The Conference on Rational Inattention, hosted by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, brought together researchers working on rational inattention and related topics, across fields in economics (including microeconomic theory, decision theory, experimental economics, macroeconomics, game theory, and finance).


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2025 Conference on Rational Inattention

Agenda

Friday, April 25, 2025
9:00 am–9:30 am

Registration and Breakfast

6th Floor Lounge

9:30 am–10:30 am

Understanding Information Acquisition through f-Informativity and Duality

Alexander Bloedel, University of California, Los Angeles

10:30 am–10:45 am

Break

10:45 am–11:45 am

Communication about Endogenous Issues

Elliot Lipnowski, Yale University

11:45 am–1:15 pm

Lunch

1st Floor Dining Room

1:15 pm–2:15 pm

Inattentive Network: Evidence and Theory

Jieran Wu, Zhejiang University

2:15 pm–2:30 pm

Break

2:30 pm–3:30 pm

Sectoral Salience

Jennifer La’O, University of Columbia

3:30 pm–3:45 pm

Break

3:45 pm–5:00 pm

Cognitive Economics and Rational Inattention

Andrew Caplin, New York University

6:00 pm

Conference Dinner

Saturday, April 26, 2025
8:00 am–8:30 am

Breakfast

6th Floor Lounge

8:30 am–9:30 am

Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive Capacity, Decision Making and Medical Diagnosis

Filip Matejka, CERGE, Charles University

9:30 am–9:45 am

Break

9:45 am–10:45 am

Selective Inattention

Tim De Silva, Stanford University

10:45 am–11:00 am

Break

11:00 am–12:00 pm

Rational Voter Learning, Issue Alignment, and Polarization

Martin Vaeth, Princeton University

12:00 pm–1:30 pm

Lunch

1st Floor Dining Room

1:30 pm–2:30 pm

Attention Holdup

Francesco Fabbri, Princeton University

2:30 pm–2:45 pm

Break

2:45 pm–3:45 pm

Preparing to Act

Alkis Georgiadis-Harris, University of Warwick

3:45 pm

Conference Concludes