The 2nd Columbia Conference on Economic Theory (CCET) will be held at 142 Uris Hall, Columbia University (press for directions) on September 14-15, 2018.

Organizers: Navin Kartik & Jacopo Perego

Registration closed on September 1, 2018. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please e-mail Stephanie at sc3867@columbia.edu.

Program:

Friday, September 14th

9:00-9:55: Breakfast and Registration

9:55-10:00: Welcome Remarks

10:00-10:50 Andy Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania), “A Very Robust Auction Mechanism” (with Rich McLean)

10:50-11:05: Coffee Break

11:05-11:55 George Georgiadis (Northwestern University), “Optimal Monitoring Design” (with Balazs Szentes)

11:55-12:10 Coffee Break

12:10-1:00   Laura Doval (California Institute of Technology), “Sequential Informational Design” (with Jeff Ely)

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:20 Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (University of California, Los Angeles), “Learning Dynamics in Social Networks” (With Simon Board)

3:20-3:35 Coffee Break

3:35-4:25 Lones Smith (University of Wisconsin), “The Comparative Statics of Sorting” (with Axel Anderson)

4:25-4:40 Coffee Break

4:40-5:30 Debraj Ray (New York University), “Games of Love and Hate” (with Rajiv Vohra)

6:30 Dinner (by invitation only)

Saturday, September 15th

8:00-9:00: Breakfast

9:00-9:50: Shaowei Ke (University of Michigan), “Randomization and Ambiguity Aversion” (with Qi Zhang)

9:50-10:05: Coffee Break

10:05-10:55: Terri Kneeland (University College London), “Mechanism Design with Level-k Types: Theory and an Application to Bilateral Trade”

10:55-11:10 Coffee Break

11:10-12:00 Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University), “Competing Models” (with Andrea Prat, Jose Montiel Olea, and Mallesh Pai)

12:00-12:15 Coffee Break

12:15-1:05   Ran Spiegler (University College London; Tel Aviv University), “A Model of Competing Narratives” (with Kfir Eliaz)

1:05-2:30 Lunch  

This conference is sponsored by Columbia University’s Program for Economic Research (PER) and Microeconomic Theory Initiative (MTI).

Press for more information about the 1st Columbia Conference on Economic Theory that was held on September 15-16, 2017. 

If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Cohen at sc3867@columbia.edu.