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Fall 2025

• Monday, September 29, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Jacob Leshno (University of Chicago): On the Viability of Open-Source Financial Rails: The Economic Security of Permissionless Consensus (with Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi).
• Monday, October 13, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Shoshana Vasserman (Stanford University): The Short-Run Effects of Congestion Pricing in New York City (with Cody Cook, Aboudy Kreidieh, Hunt Allcott, Neha Arora, Freek van Sambeek, Andrew Tomkins, Eray Turkel).
• Monday, October 27, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Meg Meyer (Oxford University): Selecting the Best: The Persistent Effects of Luck (with Mikhail Drugov and Marc Möller).
• Monday, November 10, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Andrés Carvajal (University of California, Davis): Satisficing Matching (with Tina Danting Zhang and Ester Camiña).
• Monday, November 24, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Alexander Bloedel (UCLA): The Proper (Scoring Rule) Approach to Incentivizing Information Acquisition (with Ilya Segal)
• Monday, December 8, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Ali Aouad (MIT): Centralized versus Decentralized Pricing Controls for Dynamic Matching Platforms (with Ömer Sarıtaç and Chiwei Yan)

Winter & Spring 2025

• Monday, May 12, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Peter Troyan (University of Virginia): Desirable Rankings: A New Method for Ranking Outcomes of a Competitive Process (with Gaurab Aryal and Thayer Morrill).
• Monday, April 28, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Lea Nagel (Stanford University): A Measure of Complexity for Strategy-Proof Mechanisms (with Roberto Saitto).
• Monday, April 14, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Mallesh M. Pai (Rice University): Taxing Externalities without Hurting the Poor (with Philipp Strack).
• Monday, March 31, 4:00pm CET (Paris time):
  Roland Strausz (Humboldt University Berlin): Informative Certification: Screening vs. Acquisition (with Gorkem Celik).
• Monday, March 17, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Ravi Jagadeesan (Stanford University): Auctions with Withdrawal Rights: A Foundation for Uniform Price (with Alexander Haberman).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, March 10, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Andrea Galeotti (London Business School): Consumer Profiling via Information Design (with Itay P. Fainmesser and Ruslan Momot).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.

Fall 2024

• Monday, December 09, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Takuro Yamashita (Osaka University): Optimal Feedback Dynamics Against Free-Riding in Collective Experimentation (with Chia-Hui Chen, Hulya Eraslan, and Junichiro Ishida).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 25, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Simon Finster (Crest and ENSAE): Equitable Auctions (with Patrick Loiseau, Simon Mauras, Mathieu Molina and Bary Pradelski).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 11, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Alexey Kushnir (Carnegie Mellon University): Undergraduate Course Allocation through Competitive Markets (with Daniel Kornbluth).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 28, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  John Hatfield (University of Texas at Austin): Facilitating Collusion with Spot-Price Contracting (with Richard Lowery).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 14, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Atila Abdulkadiroglu (Duke University): School Assignment By Match Quality (with Aram Grigoryan and Umut Dur).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, September 30, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Michèle Müller-Itten (Universty of St. Gallen): Rational Inattention via Ignorance Equivalence (with Roc Armenter and Zachary Stangebye).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.

Winter & Spring 2024

• Monday, May 06, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Bobak Pakzad-Hurson (Brown University): Equal Pay for Similar Work (with Diego Gentile and Fuhito Kojima).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, April 22, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Nikhil Agarwal (MIT): Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology (with Alex Moehring, Pranav Rajpurkar, Tobias Salz).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, April 8, 4:00pm CET (Paris time):
  Yannai Gonczarowski (Harvard University): Describing Deferred Acceptance to Participants: Experimental Analysis (with Ori Heffetz, Guy Ishai, and Clayton Thomas).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, March 25, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Eduardo Azevedo (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania): Genomics and Adverse Selection.
• Monday, March 11, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Philipp Strack (Yale University): Privacy Preserving Signals (with Kai Hao Yang).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, Feburary 26, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Sigal Oren (Ben Gurion University): Mechanism Design with Moral Bidders (with Shahar Dobzinski).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.

Fall 2023

• Monday, December 18, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Peter Cramton (University of Maryland): A Forward Energy Market to Improve Resiliency (with Simon Brandkamp, Albert Kyle, David Malec and Axel Ockenfels).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, December 4, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Lars Ehlers (University of Montréal): On The Constrained Efficiency of Strategy-Proof Random Assignment (with Christian Basteck).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 20, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  M. Bumin Yenmez (Washington University in St. Louis): Design on Matroids: Diversity vs. Meritocracy (with Isa Hafalir, Fuhito Kojima and Koji Yokote).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 6, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Afshin Nikzad (University of Southern California): Optimal Dynamic Allocation: Simplicity through Information Design (with Itai Ashlagi and Faidra Monachou).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 23, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Agathe Pernoud (Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago): How Competition Shapes Information in Auctions (with Simon Gleyze).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 9, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Simon Loertscher (University of Melbourne): Optimal Hotelling Auctions (with Ellen Muir).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.

