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Department of Economics

Microeconomics Research Seminar Series

A close up of a man playing chess, deciding which pieces to move.

Join us as expert scholars present research from the field of microeconomics

The Microeconomics Research Seminar Series showcases the latest thinking from the field of microeconomics.

The Microeconomics Seminar Series features talks on a wide array of topics including microeconomic theory, industrial organisation, social networks, political economy and behavioural / experimental economics.

These seminars will be presented on campus and will normally be held on Monday afternoons between 4pm and 5pm, please check individual events for finalised dates and times. This is an open seminar series and all levels of study and members of the public are welcome. In order to reserve your place, please contact our seminar organisers.

Upcoming seminars

Date	Seminar title and Speaker
25 April 2025	Larry Samuelson

Seminar Organisers

Dr Thomas Brzustowski

Organiser

Department of Economics, University of Essex

Dr Albin Erlanson

Organiser

Department of Economics, University of Essex

Previous Seminars in the Microeconomics Series

Spring 2025

Seminar title and Speaker

Strategic Attribute Learning by LudmilaMatysková

From Doubt to Devotion: Trials and Learning-Based Pricing by Tan Gan

Parental educational styles with externalities by Antonio Cabrales

Deception Aversion by Evan Friedman

Decisions over Sequences by Siddharth Chatterjee

Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting? by Yingni Guo

Autumn 2024

Seminar title and Speaker

Information Aggregation with Sequential Voting by Dimitrios Xefteris

Teacher redistribution in public schools by Sonal Yadav

Regulating Spillovers in Teamwork by Saltuk Ozerturk

Designing Open Source Licenses by Kim-Sau Chung

Communication, Feedbacks and Repeated Moral Hazard with Short-lived Buyers by In-Uck Park

A Theory of Choice Overload by Sarah Auster

Frank Yang

Knowledge Transfers by Chiara Margaria

Exploration, Exploitation, Amelioration: Experimentation with Endogenously Changing Arms by Evgeniya Kudinova

Summer 2024

Seminar title and Speaker

Reinforcement Learning and Collusion by Clemens Possnig

Reputation and Information Design by Laurent Mathevet

Persuasion with Limited Data: A Case-Based Approach by Stefania Minardi

Speed, Accuracy, and Complexity by Duarte Goncalves

From Design to Disclosure by Andreas Kleiner

Spring 2024

Seminar title and Speaker

Incentivizing Autonomous Workers by Basil Williams

Optimal Contract Regulation in Selection Markets by Andre Veiga

Adverse Selection and Endogenous Information by Joao Thereze

Near Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities by Rakesh Vohra

Decomposable Stochastic Choice by Omer Tamuz

Mediated (Anti)Persuasive Communication by Roberto Serrano

Data Linkage between Markets: Does the Emergence of an Informed Insurer Cause Consumer Harm? by Arina Nikandrova

Autumn 2023

Seminar title and Speaker

Strategic Ignorance and Information Design by Ina Taneva

Dynamic Monitoring Design by Yu Fu Wong

Optimal Project Management by Doruk Cetemen

Data Governance with Vulnerable Populations by Rossella Argenziano

Optimal Recommender System Design by Changhwa Lee

Dynamic Trading and Inference in Non-Markovian Equilibria by Ji Hee Yoon

Project selection with partial observability of types and limited penalties by Albin Erlanson

Status Consumption in Networks: a Reference Dependent Approach by Christian Ghiglino

Matching with Costly Interviews: The Benefits of Asynchronous Offers by Akhil Vohra

Demand Types and competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities and income effects by Elizabeth Baldwin

