Berlin Micro Theory Seminar

Berlin Micro Theory Seminar

This term the Berlin micro theory group organizes a joint online seminar series with the University of Bonn. The seminar takes place on Tuesdays during the semester from 16:00-17:00. The seminar series is also sponsored by the CRC TRR 190 on Rationality and Competition.

Please send an email to microtheory.wiwi(at)hu-berlin.de to sign up for the seminars.

Upcoming Events

Previous Events

Matthias Fahn (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

Reciprocity in Dynamic Employment Relationships

Sandro Shelegia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Retailer-led Marketplaces

Inga Deimen (University of Arizona)

Information Processing: Contracts versus Communication

Nikita Roketskiy (UCL)

TBA

Sylvain Chassang (NYU)

TBA

Volker Nocke (Mannheim)

Collective Brand Reputation

William Fuchs (Austin/Madrid)

TBA

Rohit Lamba (Penn State)

TBA

Toomas Hinnosaar (Carlo Alberto)

Optimal Sequential Contests

Leslie Marx (Duke)

Digital Monopolies: Privacy Protection or Price Regulation

Thomas Tröger (University of Mannheim)

The multiple-volunteer principle

Eeva Mauring (University of Vienna)

Partially Directed Search for Wages

February 10, 2020

Heiner Schumacher (KU Leuven)

Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations

February 03, 2020

Christian Hofmann (LMU)

Transparence in Hierachies

December 16, 2019

Alexandre de Cornière (TSE)

Data and competition: a general framework

December 09, 2019

Jacopo Bizzotto (Oslo Metropolitan University)

The Optimal Certifier when Firms Enter and Invest

December 05, 2019

Anatoli Segura (Banca d'Italia)

Demand for safety, risky loans: A model of securitization.

December 02, 2019

Yair Antler (Tel Aviv University)

Searching Forever After

November 25, 2019

Florian Scheuer (University of Zurich)

Signaling to Experts

November 14, 2019

Paul Heidhues (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE))

Overconfidence and Prejudice

November 14, 2019

Martin Oehmke (LSE)

A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment

November 11, 2019

Andrew Rhodes (TSE)

Merger Remedies in Multimarket Oligopoly

October 28, 2019

Jidong Zhou (Yale)

Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition

October 21, 2019

Jörgen Weibull (Stockholm School of Economics)

Economics and Human Motivation: Charles Darwin meets Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant

Antonio Rosato (UT Sydney)

Projection of Private Values in Auctions

Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University)

Normative Equilibrium:The permissible and the forbidden as devices for bringing order to economic environments

Matthias Lang (LMU Munich)

Bilateral Trade with Justification

Ricardo Alonso (London School of Economics)

Tampering with Information

Barton Lipman (Boston University)

Acquisition of Stochastic Evidence

Peter Norman Sørensen (University of Copenhagen)

Strategic Sample Selection

Fabian Herweg (University of Bayreuth)

Regret Theory and Salience Theory: Total Strangers, Distant Relatives or Close Cousins?

Laurent Linnemer (ENSAE)

Vertical contracting and buyer power in procurement

Emre Ozdenoren (LBS)

Dynamic Coordination with Flexible Security Design

Juuso Välimäki (Aalto Helsinki)

Correlated Large Contests

Andrew Mackenzie (Maastricht University)

Strategy-proofness and perfect mechanisms

Willemien Kets (University of Oxford)

Is Bounded Rationality Driven by Limited Ability?

February 11, 2019

Zvika Neeman (Tel Aviv University)

TBA

February 04, 2019

Renato Gomes (Toulouse School of Economics)

TBA

January 28, 2019

Johannes Schneider (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Managing a Conflict

January 21, 2019

Nina Bobkova (EUI Florence)

Knowing What Matters to Others: Information Selection in Auctions

January 14, 2019

Andy Zapechelnyuk (University of St Andrews)

Persuasion Meets Delegation

January 07, 2019

Jochen Schlapp (Frankfurt School)

Procurement of Complex Innovation

December 17, 2018

Raphaël Lévy (HEC Paris)

Concerned with careers? Career development, task assignment, and labour market competition

December 10, 2018

Sebastian Kranz (Ulm University)

