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Thursday, January 21st, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Sequential Sampling and Equilibrium
Duarte Gonçalves, PhD Candidate, Columbia University,
Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Market-Based Mechanisms
Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University,
Thursday, January 14th, 2021
4:00pm 5:30pm
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Banks-McKelvey Memorial Lecture

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Assortative Matching, Innovation Rates, and the Great Divergence
Gary W. Cox (PhD '83), William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
12:00pm 1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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This seminar has been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 10.
Luciano Pomatto, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,
Monday, January 11th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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A Model of Justification
Sarah Ridout, PhD Candidate in Economics, Harvard University,
Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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This seminar has been postponed.
Konstantin Sonin, John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago,
Monday, December 7th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Algorithm is Experiment: Machine Learning, Market Design, and Policy Eligibility Rules
Yusuke Narita, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics & Cowles Foundation, Yale University,
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Behavioral Neural Networks
Shaowei Ke, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan,
Monday, November 30th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Tug of War: Dynamic Outbidding Between Terrorist Groups
Michael Gibilisco, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Monday, November 23rd, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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The OxyContin Reformulation Revisited: New Evidence from Improved Definitions of Markets and Substitutes
Shiyu Zhang, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Persuasion with Correlation Neglect
Inés Moreno de Barreda, Associate Professor and Official Fellow, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford,
Monday, November 16th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Closed Form Estimators for a Class of Semiparametric Multinomial Choice Models
Dan Ackerberg, Addison Baker Duncan Centennial Professor of Economics, University of Texas, Austin,
Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Admissible Matchings in the School Choice Problem
Philip Reny, The Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago,
Monday, November 9th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Topic to be announced
Nese Yildiz, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Rochester,
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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How to Sell Hard Information
S. Nageeb Ali, Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University,
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Beyond Cabdrivers: Labor Supply Reference Dependence of Rideshare Drivers
Tony Kukavica, Undergraduate Student, Caltech,
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Signaling with Private Monitoring
Gonzalo Cisternas, Class of 1954 Career Development Associate Professor, Applied Economics Group, MIT Sloan School of Management.,
Monday, October 26th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Strategic Party Resource Allocation in US Congressional Elections
Shunto Kobayashi, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specification: Theory and Application
Jonathan Libgober, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Southern Califonia,
Monday, October 19th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Loss Attitudes in the U.S. Population: Evidence from Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE)
Colin F. Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, Caltech,
Erik Snowberg,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Hard-to-Interpret Signals
Yoram Halevy, Professor of Economics and Director of the Toronto Experimental Economics Lab (TEEL), Department of Economics, University of Toronto,
Monday, October 12th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Peter Arcidiacono, Professor of Economics, Duke University,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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The Politics of News Personalization
Anqi Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis,
Monday, October 5th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Multiway Cluster Robust Double/Debiased Machine Learning
Yuya Sasaki, Associate Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University,
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Constrained pseudo-market equilibrium
Federico Echenique, Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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When Choices are Mistakes
Kirby Nielsen, Assistant Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Simultaneous Search: Beyond Independent Successes
Ran Shorrer, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Penn State University,
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Optimal persuasion via bi-pooling
Yakov Babichenko, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion,
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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A Strong Minimax Theorem for Informationally-Robust Auction Design
Ben Brooks, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago,
Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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On the Empirical Validity of Cumulative Prospect Theory: Experimental Evidence of Rank-Independent Probability Weighting
Charlie Sprenger, Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Auctions of Homogeneous Goods: A Case for Pay-as-Bid
Marek Pycia, Professor of Organizational Economics, University of Zurich,
Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Incentives and Efficiency in Constrained Allocation Mechanisms
Joseph Root, Linde Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Arrow's Theorem, May's Axioms, and the Borda Count
Eric S. Maskin, Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Harvard University,
Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Viral Social Learning
David McAdams, Professor of Business Administration (Fuqua School of Business) and Professor of Economics (Department of Economics), Duke University,
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Learning Before Trading: On the Inefficiency of Ignoring Free Information
Doron Ravid, Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago,
Wednesday, July 15th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Random Utility Models with Ordered Types and Domains
Jose Apesteguia, Full Professor, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Linear Social Learning in Networks with Rational Agents
Kevin He, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,