Berlin Micro Theory Seminar Series
This term the micro theory seminar of the Berlin School of Economics (HU, TU, FU, WZB, ESMT, Hertie, Potsdam) takes place on Mondays during the semester from 10:30-11:45.
The seminar series is supported by the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and of the CRC TRR 190 on Rationality and Competition.
Contact us at microtheory.wiwi@hu-berlin.de.
Summer 2024
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| April | ||
| 15, 10:30 |
Paula Onuchic (Oxford/LSE) |
Disclosure and Incentives in Teams |
| 22, 10:30 |
Nenad Kos (Bocconi) | Robust product design and pricing |
| 29, 10:30 |
Yiman Sun (CERGE-EI) | Contracts that Reward Innovation: Delegated Experimentation with an Informed Principal |
| May | ||
| 6, 10:30 |
Markus Möller (Bonn) |
A Theory of Auditability for Allocation and Social Choice Mechanisms |
| 13 |
CRC Retreat Schwanenwerder |
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| 20 |
Holiday |
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| 27, 10:30 |
Sven Rady (Bonn) |
Jumping to Conclusions |
| June | ||
| 3, 10:30 |
Nikhil Vellodi (PSE) |
A Theory of Self-Prospection |
| 10, 10:30 |
Anna Sanktjohanser (TSE) |
Dynamic Screening: Why Weight isn't Volume |
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17, |
Bart Lipman (Boston) | Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition |
| 24, 10:30 |
Philipp Strack (Yale) |
Privacy Preserving Signals |
| July | ||
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1, |
Susanne Goldlücke (Konstanz) | Hidden overtime: Contracting with an image-concerned agent |
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8, |
Lily Ling Yang (Mannheim) | Information Design with Costly State Verification |
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15, |
Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern & GRAPE) | |
Winter 2024/2025
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| October | ||
| 14, 10:30 |
Zeinab Aboutalebi (EUI) | |
| 21, 10:30 |
Qianjun Lyu (Bonn) | |
| 28, 10:30 |
Caio Lorecchio (U Barcelona) | |
| November | ||
| 4, 10:30 |
Aditya Kuvalekar (Essex) | |
| 11, 10:30 |
Nick Netzer (Zurich) | |
| 18, 10:30 |
Stephan Lauermann (Bonn) | |
| 25, 10:30 |
Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv) | |
| December | ||
| 2, 10:30 |
Heiko Karle (Frankfurt School) | |
| 9, 10:30 |
Helene Mass (U Vienna) | |
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16, |
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January |
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6, |
Justus Preusser (Bocconi) | |
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13, |
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20, |
Florian Brandl (Bonn) | |
| 27, 10:30 |
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February |
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3, |
Vasiliki Skreta (UT Austin) | |
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10, |
Olivier Tercieux (PSE) | |
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