2025 Conference on Rational Inattention
The Conference on Rational Inattention, hosted by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics on April 25-26, 2025, will bring 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).
Attendance to this conference is by invitation only. Please contact bfi-events@uchicago.edu if you have any questions.
Agenda
Registration and Breakfast
6th Floor Lounge
Understanding Information Acquisition through f-Informativity and Duality
Alexander Bloedel, University of California, Los Angeles
Break
Communication about Endogenous Issues
Elliot Lipnowski, Yale University
Lunch
1st Floor Dining Room
Inattentive Network: Evidence and Theory
Jieran Wu, Zhejiang University
Break
Sectoral Salience
Jennifer La’O, University of Columbia
Break
Cognitive Economics and Rational Inattention
Andrew Caplin, New York University
Conference Dinner
Breakfast
6th Floor Lounge
Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive Capacity, Decision Making and Medical Diagnosis
Filip Matejka, CERGE, Charles University
Break
Selective Inattention
Tim De Silva, Stanford University
Break
Rational Voter Learning, Issue Alignment, and Polarization
Martin Vaeth, Princeton University
Lunch
1st Floor Dining Room
Attention Holdup
Francesco Fabbri, Princeton University
Break
Preparing to Act
Alkis Georgiadis-Harris, University of Warwick