Economic Theory Conference XI
Organizer:
Joseph Root, University of Chicago
Program Chair:
Orestis Vravosinos, University of Chicago
The Economic Theory Conference XI, hosted by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, was held on August 20-21, 2026. 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.
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Agenda
Registration and Breakfast
6th Floor Lounge
Gorman Meets Bayes: When Heterogeneous Preferences and Signals Aggregate
Rahul Deb, Boston College
Break
Misspecification Averse Preferences
Alfonso Maselli, University of Pennsylvania
Lunch
1st Floor Dining Room
Getting the Agent to Wait
Ali Shourideh, Carnegie Mellon University
Break
Optimal Hotelling Auctions
Ellen Muir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Break
Random Allocation: A Frisch Approach
Alex Teytelboym, University of Oxford
Conference Dinner
Breakfast
6th Floor Lounge
Broad Validity of the First-Order Approach in Moral Hazard
Eduardo Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania
Break
Recommender Systems and Self-Preferencing
Chiara Margaria, Boston University
Break
Delegated Contracting
João Thereze, Duke University
Lunch
1st Floor Dining Room
Approaching Moving Targets
Rohit Lamba, Cornell University
Break
Insuring Valuables
Emir Kamenica, University of Chicago