Information Design and Data Science

Program

Online and Matching-Based Market Design

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Tuesday, Oct. 1 – Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019

Back to calendar

8:30 – 9:05 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9:05 – 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

9:15 – 10 a.m.

Complementary Information and Learning Traps

Annie Liang (University of Pennsylvania)

10 – 10:45 a.m.

Seeding with Costly Network Information

Dean Eckles (MIT)

10:45 – 11:15 a.m.

Break

11:15 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Incrementality Bidding and Attribution

Randall Lewis (Netflix)

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 2:15 p.m.

Obviousness Around the Clock

Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

2:15 – 3 p.m.

Credible Mechanism

Shengwu Li (Harvard University)

3 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 4:15 p.m.

The Content of Data: Backing out Preferences in Non-strategy Proof Mechanisms

Caterina Calsamilglia (IPEG Barcelona)

4:15 – 5 p.m.

Information Acquisition and Provision in School Choice: An Experimental Study

Yan Chen (Univeristy of Michigan)

5 – 6 p.m.

Reception

8:45 – 9:15 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9:15 – 10 a.m.

Paying Rideshare Drivers for Pickups

Shane Auerbach (Lyft)

10 – 10:45 a.m.

Designing Driver Pricing Mechanisms for Uber's Ride-Hailing Market

Hamid Nazerzadeh (Uber and USC)

10:45 – 11:15 a.m.

Break

11:15 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Dashboard Mechanisms for Online Marketplaces

Jason Hartline (Northwestern University)

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 2:15 p.m.

Quality Selection in Two-Sided Markets: A Price Discrimination Approach

Ramesh Johari (Stanford University)

3 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 4:15 p.m.

Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Returns to Scale Using a Digital Platform Merger

Chiara Farronato (Harvard University)

4:15 – 5 p.m.

Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms

Ori Heffetz (Cornell University & Hebrew University)

5 – 6:15 p.m.

Lightning Talks

Shreyas Sekar (Harvard University), Nika Haghtalab (Cornell University), Krishn…

8:45 – 9:15 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9:15 – 10 a.m.

Leveraging Uncertainties to Infer Preferences: Robust Analysis of School Choice with Lotteries

Yinghua He (Rice University)

10 – 10:45 a.m.

Diversity in Matching Markets

John Dickerson (University of Maryland)

10:45 – 11:15 a.m.

Break

11:15 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Crowdsourcing Information in Informal Supply Chains

Irene Lo (Stanford University)

12 – 12:45 p.m.

Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Structural Models with Unobserved Choices

Yi Xin (Caltech)

12:45 – 2:15 p.m.

Lunch

2:15 – 3 p.m.

You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Consumer Search with Spatial Learning

Charles Hodgson (Yale University)