ESSET 2018 - Programme
European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (ESSET) 2018
Hosted by the Study Center Gerzensee (Foundation of the Swiss National Bank)
Gerzensee, Switzerland
Monday 2 July - Friday 13 July 2018
PROGRAMME (pdf)
WEEK 1
Focus Session on Markets for Information
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08.30 - 09.30 09.30 - 10.00 10.00 - 11.00 |
Test Design and Minimum Standards Coffee break Quantifying information and uncertainty |
Evening Parallel Session
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20.30 - 21.30 |
Disclosure and Pricing of Attributes |
Optimal and Myopic Information Acquisition |
Tuesday, 3 July
Morning Session
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08.30 - 09.30 |
Dynamic Bayesian Persuasion |
Evening Parallel Session
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20.30 - 21.30 |
Cookie Design |
Demand for Privacy, selling consumer information, and consumer hiding vs. opt-out |
Wednesday, 4 July
Focus Session on Markets for Information
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08.30 - 09.30
09.30 - 10.00 10.00 - 11.00
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Privacy Protection and Consumer Retention Coffee Break Price Customization and Targeting in Platform Markets |
Evening Parallel Session
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20.30 - 21.30 |
Information aggregation and the efficiency of emissions markets |
The Simple Economics of Optimal Persuasion |
Thursday, 5 July
Morning Session
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08.30 - 09.30 |
TBC |
Evening Parallel Sessions
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20.30 - 21.30 |
Social Learning in a Dynamic Environment |
Efficiency and Information Aggregation in Heterogeneous Markets |
Friday, 6 July
Morning Session
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08.30 - 09.30 |
Information Design: Insights from Orderings of Dependence and Heterogeneity |
Morning Session
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10.00 - 11.00 |
Revenue Guarantee Equivalence |
The Effect of Analyst Coverage on Corporate Voluntary Disclosure, Price Efficiency and Liquidity |
* Indicates the presenter
WEEK 2
Monday, 9 July
Focus Session on Misspecified Models
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08.30 - 09.30 09.30 - 10.30 10.30 - 11.00 11:00 - 12.00 |
TBC Overabundant Information and Learning Traps Coffee break The Wisdom of a Confused Crowd: Model-Based Inference |
Evening Parallel Sessions
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20.30 - 21.30 |
Adverse Selection in Distributive Politics |
I Don't Know |
Tuesday, 10 July
Morning Session
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08.30 - 09.30 |
Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning |
Evening Parallel Sessions
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20.30 - 21.30 |
The Culture of Overconfidence |
Procurement with Unforeseen Contingencies |
Wednesday, 11 July
Focus Session on Misspecified Models
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08.30 - 09.30 09.30 - 10.30 10.30 - 11.00 11:00 - 12.00 |
Causal Narratives and Political Polarization Learning (Not to Trade?) in Large Worlds Coffee break Competing Models |
Evening Parallel Sessions
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20.30 - 21.30 |
Modeling Ignorance without Bayesian Beliefs |
Investigation with forgetful liars |
Thursday, 12 July
Morning Session
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08.30 - 09.30 |
Information Design in Misspecified Social Learning Models |
Evening Parallel Sessions
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20.30 - 21.30 |
The Value of a Coordination Game |
An Explanation-Based approach to Combining Forecasts |
Friday, 13 July
Morning Session
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08.30 - 09.30 |
Incentive compatible estimators |
Morning Parallel Session
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10.00 - 11.00 |
Equilibrium Counterfactuals |
Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations |
* Indicates the presenter
ESSET 2018 Organisers:
Dirk Bergemann (Yale and CEPR)
Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan and CEPR)
Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton)
Andrea Prat (Columbia University and CEPR)
Dezsö Szalay (University of Bonn and CEPR)
Xavier Vives (IESE Business School and CEPR)
Standing organising committee for ESSET:
Chair: Dezsö Szalay (University of Bonn and CEPR)
Johannes Hörner (Yale University and CEPR), Margaret Meyer (Oxford University and CEPR), Stephen Morris (Princeton University), Dirk Niepelt (Study Center Gerzensee and CEPR), Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi University and CEPR), Andrea Prat (Columbia University and CEPR), Sven Rady (University of Bonn and CEPR), Joel Sobel (University of California, San Diego), Xavier Vives (IESE Business School, Barcelona and CEPR) and Lucy White (Boston University and CEPR)