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AUSTRALASIAN Micro Economic Theory Seminars

AMETS was set up as a collaborative effort that included several universities in the Australasian region. Our participants include mostly microeconomic theorists. The format of the seminar is a 60-minute talk, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Unless otherwise specified, we meet every other Wednesday at noon (AEST), on Zoom. To receive updates on our seminar schedule, please join our mailing list. An announcement and a reminder are sent before each talk, together with a (password protected) randomly generated Zoom link.

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A big thank you to all of our fantastic speakers and audience participants, who made AMETS such a success this year!

We are now taking a break, but we’ll be back around March 2022.

Meanwhile, most presentations are recorded and remain available; check out the links from this page to see the talks, or our associated AMETS Youtube channel.

Once again, thank you everyone!

STARTING TIME: WED @ 12pm (noon) Melbourne/Sydney AEDT.

The starting times for other popular time-zones are provided below, but please double-check our world-clock translation:

Wed, 02 pm — Auckland
Wed, 09 am — Singapore
Wed, 01 am — London
Tue, 08 pm — Boston
Tue, 07 pm — Chicago
Tue, 05 pm — San Franciso.

September - November 2021:

8 SEP - Odilon Câmara (U. of Southern California) | Organizing Data Analytics (with Ricardo Alonso) | TALK

22 SEP - Simone Galperti (U. of California San Diego) | The Value of Data (with Aleksandr Levkun and Jacopo Perego)

06 OCT - Rahul Deb (U. of Toronto) | Multi-Dimensional Screening: Buyer-Optimal Learning and Informational Robustness (with Anne-Katrin Roesler) | TALK

20 OCT - Yingni Guo (Northwestern University) | Robust Monopoly Regulation (with Eran Shmaya) | TALK

03 NOV - Luciano Pomatto (Caltech) | Monotone Additive Statistics (with Xiaosheng Mu, Philipp Strack, and Omer Tamuz) | TALK

17 NOV - Geoffroy de Clippel (Brown University) | Communication, Perception and Strategic Obfuscation (with Kareen Rozen) | TALK

1 DEC - Benjamin Golub (Northwestern University) | Supply Network Formation and Fragility (with Matt Elliott and Matt Leduc) | TALK

15 DEC - Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University) | Optimal Queue Design | TALK

Recorded talks: Most of our past seminars are recorded and posted on the AMETS-Initiative-YouTube-Channel. You can either join our channel (doing so will keep you updated with future recordings as we add them), or if you want to see a specific talk, please click on its associated “TALK” button.

Other theory seminars: Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory, SET: Seminars in Economic Theory, Caltech Theory. For weekly updates regarding upcoming speakers, follow our Market Design Twitter friends at D47. The AEA maintains a comprehensive list of online seminars in Economics; you can find it here.

Get in touch: Please email any feedback and/or suggestions at: ametsinitiative {at} gmail [dot] com.

Past Seminars

March - May 2021:

3 MAR - John Quiggin (U of Queensland) | Financial Market Equilibrium with Bounded Awareness | TALK

10 MAR - Laura Doval (Columbia Business School) | Product Line Design with Limited Commitment | TALK

17 MAR - Fuhito Kojima (U of Tokyo) | Weak Monotone Comparative Statics | TALK

24 MAR - Claudio Mezzetti (U of Queensland) | Contracting over Persistent Information | TALK

31 MAR - Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University) | Social Learning, Institution Enforcement, and Ethical Necessity

14 APR - Elliot Lipnowski (Columbia University) | Optimal Political Career Dynamics | TALK

21 APR - Haris Aziz (UNSW) | Efficient, Fair, and Incentive-Compatible Healthcare Rationing | TALK

28 APR - Evan Calford (ANU) | Mixed Strategies and Preference for Randomization in Games with Ambiguity Averse Agents | TALK

05 MAY- Leslie Marx (Duke University) | Incomplete Information Bargaining with Applications to Mergers, Investment, and Vertical Integration | TALK

12 MAY- Ben Bernard (National Taiwan University) | Continuous-Time Stochastic Games with Imperfect Public Monitoring | TALK

19 MAY- Marzena Rostek (U of Wisconsin - Madison) | Innovation in Fragmented Markets

26 MAY - Ben Brooks (U of Chicago) | A Strong Minimax Theorem for Informationally-Robust Auction Design

September - November 2020:

16 SEP - Joshua Gans (U. of Toronto, Rotman) | Test Sensitivity for Infection versus Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 | TALK

23 SEP - Eduardo Azevedo (Wharton - UPenn) | A/B Testing with Fat Tails | Talk TBA.

30 SEP - Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern) | Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms | TALK

07 OCT - Jiangtao Li (SMU) | Are Simple Mechanisms Optimal when Agents are Unsophisticated? | TALK

14 OCT - Barton Lee (UNSW) | Feigning Politicians | TALK

21 OCT - Luis Cabral (NYU Stern) | Standing on the Shoulders of Dwarfs: Dominant Firms and Innovation Incentives | TALK

28 OCT - Simon Grant (ANU) | Delegation and Ambiguity in Correlated Equilibrium | TALK

04 NOV - Jacob Leshno (Chicago Booth) | Price Discovery and Efficiency in Waiting Lists: A Connection to Stochastic Gradient Descent | TALK