Past seminars
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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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MET Seminar - Albin Erlanson (Essex)
17:00 - 18:00 26 November 2025
Title: Optimal Allowance with Limited Auditing Capacity Authors: Thomas Brzustowski & Albin Erlanson Abstract: We analyze the mechanism-design problem of a principal allocating amounts of a perfectly divisible good to n agents, each of whom desires as much of the good as possible. The principal has...
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MET Seminar - Yuki Tamura (Ecole Polytechnique)
17:00 - 18:00 19 November 2025
Title: Equal Opportunity in School Choice Lotteries Author: Acelya Altunta¸William Phan & Yuki Tamura Abstract: In Berlin and North Carolina’s Wake County school districts, all applying students are guaranteed a minimum chance of admission. This directly conflicts with the central property of...
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MET Seminar - Pietro Dall'Ara (Naples)
17:00 - 18:00 29 October 2025
Title: Screening in digital monopolies Author: Pietro Dall'Ara Abstract: A defining feature of digital goods is that damaging and replication are costless: once a high-quality good is produced, lower-quality versions can be created and distributed at no additional cost. This paper studies screening...
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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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