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Monday, October 10th, 2016
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Robert Marquez, UC Davis

Financial Frictions, Foreign Currency Borrowing, and Systemic Risk
Robert Marquez, Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University

Extrapolation Bias and the Predictability of Stock Returns by Price-Scaled Variables
Huseyin Gulen, Associate Professor of Finance, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar

Market Dynamics of Best-Response with Lookahead
Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Science, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Joseph Gerakos, University of Chicago

Prediction Versus Inducement and the Informational Efficiency of Going Concern Opinions
Joseph Gerakos, Associate Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shang-Hua Teng

Interplay between Influence Dynamics and Social Networks: Centrality, Cooperative Games, and Scalable Algorithms
Shang-Hua Teng, Seeley G. Mudd Professor, Computer Science Viterbi School of Engineering, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University

High Frequency Market Making
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Leonard Schulman, Caltech

The Invisible Hand of Laplace: the Role of Market Structure in Price Convergence and Oscillation
Leonard Schulman, Professor of Computer Science, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Alex Gorbenko, USC

Auctions with Endogenous Initiation
Alex Gorbenko, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research

Procrastination with Variable Present Bias
Nicole Immorlica, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue

Topic to be Announced
Huseyin Gulen, Associate Professor of Finance, Krannert School of Management, Purdue,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: John Cochrane, Stanford University

A new approach to monetary policy
John Cochrane, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Kevin Leyton Brown

Modeling Human Play in Unrepeated Games
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Charles Nathanson, Northwestern University

An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics
Charles Nathanson, Assistant Professor of Finance, Northwestern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Hongjun Yan, Rutgers Business School

Financial Intermediation Chains in an OTC Market
Hongjun Yan, Associate Professor of Finance, Rutgers Business School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Talk with a Techer

Gil Elbaz, Founder and CEO, Factual,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Robert Kleinberg, Cornell

Inference-Based Privacy Guarantees for Differentially Private Mechanisms, or: The Physics of Differential Privacy
Robert Kleinberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine

Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving
David Hirshleifer, Merage Chair in Business Growth, Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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POSTPONED: Linde Institute/SISL Seminar

Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Mathematics and Information, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton University

Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia, Front-Running, and Relationship Banking
Yuliy Sannikov, Professor of Economics, Princeton University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Ilan Lobel

A General Framework for Dynamic Pricing with Patient Customers
Ilan Lobel, Assistant Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, Stern School of Business, New York University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Joel Watson

Contractual Equilibrium: An Application to Conservation Agreements and Computational Issues
Joel Watson, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Paul Tetlock, Columbia University

Retail Short Selling and Stock Prices
Paul Tetlock, Professor of Business, Finance and Economics Division, Columbia University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shachar Kariv

Distinguishing nonstationarity from inconsistency in intertemporal choice
Shachar Kariv, Department Chair and Benjamin N. Ward Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELLED || Finance Seminar: David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine

Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving
David Hirshleifer, Merage Chair in Business Growth, Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Ehud Kalai

Learning and Stability in Big Uncertain Games
Ehud Kalai, The James J. O'Connor Professor of Decision and Game Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Brendan Lucier

Near-Optimal Outcomes in Markets Large and Small
Brendan Lucier, Researcher, Microsoft Research, New England,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Chris Parsons, UCSD

What's in a (School) Name? Racial Discrimination in Higher Education Bond Markets
Chris Parsons, Associate Professor of Finance, Rady School of Management, UCSD,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Algorithmic Bayesian Persuasion
Shaddin Dughmi, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Peter Feldhutter, London Business School

The Credit Spread Puzzle in the Merton Model – Myth or Reality?
Peter Feldhutter, Assistant Professor of Finance, London Business School,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Dynamically Eliciting Unobservable Information
Nicolas Lambert, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Do Online Social Networks Increase Welfare?
Mallesh Pai, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Reverse Mechanism Design
Nima Haghpanah, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT,
8:30am 5:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Wayne Ferson, USC

How Many Good and Bad Fund Managers Are there, Really?
Wayne Ferson, Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Designing Dynamic Contests
Mohamed Mostagir, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan,
9:00am 5:00pm
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Social Science Conference

Caltech/USC Private Equity Finance Conference
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Allocation in tender auctions with several stakeholders where quality aspects matter
Thomas Greve, Research Associate, Microeconomic Theory, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago

Misspecified Recovery
Lars Peter Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Price Contagion through Balance Sheet Linkages
Agostino Capponi, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Luke Taylor, University of Pennsylvania

Intangible capital and the investment-q relation
Luke Taylor, Assistant Professor of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management

Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?: New Approaches to Funding Biomedical Innovation
Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management

Evolutionary Foundations of Economic Behavior, Bounded Rationality, and Intelligence
Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Neng Wang, Columbia Business School

A Theory of Liquidity and Risk Management Based on the Inalienability of Risky Human Capital (joint with Patrick Bolton and Jinqiang Yang)
Neng Wang, Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate and Finance, Columbia Business School,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Modularity and Greed in Double Auctions
Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Hsieh Family SIGF Fellow, Stanford University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Incentivizing Exploration [joint work with Peter Frazier, Jon Kleinberg, Robert Kleinberg]
David Kempe, Associate Professor, University of Southern California,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Semyon Malamud, Swiss Finance Institute

Price Discovery Through Options
Semyon Malamud, Assistant Professor of Finance, Swiss Finance Institute (SFI),
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Natural Selection, Game Theory and Genetic Diversity
Georgios Piliouras, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Science, Caltech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Peter Carr, Morgan Stanley

Can Investor Beliefs be Extracted from Option Prices?
Peter Carr, Global Head of Market Modeling, Morgan Stanley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Underbidding and Experience and USFS Timber Auctions
Benjamin Gillen, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Stability and Robustness of Dynamical Network Flows
Ketan Savla, Assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Southern California,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

The Art of Optimizing via Simulations: Empirical Dynamic Programming
Rahul Jain, Associate Professor, Kenneth C. Dahlberg Early Career Chair, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

The Design, Laboratory Testing, and Implementation of Large Constrained Auctions: The Victoria, Australia, Gaming Machine Auction
Charles R. Plott, William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Political Science, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Welfare-Maximizing Assignment of Agents to Hierarchical Positions (joint with Isa Hafalir)
Antonio Miralles, Assistant Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Achieving Target Equilibria in Network Routing Games without Knowing the Latency Functions
Umang Bhaskar, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematics of Information, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Auctions with Dynamic Costly Information Acquisition
Hamid Nazerzadeh, Assistant Professor, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

On the Hardness of Signaling
Shaddin Dughmi, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Insider Trading and Multidimensional Private Information
Tomasz Sadzik, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Composable Mechanisms and Price of Anarchy in Auctions
Eva Tardos, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science , Cornell University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Insider Trading and Multidimensional Private Information
Tomasz Sadzik, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Simple Prices for Complex Markets
Nicole Immorlica, Assistant Professor, Theoretical Computer Science, Northwestern University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

The Complexity of Nash Equilibria as Revealed by Data
Siddharth Barman, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Market Equilibrium: Complementary Pivot Algorithms and How They Led to a New Class of Utility Functions
Vijay Vazirani, School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

The Empirical Implications of Privacy-Aware Choice
Rachel Cummings, PhD Student, Northwestern University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

The Network Improvement Problem for Equilibrium Routing
Umang Bhaskar, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematics of Information, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Project Design with Limited Commitment and Teams
George Georgiadis, Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Business, Economics, and Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Equilibria Via Samples and Testing Equilibrium Behavior
Yakov Babichenko, Wally Baer and Jeri Weiss Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,