Transatlantic Theory Workshop 2024

This workshop is in partnership with Oxford, Bocconi and Nortwestern university.

The 2024 edition will be held at HEC and is locally organized by Frédéric Koessler and Tristan Tomala.

Program

Monday, September 2nd

Room S210

09:30-10:00    Coffee

10:00-10:30    Christoph Carnehl (Bocconi): A Quest for Knowledge (with Johannes Schneider)

10:30-11:00    Giacomo Weber (Paris School of Economics): Coarse Agents and Intergroup Phenomena

11:00-11:30    Coffee break

11:30-12:00    Alexander Magnus Jakobsen (Northwestern): Revealed Persuasion

12:00-12:30    Carlos Akkar (Oxford): Characterising Better Information in Decentralised Evaluations

12:30-14:30    Lunch

14:30-15:00    Michelle Avataneo (Northwestern): The Evolutionary Success of Moral Universalism vs Moral Conditionality.

15:00-15:30    Bruno Biais (HEC Paris): Dynamic contracting with many agents

16:00-16:30    Coffee break

16:30-17:00    Chris Turansink (Bocconi): An Alternative Approach for Nonparametric Analysis of Random Utility Models

17:00-17:30    Loren Fryxell (Oxford): An Economic Theory of Criminal and Civil Law

Tuesday, September 3rd

09:30-10:00    Coffee

10:00-10:30    Meg Meyer (Oxford): Dependence-Sensitive First-Order Stochastic Dominance (joint with with Marco Mariotti)

10:30-11:00    Nemanja Antic (Northwestern): Task Clarity and Credibility in Relational Contracts (with Ameet Morjaria and Miguel Ángel Talamas Marcos)

11:00-11:30    Coffee break

11:30-12:00    Marie Laclau (CNRS, HEC Paris): A belief-based approach to signaling (joint with F. Koessler and T. Tomala)

12:00-12:30    Justus Preusser (Bocconi): Surplus extraction and the burden of proof (joint with Deniz Kattwinkel)

12:30-14:30    Lunch

14:30-15:00    Michael Greinecker (ENS Paris Saclay): Sequential Equilibria in a Class of Infinite. Extensive Form Games (with Martin Meier and Konrad Podczeck)

15:00-15:30    Daniel Quigley  (Oxford): Aggregating strategic information (joint with James Best, Maryam Saeedi and Ali Shourideh)

16:00-16:30    Coffee break

16:30-17:00    Satoshi Fukuda (Bocconi): Shaping Institutions (joint with William Fuchs)

17:00-17:30    Pooya Molavi (Northwestern): TBA

Wednesday, September 4th

09:30-10:00    Coffee

10:00-10:30    Harry Pei (Northwestern): Community Enforcement with Endogenous Records

10:30-11:00    Martino Banchio (Bocconi): Search and Rediscovery (joint work with Suraj Malladi)

11:00-11:30    Coffee break

11:30-12:00    Ines Moreno de Barreda (Oxford): Socially Efficient Approval Mechanism with Signalling costs (joint with Evgenii Safonov)

12:00-12:30    Yves Le Yaouanq (CREST IP-Paris): An Esteem-based Model of Rationalizations and Moral Behaviour (with Peter Schwardmann and Joel J. van der Weele)

12:30-14:00    Lunch

Institutions:

CREST - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, HEC Paris

Northwestern University

Oxford University

Bocconi University

Local Organizers:

Olivier Gossner (Polytechnique, CNRS), Frédéric Koessler (HEC, CNRS), Matías Núñez (Polytechnique, CNRS), and Tristan Tomala (HEC)

Northwestern Organiser: Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi

Oxford Organiser: Meg Meyer

Bocconi Organiser: Marco Ottaviani

Supported by Labex ECODEC

Abstracts and Speaker/Participant Information available here:

Here are links to the 2022 and 2023 editions, 2021 was organized online by HEC and CREST.