Workshop on Contracts, Incentives and Information (Second Edition)

Workshop on Contracts, Incentives and Information (Second Edition)

joint with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

PROGRAM

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5TH

9:00-9:15	Dino Gerardi (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin and CEPR)
	Welcome address
9:15-10:15	Luciano Pomatto (Caltech)
	“Monotone additive statistics”
	(with Xiaosheng Mu, Philipp Strack and Omer Tamuz)
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-11:45	Harry Pei (Northwestern University)
	“Building Reputations via Summary Statistics: The Curse of Long Memory”
11:45-12:45	Rahul Deb (University of Toronto and CEPR)
	“Indirect Persuasion: Regulating Financial Analysts”
	(with Maher Said and Mallesh Pai)
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Alex Smolin (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR)
	“Data Collection by an Informed Seller”
	(with Shota Ichihashi)
15:00-16:00	Meg Meyer (Nuffield College and Dept. of Economics, Oxford Univ., and CEPR)
	“Selecting the Best when Selection is Hard”
	(with Mikhail Drugov and Marc Moeller)
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-17:30	Alexander Wolitzky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
	Keynote Talk: “Persuasion with Non-Linear Preferences”
	(with Anton Kolotilin and Roberto Corrao)
20:00	Workshop Dinner

 

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6TH

9:00-10:00	Vasiliki Skreta (University of Texas at Austin, University College London and CEPR)
	“Purchase History and Product Personalization”
	(with Laura Doval)
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-11:30	Ricardo Alonso (London School of Economics and CEPR)
	“Organizing Data Analytics”
	(with Odilon Camara)
11:30-12:30	Arina Nikandrova (City, University of London)
	“Imposing Commitment to Rein in Overconfidence in Learning”
	(with Marcelo A. Fernandez and Tatiana Mayskaya)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Ignacio Monzón (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin)
	“Delegation with Endogenous States”
	(with Dino Gerardi and Lucas Maestri)
15:00-16:00	Eduardo Perez-Richet (Sciences Po and CEPR)
	“Fraud-proof Non-market Allocation Mechanisms”
	(with Vasiliki Skreta)
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-17:30	Philipp Strack (Yale University)
	Keynote Talk: “Taxing Externalities Without Hurting the Poor”
	(with Mallesh Pai)
20:00	Workshop Dinner

 

Talks are 50 minutes long. After each talk, there are 10 minutes for discussion.

 

Organising committee:

Meg Meyer (Nuffield College, Oxford University and CEPR), Vasiliki Skreta (university of Texas at Austin, University College London and CEPR), Andrea Gallice (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin), Dino Gerardi (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin and CEPR), Paolo Ghirardato (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin) and Ignacio Monzon (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin).

Organising institutions:
This workshop is jointly organized by the Collegio Carlo Alberto, the ESOMAS Department of the University of Turin and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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