Economic Theory Conference VIII
August
3-4
2023
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The Becker Friedman Institute’s annual conference on economic theory brought together leading researchers from across the world to discuss recent advances in theoretical microeconomics. Topics included game theory, mechanism design, market design, and information economics.
Agenda
Thursday, August 3, 2023
8:45 am - 9:30 am
Registration & Breakfast
9:30 am - 9:35 am
Welcome Remarks
9:35 am - 10:30 am
Privacy Preserving Signals
Kai Hao Yang, Yale University
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Break
10:45 am - 11:45 am
The Behavioral Foundations of Model Misspecification
Aislinn Bohren, University of Pennsylvania
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Lunch
Room 602
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: A Theory of Multi-Unit Exchange with Compatibility-Based Preference
Utku Unver, Boston College
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Break
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Regret-Minimizing Project Choice
Yingni Guo, Northwestern University
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice
Andrey Malenko, Boston College
4:30 pm
Conference Adjourns
Friday, August 4, 2023
8:15 am - 8:45 am
Registration & Breakfast
8:45 am - 9:45 am
Dynamic Monitoring Design
Yu Fu Wong, Columbia University
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Break
10:00 am - 11:00 am
#Change
Joyee Deb, New York University
11:00 am - 11:15 am
Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Fragile Stable Matchings
Kirill Rudov, Princeton University
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
Room 602
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Indirect Persuasion
Maher Said, New York University
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Break
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Robust Implementation with Costly Information
Harry Pei, Northwestern University
3:45 pm