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Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2026

Candice Jenkins — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:52:06 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2026

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Yang Xie & Urmee Khan

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/6/2026 Zoom	Maren Vairo, UPenn
4/13/2026	Christoph Schlom, UC Davis
4/20/2026	Nicola Persico, Northwestern
4/27/2026	Stergios Skaperdas, UC Irvine
5/4/2026	Michael Gibilisco, Caltech
5/11/2026	Deepal Basak, Indiana U
5/18/2026	Mike Ting, Columbia
6/1/2026	Mark Koyoma, GMU

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2026

Candice Jenkins — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:40:31 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2026

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Siyang Xiong

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/12/2026 Zoom	Sulagna Dasgupta, Cornell University	Screening Knowledge with Verifiable Evidence
1/19/2026	Martin Luther King Jr. Day – No Seminar
1/26/2026	Yishu Zeng, York University	Zoom: Randomized Promises in a Moral Hazard Model
2/2/2026	Kun Zhang , Queensland University	Optimal Procurement Design: A Reduced-Form Approach
2/9/2026 Zoom	Roi Orzach, BU	Multi-Project Collaborations Abstract Paper
2/16/2026	Washington’s Birthday – No Seminar
2/23/2026	Peiran Xiao, USC
3/2/2026	Jiabin Wu, Oregon University
3/9/2026	Alistair Wilson, Pitt	Zoom

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2025

site-admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:51:05 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2025

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Hiroki Nishimura and Han Wang

When available, the papers can be downloaded as PDF files, which can be read or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/29/2025	Paulo Natenzon, Washington University in St. Louis
10/6/2025	Orestis Vravosinos, University of Chicago
10/13/2025	Paul H. Y. Cheung, University of Texas at Dallas (ZOOM)	Revealed Attentional Influence https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92796255307
10/23/2025 (Thurs)	Xiaoyu Cheng, Florida State University (ZOOM)	On the Monotonicity of Information Costs https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92796255307
10/27/2025	Collin B Raymond, Cornell University (ZOOM)	https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92796255307
11/3/2025	Mark Whitmeyer, Arizona State University (ZOOM)	Outside Options and Risk Attitude https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121
11/10/2025	Jonathan A. Libgober, University of Southern California	Optimally Selecting Competing Proposals (Joint with Peiran Xiao)
11/17/2025	Teddy Kim, Emory University (ZOOM) https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121	Choosing Your Own Luck: Strategic Risk Taking and Effort in Contests (With R. Vijay Krishna and Dmitry Ryvkin)
11/24/2025	Udayan Vaidya, Duke University	Delegated Contracting https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121
12/1/2025	Teck Yong Tan, University of Rochester (ZOOM)	Profiling and Hold-up Risk (a joint work with Anh Nguyen) https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:14:00 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2025

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Yang Xie & Urmee Khan

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
04/09/2025	Luca Rigotti (University of Pittsburgh)	Identification of Incomplete Preferences
04/16/2025	Anujit Chakraborty (UC Davis)	The Role of Interpersonal Uncertainty in Prosocial Behavior
04/23/2025	Aniruddha Ghosh (Cal Poly)	Separately Convex and Separately Continuous Preferences
04/30/2025
05/07/2025	Max Stinchcombe (University of Texas, Austin)	All Games Have Equilibria In Finitely Additive Strategies
05/14/2025	Mehdi Shadmehr (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)	Missing Discussions
05/21/2025	Chris Shannon (UC Berkeley)	Random Rationalizability
05/28/2025 *Zoom	Joseph Warren (University of Alaska, Anchorage)	Citizen Approval Increases Information in Administrative Policymaking
06/04/2025
06/11/2025
06/18/2025

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:52:10 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2025

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Hiroki Nishimura

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/17/2025 *Friday	Alistair Barton (NYU)	Robust Communication
1/22/2025 *Wednesday	Yuzhao Yang (BU)	An Axiomatic Model of Cognitive Dissonance
1/23/2025 *Thursday	Yijun Liu (Northwestern)	Dynamic Reward Design
1/24/2025 *Friday	Ferdinand Pieroth (Yale)	Due Diligence in Common Value Auctions
1/27/2025 *Monday	Rafael Veiel (MIT)	Limits of Global Games
2/05/2025 *Zoom	Yunus Aybas (Texas A&M)	Cheap Talk in Complex Environments
2/12/2025 *Zoom	Ce Liu (Michigan State)	Coalitions in Repeated Games
2/19/2025 *Zoom	Maria Betto (Johns Hopkins)	Cognition in Preferences and Choice
2/26/2025 *Zoom	Elchin Suleymanov (Purdue)	Robust Maximum Likelihood Updating
3/05/2025 *Zoom	David Freeman (Simon Fraser)	Nudge Me: Preferences over Default Setting Rules
3/12/2025 *Zoom	Asen Kochov (Rochester)	Recursive Utility and The Folk Theorem
3/19/2025 *Wednesday	Han Wang (Ohio State)	Contracting for Information Acquisition
3/20/2025 *Thursday	Cole Williams (Durham University)	Search Platforms: Big Data and Sponsored Positions

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:31:00 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2024

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Siang Xiong

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/02/2024 *Zoom	Andy Mackenzie (Rutgers)	Tract housing, the core, and pendulum auctions
10/09/2024 *Zoom	Thayer Morrill (NCSU)	Desirable Rankings: A New Method for Ranking Outcomes of a Competitive Process
10/16/2024 Sproul 2206	Anirudh Iyer (UCR)	Dynamic Matching with Case-Based Agents
10/23/2024 *Zoom	Ying Gao (UBC)	Inference from Selectively Disclosed Data
10/30/2024 *Zoom	Cuimin Ba (Pitt)	Robust Misspecified Models and Paradigm Shifts
11/06/2024 *Zoom	Zachary Breig (Queensland)	Overbidding and Contingent Thinking in Common-Value Auctions
11/13/2024 *Zoom	Pinaki Mandal (ASU)	Equivalence between individual and group strategy-proofness under stability
11/20/2024 *Zoom	Shota Ichihashi (Queens)	Managing Information Production in Teams
11/27/2024	Thanksgiving holiday
12/04/2024 *Zoom	Kirill Rudov (Berkeley)	Fragile Stable Matchings

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:34:07 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2024

Fridays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Urmee Khan

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/05/2024 *Sproul 2206	Charles Sprenger (Caltech)	Connecting Common Ratio and Common Consequence Preferences
4/12/2024 *Zoom	Alexander Jacobsen (Northwestern)	Revealed Persuasion
4/17/2024 *Sproul 2206 *Wednesday	Efe OK (New York University)	Measuring Stochastic Rationality
4/26/2024 *Sproul 2206	Fahad Khalil (U of Washington)	Rewarding Success and Failure: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in Strategic Experimentation
5/03/2024 *Sproul 2206	Scott Tyson (U of Rochester)	Relying on Repression
5/10/2024 *ZOOM	Marcin Peski (U Toronto)	Bargaining with Mechanisms and Two Sided Incomplete Information
5/24/2024 *Sproul 2206	Chris Shannon (UC Berkeley)	Random Rationalizability
5/31/2024 *Sproul 2206	Ali Khan (Johns Hopkins)	On Game-Theoretic Underpinnings of the Gale-Nikaido-Kuhn-Debreu Lemma: Generalized Formulations
6/07/2024 *Sproul 2206	Dayang Li (UCR)	Attention Formation: Triggers and Blockers

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:41:01 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2024

Fridays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Yang Xie and Hiroki Nishimura

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
2/16/2024 *Zoom	Weijia Li (Monash University)	An Economic Theory of Salvation Religions
2/23/2024 *Sproul 2206	Siyang Xiong (UCR)	Mechanism Design with Sequential-Move Games: Revelation Principle
3/01/2024 *Zoom	Sandeep Baliga (Northwestern)	Long Wars
3/08/2024 *Sproul 2206	Axel Niemeyer (Caltech)	Extreme Points in Multi-Dimensional Screening Problems
3/15/2024 *Sproul 2206	Wonki Cho (Korea University)	The local-global equivalence on general networks

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:54:07 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2023

Fridays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Siyang Xiong

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/29/2023 *Zoom	Charles Zheng (Western Ontario)	A General Condition to Characterize Reduced-Form Auctions
10/06/2023 *Zoom	Ayca Kaya (Miami)	Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure
10/13/2023 *Zoom	Nima Haghpanah (Penn State)	A Theory of Stable Market Segmentations
10/20/2023 *Zoom	Krishna Dasaratha (Boston)	Equity Pay in Networked Teams
10/27/2023 *Zoom	Xiao Lin (Pennsylvania)	Correlation-robust Information Aggregation
11/03/2023 *Sproul 2206	Bo Chen (Southern Methodist)	Extremal Equilibria of Repeated Oligopoly with Entry
11/10/2023	Veteran’s Day holiday
11/17/2023 *Zoom	Benjamin Bernard (Wisconsin)	Continuous-Time Stochastic Games with Imperfect Public Monitoring
11/24/2023	Thanksgiving holiday
12/01/2023 *Zoom	No Seminar
12/08/2023 *Zoom	Boli Xu (Iowa)	Strategic Exits in Stochastic Partnerships: The Curse of Profitability

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:28:45 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2023

Mondays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Urmee Khan

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/03/2023 *Zoom	Elliot Lipnowski (Columbia University)	Pricing for Coordination
4/10/2023 *Sproul 2206	João Ramos (USC)	Political Accountability Under Moral Hazard
4/17/2023 *Zoom	Xiaosheng Mu (Princeton)	Monotone Additive Statistics
4/24/2023 *Zoom	Rohit Lamba (Penn State)	Hard information design
5/01/2023 *Zoom	Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (University of Chicago)	Partisan Traps
5/08/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yoval Hellar (Bar-Ilan University)	Heterogeneous Noise and Stable Miscoordination
5/15/2023 *Zoom	Richard Van Weelden (University of Pittsburg	Persuasion in Veto Bargaining
5/22/2023 *Sproul 2206	Andres Carvajal (UC Davis)	Idiosyncratic Risk and the Equity Premium
5/29/2023	Holiday
6/05/2023 *Sproul 2206	Dayang Li	Satisficing under Limited Attention