Frontiers in Design
14 June 2019–15 June 2019, 10:00 am–6:00 pm
Organised by Vasiliki Skreta (UCL and University of Texas - Austin)
Event Information
Open to
- Invitation Only
Organiser
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Department of Economics
Location
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Level 38UCL School of ManagementOne Canada Square, Canary WharfLondonE14 5AA
Frontiers in Design - An ERC funded conference
- Conference programme
Friday June 14
Time slot Speaker Discussant Title / Co-Authors
10:00-10:30 Arrival and coffee
10:30-11:30 Ilya Segal (Stanford) Konrad Mierendorff (UCL) “Persuasion with Rational Inattention ” (with Alexander W. Bloedel)
11:30-12:30 Laura Doval (CalTech) Daniel Quigley (Oxford) “Mechanism design with limited commitment” (with Vasiliki Skreta)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Rahul Deb (Toronto) “Our Distrust is Very Expensive” (with Matt Mitchell and Mallesh Pai)
14:30-15:30 Frederic Koessler (PSE) James Best (CMU) “Long Information Design ” (with Marie Laclau, Jerome Renault and Tristan Tomala)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Elliot Lipnowski (Chicago) Martin Cripps (UCL) "Fostering Collaboration" (with Joyee Deb and Aditya Kuvalekar) ”
17:00-18:00 Albert Marcet (UCL) TBC “Recursive Contracts, A Summary and Users' Guide”
18:00-19:00 Drinks Reception
Saturday June 15
Time slot Speaker Discussant Title /Co-Authors
10:00-10:30 Arrival and coffee
10:30-11:30 Francoise Forges (Université Paris-Dauphine) Ronny Razin (LSE) "Strategic information transmission with sender's approval ”11:30-12:30 Roland Strausz (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) Ricardo Alonso (LSE) "Towards a theory of commitment design ”
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Ina Taneva (Edinburgh) Pablo Schenone (ASU) “ Information Design in Hierarchies “ (with Laurent Mathevet)
14:30-15:30 Takuro Yamashita (Toulouse) Balazs Szentes (LSE) "On the veil-of-ignorance principle: welfare-optimal information disclosure in voting” (with Karine Van der Straeten)"
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Gabriel Caroll (Stanford) Mariann Ollar (Edinburgh) "Information Games and Robust Trading Mechanisms"
17:00 Close of Conference
- Confirmed speakers and discussants
Speakers:
- Albert Marcet - University College London
- Gabriel Caroll - Stanford University
- Frederic Koessler - Paris School of Economics - CNRS
- Laura Doval - California Institute of Technology
- Francoise Forges - Universite Paris-Dauphine
- Roland Strausz - Humboldt Universitat Berlin
- Rahul Deb - University of Toronto
- Elliot Lipnowski - University of Chicago
- Ina Taneva - University of Edinburgh
- Takuro Yamashita - Toulouse School of Economics
- Ilya Segal - Stanford University
Discussants:
- Mariann Ollar - University of Edinburgh
- Alp Atakan - Queen Mary University
- Daniel Quigley - Oxford University
- Ronny Razin - London School of Economics & Political Science
- James Best - Carnegie Mellon University
- Martin Cripps - University College London
- Konrad Mierendorff - University College London
- Ricardo Alonso - London School of Economics and Political Science
- Pablo Schenone - Arizona State University
- Balazs Szentes - London School of Economics & Political Science