Calendar - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Alessandro Lizzeri, Professor of Economics, New York University; Moore Distinguished Scholar, 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

Baxter B125

Sequentially Optimal Mechanism Design

Laura Doval, Assistant Professor of Economics, 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

Baxter B125

Network Effects in Information Acquisition

Tommaso Denti, Assistant Professor (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

Baxter B125

Estimating Signaling Games in International Relations: Problems, Solutions, and an Application to Economic Sanctions

Michael Gibilisco, Assistant Professor of Political Science, 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

Baxter B125

The Times They Are A-Changing: Dynamic Adverse Selection in the Laboratory

Stephanie Wang, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh; Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

This talk has been cancelled.

Azeem Shaikh, Professor and Thornber Research Fellow, 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

Baxter B125

Social Learning Equilibria

Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics, 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

Baxter B125

Frictions in a Competitive Regulated Market: Evidence from Taxis

Alessandro Lizzeri, Professor of Economics, New York University; Moore Distinguished Scholar, 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

Baxter B125

Optimal Invariant Tests in an Instrumental Variables Regression With Heteroskedastic and Autocorrelated Errors

Marcelo Moreira, Professor of Economics, Fundação Getulio Vargas,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

The Swing Voter's Curse in Social Networks

Lydia Mechtenberg, Professor of Economics, University of Hamburg; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Diplomatic Relations and Conflict Management: A Dynamic Analysis

Brenton Kenkel, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility

Alfred Galichon, Professor of Economics and Mathematics, New York University, FAS and Courant Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Ruling the Ruling Coalition: Information Control and Autocratic Governance

Arturas Rozenas, Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Updating

Martin Cripps, Professor of Economics, University College London,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Voter Turnout and Preference Aggregation

Kei Kawai, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Additive-Belief-Based Preferences

David Dillenberger, Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Shared Knowledge and Competition for Attention in Information Markets

Simone Galperti, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCSD; Visiting Assistant Professor, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech

Jesse Shapiro, George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics, Brown University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Cognitive Empathy in Conflict Situations

Christoph Kuzmics, Professor of Microeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Graz; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Causal Inference through the Method of Direct Estimation

Marc Ratkovic, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Skewness, Tax Progression, and Demand for Redistribution: Evidence from the UK

Kirill Pogorelskiy, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Predicting and Understanding Initial Play

Drew Fudenberg, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Inference in Instrumental Variables Analysis with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Kirill Evdokimov, Assistant Professor, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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POSTPONED - Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

This talk has been rescheduled to Wednesday, January 24, 2018.

Kirill Evdokimov, Assistant Professor, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning

Philipp Strack, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

What Role Does Angel Finance Play in the Early-stage Capital Market?

Jun Chen, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

This talk has been cancelled.

Marcelo Fernandez, 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

Baxter B125

Multinomial logit processes and preference discovery: inside and outside the black box

Fabio Maccheroni, Full Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Time-varying Impact of Investor Sentiment

Pengfei Sui, 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

Baxter B125

Subjective Utilitarianism: Individual decisions in a social context

Shiri Alon, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University in Israel,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Learning about The Influence of Spatial and Temporal Proximity using Regression Trees

Ines Levin, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Minimal Subjective State Spaces

Igor Kopylov, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Communication in Context: Interpreting Promises in an Experiment on Competition and Trust

Alessandra Casella, Professor of Economics and Political Science, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Searching for Policy Reforms

Avidit Acharya, Assistant Professor, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Bayesian Indirect Inference and the ABC of GMM

Han Hong, Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Wealth Effects and Information Acquisition

John Rehbeck, Assistant Professor of Economics, Ohio State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Conditional equilibria of multi-stage games with infinite sets of signals and actions

Roger Myerson, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Nonparametric Analysis of Finite Mixtures

Yuichi Kitamura, Professor of Economics, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Electoral Competition and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India

Amrita Dhillon, Professor of Political Economy, King’s College London,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

This talk has been cancelled.

Phil Haile, Ford Foundation Professor of Economics, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Incentive Effects of Horizontal and Vertical Inequality

Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Assistant Professor, Anderson School of Management, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters

Filip Matejka, Associate Professor with Tenure, CERGE-EI; Research Affiliate, Center for Economic and Policy Research,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

The Cushioning Benefits of Biased Beliefs

Lawrence Jin, Assistant Professor of Finance, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Partial effects for binary outcome models with unobserved heterogeneity

Lucas Nunez, 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

Baxter B125

Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability

Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Price-setting by Committee: Evidence from Medicare

David Chan, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

The Evolution of the Private Equity Market and the Decline in IPOs

Michael Ewens, Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Cooperation and Dynamic Network Formation: A Game Theoretic Case Study

Michihiro Kandori, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter 125

Can Access to Capital Explain the Entrepreneurship Gender Gap?

Michael Ewens, Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Two-Sided Learning and the Ratchet Principle

Gonzalo Cisternas, Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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CANCELLED | Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

This talk has been cancelled.

Asher Wolinsky, Professor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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CANCELLED | Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter 125

This talk has been cancelled.

Marina Agranov, Assistant Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter 125

Preference Aggregation and Public Risk

Luciano Pomatto, Assistant Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter 125

Fear

Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Professor of Biology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Condorcet Jury Theorem and Cognitive Hierarchies: Theory and Experiments

Ali Ozkes, Postdoc, AMSE & Visitor in Economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Optimal Incentive Contract with Endogenous Monitoring Technology

Anqi Li, Professor, Department of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Optimal Schedules for Security Games

Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Risk Aversion as a Perceptual Bias

Michael Woodford, Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter 127

Bayesian Estimation of the Heuristic Switching Model

Mikhail Anufriev, Associate Professor, Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology, Sydney,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Influencing Connected Legislators

Marco Battaglini, Professor of Economics, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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CANCELLED Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Broad sequential equilibria of multi-stage games with infinite sets of signals and actions

Roger Myerson, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Awareness of Unawareness: A Theory of Decision Making in the Face of Ignorance

Edi Karni, Professor, School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Testable Forecasts

Luciano Pomatto, Assistant Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Value of Persistent Information

Jusso Toikka, Professor, Department of Economics, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Preference Types and Welfare in Insurance Markets

Levon Barseghyan, Professor of Economics, Cornell University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Legislative Bargaining without Replacement: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Duk Gyoo Kim, Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

Equilibrium Selection in Stable Matching Mechanisms: Experimental Evidence

Ahrash Dianat, Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics at the Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL), Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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