Winter & Spring 2023

• Monday, June 19, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Marcin Pęski (University of Toronto): Fuzzy Conventions.
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, May 22, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Laura Doval (Columbia Business School): Purchase History and Product Personalization (with Vasiliki Skreta).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, May 08, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford GSB): Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars (with Michael Schwarz).
• Monday, April 24, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Aram Grigoryan (University of California San Diego): Market Design for Priority-Based Assignment with Distributional Objectives (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, March 27, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Alexander Frankel (University of Chicago Booth School of Business): Test-Optional Admissions (with Wouter Dessein and Navin Kartik).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, March 13, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Sandro Ambuehl (University of Zurich): Can Incentives Cause Harm? Tests of Undue Inducement.
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, February 27, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Jason Hartline (Northwestern University): Robust Analysis of Auction Equilibria (with Darrell Hoy and Sam Taggart).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.

Fall 2022

• Monday, December 19, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Ellen Muir (Harvard University): Ramsey Pricing Revisited with Simon Loertscher.
• Monday, December 05, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time):
  Vitor Farinha Luz (University of British Columbia): Optimal Dynamic Insurance Contracts.
• Monday, November 21, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research): Making Auctions Robust to Aftermarkets (with Moshe Babaioff, Yingkai Li and Brendan Lucier).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 07, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time):
  Inga Deimen (University of Arizona): Communication or Control (with Andreas Blume).
• Monday, October 24, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time):
  Nick Arnosti (University of Minnesota): Explainable Affirmative Action (with Calors Bonet and Jay Sethuraman). [slides]
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 10, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Nora Szech (KIT): Modern Slavery: Beliefs and Reality (with Hannes Rau).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.

Winter & Spring 2022

• Monday, June 20, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Nina Bobkova (Rice University): Information Choice in Auctions.
• Monday, June 06, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Anne-Katrin Roesler (University of Toronto): Multi-Dimensional Screening: Buyer-Optimal Learning and Informational Robustness (with Rahul Deb).
• Monday, May 23, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Benjamin Golub (Northwestern University): Supply Network Formation and Fragility (with Matt Elliot and Matt V. Leduc).
• Monday, May 09, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Bernhard Kasberger (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): The Combinatorial Multi-Round Ascending Auction (with Alexander Teytelboym).
  Discussant: Daniel Marszalec (International Christian University).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, April 11, 4:00pm CEST (Paris time).
  Leslie Marx (Duke University): Vertical Integration with Incomplete Information (with Simon Loertscher). [slides]
• Monday, March 28, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Alexander Teytelboym (University of Oxford): EPIC fail: How below-bid pricing backfires in multiunit auctions (with Daniel Marszalec and Sanna Laksa).
• Monday, March 14, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Matt Elliott (Cambridge University): Market segmentation through information (with Andrea Galeotti, Andrew Koh and Wenhao Li).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, February 28, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Yusuke Narita (Yale University): Algorithm is Experiment: Machine Learning, Market Design, and Policy Eligibility Rules (with Kohei Yata).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, February 14, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Utku Ünver (Boston College): Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: A Theory of Multi-unit Exchange with Compatibility-based Preferences (with Xiang Han and Onur Kesten).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.

Fall 2021

• Monday, December 06, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Gary Bolton (University of Texas at Dallas): Rate this transaction: Coordinating mappings in market feedback systems.
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 22, 4:00pm CET (Paris time): tba
  Arjada Bardhi (Duke University): Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics (with Nina Bobkova).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 08, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Laurent Mathevet (European University Institute): Organized Information Transmission (with Ina Taneva).
  Discussant: Olivier Gossner (Ecole Polytechnique).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 25, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University): Keeping the Agents in the Dark: Private Disclosures in Competing Mechanisms (with Andrea Attar, Eloisa Campioni, and Thomas Mariotti).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 11, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Rakesh Vohra (University of Pennsylvania): Social Approximate Equilibria in Markets for Indivisible Goods (with Thanh Nguyen).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, September 27, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Martin Bichler (Technical University of Munich): Learning equilibria in symmetric auction games using artificial neural networks (with Maximilian Fichtl, Stefan Heidekrüger, Nils Kohring and Paul Sutterer).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, September 13, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford GSB): Choice Screen Auctions. [slides]
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.