Reconciliating Relational Contracting and Hold-up: A Model of Repeated Negotiations

December 03, 2018

Jan Zapal (CERGE-EI)

A model of focusing in political choice

November 19, 2018

Lydia Mechtenberg (University of Hamburg)

Competition for Context-Sensitive Consumers

November 12, 2018

Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics)

Organizing Competition for the Market

November 05, 2018

Niccolò Lomys (Toulouse School of Economics)

Sequential Collective Search in Networks

October 29, 2018

Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn)

Mechanism Design without Euclid's Fourth Postulate

October 22, 2018

Qingmin Liu (Columbia University)

Rational Expectations, Stable Beliefs, and Stable Matching

Aniko Öry (Yale School of Management)

Aiming for the goal: Contribution dynamics of crowdfunding

Matthew Ellman (Barcelona GSE)

Online Social Networks: Approval by Design

Alexander Westkamp (University of Cologne)

Strategy-Proof Exchange under Trichotomous Preferences

David Rodina (University of Bonn)

Information Design and Career Concerns

Max Klimm (HU Berlin)

Revenue Gaps for Discriminatory and Anonymous pricing

Daniele Condorelli (University of Essex)

Information design in the hold-up problem

Taisuke Imai (LMU Munich)

Testable Implications of Models of Intertemporal Choice

Jacob Glazer (Tel Aviv University)

Optimal Information Disclosure by Crowd Funding Platforms

Oliver Gürtler (University of Cologne)

Strategic Shirking in Competitive Labor Markets: A General Model of Multi-Task Promotion Tournaments with Employer Learning

Leonie Baumann (University of Cambridge)

Identifying the Best Agent in a Network

Adrien Vigier (BI Norwegian Business School)

Dynamic Persuasion with Outside Information

Marek Pycia (University of Zurich)

Invariance and Matching Market Outcomes

February 12, 2018

Martin Pollrich (University of Bonn)

Sequential Procurement without Commitment

February 05, 2018

Takuro Yamashita (Toulouse School of Economics)

The splitting problem applied to Bayesian persuasion and mechanism design with externalities

January 22, 2018

Ina Taneva (University of Edinburgh)

On Information Design in Games

January 15, 2018

Ludovic Renou (Queen Mary University of London)

Information design in multi-stage games

January 08, 2018

Daniel Krähmer (University of Bonn)

Information disclosure and monopolistic screening

December 18, 2017

Alexandre de Corniere (Toulouse School of Economics)

Social Media and the news industry

December 11, 2017

Malin Arve (Norwegian School of Economics)

Dynamic procurement under uncertainty: competition and auctions

December 04, 2017

Miriam Teschl (EHESS)

Inconsistency, choice and internal conflict

November 27, 2017

Matthias Kräkel (University of Bonn)

Fake News

November 20, 2017

Tobias Gamp (University College London)

Deceptive Products and Competition in Search Markets

November 06, 2017

Alexander Frug (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Dynamic nonmonetary incentives

October 30, 2017

Daniel Garcia (Universit of Vienna)

Dynamic Pricing with Search Frictions

October 23, 2017

Emir Kamenica (Chicago Booth)

Experiments as convex functions: three applications

October 16, 2017

Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics)

Competitive Compensation Contracts

André Veiga (University of Oxford)

The Impact of Price Discrimination in Markets with Adverse Selection

Elisabetta Iossa (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

Prizes versus contracts as incentives for innovation

Sarah Auster (Bocconi University)

Optimal Delegation, Unawareness, and Financial Intermediation

Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford GSB)

TBA

Susanne Goldlücke (University of Konstanz)

Assigning an unpleasant job without payment

Margaret Meyer (University of Oxford)

Information Design: Insights from Orderings of Dependence and Heterogeneity

Johannes Horner (Yale University)

Keeping Your Story Straight: Truthtelling and Liespotting (with Xiaosheng Mu and Nicolas Vieille)

Rahul Deb (University of Toronto)

Evaluating Strategic Forecasters

Navin Kartik (Columbia University)

Muddled Information

Albin Erlanson (Stockholm University)

Costly Verification in Collective Decisions

Erik Mohlin (Lund University)

Observations on cooperation

February 13, 2017

Markus Reisinger (Frankfurt School)

