Academic Conferences·Aug 22, 2024, 12:00 AM·University of Chicago | David Rubenstein Forum | Room 601 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Economic Theory Conference IX
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.
CONFERENCE PHOTOS
Agenda
Thursday, August 22, 2024
9:00 am–9:25 am
Registration and Breakfast
6th Floor Lounge
9:25 am–9:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am–10:30 am
Improvable Equilibria
Fedor Sandomirskiy, Princeton University
10:30 am–10:45 am
Break
10:45 am–11:45 am
Auctions with Withdrawal Rights: A Foundation for Uniform Price
Ravi Jagadeesan, Stanford University
11:45 am–1:00 pm
Lunch
1st Floor Dining Room
1:00 pm–2:00 pm
When to Decide: Timing of Choice in Parallel Search
Can Urgun, Princeton University
2:00 pm–2:15 pm
Break
2:15 pm–3:15 pm
Collective Upkeep
Erik Madsen, New York University
3:15 pm–3:45 pm
Break
3:45 pm–4:45 pm
Foundations for Level-k Reasoning?
Amanda Friedenberg, University of Michigan
4:45 pm
Conference Adjourns
6:30 pm
Conference Dinner
Friday, August 23, 2024
8:30 am–9:00 am
Breakfast
6th Floor Lounge
9:00 am–10:00 am
Robustly Optimal Income Taxation
Maren Vairo, Northwestern University
10:00 am–10:15 am
Break
10:15 am–11:15 am
Investing in Credibility
Denis Shishkin, University of California, San Diego
11:15 am–11:30 am
Break
11:30 am–12:30 pm
The Architecture of Social Networks and the Diffusion of Innovations
Bryony Reich, Northwestern University
12:30 pm–1:30 pm
Lunch
1st Floor Dining Room
1:30 pm–2:30 pm
Existence of Myopic-Farsighted Stable Sets in Matching Markets
Lars Ehlers, University of Montreal
2:30 pm–2:45 pm
Break
2:45 pm–3:45 pm
Cooperative Analysis of Incomplete Information
Qingmin Liu, Columbia University
3:45 pm