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Fall 2018
October 2
Xavier Vives, IESE Business School; BFI Visiting Scholar
"Exchange Competition, Entry, and Welfare"
October 9
Stephan Lauermann, University of Bonn; BFI Visiting Scholar
"Costly Advice, Protests, and Nonbinding Voting"
October 16
Pietro Ortoleva, Princeton University
"Competing Model"
October 23
Harry Di Pei, Northwestern University
"Reputation Effects Under Interdependent Values"
October 30
Eduardo Azevedo, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"A/B Testing for Black Swans"
November 6
Annie Liang, University of Pennsylvania
"Overabundant Information and Learning Traps"
November 13
Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford Graduate School of Business
"Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars"
November 20
No Meeting
November 27
Georgy Egorov, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"Strategic Communication with Minimal Verification"
December 4
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University
"Can Society Learn from Anethical Agents? Mediated Learning with Information Attrition"
December 11
Constantinos Daskalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Learning Multi-item Auctions with (or without) Samples"