Nemmers Prize Conference
"Conference in Honor of David Kreps"
Thursday and Friday, May 9-10, 2019
James L. Allen Center
McCormick Auditorium
Free registration required by noon on April 29
Conference schedule
| Thursday, May 9, 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Time | Title |
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:15 | Drew Fudenberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Learning-Theoretic Foundations for Equilibrium Refinements |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 10:45 | Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University): Learning with a Misspecified View of the World (joint with Daniel N. Hauser - Aalto University, Alex Imas - Carnegie Mellon University, and Michael Rosenberg - Wayfair). Further readings: Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3. |
| 11:45 | Annie Liang (University of Pennsylvania): Machine Learning and Economic Modeling (joint with Drew Fudenberg - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 2:00 | Tilman Bðrgers (University of Michigan): Mechanism Design and Voting |
| 3:00 | Benjamin Brooks (University of Chicago): Optimal Auction Design with Common Values: An Informationally-Robust Approach (joint with Songzi Du - University of California San Diego) |
| 4:00 | Break |
| 4:30 | Andrzej Skrzypacz (Stanford University): Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia and Front-Running (joint with Yuliy Sannikov - Stanford University) |
| 5:30 | Adjournment |
| Friday, May 10, 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Time | Title |
| 9:15 | Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota): The Neural Foundations of Economic and Strategic Choice, and the Role of Memory |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 10:45 | Faruk Gul (Princeton University): Market Design and Walrasian Equilibrium (joint with Wolfgang Pesendorfer and Mu Zhang - both Princeton University) |
| 11:45 | Gilat Levy (London School of Economics and Political Science): Correlation Neglect (joint with Ines Moreno de Barreda - Oxford University, and Ronny Razin - London School of Economics) Paper 1, Paper 2 |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 2:00 | Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development): Heuristic Decision Making from a Psychological Perspective Paper1, Paper 2 |
| 3:00 | Muhamet Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Culture and Communication (joint with Rajiv Sethi - Columbia University) |
| 4:00 | Adjournment |
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- Read more about the Nemmers Prize and the current and past winners