YoungEC '19
December 31st (Tuesday):
8:30 - 8:50 |
Registration and Coffee |
8:50 - 9:00 |
Noam Nisan and Michal Feldman : Welcome |
9:00 - 9:45 |
Steve Tadelis: Raising the Bar: Certification Thresholds and Market Outcomes |
9:45 - 10:10 |
Ellen Muir: Efficient Adjustment Dynamics |
Coffee |
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10:30 - 10:55 |
Gali Noti: Neural Networks for Predicting Human Interactions in Repeated Games |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Lee Cohen: Optimal Algorithm for Bayesian Incentive-Compatible Exploration |
Coffee |
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11:40 - 12:05 |
Bar Light: Quality selection in two-sided platforms |
12:05 - 12:30 |
Steffen Schuldenzucker: Financial Networks with Derivatives: Complexity and Systemic Risk |
Lunch |
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14:00 - 14:25 |
Weiran Shen: AI-driven mechanism design |
14:25 - 14:50 |
Arpita Biswas: Fair Allocation of Structured Set Systems |
Coffee |
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15:10 - 15:35 |
Yixin Tao: Balancing the Robustness and Convergence of Tatonnement |
15:35 - 16:00 |
Ariel Schvartzman: Smoothed Analysis of Multi-Item Auctions with Correlated Values |
Coffee |
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16:20 - 16:45 |
Alon Eden: Auction Design under Interdependent Value |
16:45 - 17:30 |
Paul Milgrom: Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms |
January 1st (Wednesday):
10:00 - 10:25 |
Zi Yang Kang: Strategy-Proof Bilateral Trade [ |
10:25 - 10:50 |
Ben Berger: On the power and limits of dynamic pricing in combinatorial markets |
Coffee |
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11:10 - 11:35 |
Elisheva S. Shamash: Principal-Agent VCG Contracts |
11:35 - 12:00 |
Yifeng Teng: Buy-many mechanisms are not much better than item pricing |
12:00 - 12:25 |
Giorgio Martini: Multidimensional Disclosure |
Lunch |
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14:00 - 14:45 |
Yoelle Maarek: Alexa, can you help me shop? |
14:45 - 15:10 |
Divya Mohan: Approximation Schemes for Revenue Maximization via Symmetries |
Coffee |
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15:30 - 15:55 |
Yannai Gonczarowski: A Compact, Logical Approach to Large-Market Analysis |
15:55 - 16:20 |
Kira Goldner: Reducing Inefficiency in Carbon Auctions with Imperfect Competition Values |
Coffee |
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16:40 - 17:05 |
Yuan Deng: Non-Clairvoyant Dynamic Mechanism Design with Budget Constraints and Beyond |
17:05 - 17:30 |
Neil Newman: A Second Look at the Incentive Auction: Exploring Trade-offs in the Incentive Auction Design Space |
19:30 |
Workshop Dinner |
January 2nd (Thursday):
9:00 - 9:45 |
Nina Balcan: Machine Learning for Mechansim Design |
9:45 - 10:10 |
Omer Ben-Porat: Fiduciary Bandits |
Coffee |
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10:30 - 10:55 |
Tomer Ezra: A General Framework for Endowment Effects in Combinatorial Markets |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Andres Cristi: The two-sided game of Googol and sample-based prophet inequalities |
Coffee |
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11:40 - 12:05 |
Ron Kupfer: The Adaptive Complexity of Maximizing Gross Substitutes Functions |
12:05 - 12:30 |
Rebecca Reiffenhauser: Secretary Algorithms for Online Assignment Problems |
Lunch |
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14:00 - 14:25 |
Segev Shlomov: Robust Non-Bayesian Social Learning |
14:25 - 14:50 |
Shuran Zheng: Selling Information Through Consulting |
Coffee |
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15:10 - 15:35 |
Ellen Vitercik: Estimating Approximate Incentive Compatibility |
15:35 - 16:20 |
Yishay Mansour: Exploration, Exploitation and Incentives |