Math Center seminars, mini-courses + conferences
May 3, 2024
"Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision"
Collin Raymond, Associate Professor, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Room 2130
April 19, 2024
“Difficult Decisions” (with David Walker-Jones and Lanny Zrill)
Yoram Halevy, Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
Room 5301
April 5, 2024
"Aversion to Complexity, with Applications to Simple Contracts Simple Tax Systems and the Cost of Inflation"
Xavier Gabaix, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Room 4101
November 17, 2023
"Simplicity Equivalents"
Ryan Oprea, Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara
Room 4101
October 27, 2023
"Exploring Incentive Designs: Evidence from Vaccination Experiments"
Devin Pope, Professor of Behavior Science and Economics
Room 4101
May 26, 2023
Shakar Kariv, Professor of Economics, Berkeley
Room 4101
Dec 2, 2022
"Uncovering Expert Views from Time to Decision"
Stefano DellaVigna, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration, Berkeley
Nov 14, 2022
"From Rivals to Partners: Capital, State Coercion, and the Rise of Modern Economic Growth" (with Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman)
Ernesto Dal Bo, Associate Professor of Economics, Berkeley
Nov 7, 2022
"Incentives for Learning in Repeated Elections"
Andrew Mack, Professor of Economics, Princeton
Oct 24, 2022
"An Organizational Theory of State Capacity (with Mike Ting)"
Erik Snowberg, Marriner S. Eccles Presidential Chair and Professor of Finance, University of Utah
Oct 14, 2022
"Over and Underreaction to Information: A Unified Approach"
Alex Imas, Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Oct 10, 2022
"Contract Enforcement in a Stateless Economy"
Sultan Mehmood, Professor of Economics, New Economic School in Moscow
May 27, 2021
Alex Imas, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
April 29, 2021
"Visual Attention and Simple Choice"
Antonio Rangel, Bing Professor of Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology, and Economics, California Institute of Technology
Feb 28, 2020
"Are High-Interest Loans Predatory? Theory and Evidence from Payday Lending"
Dmitry Taubinsky, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
May 29, 2024
Eran Shmaya, Professor, Stony Brook University
Room 5101
May 22, 2024
Bobby Pakzad-Hurson, Assistant Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Brown University
Room 2130
May 15, 2024
Pete Kyle, Professor of Finance, University of Maryland
Room 5101
May 8, 2024
Mira Frick, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University
Room 5101
May 1, 2024
Dirk Bergemann, Professor of Economics, Yale University
Room 4101
April 24, 2024
"Equilibrium Selection in Participation Games, with Applications to Security Issuance"
David Frankel, Professor of Financial Economics, Melbourne Business School
Room 5101
April 17, 2024
"News media as suppliers of narratives (and information)", joint with Kfir Eliaz
Ran Spiegler, Professor of Economics, University College of London and Tel Aviv University
Room 5101
April 10, 2024
"Robust Predictions with Bounded Information"
Songzi Du, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Room 4101
April 3, 2024
"Posterior-Mean Separable Costs of Information Acquisition."
