5th Durham Economic Theory Conference

5th Durham Economic Theory Conference

The Conference is organised by the DREAM Research Centre (Durham Research in Economic Analysis and Mechanisms) and it will take place on June 5-6, 2025. The conference dinner will be held on Thursday, June 5. You can find the previous editions of the conference at DETC. 

Programme

Thursday June 5, 2025

09:00-09:50 Registration and Coffee

09:50-10:00 Welcome remarks 

10:00-12:00 Session 1
Chair: Spyros Galanis (Durham) 

Daniel Li (University of Durham) 
Information Disclosure to Bidders with Heterogeneous Preferences

Dimitri Migrow (University of Edinburgh)
Disclosure of Causal vs. Correlational Information in Markets with Correlation Neglect

Kemal Ozbek (University of Southampton)
Flexible Learning via Noise Reduction

Pauline Vorjohann (University of Exeter)
Fake News, Trolling, and Information Transmission

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 Session 2
Chair: Leslie Reinhorn (University of Durham) 

Bary Pradelski (CNRS)
Satisficing Equilibrium

Alexandros Rigos (Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) & Lund University)
Preferences as Heuristics

Bassel Tarbush (University of Oxford)
Game connectivity and adaptive dynamics

Mehmet Barlo (Sabanci University)
Anonymous Implementation

15:00-15:20 Coffee and Tea

15:20-16:50 Session 3
Chair: Anastasiia Parakhoniak (University of Durham)

Caio Lorecchio (Universitat de Barcelona)
Information Acquisition in Deliberative Democracies

Mauro Bambi (University of Durham)
Different Strokes for Different Folks:  Behavioral Factors versus Ability   in the Higher Education Tenure System

Steven Kivinen (University of Graz)
Renegotiation-Proof Cheap Talk

16:50-17:10 Coffee and Tea

17:10-18:10 Keynote Address 1 

George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania) 
On the Nonpurifiability of Belief-Free Equilibria in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring

Chair: Nejat Anbarci (University of Durham) 

18:50-21:00 Dinner (by invitation) at St. Johns College (DH1 3RJ)

Friday June 6, 2025

08:30-09:00 Coffee and Tea

09:00-11:00 Session 4
Chair: Ayse Yazici (University of Durham)

Byeong-hyeon Jeong (University of Zurich)
Optimality of Two-tier Quotas in Selection

Yating Yuan (University of Warwick)
Costless Coordination: Optimal Mechanism for Teamwork

Amirreza Ahmadzadeh (Toulouse School of Economics)
Mechanism Design with Costly Inspection

Sumit Goel (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Multi-Agent Contract Design with a Budget 

11:00-11:20 Coffee and Tea

11:20-12:20 Keynote Address 2

Leeat Yariv (Princeton University)
Strategic Decentralized Matching: The Effects of Information Frictions

Chair: Ehud Lehrer (University of Durham)

12:20-13:20 Lunch

13:20-15:20 Session 5
Chair: Cole Williams (University of Durham) 

Suraj Malladi (Kellogg MEDS)
Guarantees in Price Experimentation

Georgios Gerasimou (University of Glasgow)
Intensinist social welfare and ordinal intensity-efficient allocations

K. Kivanc Akoz (HSE University)
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Barton Lee (ETH Zurich)
When Growth leads to Zero-sum Conflict

15:20-15:50 Coffee and Tea

For any questions, please contact us at business.dream@durham.ac.uk.