Location: The Charles F. Knight Center Executive Education & Conference Center; Classroom 220 is on the WashU Campus (145, D2). All sessions, lunch, and dinner will be held here.
Friday, October 25:
8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast (Anheuser-Busch Dining Hall)
Session I (Classroom 220)
9:00 – 9:45 am David Levine (Royal Holloway University)
“Behavioral Mechanism Design as a Benchmark for Experimental Studies“
9:45 – 10:30 am Navin Kartik (Columbia University)
“Convex Choice” joint with Andreas Kleiner
10:30 – 10:50 am Coffee Break (2nd Floor Break Area)
Session II (Classroom 220)
10:50 – 11:35 am Laura Doval (Columbia University)
“Calibrated Mechanism Design” joint with Alex Smolin
11:35 – 12:20 pm Simon Board (UCLA)
“Breaking Bad News”
Lunch 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm; Hot Slider Buffet Bar will be placed outside the meeting room for guests to grab. Beverages will be available on the 2nd floor break station. Guests can eat in the classroom, at the lounge seating on the 2nd floor of the Knight Center, or outside on WashU’s campus.
Session III (Classroom 220)
2:00 – 2:45 pm Federico Echenique (UC Berkeley)
“Stable Matching as Transportation“
2:45 – 3:30 pm Faruk Gul (Princeton University)
“Lorenz Expected Utility and Rank-Dependent Disappointment-Elation Theory”
joint with Wolfgang Pesendorfer
3:30 – 3:50 PM Coffee Break
Session IV (Classroom 220)
3:50 – 4:35 pm Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)
“Symbolic vs. Substantive Taxation Principles with Unobservable Actions“
joint with Francisco Poggi
Dinner 5:30 – 8:00 pm, Classroom 340 (3rd floor)
Saturday, October 26:
7:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast (Anheuser-Busch Dining Hall)
Session V (Classroom 220)
9:00 – 9:45 am Nageeb Ali (Penn State University)
“From Design to Disclosure“
9:45 – 10:30 am Marina Agranov (Caltech)
“Beliefs of Others: an Experimental Study”
10:30 – 10:50 am Coffee Break
Session VI (Classroom 220)
10:50 – 11:35 am Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford University)
“Transportation as Stable Matching“
11:30 – 12:20 pm Mehmet Ekmekci (Boston College)
“Information Aggregation in Auctions with Costly Information”
joint with Alp Atakan
12:30 – 1:30 pm; Boxed Lunches will be placed outside the meeting room for guests to grab. Beverages will be available on the 2nd floor break station. Guests can eat in the classroom, at the lounge seating on the 2nd floor of the Knight Center, or outside on WashU’s campus.
Public Lecture
Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (A-B Hall, Room 310)
3:00 – 4:00 PM Al Roth (Stanford University)
“Market Design and Regulation”
Al Roth will give highlights of the market design he pioneered, such as kidney exchange and school choice. He will also discuss open questions regarding controversial markets, which may include blood plasma, abortion, IVF and surrogacy, marijuana, guns, and digital data.