Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
October 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
We show how optimal partisan gerrymandering varies with electoral uncertainty. For realistic parameters, gerrymandering resembles packing-and-cracking for a gerrymanderer with minority support, and uniform districting for one with majority support. buff.ly/JZteJzL
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We show how optimal partisan gerrymandering varies with electoral uncertainty. For realistic parameters, gerrymandering resembles packing-and-cracking for a gerrymanderer with minority support, and uniform districting for one with majority support. buff.ly/JZteJzL
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Robust contracts for agents with unknown beliefs econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
October 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Robust contracts for agents with unknown beliefs econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
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🤔 How does a firm actually know the demand for its product?
Join us today for this talk by Suraj Malladi 👇
Join us today for this talk by Suraj Malladi 👇
Our next talk is on Thursday, 16 Oct 2025.
👉Suraj Malladi👈 from Northwestern/Kellogg will present "Guarantees in Price Experimentation". The session will feature panellists In-Koo Cho and Karl Schlag.
👉Suraj Malladi👈 from Northwestern/Kellogg will present "Guarantees in Price Experimentation". The session will feature panellists In-Koo Cho and Karl Schlag.
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🤔 How does a firm actually know the demand for its product?
Join us today for this talk by Suraj Malladi 👇
Join us today for this talk by Suraj Malladi 👇
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
October 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
Alex Bloedel, Tommaso Denti, Luciano Pomatto
Modeling information acquisition via f-divergence and duality
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03482
Modeling information acquisition via f-divergence and duality
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03482
October 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Alex Bloedel, Tommaso Denti, Luciano Pomatto
Modeling information acquisition via f-divergence and duality
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03482
Modeling information acquisition via f-divergence and duality
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03482
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
Forthcoming in the AER: "Sequential Learning Under Informational Ambiguity" by Jaden Yang Chen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Sequential Learning Under Informational Ambiguity
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper investigates a sequential social learning problem in which individuals
face ambiguity about others’ signal structures and have max-min expected utility preferences,
...
www.aeaweb.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "Sequential Learning Under Informational Ambiguity" by Jaden Yang Chen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
Gregorio Curello, Ludvig Sinander, Mark Whitmeyer
Outside options and risk attitude
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14732
Outside options and risk attitude
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14732
September 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Gregorio Curello, Ludvig Sinander, Mark Whitmeyer
Outside options and risk attitude
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14732
Outside options and risk attitude
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14732
To celebrate, here is a fantastic monograph by Arthur on an extremely interesting topic
www.sfu.ca/~robson/mono...
www.sfu.ca/~robson/mono...
September 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
To celebrate, here is a fantastic monograph by Arthur on an extremely interesting topic
www.sfu.ca/~robson/mono...
www.sfu.ca/~robson/mono...
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
How does information shape monopoly outcomes under interdependent values? We characterize payoff sets across three classes of information structures. With no restrictions, buyers can obtain the entire surplus even though the seller chooses a price econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
September 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
How does information shape monopoly outcomes under interdependent values? We characterize payoff sets across three classes of information structures. With no restrictions, buyers can obtain the entire surplus even though the seller chooses a price econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Come join us at Penn State Econ for the Midwest Trade & Theory Conference in mid-November. Submission deadline is September 6.
Details here:
sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Details here:
sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Midwest Trade & Theory
Join us for the Fall 2025 meetings at Penn State!
Friday November 14 - Sunday November 16
State College, Pennsylvania
Organized by local host Jim Tybout and the board of the Midwest International Eco...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Come join us at Penn State Econ for the Midwest Trade & Theory Conference in mid-November. Submission deadline is September 6.
Details here:
sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Details here:
sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Super cool
"Sellers often choose sudden, unannounced price drops—unlike standard models with forward-looking, strategic buyers. We show why a seller would prefer this."
Recently accepted to #REStud, from Dilmé and Garrett:
www.restud.com/a-dynamic-th...
#econsky
Recently accepted to #REStud, from Dilmé and Garrett:
www.restud.com/a-dynamic-th...
#econsky
August 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Super cool
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
"Seller search for bidders and costly bidder entry jointly shape auction profitability, payoffs, and efficiency. Observability plays a key role."
Recently accepted to #REStud, from Lauermann @pareto-efficiency.bsky.social and Wolinsky:
www.restud.com/auctions-wit...
#econsky
Recently accepted to #REStud, from Lauermann @pareto-efficiency.bsky.social and Wolinsky:
www.restud.com/auctions-wit...
#econsky
July 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"Seller search for bidders and costly bidder entry jointly shape auction profitability, payoffs, and efficiency. Observability plays a key role."
