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Thursday, December 8th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Prizes and effort in contests with private information
Sumit Goel, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Plurality Veto: A Simple Voting Rule Achieving Optimal Metric Distortion
Fatih Erdem Kızılkaya, Research Assistant, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Air Pollution and School Absences in New York City
Daniel Guth, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Reference Dependence and Goal Motivation: Evidence From Online Chess
Jeff Zeidel, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The geometry of consumer preference aggregation
Fedor Sandomirskiy, Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

The complexity of economic decisions: theory and evidence
Xavier Gabaix, Pershing Square Professor of Economics and Finance, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Gerrymandering the Swing Voters
Allison Stashko, Assistant Professor, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Costly monitoring in signaling games
Tommaso Denti, Assistant Professor and Salvatore Faculty Fellow, Department of Economics, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets
Giulia Brancaccio, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Auditability in Allocation Problems
Aram Grigoryan, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Innovation Adoption by Committee: Evidence from the FDA
Nathan Canen, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Houston,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Multi-Dimensional Screening: Buyer-Optimal Learning And Informational Robustness
Anne-Katrin Roesler, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Placing People at the Centre of a Just Transition
Dr. Ramit Debnath, Inaugural CambridgeZero Fellow, University of Cambridge,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Mentors and Recombinators: Multi-Dimensional Social Learning
Yuval Heller, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University; Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research New England,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

(In)efficiency in Information Acquisition and Aggregation through Prices
Xavier Vives, Professor of Economics and Finance, IESE Business School, University of Navarra,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Blackwell Correlated Equilibrium
Doron Ravid, Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Simplicity, Risk, and Financial Choice
Indira Puri, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, MIT,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Diffusion of new products on networks
Gadi Fibich, Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Distributions of Posterior Quantiles and Economic Applications
Kai Hao Yang, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management.,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises
Cesi Cruz, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Estimating Social Network Models with Missing Links
Arthur Lewbel, Barbara A. and Patrick E. Roche Professor of Economics, Boston College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Reputation and Capture: Limits of the Administrative Presidency
Lindsey Gailmard, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Data driven nests in nested logit models
Elena Manresa, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach
Dana Foarta, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Popular Personal Financial Advice
James Choi, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identification and Estimation of Social Interactions with Endogenous Group Formation
Shuyang Sheng, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Present Bias in Consumption-Saving Models: A Tractable Continuous-Time Approach
Peter Maxted, Assistant Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality: Evidence from GP Choice in England
Zach Brown, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Recursive Differencing for Estimating Semiparametric Models
Roger Klein, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University,
Chan Shen, Associate Professor, Penn State,
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability
Tara Slough, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

The Impact of ETF Index Inclusion on Stock Prices
John Duffy, Professor of Economics, UC Irvine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Partisan Traps
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Sydney Stein Professor and Deputy Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

To Fight or to Govern? Political Capital and Electoral Competition
Congyi Zhou, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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â–º CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Yunmi Kong, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rice University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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â–º CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan, Ph.D. candidate in Economics, Harvard University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Optimal allocations with capacity constrained verification
Albin Erlanson, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Essex,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

The Shrinkage Adjusted Sharpe Ratio: An Improved Method for Mutual Fund Selection
Richard Roll, Linde Institute Professor of Finance, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

What History Can Tell Us About How to Assess the State of Voting Rights and How to Amend the Voting Rights Act
J. Morgan Kousser, Professor of History and Social Science, Emeritus, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Tail Risk in Production Networks
Ian Dew-Becker, Associate Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Comparative Statics of Persuasion
Ludvig Sinander, Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics, University of Oxford,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

All Along the Watchtower: Defense Lines and the Origins of Russian Serfdom
Andrea Matranga, Assistant Professor of Economics, Chapman University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Trimming extreme reports in preference aggregation
Matias Nuñez, CNRS researcher at CREST and Professor at Ecole Polytechnique,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Does Harold Zurcher Have Time Separable Preferences?
Yi Xin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Bilateral trade under no subsidies and stochastic mechanisms; Multi-trader pairwise exchange with minimal subsidies
Jernej Copic, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Treasury Richness
Francis Longstaff, Distinguished Professor of Finance and Allstate Chair in Insurance, Anderson School of Management, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identity-Based Elections
Helios Herrera, Professor of Economics, University of Warwick,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Informationally Robust Bilateral Trade
Songzi Du, Associate Professor of Economics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Common Agency without Delegation
Siyang Xiong, Professor of Economics, UC Riverside,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts
Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Political social-learning: short-term memory and cycles of polarisation
Gilat Levy, Professor, London School of Economics (LSE),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Information aggregation in social networks
Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Associate Professor of Economics, Florida State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Chaos and Unpredictability in Dynamic Public Policy Problems
Marco Battaglini, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Edward H. Meyer Professor of Economics, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects
Eleonora Patacchini, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Stephen and Barbara Friedman Professor of International Political Economy, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Computationally Tractable Choice
Modibo Camara, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Northwestern University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire
Hanna Schwank, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Boston University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Contracting and vertical control by a dominant platform
Ellen Muir, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Preference Regression
Peter Caradonna, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Georgetown University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Public Goods Under Financial Distress: Evidence from Cities in the Great Depression
Pawel Janas, PhD Candidate, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects
Paula Onuchic, Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Matching and Prices
Ravi Jagadeesan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Economics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Analyzing Text Data Indexed by a Hidden Characteristic: Method and Application to the Study of Media Bias in the U.S.
Yimeng Li, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Persuading a Rationally Inattentive Agent
Alexander Bloedel, Linde Institute Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Policymaking in times of crisis
Federica Izzo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Threshold Tests as Quality Signals: Optimal Strategies, Equilibria, and Price of Anarchy
David Kempe, Professor of Computer Science, USC,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Private Private Information
Fedor Sandomirskiy, Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Gender, Electoral Incentives, and Crisis Response: Evidence from Brazilian Mayors
Clemence Tricaud, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA Anderson School of Management,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

The economics of a 100% renewable power system
Lucien Werner, Graduate Student, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Risk and Information in Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Study of Arbitration
Bernardo Silveira, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UCLA,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Bandits with Social Connections
Farzad Pourbabaee, Postdoctoral Instructor in Economic Theory, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Evaluating Economic Models
Drew Fudenberg, Paul A. Samuel Professor of Economics, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Firm Commitments
Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Graduate School of Business and Department of Economics, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

A rational inattention theory of echo chamber
Anqi Li, Visiting Research Scholar, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,