Canadian Economic Theory Conference

All sessions will be held in Rotman School of Management,

105 St George St
Toronto, ON M5S 3E6

Room 1065 main conference room, located on the ground floor of the building on its southern side, next to large pink staircases.

Fri, May 03

9:00 am – 9:30 am

  • Breakfast/Welcome: Breakfast pastries and coffee

9:30 am – 11:00 am

  • Session 1 (Rotman School of Management, Room 1065)
    1. Order Statistics of Large Samples: Theory and an Application to Robust Auction Design, Wei He, Jiangtao li, and weijie zhong*
    2. Multidimensional Screening with Rich Consumer Data, Mira Frick, Ryota Iijima, and Yuhta Ishii*
    3. Unobserved Auctions, Hao Li* and michael peters

11:00 am – 11:30 am

  • Coffee Break

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

  • Session 2 (Rotman School of Management, Room 1065)
    1. Countering Price Discrimination with Buyer Information, Philipp Strack and Kai Hao Yang*
    2. Search, Matching, and Online Platforms, Yair Antler, Daniel Bird*, and Daniel Fershtman

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

  • Lunch: Catered lunch will be served.

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

  • Session 3 (Rotman School of Management, Room 1065)
    1. Screening Knowledge, Sulagna Dasgupta*
    2. Optimal testing in disclosure games, Helene Mass* and Avi Lichtig
    3. Indirect Persuasion, Rahul Deb, Mallesh Pai, and Maher Said*

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Coffee Break

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

  • Session 4 (Rotman School of Management, Room 1065)
    1. A mechanism-design approach to property rights, Piotr Dworczak and Ellen Muir*
    2. Signaling Good Faith, Andrew McClellan and Daniel Rappoport*
    3. Subversive Conversations, Archishman Chakraborty*, Nemanja Antic, and Rick Harbaugh

Sat, May 04

9:00 am – 9:30 am

  • Breakfast: Breakfast pastries and coffee

9:30 am – 11:00 am

  • Session 5 (Rotman School of Management, Room 1065)
    1. Acceptance Deadlines and Job Offer Design, Xin Zhao* and Changying Li
    2. Free-riding and Unequal Pay in Symmetric Teams, Huseyin Yildirim*
    3. Monitoring Team Members: Information Waste and the Transparency Trap, Matteo Camboni* and Michael Porcellacchia

11:00 am – 11:30 am

  • Coffee Break

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

  • Session 6 (Rotman School of Management, Room 1065)
    1. Undergraduate Course Allocation through Competitive Markets, Alexey Kushnir* and Daniel Kornbluth
    2. Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors, Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, Philipp Strack, and Mengxi Zhang*

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

  • Lunch: Catered lunch will be served.

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

  • Session 7 (Rotman School of Management, Room 1065)
    1. Strategic Information Transmission in the Employment Relationship, Andreas Blume and Inga Deimen*
    2. Persuasion and Matching: Optimal Productive Transport, Anton Kolotilin*, Alexander Wolitzky, and Roberto Corrao
    3. Robustly Optimal Income Taxation, Maren Vairo*

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Coffee Break

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

  • Session 8 (Rotman School of Management, Room 1065)
    1. Learning from Viral Content, Krishna Dasaratha and Kevin He*
    2. Community Enforcement with Endogenous Records, Harry PEI*
    3. Dynamic Network Influence: The Art of Strategic Messaging, Wei Li* and Xu Tan

Sun, May 05

9:00 am – 9:30 am

  • Breakfast: Breakfast pastries and coffee

9:30 am – 11:00 am

  • Session 9 (Rotman School of Management, Room 1065)
    1. Dynamic Evidence Disclosure: Delay the Good to Accelerate the Bad, Jan Knoepfle* and Julia Salmi
    2. Inference from Selectively Disclosed Data, Ying Gao*
    3. Preference Regression, Peter Philip Caradonna*

11:00 am – 11:30 am

  • Coffee Break

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

  • Session 10 (Rotman School of Management, Room 1065)
    1. The Costly Wisdom of Inattentive Crowds, Alex Bloedel* and Ilya Segal
    2. Rationally Inattentive Statistical Discrimination: Arrow Meets Phelps, Federico Echenique and Anqi Li*
    3. Competitive Information Acquisition, Dimitri Migrow and Sergei Severinov*

* Presenter of paper.