Jeffrey Mensch, Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Room 5101
March 27, 2024
“Dynamic Trading and Inference: Non-Markovian Equilibria" (with Marzena Rostek and Xian Wu)
Ji Hee Yoon, Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance, University College London
Room 5101
November 29, 2023
“The Dynamics of Collective Action” by Marco Battaglini and Thomas Palfrey
Marco Battaglini, Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Room 5101
November 15, 2023
"#Change"
Joyee Deb, Professor of Economics, New York University
Room 5101
November 8, 2023
"Optimal Rating Design under Moral Hazard"
Maryam Saeedi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
Room 5101
November 1, 2023
"Outside options, reputations, and the partial success of the Coase conjecture"
Jack Fanning, Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University
Room 4101
October 25, 2023
"Principled Mechanism Design with Evidence" Co-authored with Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Humboldt Universität
Roland Strausz, Professor, Humboldt Universität Berlin
Room 5101
October 18, 2023
"Selective Memory Equilibrium," joint work with Giacomo Lanzani and Philipp Strack
Drew Fudenberg, Professor of Economics, MIT
Room 4101
October 11, 2023
"Two-dimensional information choice in committees"
Nina Bobkova, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rice University
Room 5101
October 4, 2023
"Contest Design under Strategic Risk Taking"
Teddy Kim, Associate Professor of Economics, Emory University
Room 5101
September 27, 2023
"Making Information More Valuable"
Mark Whitmeyer, Assistant Professor of Economics, Arizona State University
Room 5101
September 20, 2023
"Pricing and Perpetual Royalties with Repeated Resale”
Matt Mitchell, Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy, University of Toronto Rotman School
Room 5101
May 31, 2023
"A Theory of Stable Market Segmentations”
Ron Siegel, Professor of Economics, PennState
May 24, 2023
"Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Uncover How Players Choose Mixed Strategies" (with T. Hirasawa and A. Matsushita)
Michihiro Kandori, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo
May 17, 2023
"Pricing for Coordination” (joint with Elliot Lipnowski and Daniel Rappoport)
Marina Halac, Professor of Economics, Yale University
May 10, 2023
"Strategic Ignorance and Information Design" joint with Tom Wiseman”
Ina Taneva, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Edinburgh
May 3, 2023
“Strategic Evidence Disclosure in Networks and Equilibrium Discrimination” (joint work with Rohan Dutta)
Leonie Baumann, Assistant Professor of Economics, McGill University
April 26, 2023
"Allocation Mechanisms with Mixture-Averse Preferences"
David Dillenberger, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
March 29, 2023
Anne-Katrin Roesler, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Department of Economics
April 5, 2023
Inga Deimen, Assistant Professor of Economics, Eller College of Management
April 12, 2023
Evan Sadler, Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia
April 19, 2023
Kota Saito, Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology
April 26, 2023
David Dillenberger, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
May 3, 2023
Leonie Baumann, Assistant Professor of Economics, McGill
May 10, 2023
Ina Taneva, Associate Professor / Reader at the School of Economics, University of Edinburgh
May 17, 2023
Marina Halac, Director of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and Professor of Economics, Yale
May 24, 2023
Michihiro Kandori, Professor, Faculty of Economics and University Professor, The University of Tokyo
May 31, 2023
Ron Siegel, Professor of Economics, PennState
June 7, 2023
Mallesh Pai, Lay Family Chair in Economics and Associate Professor of Economics, Rice
May 23, 2024
Marcos Campos, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern University
Room 4101
May 16, 2024
Luciano Fabio Busatto Venturim, PhD Candidate, Managerial Economics and Strategy, Northwestern University
Room 4101
May 9, 2024
Martino Banchio, Research Scientist, Google Research
Room 4101
May 2, 2024
Suraj Malladi, Assistant Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern University
Room 5301
April 25, 2024
"Belief-dependent motivations and belief updating"
Enrico Salonia, PhD Candidate, Toulouse School of Economics
Room 4101
April 18, 2024
"Test Optional"
Jeff Ely, Professor, Economics, Northwestern University
Room 4101
April 11, 2024
"Natural Language Equilibrium: Signaling Games"
Phil Reny, Professor, University of Chicago
Room 5301
April 4, 2024
"Contagious Implementation in Prisoner’s Dilemma and Beyond"
Ehud Kalai, Professor Emeritus, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern University
Room 4101
March 28, 2024
"Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions"
Mariann Ollar, Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai
Room 4101
November 30, 2023
“Information acquisition from extremely biased agents in a dynamic setting”
Yijun Liu, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern University
Room 4101
November 16, 2023
"Linking Mechanisms: Limits and Robustness"
Ian Ball, Assistant Professor, MIT
Room 4101
November 9, 2023
“The Macroeconomics of Supply Chain Disruptions”
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern University
Room 4101
November 2, 2023
"Supply and Demand of Medical Knowledge”
Megumi Murakami, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern University
Room L070
October 26, 2023
"Cognition in Preferences and Choice"
Maria Betto, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern University
Room 4101
October 19, 2023
"Information Intermediaries in Monopolistic Screening"
Panagiotis Kyriazis, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern University
Room 4101
October 12, 2023
"Robust Optimal Income Taxation"
Maren Vairo, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern University
Room 4101
October 5, 2023
"Incentive Separability"
Piotr Dworczak, Associate Professor, Economics, Northwestern University
Room 4101
September 28, 2023
"Resales, preference shocks and monopoly pricing"
Zhichong Lu, PhD Candidate, Managerial Economics and Strategy, Northwestern University
Room 4101
September 21, 2023
"Black Boxes"
Jeff Ely, Professor, Economics, Northwestern University
Room 4101
June 1, 2023
Maria Betto, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern
Room 5101
May 25, 2023
Nemanja Antic, Assistant Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern
Room 4101
May 18, 2023
Shallabh Tiwari, PhD Candidate, Managerial Economics and Strategy, Northwestern
Room 4101
May 11, 2023
"Persuasion with Ambiguous Communication" (joint work with Xiaoyu Cheng, Sujoy Mukerji and Ludovic Renou)
Peter Klibanoff, Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern
Room 4101
May 4, 2023
“Beyond Dominance and Nash: Ranking Equilibria by Critical Mass” (with Adam T Kalai)
Ehud Kalai, Professor Emeritus, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern
Room 2420AB
April 27, 2023
"Local Version Tarski Theorem and Monotone Comparative Statics"
Wojciech Olszewski, Professor, Economics, Northwestern
Room L110
Dec 1, 2022
Yuval Salant, Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern
Nov 17, 2022
Maren Vairo, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern
Nov 10, 2022
“Contests as Optimal Mechanisms under Signal Manipulation”
Xiaoyun Qiu, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern
Nov 3, 2022
“Expectation Conformity in Strategic Cognition”
Alessandro Pavan, Professor, Economics, Northwestern
Oct 27, 2022
“Algorithm Design: Fairness and Accuracy”
Annie Liang, Assistant Professor, Economics, Northwestern
Oct 20, 2022
Boli Xu, PhD Candidate, Financial Economics, Northwestern
Oct 13, 2022
Maria Betto, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern
Oct 6, 2022
Matthew Thomas, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern
Sept 29, 2022
Udayan Vaidya, PhD Candidate, Economics, Northwestern
Sept 22, 2022
Theo Durandard, PhD Candidate, Managerial Economics and Strategy, Northwestern
2019-2020
Feb 17–20, 2020
“Learning and Equilibrium under Misspecification”
Ignacio Esponda, Associate Professor and Walter J. Mead Chair of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
The mini-course will take place over three sessions (all in the Kellogg Global Hub Crown Family Boardroom, room 5101):
- Mon, Feb 17, 3:30-5 p.m.
- Tues, Feb 18, 3:30-5 p.m.
- Thurs, Feb 20, 3:30-5 p.m.
The lecture will be divided into six chapters. For each chapter, references are included and the recommended readings are highlighted with a (*).
Chapter 1. Fictitious play
Reading:
(*) Fudenberg and Levine (1998), The theory of learning in games, Chapter 2.
Chapter 2. Stochastic fictitious play
Readings:
(*) Fudenberg and Levine (1998), The theory of learning in games, Chapter 4. Fudenberg and Kreps (1993), “Learning to play Bayesian games,” Games and Economic Behavior. Benaim and Hirsch (1999), “Mixed equilibria and dynamical systems arising from fictitious play in perturbed games,” Games and Economic Behavior. Borkar (2008), Stochastic approximation: A dynamical systems viewpoint.
Chapter 3. Self-confirming equilibrium
Readings:
(*) Fudenberg and Levine (1998), The theory of learning in games, Chapters 6 & 7. Fudenberg and Levine (1993), “Self-confirming equilibrium,” Econometrica. Dekel, Fudenberg and Levine (2003), “Learning to Play Bayesian Games,” in Games and Economic Behavior. Esponda (2008), “Information Feedback in First-Price Auctions,” RAND Journal of Economics.
Chapter 4. Cursed and behavioral equilibrium
(*) Esponda (2008), “Behavioral equilibrium in economies with adverse selection,” American Economic Review. Eyster and Rabin (2005), “Cursed equilibrium,” Econometrica. Jehiel (2005), “Analogy-based expectation equilibrium,” Journal of Economic Theory. Jehiel and Koessler (2008), “Revisiting games of incomplete information with analogy-based expectations,” Games and Economic Behavior. Spiegler (2011), Bounded rationality in industrial organization.
Chapter 5. Berk-Nash equilibrium
(*) Esponda and Pouzo (2016), “Berk-Nash equilibrium: A framework for modeling agents with misspecified models,” Econometrica. Heidhues, Koszegi, and Strack (2018), “Unrealistic expectations and misguided learning,” Econometrica. Spiegler (2016) “Bayesian networks and boundedly rational expectations,” Quarterly Journal of Economics. Esponda and Pouzo (2019), “Equilibrium in misspecified Markov decision processes,” working paper.
Chapter 6. Dynamics
(*) Esponda, Pouzo, and Yamamoto (2019), “Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models,” working paper. Heidhues, Koszegi, and Strack (2019), “Convergence in misspecified learning models with endogenous actions,” working paper. Frick, Iijima, and Ishii (2019), “Stability and robustness in misspecified learning models,” working paper.
September 6 - 8, 2023
Fifteenth Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Oxford
June 3 - 4, 2023
Bounded Rationality in Choice Conference
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
May 12, 2023
Nancy L. Schwartz Lecture
“Bargaining and Cooperation in Dynamic Games”
Dilip Abreu, Professor of Economics, NYE
May 12, 2023
An Afternoon Honoring Dilip Abreu
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
August 31– September 2, 2022
Fourteenth Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
September 1 - 3, 2021
Thirteenth Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Zoom (Virtual), Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
September 4 - 6, 2019
Twelfth Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Nuffield College, Oxford
September 4 - 5, 2018
Eleventh Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
September 6 - 8, 2017
Tenth Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
September 7 - 9, 2016
Ninth Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Nuffield College, Oxford
June 10–11, 2016
The Fourth Bounded Rationality in Choice Conference
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
September 3–4, 2015
Eighth Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
June 20–25, 2015
Petralia Sottana 2015 Applied Economics Workshop
Petralia Sottana, Italy
March 20-22, 2015
Reimagining Decentralization: A Conference in Honor of Stanley Reiter
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
September 10-12, 2014
Seventh Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Paris School of Economics
July 24-30, 2014
Petralia Sottana 2014 Applied Economics Workshop
Petralia Sottana, Italy
April 24–25, 2014
Heartland Electricity Dialog
September 9–10, 2013
Sixth Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Magdalen College, University of Oxford
May 7–8, 2013
Workshop on Privacy
January 29 - 30, 2013
Wholesale Electricity Markets - Hurdles to Overcome
November 2 - 3, 2012
Security Market Auctions and IPOs
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
September 7 - 9, 2012
Fifth Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
June 26 - 28, 2012
Risk Uncertainty and Decision Conference
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
May 4 - 5, 2012
Challenges for Electricity Markets
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
September 7 - 9, 2011
Fourth Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Paris School of Economics
December 2 - 3, 2011
Problem of Prediction
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
September 14 - 16, 2010
Third Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Trinity College, Oxford
September 11 - 13, 2009
Second Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
April 30 - May 1, 2009
Decision Theory and its Discontents
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
October 24 - 25, 2008
Conference in Honor of Ehud Kalai's 66th
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
October 3 - 4, 2008
Workshop on Advances in the Theory of Networks and Strategic Interactions
September 8 - 10, 2008
First Transatlantic Theory Workshop
Paris School of Economics
July 13 - 17, 2008
GAMES 2008
July 8 - 12, 2008
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
Chicago, IL
May 2 - 3, 2008
Workshop on Dynamic Mechanism Design
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
September 7 - 8, 2007
Workshop on Communication, Game Theory, and Language
Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL