ESSET 2019 - Papers Week 1

 

European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (ESSET) 2019

Hosted by the Study Center Gerzensee (Foundation of the Swiss National Bank)

Gerzensee, Switzerland
Monday 1 July - Friday 12 July 2019

 

WEEK 1
 

Monday, 1 July
Focus Session on Time Consistency & Self Control

  • Long-Term Contracting with Time-Inconsistent Agents, *Daniel Gottlieb (Washington University) (presentation)
  • Addiction and Bright-Line Rules, *Miaomiao Dong (Penn State University) (paper) (presentation)
  • Contracting with Non-Exponential Discounting: Moral Hazard and Dynamic Inconsistency, *Doruk Cetemen (Collegio Carlo Alberto) with Felix Zhiyu Feng (University of Notre Dame) and Can Urgun (Princeton University) 

Evening Parallel Session 

  • Rationalizing Dynamic Choices, *Rohit Lamba (Penn State University) (paper) (presentation)
  • Simultaneous Versus Sequential Disclosure, *Joel Sobel (UCSD) and Peicong Hu (UCSD) (paper) (presentation)

Tuesday, 2 July
Focus Session on Errors & Misspecification

  • Bounded Rationality and Limited Datasets, *Geoffroy de Clippel (Brown University) (presentation)

Evening Parallel Session

  • Attention Please! ,*Jakub Steiner (University of Zurich and CERGE-EI and CEPR) with Olivier Gossner (CREST, CNRS, École Polytechnique and London School of Economics) and Colin Stewart (University of Toronto) (paper)
  • Statistical Inference in Games, *Yuval Salant (Northwestern University) and Josh Cherry (Amazon.com) (paper)

Wednesday, 3 July
Focus Session on Preferences Beyond Expected Utility

  • Time Lotteries and Stochastic Impatience, *David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania) with Patrick De Jarnette (National Taiwan University), Daniel Gottlieb (Washington University in St. Louis) and Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University) (paper) (presentation)
  • A Behavioral Foundation for Endogenous Salience, *Yusufcan Masatlioglu (University of Maryland) (paper) (presentation)
  • Approximate Expected Utility Rationalization, *Taisuke Imai (LMU Munich) with Federico Echenique (California Institute of Technology) and Kota Saito (California Institute of Technology)

Evening Parallel Session

  • Mislearning from Censored Data: The Gambler’s Fallacy in Optimal-Stopping Problems, *Kevin He (Harvard University) (paper)  
  • Conventions and Coalitions in Repeated Games, *S. Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University) and Ce Liu (UCSD) (paper) (presentation)

Thursday, 4 July
Focus Session on Errors & Misspecification

  • Misinterpreting Others and the Fragility of Social Learning, *Mira Frick (Yale University) (paper)

Evening Parallel Sessions

  • Listing Specs: The Effect of Attribute Orders on Choice, *Simone Galperti (UCSD) and Francesco Cerigioni (UPF) (paper) 
  • Advice from an overconfident expert, *Dezső Szalay (University of Bonn and CEPR) and Inga Deimen (UofA and CEPR) (paper) (presentation)

Friday, 5 July
Focus Session on Errors & Misspecification

  • Channeled Attention and Stable Errors, *Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch (Harvard University) with Matthew Rabin (Harvard University) and Joshua Schwartzstein (Harvard Business School) (paper) (presenation)

    
Morning Parallel Sessions

  • Additive Belief Based Preferences, *Collin Raymond (Purdue University) and David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania)  (papers)   
  • Confusion, Indecisiveness and Polarization, *Armin Schmutzler (University of Zurich and CEPR) with Andreas Hefti University of Zurich and School of Management and Law), Shuo Liu University of Zurich) (paper) (presentation)


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