Advances in Information Economics Conference

Friday, May 26

18:00-21:00 Welcome cocktail and buffet at Villa Grumello

Saturday, May 27

9:00-9:45 Wing Suen (University of Hong Kong) 
“Competition for Attention in the News Media Market” with Heng Chen

9:45-10:30 Eduardo Perez-Richet (SciencesPo)
“Information Design with Falsification” with Vasiliki Skreta

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Margaret Meyer (Oxford University)
“Information Design: Insights from the Supermodular Ordering of Dependence”

11:45-12:30 Alp Atakan (Koc University)
“Price Discovery with Costly Competitive Bidding” with Mehmet Ekmekci

12:30-14:00  Lunch

14:00-14:45 Jacob Glazer (University of Warwick and Tel Aviv University) and Motty Perry (University of Warwick and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“Optimal Information Disclosure by Crowd-Funding Platforms” with Ilan Kremer 

14:45-15:30 Peter N. Sorensen (University of Copenhagen)
“Strategic Sample Selection” with Alfredo Di Tillio and Marco Ottaviani

15:30-16:00  Coffee break

16:00-17:00 Stephen Morris (Princeton University)
“Optimal Auction Design in a Common Value Model”  with Dirk Bergemann and Benjamin Brooks

time off & dinner in Como

Sunday, May 28th

9:00-9:45 Glen Weyl (Microsoft Research New York City and Yale University)
“Descending Price Optimally Coordinates Search” with Robert Kleinberg and Bo Waggoner

9:45-10:30 Juuso Valimaki (Aalto School of Economics)
“All-pay Auctions with Affiliated Values” with Chang Koo Chi and Pauli Murto

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Willie Fuchs (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley)
“Information Aggregation in Dynamic Markets with Adverse Selection” with Vladimir Asriyan and Brett Green

11:45-12:30 Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)
“Monitoring Failure and Institutional Collapse with Manipulable Evidence and Extrinsic Motivation”

12:30-13:30  Lunch

13:30-14:30 Xavier Vives (IESE)
“Market Power and Welfare in Asymmetric Divisible Good Auctions” with Carolina Manzano
 

 ***The financial support of the ERC Grant EVALIDEA n. 295835 is gratefully acknowledged ****