Winter & Spring 2021

• Monday, July 05, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Yan Chen (University of Michigan): Virtual Teams for the Gig Economy (with Teng Ye, Wei Ai, Qiaozhu Mei, Jieping Ye and Lingyu Zhang). [slides]
  Discussant: Subhasish Chowdhury (University of Bath).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, June 21, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Innovation in Decentralized Market (with Ji Hee Yoon). [slides]
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, June 07, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Matthew Jackson (Stanford University): Learning through the Grapevine: The Impact of Noise and the Breadth and Depth of Social Networks (with Suraj Malladi and David McAdams). [slides]
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, May 24, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Olivier Tercieux (Paris School of Economics): Optimal Queue Design (with Yeon-Koo Che). [slides]
  Discussant: Refael Hassin (Tel Aviv University).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, May 10, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Annie Liang (Northwestern University): Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information (with Xiaosheng Mu and Vasilis Syrgkanis). [slides]
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, April 26, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Renee Bowen (UC San Diego): Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization (with Danil Dmitriev and Simone Galperti).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, April 12, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Theo Offerman (University of Amsterdam): Morals in Multi-unit Markets (with Andreas Ziegler and Giorgia Romagnoli). [slides]
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, March 29, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Julien Combe (Ecole Polytechnique): Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming the Double Coincidence of Wants without Medium of Exchange (with Mohammad Akbarpour, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimer and Olivier Tercieux). [slides]
  Discussant: Philipp Strack (Yale University).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, March 15, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Eric Budish (University of Chicago): The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain.
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, March 01, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Parag Pathak (MIT): Worth the Trip? Effects of School Transportation in Boston and New York.
• Monday, Feburary 15, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern University): Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms (with Mohammad Akbarpour and Scott Kominers). [slides]
  Discussant: Daniel Garrett (Toulouse School of Economics).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, Feburary 01, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Fuhito Kojima (University of Tokyo): Weak Monotone Comparative Statics (with Yeon-Koo Che and Jinwoo Kim). [slides]
  Discussant: Chris Shannon (UC Berkeley).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, January 18, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Natalia Fabra (University Carlos III of Madrid): Technology-Neutral vs. Technology-Specific Procurement (with Juan-Pablo Montero). [slides]
  Discussant: Vitali Gretschko (ZEW and University of Mannheim).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.

Fall 2020

• Monday, December 07, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn): Auctions with Frictions (with Asher Wolinsky). [slides]
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 23, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Shengwu Li (Harvard University): Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms (with Mohammad Akbarpour, Scott Kominers, and Paul Milgrom). [slides]
  Discussant: Nima Haghpanah (Penn State University).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 09, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University): How Do People Aggregate Ordinal Preferences? (with Sandro Ambuehl).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 26, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Nicholas Bedard (Wilfrid Laurier University): Ironing, Sweeping, and Multivariate Majorization: Optimal Mechanisms for Mass-Produced Goods (with Jacob Goeree and Ningyi Sun). [slides]
  Discussant: Charles Zheng (University of Western Ontario).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 12, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Tayfun Sönmez, (Boston College): Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing (with Parag Pathak, M. Utku Ünver, and M. Bumin Yenmez). [slides]
  Discussant: Scott Kominers (Harvard Business School).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, September 28, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Yingni Guo (Northwestern University): Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting? (with Arjada Bardhi and Bruno Strulovici). [slides]
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, September 14, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley): Exposure to Grocery Prices and Inflation Expectations (with Francesco D'Acunto, Juan Ospina, and Michael Weber). [slides]

Spring & Summer 2020

• Monday, July 27, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Eyal Winter (Hebrew University & Lancaster University): "Exploitative Priority Service" (with A. Gershkov). [slides]
• Monday, July 13, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Vasiliki Skreta (University of Texas at Austin & University College London): "Test Design Under Undetectable Falsification" (with E. Perez-Richet). [slides]
• Monday, June 29, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania): "Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination" (with K. Haggag, A. Imas and D.G. Pope). [slides]
• Monday, June 15, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford GSB): "Just a Few Seeds More: Value of Network Information for Diffusion" (with S. Malladi and A. Saberi). [slides]
  
• Monday, June 1, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Peter Cramton (University of Cologne): "Electricity Markets in Transition" (with E. Bobbio, D. Malec and P. Sujarittanonta). [slides]
• Monday, May 18, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn): "Extreme Points and Majorization: Economic Applications" (with A. Kleiner and P. Strack). [slides]
• Monday, May 4, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Renato Gomes (Toulouse School of Economics): "Regulating Platform Fees under Price Parity" (with A. Mantovani). [slides]
• Monday, April 20, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Business School): "Redistribution through Markets" (with P. Dworczak and M. Akbarpour). [slides]
• Thursday, April 9, 2:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna): "Regulating Product Communication" (with S. Roy). [slides]