Past seminars
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MET Seminar - Ina Taneva (Edinburgh)
17:00 - 18:00 18 March 2026
Title: Strategic Ignorance and Information Design Authors: Ina Taneva & Thomas Wiseman Abstract: We study information design in strategic settings when agents can publicly refuse to view their private signals. Ignoring the constraints that agents must be willing to view their signals may lead to...
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MET Seminar - Omer Edhan (Manchester)
17:00 - 18:00 11 March 2026
Title: Lyapunov Games Authors: Omer Edhan Idan & Ziv Hellman Abstract: Decentralised learning is often used to explain how play might settle on equilibrium, but even natural adjustment rules can produce persistent cycling. We identify broad conditions under which learning in population games does...
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MET Seminar - Stefan Trautmann (Heidelberg, Tilburg)
17:00 - 18:00 25 February 2026
Title: A choice-based approach to the measurement of inflation expectations Authors: Olga Goldfayn-Franka, Pascal Kieren, Stefan Trautmann Abstract: Economists widely rely on measures of inflation expectations and uncertainty elicited via density forecasts. This approach, which asks respondents to...
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MET Seminar - Roberto Corrao (Stanford)
17:00 - 18:00 18 February 2026
Title: Resilience vs. Fragility: Global Properties of Economies with Endogenous Production Networks Authors: Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Roberto Corrao, Joel Flynn, and Giacomo Lanzani Abstract: We provide a global analysis of the canonical single-factor production network model with arbitrary constant...
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MET Seminar - Spyros Galanis (Durham)
17:00 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Title: Information Aggregation with Costly Information Acquisition Authors: Spyros Galanis & Sergei Mikhalishchev Abstract: We study information aggregation in a dynamic trading model with partially informed traders. Ostrovsky [2012] showed that ‘separable’ securities aggregate information in...
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