Speaker: Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago) Title: Inequality Aversion, Populism, and the Backlash Against Globalization Abstract: Motivated by the recent rise of populism in western democracies, we develop a model in which a populist […]
Speaker: Yi-Zhuang You (UCSD) Title: Machine Learning Physics: From Quantum Mechanics to Holographic Geometry Abstract: Inspired by the "third wave" of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning has found rapid applications in various topics of physics research. Perhaps one of the most […]
Speaker: Shengwu Li (Harvard) Title: Credible Mechanisms Abstract: Consider an extensive-form mechanism, run by an auctioneer who communicates sequentially and privately with agents. Suppose the auctioneer can deviate from the rules provided that no single agent […]