Summer 2023

Seminar title and Speaker

The Choice of Political Advisers by Francesco Squintani

Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Polity by Nageeb Ali

Optimal Contract Regulation in Selection Markets by Andre Veiga

Alvaro Parra

Spring 2023

Seminar title and Speaker

Incentives and Efficiency in Constrained Allocation Mechanisms by David Ahn

Market Power and Exclusion in Insurance by Daniel Gottlieb

Evidence Disclosure in Competitive Markets by Peter Eso

Autumn 2022

Seminar title and Speaker

Mechanisms without transfers for fully biased agents by Deniz Kattwinkel

DYNMECH seminar:Should the Timing of Inspections be Random? by Jan Knoepfle

Matching and Prices by Alex Teytelboym

DYNMECH seminar:A Quest for Knowledge byJohannes Schneider

Empirical Facts about Normative Values by Julian Jamison

Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision by Johannes Abeler

DYNMECH seminar: Flexibility and Information by Mark Whitmeyer

DYNMECH seminar:Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses and Adverse Selection by Mengxi Zhang

Political Social-learning: short term memory and cycles of polarisation by Gilat Levy

Strategic behaviour with tight, loose and polarised norms by Silvia Sonderegger

Incentives for collective innovation by Gregorio Curello

Weighting Votes: Rule Complexity and Information Aggregation by Aniol Llorente-Sager

DYNMECH seminar:Equitable Allocation of Vaccines in a Supply Network by Battal Dogan

Pricing Novel Goods by Toomas Hinnosaar

Summer 2022

Ever Since Allais by Matthew Polisson
Which Performs Best? Comparing Discrete Choice Models by Geoffroy de Clippel
Delegating Away Strategic Uncertainty: Contracts From the Horse’s Mouth by Costas Cavounidis

Spring 2022

The Timing of Complementary Innovations by Francisco Poggi
A Theory of Banks Balance Sheets by Pierre-Olivier Weill
Strategy-proof and Envy-free Random Assignment by Christian Basteck
Repeated Games with Many Players by Takuo Sugaya
Information Chasing versus Adverse Selection by Chaojun Wang
Screening for Consensus: Delegation with Collective Principals by Vincent Anesi
Agenda-manipulation in ranking by Ludvig Sinander
Seeking Relationship Support: Strategic network formation and robust cooperation by David A. Miller

Autumn 2021

Screening and Information-Sharing Externalities' by Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey
Labor Associations: The Blue Wall of Silence by David Levine
Gambling in Risk-Taking Contests: Experimental Evidence by Matthew Embrey
Dynamic Choice and Common Learning by Ludovic Renou
Market Segmentation through information by Matthew Elliott
Dynamic Asset-Backed Security Design by Emre Ozdenoren

Spring 2021

Intertemporal Salience: Theoretical Foundations and Experimental Evidence by Charles D. Sprenger on Monday 8th March 2021 at 4pm (GMT)
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field by Alex Imas on Monday 15th March 2021 at 4pm (GMT)
Social Learning in Groups: An Experimental Study by Marina Agranov on Monday 22nd March 2021 at 4pm (GMT)
Repeated Games with Many Players by Alexander Wolitzky on Monday 29th March 2021 at 4pm (BST)
Panics and Prices by Vijay Krishna on Monday 12th April 2021 at 4pm (BST)
Equitable Voting Rules by Omer Tamuz on Monday 19th April at 4pm (BST)

Autumn 2020

Mental Models and Learning: The Case of Base-Rate Neglect by Sevgi Yuksel on Monday September 28th 2020 at 4pm (BST)
Do Thank You Calls Increase Charitable Giving? Expert Forecasts and Field Experimental Evidence by Anya Samek on Monday 12th October at 4pm (BST)
When Choices Are Mistakes by Kirby Nielsen on Monday 19th October at 4pm (BST)
Strategic Exploration: Pre-emption and Prioritization by Qingmin Liu on Monday 26th October at 4pm (GMT)
Bargaining over Heterogenous Pie with Mechanisms and Incomplete Information by Marcin Peski on Monday 9th November at 4pm (GMT)
Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem by Aislinn Bohren on Monday 23rd November at 4pm (GMT)
The Non-Stationary Dynamic Tobit by Laura Doval on Monday 14th December at 4pm (GMT)
Why testing for COVID-19 is crucial: A webinar by Dr Yikai Wang