ESSET 2019 - Papers Week 2

Monday, 8 July
Focus Session on Information and Belief Coordination

Markets for Information *Alessandro Bonatti (MIT and CEPR) with Dirk Bergemann (Yale University) and and Tan Gan (Yale University) (presentation)
Fragile Financial Coalitions Under Belief Coordination Frictions, *George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania and Australian National University) with Harold Cole (University of Pennsylvania), Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvaniaand CEPR), and Yena Park (University of Rochester) (presentation)

Evening Parallel Sessions

Signaling covertly acquired information, *Nenad Kos (Bocconi University and CEPR) and Mehmet Ekmekci (Boston College) (paper) (presentation)
What Do Mediators Do? An Information and Bargaining Design Point of View, *Piero Gottardi (University of Essex) and Claudio Mezzetti (University of Queensland) (presentation)

Tuesday, 9 July

Morning Session

Stationary learning with random sampling, *Nicolas Vieille (HEC Paris) with Raphaël Levy (HEC Paris) and Marcin Peski (University of Toronto) (presentation)

Evening Parallel Sessions

Credible Mechanisms, *Shengwu Li (Harvard University) and Mohammad Akbarpoury (Stanford University) (paper) (presentation)
Belief Meddling in Social Networks: An Information-Design Approach, *Jacopo Perego (Columbia University) and Simone Galperti (UC San Diego) (paper) (presentation)

Wednesday, 10 July

Focus Session on Bayesian Persuasion

Persuading a Rationally Inattentive Agent, *Ilya Segal (Stanford University) and Alex Bloedel (Standford University) (presentation)

Morning Parallel Sessions

Optimal Rating Systems, *Maryam Saeedi (Carnegie Mellon University) and Ali Shourideh (Carnegie Mellon University) (presentation)
From Equals to Despots: The Dynamics of Repeated Decision Making in Partnerships with Private Information, *Satoshi Fukuda (Bocconi University) with Vinicius Carrasco (PUC-Rio), and William Fuchs (McCombs School of Business, UT Austin and Universidad Carlos III Madrid) (paper) (presentation)

Evening Parallel Sessions

Price Salience and Product Choice, *Steve Tadelis (UC Berkeley, NBER and CEPR) with Tom Blakey (eBay Research), Sarah Moshary (University of Chicago and Booth School of Business)and Kane Sweeney (Uber) (paper)
Statistical Foundations of Common Knowledge, *Eduardo Faingold (Insper) with Alfredo Di Tillio (Bocconi University) and Omer Tamuz (Caltech)

Thursday, 11 July

Morning Session

Optimal Quality Ratings and Market Outcomes, *Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA) with with Maryam Saeedi (Carnegie Mellon University) (presentation)

Evening Parallel Sessions

Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion, *Emilio Calvano (University of Bologna and Toulouse School of Economics) with Giacomo Calzolari (European University Institute, Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR), Vincenzo Denicolò (University of Bologna and CEPR) and Sergio Pastorello (University of Bologna) (paper)
Ratings Design and Barriers to Entry, *Nikhil Vellodi (Princeton University) (paper)

Friday, 12 July

Morning Session

Correlated Large Contests, *Juuso Välimäki (Aalto University) with Chang Koo Chi (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) and Pauli Murto (Aalto University) (presentation)

Morning Parallel Session

Optimal Dynamic Information Acquisition, *Weijie Zhong (Columbia University) (paper) (presentation)
Auctions of Homogeneous Goods: A Case for Pay-as-Bid, *Marek Pycia (University of Zürich) and Kyle Woodward (UNC–Chapel Hill) (paper)

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