Past seminars
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MET Seminar - Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv)
16:00 - 17:00 22 October 2025
Title: Wasonian Persuasion Authors: Kfir Eliaz & Ariel Rubinstein Abstract: A firm wishes to persuade a patient to take a drug by making either positive statements like “if you take our drug, you will be cured”, or negative statements like “anyone who was not cured did not take our drug”. Patients...
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MET Seminar - Pawel Dziewulski (Sussex)
16:00 - 17:00 15 October 2025
Title: On pure altruism Authors: Pawel Dziewulski & ?ukasz Wo?ny Abstract: We revisit the notion of pure altruism and propose a general framework for studying altruistic behaviour across a wide range of economic settings. In our approach, an agent (the parent) is represented by a function that maps...
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MET Seminar - Marek Pycia (Zurich)
16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2025
Title: Cost over Content: Information Choice in Trade Authors: Kristof Madarasz & Marek Pycia Abstract: A privately-informed buyer takes an action that impacts the seller’s information. The available actions differ in both content (what information is revealed and what remains hidden) and costs....
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MET Seminar - Peter Klibanoff (Northwestern)
16:00 - 17:00 14 May 2025
Title: Persuasion with Ambiguous Communication Authors: Xiaoyu Cheng, Peter Klibanoff, Sujoy Mukerji and Ludovic Renou Abstract: This paper explores whether and to what extent ambiguous communication can be beneficial to the sender in a persuasion problem, when the receiver (and possibly the sender)...
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MET Seminar - Craig Webb
16:00 - 17:00 2 April 2025
Title: Time Tradeoffs for the Foundations and Analysis of Discounted Non-Stationary Utility Author: Craig Webb Abstract: Tastes change as time passes. This simple truth can be expressed in a discounted utility framework by allowing utility to be non-stationary. This paper provides an analysis and a...
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