.
September 9. Yakov Babichenko (Technion). “Optimal persuasion via bi-pooling” (with Itai Arieli, Ran Smorodinsky and Takuro Yamashita). Joined by guests Eran Shmaya and Piotr Dworczak.
September 2. Ben Brooks (University of Chicago). “A Strong Minimax Theorem for Informationally-Robust Auction Design” (with Songzi Du). Joined by guests Nima Haghpanah, Philipp Strack and Scott Komminers.
August 26. Charles Sprenger (Caltech). “On the Empirical Validity of Cumulative Prospect Theory: Experimental Evidence of Rank-Independent Probability Weighting” (with Douglas Bernheim).
August 19. Marek Pycia (University of Zurich). “Auctions of Homogeneous Goods: A Case for Pay-as-Bid” (with Kyle Woodward). Joined by guests Joseph Root and Fedor Sandomirskiy.
August 12. Joseph Root (Caltech). “Incentives and Efficiency in Constrained Allocation Mechanisms” (with David Ahn). Joined by guests Ivan Balbuzanov and Jacob Leshno.
August 5. Eric Maskin (Harvard University). “Arrow's Theorem, May's Axioms, and the Borda Count” Joined by guests Christopher Chambers, Hervé Moulin and Philip Reny.
July 29. David McAdams (Duke University). “Viral Social Learning” (with Yangbo Song). Joined by guests Aniko Öry and Matt Jackson.
July 22. Doron Ravid (University of Chicago). “Learning Before Trading: On the Inefficiency of Ignoring Free Information” (with Anne-Katrin Roesler and Balazs Szentes). Joined by guests Tommaso Denti and Daniel Martin.
July 15. Jose Apesteguia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). “Random Utility Models with Ordered Types and Domains” (with Miguel A. Ballaster). Joined by guests Yoram Halevy, Yusufcan Masatlioglu and Emel Filiz-Ozbay.
July 8. Kevin He (University of Pennsylvania). “Linear Social Learning in Networks with Rational Agents” (with Krishna Dasaratha). Joined by guests Mira Frick, Pooya Molavi and Evan Sadler.
July 1. Rakesh Vohra (University of Pennsylvania). “Improvement Properties in Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities” (with Thanh Nguyen). Joined by guests Andy McLellan and Fuhito Kojima.
June 25. Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University). “Making decisions under model misspecification” (with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Lars Peter Hansen and Fabio Maccheroni). Joined by guests Giacomo Lanzani and Roberto Corrao.
June 17. Bryony Reich (Northwestern University). “Modular Organization” (with Niko Matouschek and Michael Powell). Joined by guests Eduard Talamas and Itay Fainmesser.
June 10. Omer Tamuz (Caltech). “Feasible joint posterior beliefs” (with Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko and Fedor Sandomirskiy). Joined by guests Doron Ravid, Ben Brooks and Elliot Lipnowski.
June 3. Yaron Azrieli (Ohio State University). “Constrained preference elicitation” (with Christopher Chambers and Paul Healy). Joined by guests Leeat Yariv and Nicolas Lambert.
May 27. Meg Meyer (Oxford University). “Choosing Joint Distributions: Theory and Application to Information Design.” Joined by guests Itai Arieli and Philipp Strack.
May 20. Leeat Yariv (Princeton University). “Retrospective Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain” (with Can Urgun). Joined by guesst Yingni Guo and Steven Callander.
May 13. Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison). “Exchange Design and Efficiency” (with J. H. Yoon). Joined by guests Cecilia Parlatore and Haoxiang Zhu.
May 6. Mira Frick (Yale University). “Stability and Robustness in Misspecified Learning Models” (with Ryota Iijima and Yuhta Ishii). Joined by guests Ignacio Esponda and Aislinn Bohren.
April 30. Robert Aumann (Hebrew University). “A synthesis of behavioural and mainstream economics.” Joined by guests Roberto Serrano, Roger Myerson and Yossi Feinberg.
April 29. Cesar Martinelli (George Mason University). “Assignment Markets: Theory and Experiments” (with Arthur Dolgopolov, Daniel Houser and Thomas Stratmann). Joined by guests Marina Nuñez and Matt Elliott.
April 22. Hervé Moulin (University of Glasgow). “Guarantees in Fair Division: general or monotone preferences” (with Anna Bogomolnaia and Richard Stong). Joined by guests Erel Segal-Halevi and William Thomson.
April 15. Scott Kominers (Harvard University). “Redistribution through Markets” (with Piotr Dworczak ® Mohammad Akbarpour). Joined by guests Sera Linardi and Alex Teytelboym.
April 8. Stephen Morris (MIT). “Implementation by Information Design in Binary Action Supermodular Games” (with Daisuke Oyama and Satoru Takahashi). Joined by guests Marina Halac, Alessandro Pavan and Nima Haghpanah.
April 1. Elliot Lipnowski (Columbia University). “Rank Uncertainty in Organizations” (with Marina Halac & Daniel Rappoport). Joined by guests Teddy Mekonnen and Eyal Winter.
March 25. Ben Golub (Harvard University). “Supply Network Formation and Fragility” (with Matt Elliott and Matt V. Leduc). Joined by guests Antonio Cabrales and Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi.