An online
econ theory seminar. Recurs weekly on Wednesdays at noon
pacific time. Live streamed
on twitch.tv/caltechecontheory,
where viewer questions are forwarded
to the speaker. Each talk is accompanied by
two or three “guests”: experts in the subject matter
who offer additional questions, perspectives
and discussion points. See updates and
announcements on
twitter.com/CaltechEconThry,
or add
our google calendar.
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Organizing committee: Luciano Pomatto,
Marina Agranov, Federico Echenique, Kota Saito and
Omer Tamuz.
1 How to view
Sign up for a free twitch.tv
account, and tune in Wednesdays at noon pacific time
on twitch.tv/caltechecontheory. You
will be able to ask questions on the twitch chat.
April
21.Itai
Ashlagi (Stanford). “Stochastic Price
Adaptation, Waiting Lists, and Stochastic Gradient
Descent” (with Jacob Leshno, Amin Saberi
and Pengyu Qian). Joined by guests Adam Wierman,
Philipp Strack and Yash Kanoria.
April
14.Adam
(Microsoft Research)
and Ehud
(Northwestern)
Kalai. “From Nash
to Dominant: The Natural Index of Strategic
Stability.” Joined by guest Vincent
Crawford, Rosemarie Nagel and Jörgen Weibull.
December 2.Shaowei
Ke (University of
Michigan). “Behavioral
Neural Networks.” (with Chen Zhao,
Zhaoran Wang and Sung-Lin Hsieh). Joined by guests
Pietro Ortoleva and Paulo Natenzon.
November
4.S. Nageeb
Ali
(Penn
State). “How
to Sell Hard Information” (with
Nima Haghpanah, Xiao Lin, and Ron Siegel). Joined by
guests Elliott Lipnowski and Philipp Strack.
October
21.Jonathan
Libgober (University of Southern Califonia).
“Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specification:
Theory and Application” (with Kevin
He). Joined by guests Ryota Iijima and Joshua
Schwartzstein.
October
14.Yoram Halevy
(University of Toronto).
“Hard-to-Interpret Signals” (with Larry
Epstein). Joined by guests Peter Wakker and Aurelien
Baillon.
October
7.Anqi Li
(Washington University in
St. Louis). “The
Politics of News Personalization”
(with Lin Hu and Ilya Segal). Joined by guests Tom
Palfrey and Filip Matějka.
July
1.Rakesh
Vohra (University of
Pennsylvania). “Improvement Properties in
Preferences and Equilibria with
Indivisibilities” (with Thanh
Nguyen). Joined by guests Andy McLellan and Fuhito Kojima.
June
25.Massimo
Marinacci (Bocconi
University). “Making decisions under
model misspecification” (with Simone
Cerreia-Vioglio, Lars Peter Hansen and Fabio Maccheroni). Joined by guests Giacomo Lanzani and Roberto Corrao.
June
17.Bryony
Reich (Northwestern
University). “Modular
Organization” (with Niko Matouschek
and Michael Powell). Joined by guests Eduard Talamas and Itay Fainmesser.
June
10.Omer Tamuz (Caltech). “Feasible joint posterior beliefs”
(with Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko and Fedor
Sandomirskiy). Joined by guests Doron Ravid, Ben
Brooks and Elliot Lipnowski.
May
27.Meg
Meyer (Oxford University). “Choosing
Joint Distributions: Theory and Application to
Information Design.” Joined by guests Itai
Arieli and Philipp Strack.
May
20.Leeat
Yariv (Princeton
University). “Retrospective Search:
Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted
Terrain” (with Can Urgun). Joined by guesst
Yingni Guo and Steven Callander.
May
13.Marzena
Rostek (University of
Wisconsin-Madison). “Exchange Design and
Efficiency” (with J. H. Yoon). Joined by
guests Cecilia Parlatore and Haoxiang Zhu.