Theoretical economics

Price discrimination, robustness, contract theory, potential competition, experiment theory...

The Theory group brings together TSE researchers and graduate students working in economic theory.

Activities of the group

  • a weekly seminar on Tuesdays morning from 11h00 to 12h30
  • a workshop where graduate students discuss recent papers in theory and present their own work.

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List of members

Amirreza Ahmadzadeh

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: Jean Tirole

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Catherine Bobtcheff

TSE Associate Faculty

Senior Researcher, CNRS and professor PSE

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Lorenzo Bozzoli

Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants

Postdoctoral Fellow, TSE

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Eloisa Campioni

TSE Associate Faculty

Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics

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Kailin Chen

Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants

Postdoctoral Fellow, TSE

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Pierre-André Chiappori

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor in Economics University of Columbia

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Daniel F. Garrett

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor Essex University

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Bertrand Gobillard

TSE Research Faculty

Assistant Professor, TSE

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Javier Gonzalez Morin

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: David Martimort

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Dario Gori

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: Thomas Mariotti

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Bård Harstad

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University

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Johannes Hörner

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, CNRS

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Articles and Working Papers of the group

Gradient Extremals, Talwegs, Valleys, and Directional Alignment for Generic Gradient Descent

Pascal Bégout, Jérôme Bolte, Thomas Mariotti, and Francisco José Silva - Àlvarez

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1735,
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Investment Timing and Technological Breakthroughs

Jean-Paul Décamps, Fabien Gensbittel, and Thomas Mariotti

Mathematics of Operations Research, vol. 50, n° 2, , pp. 1478-1513
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A comparative study of residents and tourists' valuation for a heterogeneous environmental good: The case of coastal erosion

Lan Anh Nguyen, Manh-Hung Nguyen, Arnaud Reynaud, and Michel Simioni

Marine Policy, vol. 161, n° 106038,
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Cooperation and deception through stigmergic interactions in human groups

Thomas Bassanetti, Stéphane Cezera, Maxime Delacroix, Ramon Escobedo, Adrien Blanchet, Clément Sire, and Guy Théraulaz

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120, n° 42 (e2307880120),
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Tourists’ preferences and willingness to pay for protecting a World Heritage site from coastal erosion in Vietnam

Lan Anh Nguyen, Manh-Hung Nguyen, Viet-Ngu Hoang, Arnaud Reynaud, Michel Simioni, and Clevo Wilson

Environment, Development and Sustainability,
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The impact of incorrect social information on collective wisdom in human groups

Bertrand Jayles, Ramon Escobedo, Stéphane Cezera, Guy Théraulaz, Adrien Blanchet, Tatsuya Kameda, and Clément Sire

Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 117, n° 20200496,
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List of Seminars of the group

To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 8 December 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont

  • Speaker or organiser Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern University)

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To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 24 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 5

  • Speaker or organiser Frank Yang (Stanford University)

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To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 17 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 5

  • Speaker or organiser Qianjun Lyu (University Carlos III of Madrid)

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To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 27 October 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont

  • Speaker or organiser David Pearce (New-York University)

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Past

Extreme Points in Multi-Dimensional Screening

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 15 September 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Patrick Lahr (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay)

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Past

Fast Estimation of Dynamic Structural Models with unobserved heterogeneity

  • Seminar

  • Econometrics and Empirical Economics Seminar

  • Date 8 September 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Dennis Kristensen (University College London)

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Information, Higher-Order Reasoning and Contingent Thinking

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 9 June 2026

  • Place Audtorium 5

  • Speaker or organiser Ina Taneva

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Past

SEMINAIRE ANNULE

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 2 June 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Nina Bobkova

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Strategically Controlling Worldviews

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 26 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Cuimin Ba

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Forecasts and Conditionally I.I.D. Models

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 19 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 6

  • Speaker or organiser Drew Fudenberg

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Revisiting Shapley-Shubik (1971) via Nash (1953)

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 12 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 6

  • Speaker or organiser Dilip Abreu

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Convex choice

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 21 April 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Andreas Kleiner

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Contact

Thomas Mariotti

Group leader