2025 - Week 12: A/B Contracts, George Georgiadis and Michael Powell AER 2022, presented by Xinyue Fei.
2025 - Week 11: The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing, Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti, Alex Smolin WP 2025, presented by Wei Zhang.
2025 - Week 10: Incentives and Selection, Henrique Castro-Pires and George Georgiadis WP 2025, presented by Dawei Jian.
2025 - Week 9: Motivational Ratings, Johannes Hörner, Nicolas S Lambert, RES21 RES 2021, presented by Xinyue Fei.
2025 - Week 8: Robust Monopoly Regulation, Yingni Guo and Eran Shmaya AER 2025, presented by Wei Zhang [Slides].
2025 - Week 7: Informative Certification: Screening vs. Acquisition, Gorkem Celik and Roland Strausz WP 2025, presented by Dawei Jian.
2025 - Week 6: How Do Digital Advertising Auctions Impact Product Prices? D Bergemann, A Bonatti, N Wu RES 2024, presented by Xinyue Fei.
2025 - Week 5: Dynamic priority allocation via restless bandit marginal productivity indices, J Niño-Mora TOP 2007, presented by Wei Zhang.
2025 - Week 4: Keeping the Listener Engaged: a Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion, Yeon-Koo Che, Kyungmin Kim, Konrad Mierendorf JPE 2024, presented by Dawei Jian.
2025 - Week 3: Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity, Ryan Oprea American Economic Review 2024, presented by Dayang Li.
2025 - Week 2: Equilibrium Screening and Categorical Inequality, Mogens Fosgerau, Rajiv Sethi, and Jorgen Weibull American Economic Review 2023, presented by Xinyue Fei.
2025 - Week 1: Correlated Information and Mechanism Design, R. Preston McAfee and Philip J. Reny Econometrica 1992, presented by Wei Zhang. [Slides]
2024 - WEEK 1: Disclosure and pricing of attributes A Smolin, RAND23
2024 - WEEK 2: Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection, A Gershkov, B Moldovanu, P Strack, AER23
2024 - WEEK 4: 1/25, Selling Information in Competitive Environments, Alessandro Bonatti, Munther Dahleh, Thibaut Horel, Amir Nouripour. JET 23
2024 - WEEK 5: Contracting on Information about Value, J Bonham, A Riggs-Cragun, WP23
2024 - WEEK 6: Mechanism design with belief-dependent preferences, Ernesto Rivera Mora, JET24
2024 - WEEK 7: A Theory of the Effects of Privacy, Alessandro Bonatti, Yunhao Huang, Villas-Boas. WP23
2024 - WEEK 8: Comparison of Screening Devices M Akbarpour, P Dworczak, F Yang, WP23
2024 - WEEK 9: A belief-based approach to signaling F Koessler, M Laclau, T Tomala, WP24
2024 - WEEK10: Identification properties of recent production function estimators DA Ackerberg, K Caves, G Frazer, ECTA15
2024 - WEEK 11: Test design under falsification, E Perez‐Richet, V Skreta, ECTA22
2024 - WEEK 12: From Doubt to Devotion: Trials and Learning-Based Pricing, Tan Gan, Nicholas Wu, WP23
2024 - WEEK 13: Conditional Choice Probability Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models With Unobserved Heterogeneity, Peter Arcidiacono, Robert A. Miller, ECTA11
2024 - WEEK 14: Physicians as persuaders: Evidence from hospitals in china, J Xiang, WP24
2024 - WEEK 16: Equilibria in health exchanges: Adverse selection versus reclassification risk, B Handel, I Hendel, MD Whinston, ECTA15
2024 - WEEK 18: Reputation and Competition, Johannes Horner, AER02
2024 - WEEK 19: Consumer search and price competition, M Choi, AY Dai, K Kim, - ECTA18
2024 - WEEK 20: Optimal Long-Term Health Insurance Contracts: Characterization, Computation, and Welfare Effects, Soheil Ghili, Ben Handel, Igal Hendel, Michael D. Whinston, RES24
2024 - WEEK 21: Optimal Membership Design P Dworczak, M Reuter, SD Kominers, C Lee, WP24
2024 - WEEK 22: A mechanism-design approach to property rights, P Dworczak, E Muir, WP24.
2024 - WEEK 24: Taxing externalities without hurting the poor M Pai, P Strack, WP24.
2024 - WEEK 25; Monopoly Pricing, Optimal Randomization and Resale, Simon Loertscher and Ellen V. Muir, JPE22.
2024 - WEEK 28: The cost of information: The case of constant marginal costs, L Pomatto, P Strack, O Tamuz, AER23.
2024 - WEEK 29: Fraud-proof non-market allocation mechanisms, E Perez-Richet, V Skreta, WP24.
2024 - WEEK 30: Data, Competition and Digital Platforms, Bergemann and Bonatti, ARE24.
2024 - WEEK 31: Redistribution through markets P Dworczak, SD Kominers, M Akbarpour - ECTA21.
2024 - WEEK 32: Information design for selling search goods and the effect of competition, Chen Lyu, JET23.
2024 - WEEK 33: Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms, M Akbarpour, P Dworczak, JPE24.
2024 - WEEK 34: Countering Price Discrimination with Buyer Information P Strack, KH Yang, WP24.
2024 - WEEK 35: Personalization and privacy choice A Rhodes, J Zhou, WP24.
2024 - WEEK 36: Persuasion and matching: Optimal productive transport, A Kolotilin, R Corrao, A Wolitzky, JPE24.
2024 - WEEK 37: Optimal Procurement Design: A Reduced Form Approach, K Zhang, WP24.
2024 - WEEK 38: Information Design for Social Learning on a Recommendation Platform, Chen Lyu, WP23.
2024 - WEEK 39: Incentive Separability, Paweł Doligalski, Piotr Dworczak, Joanna Krysta, Filip Tokarsk, JPE24.
2024 - WEEK 40: A unified approach to second and third degree price discrimination D Bergemann, T Heumann, MC Wang, WP24.
2024 - WEEK 41: Principled mechanism design with evidence, S Schweighofer-Kodritsch, R Strausz, WP24.
2024 - WEEK 42: Turning the Ratchet Dynamic Screening with Multiple Agents M Ekmekci, L Maestri, D Wei, WP24.
2024 - WEEK 43: Relational contracts and the value of relationships M Halac, AER12.
2024 - WEEK 44: Relational Incentive Contracts, Jonathan Levin, AER03.
2024 - WEEK 45: Relational Knowledge Transfers, Luis Garicano, Luis Rayo, AER17.
2024 - WEEK 46: A theory of contracts with limited enforcement D Martimort, A Semenov, L Stole, RES17.
2024 - WEEK 48: Contracting with repeated moral hazard and private evaluations W Fuchs - American Economic Review, 2007.
2024 - WEEK 49: Relational Contracts: Public Versus Private Savings, Francesc Dilme, Daniel Garrett, ECTA23.
2024 - WEEK 50: Contracting with Heterogeneous Researchers, H Wang, WP24.
2024 - WEEK 51: Attraction versus persuasion: Information provision in search markets, PH Au, M Whitmeyer, JPE23.
2024 - WEEK 52: Menu Auctions Under Asymmetric Information, David Martimort and Lars Stole, WP24.
Extreme Point and Majorization: Economic Applications, Andreas Kleiner, Benny Moldovanu, Phillpp Strack, Econometrica 2021, presented by Xinyue Fei, 20/12/2022.
Monopoly, Product Quality, and Flexible Learning, Jeffrey Mensch, Doron Ravid, WP 2022, presented by Dawei Jian, 06/01/2023.
Experimental cost of information, T Denti, M Marinacci, A Rustichini American Economic Review 2022, presented by Wei ZHANG, 12/01/2023.
Optimal selling mechanisms with buyer price search J Lu, Z Wang Jorunal of Economic Theory 2012, presented by Xinyue Fei, 18/01/2023.
Competitive Advertising and Pricing, Ilwoo Hwang, Kyungmin Kim, Raphael Boleslavsky WP 2022, presented by Dawei Jian, 24/01/2023.
Persuasion: The art of changing worldviews S Galperti, American Economic Review 2019, presented by Wei Zhang, 01/02/2023.
Optimal information disclosure: A linear programming approach, Kolotilin A, Theoretical Economics 2018, presented by Xinyue Fei, 07/02/2023.
Persuasion with Non-Linear Preferences, Anton Kolotilin, Roberto Corrao, Alexander Wolitzky, WP 2023, presented by Dawei Jian, 13/02/2023.
Learning from Manipulable Signals, Mehmet Ekmekci, Leandro Gorno, Lucas Maestri, Jian Sun, Dong Wei American Economic Review 2022, presented by Wei ZHANG, 24/02/2023.