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Spring 2023 Presentation Schedule

by Cesar Barilla
January 18th, 2023

About the Colloquium

Time and Location: Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm in IAB 1101

Instructors:  Yeon-Koo Che and Navin Kartik

Student Organizers: Cesar Barilla and Lucas de Lara

Presenter Date Title
Jeffrey Guo Feb 1st Who Wants Their Peers To Be A Millionaire? (with Pietro Battiston, Lorán Chollete, and Sharon Harrison)
Humberto Moreira Feb 8th Time Trumps Quantity in the Market for Lemons (with William Fuchs and Piero Gottardi)
John Cremin Feb 15th Social Learning with Timidity
Yangfan Zhou Feb 22nd TBA
Pierpaolo Battigali
Mar 1st TBA
Tianhao Liu Mar 8th TBA
No Meeting
Mar 15th –
Ziyang Shen Mar 22nd TBA
Arslan Ali Mar 29th TBA
Steve Yeh Apr 5th TBA
Yu Fu Wong
Apr 12th TBA
Bruno Furtado Apr 19th TBA
César Barilla Apr 26th Prospectus Defense*
Lucas de Lara May 3rd Prospectus Defense*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Prospectus Defenses attendance is by invitation only.

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Fall 2022 Presentation Schedule

by Cesar Barilla
September 6th, 2022

About the Colloquium

Time and Location: Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm in IAB 1101

Instructors: Navin Kartik and Qingmin Liu

Student Organizers: Cesar Barilla and Lucas de Lara

Presenter Date Title
No meeting Sep-14 –
Hanyao Zhang Sep-21 Salience, Predispositions, and Low-Dimensional Political Opinions
No meeting Sep-28 –
Yangfan Zhou Oct-05 Credible Contract Design
Bruno Furtado*
Oct-12 The Behavioral Implications of Statistical Decision Theory (Mock Job Talk)
Yu Fu Wong*
Oct-19 Dynamic Monitoring Design (Mock Job Talk)
Cesar Barilla
Oct-26 Ranking the complexity of decision problems
Ziyang Shen Nov-02 Shapley-Scarf Housing Market with Asymmetric Information
Evan Sadler Nov-09 Strategic Network Formation with Convex Linking Costs
Jeffrey Guo
Nov-16 Doing Good in the Digital World
No Meeting
Nov-23 –
Lucas de Lara Nov-30 TBD
Tianhao Liu Dec-07 TBD
John Cremin Dec-14 Social Learning with Motivated Beliefs

 

*These two sessions are mock job talks of 1h30 scheduled from 1pm-2:30pm.

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Spring 2022 Presentation Schedule

by John Cremin
January 12th, 2022

About the Colloquium

Time and Location: Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm in IAB 1101

Instructors: Yeon-Koo Che and Elliot Lipnowski

Student Organizers: Jeffrey Guo and John Cremin

Presenter Date Title
No Meeting          Feb-9 –
Gabriel Lesnick Feb-16 TBD
Bruno Furtado Feb-23 From Wald to Savage: Bridging Acts and Decision Rules
Tianhao Liu March-2 Social Learning in Networks with Multiple States
Yu Fu Wong
March-9 Dynamic Monitoring Design
No Meeting
March-16 –
No Meeting March-23 –
Yangfan Zhou
March-30 TBD
César Barilla April-6 TBD
Will Grimme
April-13 Strategic Experimentation with Private Actions
Ziyang Shen
April-20 TBD
Jeffrey Guo*** April-27 Prospectus Defense – *Invite Only*
Lucas de Lara May-4 TBD
John Cremin*** May-11 Prospectus Defense – *Invite Only*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*** Jeffrey’s presentation will be held in IAB1128, and John’s in IAB1027. Both from 1300-1430.

