kunzhang.bsky.social
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Learned a lot from this paper.
How does one optimally design mechanisms in contexts where evidence is stochastic, possibly because it must first be aquired? econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
August 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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How best to incentivise prompt disclosure? We formalise this question and show that the answer has a deadline structure. We apply our results to the design of unemployment insurance schemes econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
June 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Search-and-matching models often assume a steady state. We prove that a non-stationary equilibrium exists, with search pool populations evolving. A key tool: we generalize Schauder’s fixed-point theorem to address discontinuous value functions econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
May 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Once again, Australian election results prove how awful choropleth maps are for data visualisation.
"Land doesn't vote, people do."

#rstats code to reproduce animation here: github.com/emitanaka/oz...
May 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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What can be more important in this day and age than data linkage between markets? Join us on Thursday to learn more!
After a great start to the season yesterday, our next talk is on 1 May. 👉Arina Nikandrova👈 (City) presents "Data Linkage between Markets: Hidden Dangers and Unexpected Benefits", joint with Tatiana Mayskaya and Claudia Herresthal. Panellists: Humberto Moreira and Andrew Rhodes.
April 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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My paper on algorithmic pricing, joint with In-Koo Cho, is now online at the Journal of Economic Theory.

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Learning underspecified models
This paper examines learning dynamics under non-parametric model uncertainty. We choose the monopolistic profit maximization problem (Myerson (1981)) …
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April 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Really cool paper
Martino Banchio, Suraj Malladi
Rediscovery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19761
April 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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TE congratulates founding member and first Editor Martin Osborne for being awarded the 2025 Sonnenschein Service Prize in recognition of outstanding service to the profession and the Society in the tradition of Hugo Sonnenschein. Read more here www.econometricsociety.org/prizes/sonne...
Sonnenschein Service Prize
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April 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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We are sad to announce that former faculty member and Minnesota Econ Ph.D. alum Patrick Bajari passed away on Monday.

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Remembering Patrick L. Bajari (1969-2025)
Patrick L. Bajari was a pioneer spanning the academic and business worlds.
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April 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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In verifiable communication the receiver is skeptical: he partially attributes incomplete disclosures to the sender concealing unfavorable evidence. This paper characterizes more skeptical receivers as those that believe the sender has more evidence econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
March 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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italian colleague: the only thing i do not like about australia is that the people do not protest. they do not go in the streets.
me & others: that is not true! there's weekly protests for palestine in the CBD!
IC: no. what i am saying is, i lived here ten years and i have never seen a car on fire.
February 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM