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Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Experts and Financial Ties: Evidence from FDA Advisory Committees
Fanny Camara, Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of Research (Economics), Dornsife, College of Leters, Arts and Science, USC,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Mistakes and Overconfidence in Detecting Lies
Marta Serra-Garcia, Assistant Professor of Economics & Strategic Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego,
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Test design under falsification
Vasiliki Skreta, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, October 31st, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Financial Education and Access to Savings Accounts: Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from Ugandan Youth Clubs
Julian Jamison, Professor of Economics and Director of Research (Economics), Business School, University of Exeter,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Affirmative Action in India
Bumin Yenmez, Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Boston College,
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Sequential Decision Making in the U.S. Supreme Court
Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Steady-State Equilibria in Anonymous Repeated Games
Alex Wolitzky, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Fast, "Robust", and Approximately Correct: Estimating Mixed Demand Systems
Bernard Salanie, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Columbia University,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Strategy and Technology of Conflict
Sandeep Baliga, John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Northwestern University,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Information acquisition and strategic investment timing
Erik Madsen, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
Giovanni Compiani, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Designing Research for Practical Social Innovation
Sera Linardi, Associate Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh,
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

A Bridge Too Far?: Examining Bridging Assumptions in Common-Space Estimations
Jeffery A. Jenkins, Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law, Sol Price School of Public Policy, USC,
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Getting Settled in Your New Home: The Costs of Moving on Voter Turnout
Seo-young Silvia Kim, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Collusion in Brokered Markets
John Hatfield, Professor, McCombs Business School, The University of Texas at Austin,
Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been cancelled.
Erik Eyster, Alec P. Alexander Chair of Economics and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Belief Meddling in Social Networks: an Information-Design Approach
Jacopo Perego, Assistant Professor of Economics, Graduate Business School, Columbia University,
Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been cancelled.
Shigeo Hirano, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

An Impossibility Theorem for Wealth in Heterogeneous-agent Models with Limited Heterogeneity
Alexis Toda, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Attention and Selection Effects
Colin Stewart, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Political Economy of Discrimination
Torun Dewan, Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics & Political Science,
Monday, May 6th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice
Jean-Robert Tyran, Professor of Economics, Director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics, and Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs, University of Vienna,
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Tea Party Movement: Evidence from Nationwide Campaign Finance and Real Estate Transactions
Zhao Li, PhD Candidate in Political Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States
Milan Svolik, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Yale University,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Optimal Incentives under Moral Hazard: From Theory to Practice
George Georgiadis, Associate Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises
Francesco Trebbi, Professor of Economics, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Correlated Large Contests
Juuso Välimäki, Professor, Department of Economics, Aalto University,
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Searching for Approval
Ali Hortacsu, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago,
Friday, April 12th, 2019
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Strategy Choice In The Infinitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma
Pedro Dal Bo, Professor of Economics, Brown University,
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Persuasion Meets Delegation
Anton Kolotilin, Associate Professor, UNSW Business School,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Informational roles of pre-election polls
Jinhee Jo, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Kyung Hee University,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identifying the Discount Factor in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
Jaap Abbring, Professor of Econometrics, University of Tilburg,
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Strategically Simple Mechanisms
Tilman Börgers, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan,
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Endogenous Intractability: Why Some Persistent Problems Persist
Bob Powell, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley,
Friday, March 8th, 2019
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Heterogeneity of Gain-Loss Attitudes and Expectations-Based Reference Points
Charlie Sprenger, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego,
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Collective Hold-Up
Santiago Oliveros, Professor of Economics, University of Essex,
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Estimation of Peer Effects in Endogenous Social Networks: Control Function Approach
Hyungsik Roger Moon, Professor in Economics, USC,