Past NUS theory lunches

Semester 1, AY2025/26

  • Week 1 (08/12): Evan Friedman (PSE) “Deception Aversion”

  • Week 2 (08/19): no meeting

  • Week 3 (08/26): no meeting

  • Week 4 (09/02): Ki Vin Foo (NUS) “Kuhn's Theorem in Extensive-form Games with Unawareness”

  • Week 5 (09/09): Xue Heng Teo (NUS) “Games with Transfers”

  • Week 6 (09/16): Zhang Xu (Renmin) “Privacy-Constrained Signals”

  • Week 7 (09/30): Zhicheng Du (Renmin) “Competitive Information Design with Asymmetric Senders”

  • Week 8 (10/07): Yiyao Zhu (NUS) “Optimal Prize Allocation in Team Competitions”

  • Week 9 (10/14): Fei Li (UNC Chapel Hill) “Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms”

  • Week 10 (10/21): no meeting—NUS well-being day.

  • Week 11 (10/28): Zuo Yang (NUS) “Multiplex Peer Confirming Equilibrium”

  • Week 12 (11/04): John Quah (NUS) “Voting over time and space”

  • Week 13 (11/14, 4pm-5:15pm, note special date and time): Nenad Kos (Bocconi) “Self-Selection, Evaluation, and Optimal Ordeals”

Semester 2, AY2024/25

  • Week 4 (02/04): Sam Jindani (NUS) “Bargaining with transfers"

  • Week 5 (02/11): Chris Tyson (QMUL) “Intermediate microeconomics with exponential satisficing agents”

  • Week 6 (02/18): Stefania Minardi (HEC Paris) “Persuasion with limited data: a case-based approach"

  • Week 7 (03/04): Atsushi Kajii (Kwansei Gakuin University) “Rich by accident: the second welfare theorem with a redundant asset under imperfect foresight"

  • Week 8 (03/11): Yingkai Li (NUS) “Mechanism design under costly signaling: the value of non-coordination"

  • Week 9 (Friday 4-5pm, 03/21): Greg Taylor (Oxford) “Enabling communication through content moderation" [note special date, time, and location: AS2-0312.]

  • Week 10 (03/25): En Hua Hu (Oxford) “Confidence in inference"

  • Week 11 (04/01): Allen Vong (NUS) “Reputational cheap talk: a complementary role of public information"

  • Week 12 (04/08): Kenneth Chan (NUS) “An axiomatic model and test of Grether (1980) and Bayes' rule"

  • Week 13 (04/15): Tat-How Teh (NTU) “Strategic fragmentation: deterring rivals by aiding their rivals"

  • Week 15 (04/29): Frederik Brandt (U of Copenhagen) “When Rockafellar met McFadden and showed him some higher-order theory”

Semester 1, AY2024/25

  • Week 1 (08/15): Yujian Chen (Johns Hopkins) “A list-based random attention model."

  • Week 2 (08/22): no meeting

  • Week 3 (08/29): Hongxia Ma (NUS) “How network externalities affect firm entry.”

  • Week 4 (09/05): Ki Vin Foo (NUS) “Correlated sequential equilibrium.”

  • Week 5 (09/12): Benson Leung (HKBU) “Learning in a small/big world.”

  • Week 6 (09/19): Zuo Yang (NUS) “Strategic behaviors in finite models.”

  • Week 7 (10/03): Satoru Takahashi (NUS) “A survey on robustness to incomplete information.”

  • Week 8 (10/10): Songfa Zhong (NUS) “How general are measures of choice consistency? Evidence from experimental and scanner Data.” [note special location: AS2-0509.]

  • Week 9 (10/17): Zhengqing Gui (NUS) “A Myersonian approach to multiproduct monopoly.”

  • Week 10 (10/24): Qiang Fu (NUS) “Orchestrating organizational politics: when Baron and Ferejohn meet Tullock.”

  • Week 11 (Tuesday, 10/29): Yiyao Zhu (NUS) “Prize allocation equilibrium in team contests.” [note special date, and special location: AS2-0312.]

  • Week 12 (11/07): David Ahn (WUSTL) “Local priority mechanisms.”

  • Week 13 (11/14): Danhou Li (NUS) “Marketplace leakage with competing platforms.”