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Fall 2021 Presentation Schedule

by John Cremin
September 24th, 2021

About the Colloquium

Time and Location: Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm in IAB 1101

Instructors: Navin Kartik and Evan Sadler

Student Organizers: Jeffrey Guo and John Cremin

Presenter Date Title
No meeting Sep-15 –
No meeting Sep-22 –
Sara Shahanaghi*** Sep-29 Errors in Breaking News
Silvio Ravaioli*** Oct-06 Coarse and Precise Information in Food Labeling
No Meeting
Oct-13 –
César Barilla
Oct-20 TBD
Bruno Furtado
Oct-27
Belief Updating and Value of Information Under Uncertainty
Laura Doval
Nov-03 TBD
No meeting Nov-10 –
Yu Fu Wong
Nov-17 TBD
No Meeting
Nov-24 –
John Cremin Dec-01 Competing Contagions
Jeffrey Guo Dec-08 TBD

 

 

 

 

*** These two sessions are scheduled from 13:00-14:30. To accommodate this, they will be held in the Faculty Lounge, IAB 1120, instead of our normal room.

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Fall 2021 Presentation Schedule

by John Cremin
September 3rd, 2021

About the Colloquium

Time and Location: Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm in IAB 1101

Instructors: Navin Kartik and Evan Sadler

Student Organizers: Jeffrey Guo and John Cremin

Presenter Date Title
No meeting Sep-15 –
No meeting Sep-22 –
Sara Shahanaghi Sep-29 Errors in Breaking News
Silvio Ravaioli Oct-06 Better Stay Vague: Labels, Health, and Precision Overload in Food Choice
No Meeting
Oct-13 –
César Barilla
Oct-20 TBD
Bruno Furtado
Oct-27
Belief Updating and Value of Information Under Uncertainty
Laura Doval
Nov-03 TBD
Lucas de Lara
Nov-10 TBD
Yu Fu Wong
Nov-17 TBD
No Meeting
Nov-24 –
John Cremin Dec-01 Competing Contagions
Jeffrey Guo Dec-08 TBD

 

 

 

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Spring 2021 Presentation Schedule

by Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado
January 6th, 2021

About the Colloquium

Time and Location: Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm via Zoom

Instructors: Yeon-Koo Che and Qingmin Liu

Student Organizers: Yu Fu Wong and Bruno Furtado

Presenter Date Title
No meeting Jan-13 –
TBD Jan-20 TBD
Silvio Ravaioli Jan-27 Product Labeling for Inattentive Consumers
Suneil Parimoo Feb-03 Robust Pricing Mediation in Bargaining
Sara Shahanaghi Feb-10 Reputation: Speed and Accuracy
John Cremin Feb-17 Social Learning with Motivated Reasoning
Jeffrey Guo Feb-24 Noisy Social Scores
Lucas de Lara Mar-10 –
Yu Fu Wong Mar-17 Prospectus Defense
Bruno Furtado Mar-24 Value of Statistical Information (Prospectus Defense)
Duarte Gonçalves Apr-07 –
Dilip Ravindran Apr-14 –
César Barilla Apr-21 –

 

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Fall 2020 Presentation Schedule

by Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado
September 22nd, 2020

About the Colloquium

Time and Location: Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm via Zoom

Instructors: Yeon-Koo Che and Qingmin Liu

Student Organizers: Yu Fu Wong and Bruno Furtado

Presenter Date Title
Dilip Ravindran Sep-30 Competing Persuaders in Zero-Sum Games
Duarte Gonçalves Oct-07 Sequential Sampling and Equilibrium
Nicolas Bonneton Oct-14 Probabilistic Assortative Matching under Nash Bargaining
Dilip Ravindran Oct-21 Competing Persuaders in Zero-Sum Games
Sara Shahanaghi Oct-28 Preemption in Breaking News
No meeting Nov-04 –
Jeffrey Guo Nov-11 Cumulative Voting in the Lab
Silvio Ravaioli Nov-18 Product Labeling for Inattentive Consumers
Bruno Furtado Nov-25 Statistical Mechanism Design
Yu Fu Wong Dec-02 Link Centrality
John Cremin Dec-09 –

