Hosted by the Economics Department at Texas A&M University
Texas Economic Theory Camp will be held at Texas A&M University, October 20-21, 2023. The purpose of the conference is to foster interaction among researchers in Texas working on pure and applied theory and to provide a forum for faculty and Ph.D. students to present their current research.
Keynote lecture: Simon Board, UCLA
Venue:
Liberal Arts Social Sciences Building (LASB)
2935 Research Parkway
College Station, TX 77843
Local Organizers:
Huiyi Guo (huiyiguo@tamu.edu)
Silvana Krasteva (ssk8@tamu.edu)
Guoqiang Tian (gtian@tamu.edu)
Parking:
LASB building parking lot is 113. Parking is free on Saturdays. We will provide parking permits for Friday, Oct. 20th. The permits are electronic, and we need your license plate number to secure your permit. Please click here to provide your license plate number. It takes about 24 hours to process, so please fill out the form by the evening of October 18th. If you are driving a rental car, you can park in one of the visitor parking spots right outside the LASB. We also have a limited number of paper permits that we will provide if needed upon arrival.
Hotel Information:
Here is a list of suggested hotels that are 10-15 minutes away from the department:
Conference Program
Friday, October 20
12:00-1:00 pm
Light lunch will be available prior to the first session.
Session 1: (1:00-2:00 pm)
Saltuk Ozerturk (SMU): “Credit Attribution in Teamwork with Spillovers”
Nam Nguyen (UTD): “Incentivizing investors for a greener economy”
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Session 2: (2:15-3:15 pm)
V. Bhaskar (UT): “Robust Information Design”
Huiyi Guo (TAMU): “Persuasion with Sequential Private Information”
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Session 3: (3:30-4:30 pm)
Bo Chen (SMU): “Extremal Equilibria of Repeated Oligopoly with Entry”
William Fuchs (UT): “Shaping Institutions”
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Keynote Lecture: (4:45-5:45 pm)
Simon Board (UCLA): “Experimentation in Networks”
Conference dinner (6:30-9:00 pm)
Location: Sôlt
Address: 830 University Dr E #400, College Station, TX 77840
Saturday, October 21
8:00-9:00 am
Breakfast and coffee will be available outside the conference room.
Session 4: (9:00-10:00 am)
Mao Yindong (UTD): “Decomposition of ex-ante risk premium around earnings announcements”
Nina Bobkova (Rice): “Two-dimensional information choice in committees”
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Session 5: (10:15-11:15 am)
Mingzi Niu (Rice): “Motivated Misspecification”
Max Stinchcombe (UT): “Additivity and Beliefs”
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Session 6: (11:30 am-12:30 pm)
Alejandro Rivera (UTD): “Contracting with a Present-Biased Agent: Sannikov meets Laibson”
Mark Whitmeyer (ASU): “Safety in Numbers”
Lunch break (90 minutes)
Session 7: (2:00-3:30 pm)
Yihang Zhou (UT): “Bureaucratic Norms and Dynamic Bayesian Persuasion”
Jean-Baptiste Tondji (UTRG): “Pollution Control with Emission-sensitive Consumers”
Silvana Krasteva (TAMU): “Information and Pricing in Search Markets”