Past seminars
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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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MET Seminar - Federico Echenique
17:00 - 18:00 26 March 2025
Title: Stable matching as transport Authors: Federico Echenique, Joseph Root, Fedor Sandomirskiy Abstract: This paper links matching markets with aligned preferences to optimal transport theory. We show that stability, efficiency, and fairness emerge as solutions to a parametric family of optimal transport...
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MET Seminar - John Levy
17:00 - 18:00 19 March 2025
Title: Small Player Robustness Abstract: We introduce a concept of stability of a Nash equilibrium, or of a set of Nash equilibria, to the addition of small players, i.e., players who only have a small effect on the original players. We coin this concept `small player robustness' or `uniform small...
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MET Seminar - Jose Apesteguia
17:00 - 18:00 12 March 2025
Title: The Rationalizability of survey responses Authors: Jose Apesteguia and Miguel A. Ballester Abstract: We propose the concept of survey rationalizability, that we base on classical item response theories in psychology. Survey rationalizability involves positioning survey questions on a common...
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