YoungEC '19

Young Researcher Workshop on Economics and Computation

Tel Aviv, Israel

Program


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December-January
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Location

Talks will take place at Bnei Zion Hall, Beit Hatfutzot


December 29-30 (Sunday-Monday):

CS TheoryFest at TAU: https://sites.google.com/view/tau-theory-fest/home



December 31st (Tuesday):

8:30 — 8:50 Registration and Coffee
8:50 — 9:00 Noam Nisan and Michal Feldman : Welcome
9:00 — 9:45 Steve Tadelis: Raising the Bar: Certification Thresholds and Market Outcomes [abstract][video]
9:45 — 10:10 Ellen Muir: Efficient Adjustment Dynamics [abstract][video]
Coffee
10:30 — 10:55 Gali Noti: Neural Networks for Predicting Human Interactions in Repeated Games [abstract][video]
10:55 — 11:20 Lee Cohen: Optimal Algorithm for Bayesian Incentive-Compatible Exploration [abstract][video]
Coffee
11:40 — 12:05 Bar Light: Quality selection in two-sided platforms [abstract][video]
12:05 — 12:30 Steffen Schuldenzucker: Financial Networks with Derivatives: Complexity and Systemic Risk [abstract][video]
Lunch
2:00 — 2:25 Weiran Shen: AI-driven mechanism design [abstract][video]
2:25 — 2:50 Arpita Biswas: Fair Allocation of Structured Set Systems [abstract][video]
Coffee
3:10 — 3:35 Alon Eden: Auction Design under Interdependent Value [abstract][video]
3:35 — 4:00 Ariel Schvartzman: Smoothed Analysis of Multi-Item Auctions with Correlated Values [abstract][video]
Coffee
4:20 — 5:05 Paul Milgrom: Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms [abstract][video]
New Year’s night out in Tel-Aviv (on your own)

January 1st (Wednesday):

10:00 — 10:25 Zi Yang Kang: Strategy-Proof Bilateral Trade [abstract][video]
10:25 — 10:50 Ben Berger: On the power and limits of dynamic pricing in combinatorial markets [abstract][video]
Coffee
11:10 — 11:35 Elisheva S. Shamash: Principal-Agent VCG Contracts [abstract][video]
11:35 — 12:00 Yifeng Teng: Buy-many mechanisms are not much better than item pricing [abstract][video]
12:00 — 12:25 Giorgio Martini: Multidimensional Disclosure [abstract][video]
Lunch
2:00 — 2:45 Liane Lewin-Eytan: Alexa, Why Do People Buy Seemingly Irrelevant Items in Voice Product Search? [abstract][video]
2:45 — 3:10 Divya Mohan: Approximation Schemes for Revenue Maximization via Symmetries [abstract][video]
Coffee
3:30 — 3:55 Yannai Gonczarowski: A Compact, Logical Approach to Scaling Economic Theories [abstract][video]
3:55 — 4:20 Kira Goldner: Reducing Inefficiency in Carbon Auctions with Imperfect Competition Values [abstract][video]
Coffee
4:40 — 5:05 Yuan Deng: Non-Clairvoyant Dynamic Mechanism Design with Budget Constraints and Beyond [abstract][video]
5:05 — 5:30 Neil Newman: A Second Look at the Incentive Auction: Exploring Trade-offs in the Incentive Auction Design Space [abstract][video]
7:30 Workshop Dinner

January 2nd (Thursday):

9:00 — 9:45 Nina Balcan: Machine Learning for Mechansim Design [abstract][video]
9:45 — 10:10 Omer Ben-Porat: Fiduciary Bandits [abstract][video]
Coffee
10:30 — 10:55 Tomer Ezra: A General Framework for Endowment Effects in Combinatorial Markets [abstract][video]
10:55 — 11:20 Andres Cristi: The two-sided game of Googol and sample-based prophet inequalities [abstract][video]
Coffee
11:40 — 12:05 Ron Kupfer: The Adaptive Complexity of Maximizing Gross Substitutes Functions [abstract][video]
12:05 — 12:30 Rebecca Reiffenhauser: Secretary Algorithms for Online Assignment Problems [abstract][video]
Lunch
2:00 — 2:25 Segev Shlomov: Robust Non-Bayesian Social Learning [abstract][video]
2:25 — 2:50 Shuran Zheng: Selling Information Through Consulting [abstract][video]
Coffee
3:10 — 3:35 Ellen Vitercik: Estimating Approximate Incentive Compatibility [abstract][video]
3:35 — 4:20 Yishay Mansour: Exploration, Exploitation and Incentives [abstract][video]

January 3rd (Friday):

Trip to Jerusalem

Important information

Dates: 31th December, 2019 to 2nd January, 2020
Venue:   Tel Aviv University, Beit-Hatfutsot

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This conference is supported by the European Research Council (ERC)