 

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Spring 2020 Presentation Schedule

by Duarte Goncalves Dias da Silva
January 21st, 2020

About the Colloquium

Time and Location: Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm in 1101 IAB

Instructors: Yeon-Koo Che and Navin Kartik

Student Organizer: Duarte Goncalves

 

Presenter Date Discussant Title
Rosemarie Nagel Jan-22 — A Structure of Aggregative Games through a generalized Beauty Contest
Jan-29 —
No Meeting Feb-05 — —
Feb-12
No Meeting Feb-19
Duarte Gonçalves Feb-26 Silvio Ravaioli Sequential Sampling and Equilibrium
Teresa Esteban-Casanelles Mar-04 Jeffrey Guo The Effects of Incentives on Beliefs and Choices in Games
Sara Shahanaghi Mar-11 John Cremin Breaking News and Preemption
No Meeting Mar-18 — —
Silvio Ravaioli Mar-25 — Prospectus Defense (by invitation only)
Dilip Ravindran Apr-01 Duarte Gonçalves TBD
Jeffrey Guo Apr-08 Yu Fu Wong Diffusion in the Market for News
Yu Fu Wong Apr-15 Dilip Ravindran Mechanisms with Perceptrons
Sara Shahanaghi Apr-22 — Prospectus Defense (by invitation only)
Suneil Parimoo Apr-29 Duarte Gonçalves TBD
John Cremin May-06 Sara Shahanaghi Modelling Media Bias with Sequential Sampling
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Fall 2019 Presentation Schedule

by Duarte Goncalves Dias da Silva
September 24th, 2019

About the Colloquium

Time and Location: Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm in 1101 IAB

Instructors: Yeon-Koo Che and Navin Kartik

Student Organizer: Duarte Goncalves

 

Presenter Date Title Discussant
Organizational Meeting 04-Sep —
RC Xi Zhi Lim 11-Sep Ordered Reference Dependent Choice
Evan Friedman 18-Sep Stochastic Choice in Games
Duarte Gonçalves 25-Sep Sequential Sampling and Equilibrium RC Xi Zhi Lim
Khanh Ngoc Han Huynh 02-Oct Silvio Ravaioli
Prospectus Defense 09-Oct
Dilip Ravindran 16-Oct Omar Ahsan
Teresa Esteban Casanelles 23-Oct Dilip Ravindran
Allen Vong 30-Oct —
Sara Shahanaghi 06-Nov Teresa Esteban Casanelles
Omar Ahsan 13-Nov Sara Shahanaghi
Silvio Ravaioli 20-Nov Evan Friedman
No Meeting 27-Nov —
Yu Fu Wong 04-Dec Duarte Gonçalves
Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado 11-Dec Khanh Ngoc Han Huynh
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Spring 2019 Presentation Schedule

by Rc Xi Zhi Lim
January 22nd, 2019

About the Colloquium

Time and Location: Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm in 1102 IAB

Instructors: Yeon-Koo Che and Navin Kartik

Student Organizer: RC Lim

 

February 6  (This meeting is cancelled, 2/1/2019) N/A
February 13 Omar Hossain Ahsan Econ 2nd Year
February 20 Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado Econ 2nd Year
February 27 Yu Fu Wong Econ 2nd Year
March 6 Duarte Goncalves Econ 3rd Year
March 13 Sara Shahanaghi Econ 3rd Year
March 20 No Meeting, Spring Break
March 27 Silvio Ravaioli Econ 3rd Year
April 3 Guy Aridor Econ 3rd Year
April 10 Han Huynh Econ 5th Year
April 17 Teresa Esteban Casanelles By Invitation Only
April 24 Evan Friedman Econ 5th Year
May 1 RC Xi Zhi Lim Econ 5th Year
May 8 Dilip Ravindran By Invitation Only

 

(list updated 1/22, 2pm)

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