Patent Pools in Input Markets

February 06, 2017

Florian Hoffmann (University of Bonn)

Only time will tell: A theory of deferred compensation and its regulation

January 30, 2017

Francesco Nava (London School of Economics)

Differentiated Durable Goods

January 23, 2017

Stephan Luck (Princeton)

Liquidity benefits and bank capital requirements

January 16, 2017

Marco Sahm (University of Bamberg)

Advance-Purchase Financing of Projects with Few Buyers

January 09, 2017

Benjamin Balzer (UT Sydney)

Collusion in Auctions: An informed principal perspective

December 12, 2016

Willemien Kets (Northwestern University)

Challenging conformity: A case for diversity

December 05, 2016

Alex Smolin (Uni Bonn)

Evaluation Theory of Wage Growth

November 28, 2016

Nicola Dimitri (University of Siena)

Why do lotteries exist?

November 21, 2016

Gabriel Carroll (Stanford University)

Robustly Optimal Auctions with Unknown Resale Opportunities (joint with I. Segal)

November 14, 2016

Oliver Tercieux (Paris School of Economics)

The Design of Teacher Assignment: Theory and Evidence (joint with J. Combe and C. Terrier)

November 07, 2016

Cedric Wasser (Uni Bonn)

Optimal Structure and Dissolution of Partnerships (joint with Simon Loertscher)

October 31, 2016

Piero Gottardi (European University Institute)

Competing Mechanisms in Markets for Lemons (joint wit S. Auster)

October 24, 2016

Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch (HU Berlin)

Time Preferences and Bargaining

V. Bhaskar (University of Texas at Austin)

Dynamic moral hazard with learning or temporal dependence

André Stenzel (University of Leicester)

Consumer Rating Dynamics

Frank Rosar (Uni Bonn)

Strategic outsourcing and optimal procurement

Samuel Häfner (Uni Basel)

Sorting in Iterated

Nicolas Klein (University of Montreal)

Strongly Symmetric Equilibria in Bandit Games

José Azar (Charles River Associates)

A New Look at Oligopoly: Implicit Collusion Through Portfolio Diversification

Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (UCLA)

Managing Talent

Konrad Mierendorff (University College London)

Optimal Sequential Decision with Limited Attention

David Ulph (St. Andrews)

Measuring the Effectiveness of Anti-Cartel Interventions: A Conceptual Framework

Jakub Steiner (CERGE-EI)

Rational Inattention Dynamics: Inertia and Delay in Decision-Making

Eugen Kovac (Uni Duisburg-Essen)

Optimal stopping in a principal agent model with hidden information and no monetary transfers

February 12, 2016

Gregory Jolivet (University of Bristol)

Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet

February 08, 2016

Vasiliki Skreta (University College London)

Selling with Evidence

February 01, 2016

Françoise Forges (Université Paris-Dauphine)

Cheap talk and commitment in Bayesian games

January 18, 2016

Brett Green (Haas, UC Berkeley)

On Breakthroughs, Deadlines, and the Nature of Progress: Contracting for Multistage Projects

January 11, 2016

Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Optimal Voting Rules

December 14, 2015

Brit Grosskopf (University of Exeter)

Do you mind me paying less? Measuring Other-Regarding Preferences in the Market for Taxis

December 07, 2015

Klaus Ritzberger (Vienna Graduate School of Finance)

The Curse of Poverty and the Blessings of Wealth

November 23, 2015

Vitali Gretschko (University of Cologne)

Common values and the Coase conjecture: Inefficiencies in frictionless contract renegotiation

November 16, 2015

Sudipto Dasgupta (Lancaster University)

Common values and the Coase conjecture: Inefficiencies in frictionless contract renegotiation

November 09, 2015

Maria Rosa Battaggion (University of Bergamo)

Broadcasters Competition on Quality: a Welfare Perspective

November 02, 2015

Kai Konrad (MPI Munich)

Coordination and the fight against tax havens

October 26, 2015

Sander Heinsalu (Queensland)

Spence meets Holmstrom: Luck and repetition in signalling

October 19, 2015

Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse School of Economics)

Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Trade

October 12, 2015

Omer Moav (Hebrew University)

Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy