Transatlantic Theory Workshop 2025
Location: Bocconi University
Venue: C.E2.04, SDA Bocconi
The Transatlantic Theory Workshop is a conference hosted annually in one of the participating institutions below. For last year's program, see TTW 2024.
Institutions
- Bocconi University
- CREST - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, HEC Paris
- Northwestern University
- Oxford University

Schedule
Monday, 1 September
9:30 - 10:00 — Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 10:30 — Suraj Malladi (Northwestern University): Guarantees in Price Experimentation
10:30 - 11:00 — Cesar Barilla (Oxford University): When and What to Learn in a Changing World
11:00 - 11:30 — Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 — Nikhil Vellodi (Paris School of Economics): Self-Prospecting: Optimal Experimentation Under Present Bias (with Polina Borisova)
12:00 - 12:30 — Francesco Bilotta (Bocconi University): Imperfect Metacognition in Multiple-Choice Tests
12:30 - 14:30 — Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 — Martino Banchio (Bocconi University): Pivot or Persist: Research on Rugged Landscapes (with Christoph Carnehl)
15:00 - 15:30 — Roberto Corrao (Stanford University): Resilience vs. Fragility: Robust Properties of Endogenous Production Networks (with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Joel Flynn, and Giacomo Lanzani)
15:30 - 16:00 — Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 — Polina Borisova (Paris School of Economics):TikToks vs. Movies: How Short Content Keeps Us Scrolling(with Ivan Conjeaud)
16:30 - 17:00 — Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University): Human or Machine? Evaluating the Indistinguishability of LLM-Generated Problems (with Ben Golub and Annie Liang)
Tuesday, 2 September
9:30 - 10:00 — Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 10:30 — Nemanja Antic (Northwestern University): Monopoly Theory with Price-Increase Aversion (with Yuval Salant)
10:30 - 11:00 — Tangren Feng (Bocconi University): Interim Strategy-Proof Mechanisms (with Qinggong Wu)
11:00 - 11:30 — Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 — En Hua Hu (Oxford University): Congestion in Matching (with Justin Hadad)
12:00 - 12:30 — Toan Le (Oxford University): Stability by Design
12:30 - 14:30 — Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 — Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University): Notions of Risk Aversion
15:00 - 15:30 — Ludvig Sinander (Oxford University): Outside Options and Risk Attitude (with Gregorio Curello and Mark Whitmeyer)
15:30 - 16:00 — Alexander Jakobsen (Northwestern University): Comparison of Decision Problems
16:00 - 16:30 — Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00 — Bassel Tarbush (Oxford University): Game Connectivity and Adaptive Dynamics (with Tom Johnston, Michael Savery, and Alex Scott)
17:00 - 17:30 — George Georgiadis (Northwestern University): Incentives and Selection (with Henrique Castro-Pires)
Speakers
- Nemanja Antic (Northwestern University)
- Cesar Barilla (Oxford University)
- Martino Banchio(Bocconi University)
- Francesco Bilotta (Bocconi University)
- Polina Borisova (Paris School of Economics)
- Roberto Corrao (Stanford University)
- Tangren Feng (Bocconi University)
- George Georgiadis (Northwestern University)
- En Hua Hu (Oxford University)
- Alexander Jakobsen (Northwestern University)
- Toan Le (Oxford University)
- Suraj Malladi (Northwestern University)
- Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University)
- Ludvig Sinander (Oxford University)
- Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University)
- Bassel Tarbush (Oxford University)
- Nikhil Vellodi (Paris School of Economics)
Registration
We look forward to welcoming you!
Registration is free but mandatory.
To register, please click here.
For any question, please send an email to igier@unibocconi.it