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

Alex Smolin

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, TSE

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Christopher Teh

Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants

Postdoctoral Fellow, TSE

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Wen-Hao Wang

TSE PhD Student

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Alexander Winter

Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants

Postdoctoral Fellow, TSE

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Takuro Yamashita

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University

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Chenchen Ye

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: Andrew Rhodes

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Jingyi Zhang

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: Johannes Horner

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List of Seminars of the group

Past

Equilibrium Spillover of Big Data

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

    Finance Seminar, TSE - TSM-R

  • Date 23 September 2025

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Maryam Farboodi

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Past

Belief-Free Equilibria in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring are not Purifiable

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 16 September 2025

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser George Mailath

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Past

Robust Delegation

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 9 September 2025

  • Place Auditorium 6

  • Speaker or organiser Tan Gan

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Past

To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 10 June 2025

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Dilip Abreu

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Past

Matching into Auctions

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 3 June 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Juuso Välimäki

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Past

Data Monetization and Strategic Coordination: An Information Design Approach

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 27 May 2025

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Alessandro Bonatti

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Past

Optimal Allowance with Limited Auditing Capacity

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 6 May 2025

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Thomas Brzustowski

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Past

Mediation in Dynamic Contracting

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 29 April 2025

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Ignacio Monzon

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Past

Gaming the Test: When Should Test Thresholds Be Unpredictable?

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 15 April 2025

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Helene Mass

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Past

The Economics of Latent Representations

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 8 April 2025

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Larry Samuelson

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Past

How informed do you want your principal to be?

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 1 April 2025

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Anne-Katrin Roesler

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Past

Strategic Decentralized Matching: The Effects of Information Frictions

  • Seminar

  • Economic Theory Seminar

  • Date 25 March 2025

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Leeat Yariv

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Thomas Mariotti

Group leader