Recently accepted to #REStud, from Lauermann @pareto-efficiency.bsky.social and Wolinsky:
www.restud.com/auctions-wit...
#econsky
Recently accepted to #REStud, from Lauermann @pareto-efficiency.bsky.social and Wolinsky:
www.restud.com/auctions-wit...
#econsky
Amazing paper with Siwen’s years of effort🥳
July 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Amazing paper with Siwen’s years of effort🥳
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
"Can communities sustain cooperation when players can add or erase signals from their records?
Sufficiently long-lived players can hardly sustain any cooperation, but players w/ intermediate lifespans can sustain some cooperation."
New paper from Harry PEI:
www.restud.com/community-en...
#econsky
Sufficiently long-lived players can hardly sustain any cooperation, but players w/ intermediate lifespans can sustain some cooperation."
New paper from Harry PEI:
www.restud.com/community-en...
#econsky
June 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"Can communities sustain cooperation when players can add or erase signals from their records?
Sufficiently long-lived players can hardly sustain any cooperation, but players w/ intermediate lifespans can sustain some cooperation."
New paper from Harry PEI:
www.restud.com/community-en...
#econsky
Sufficiently long-lived players can hardly sustain any cooperation, but players w/ intermediate lifespans can sustain some cooperation."
New paper from Harry PEI:
www.restud.com/community-en...
#econsky
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
I don’t know if anyone actually sees this given that I never post but here it goes. If you see Iranians these days be a bit gentler with them. We are going through something horrific. Our nation is in the hand of a few individuals who don’t seem to care about anything other than having a useless
June 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I don’t know if anyone actually sees this given that I never post but here it goes. If you see Iranians these days be a bit gentler with them. We are going through something horrific. Our nation is in the hand of a few individuals who don’t seem to care about anything other than having a useless
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
Can participants detect an authority straying from its announced rules? Transparency trades off with strategy-proofness, stability, and efficiency. Yet the paper finds partial guarantees: stability can be enforced, while efficiency usually cannot econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
June 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Can participants detect an authority straying from its announced rules? Transparency trades off with strategy-proofness, stability, and efficiency. Yet the paper finds partial guarantees: stability can be enforced, while efficiency usually cannot econtheory.org/ojs/index.ph...
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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
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...
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The Hausdorff Center at Bonn will host the Trimester Program on “Advances in Mechanism Design” next summer. Students and postdocs are invited to apply for extended stays during the program or summer school participation. Funding for travel and accommodation is available.
May 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Hausdorff Center at Bonn will host the Trimester Program on “Advances in Mechanism Design” next summer. Students and postdocs are invited to apply for extended stays during the program or summer school participation. Funding for travel and accommodation is available.
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Sequential Sampling by Individuals and Groups: An Experimental Study" by Pëllumb Reshidi, Alessandro Lizzeri, Leeat Yariv, Jimmy Chan, and Wing Suen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Sequential Sampling by Individuals and Groups: An Experimental Study
(Forthcoming Article) - Many committees---juries, political task forces, etc.---spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on su...
www.aeaweb.org
March 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Sequential Sampling by Individuals and Groups: An Experimental Study" by Pëllumb Reshidi, Alessandro Lizzeri, Leeat Yariv, Jimmy Chan, and Wing Suen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
Forthcoming in the AER: "Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors" by Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, Philipp Strack, and Mengxi Zhang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors
(Forthcoming Article) - We use the tools of mechanism design, combined with the theory of risk
measures, to analyze how a cash constrained owner of an asset with known,
stochastic returns raises capit...
www.aeaweb.org
March 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors" by Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, Philipp Strack, and Mengxi Zhang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Super fun reference paper....
March 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Super fun reference paper....
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
Recently accepted to @reveconstudies.bsky.social, ``Affiliated Common Value Auctions with Costly Entry," from Murto & Välimäki:
www.restud.com/affiliated-c...
#econsky
#REStud
www.restud.com/affiliated-c...
#econsky
#REStud
March 3, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Recently accepted to @reveconstudies.bsky.social, ``Affiliated Common Value Auctions with Costly Entry," from Murto & Välimäki:
www.restud.com/affiliated-c...
#econsky
#REStud
www.restud.com/affiliated-c...
#econsky
#REStud
Reposted by Yimeng Zhang
Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection," from Auster, Gottardi and Wolthoff @rpwolthoff.bsky.social:
www.restud.com/simultaneous...
#econsky
www.restud.com/simultaneous...
#econsky
March 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection," from Auster, Gottardi and Wolthoff @rpwolthoff.bsky.social:
www.restud.com/simultaneous...
#econsky
www.restud.com/simultaneous...
#econsky