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Winter 2021

• Monday, January 18, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Natalia Fabra (University Carlos III of Madrid): Technology-Neutral vs. Technology-Specific Procurement (with Juan-Pablo Montero). [slides]
  Discussant: Vitali Gretschko (ZEW and University of Mannheim).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.

Fall 2020

• Monday, December 07, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn): Auctions with Frictions (with Asher Wolinsky). [slides]
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 23, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Shengwu Li (Harvard University): Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms (with Mohammad Akbarpour, Scott Kominers, and Paul Milgrom). [slides]
  Discussant: Nima Haghpanah (Penn State University).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, November 09, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University): How Do People Aggregate Ordinal Preferences? (with Sandro Ambuehl).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 26, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Nicholas Bedard (Wilfrid Laurier University): Ironing, Sweeping, and Multivariate Majorization: Optimal Mechanisms for Mass-Produced Goods (with Jacob Goeree and Ningyi Sun). [slides]
  Discussant: Charles Zheng (University of Western Ontario).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, October 12, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Tayfun Sönmez, (Boston College): Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing (with Parag Pathak, M. Utku Ünver, and M. Bumin Yenmez). [slides]
  Discussant: Scott Kominers (Harvard Business School).
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, September 28, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Yingni Guo (Northwestern University): Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting? (with Arjada Bardhi and Bruno Strulovici). [slides]
  A video of the talk is available on Youtube.
• Monday, September 14, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley): Exposure to Grocery Prices and Inflation Expectations (with Francesco D'Acunto, Juan Ospina, and Michael Weber). [slides]

Spring & Summer 2020

• Monday, July 27, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Eyal Winter (Hebrew University & Lancaster University): "Exploitative Priority Service" (with A. Gershkov). [slides]
• Monday, July 13, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Vasiliki Skreta (University of Texas at Austin & University College London): "Test Design Under Undetectable Falsification" (with E. Perez-Richet). [slides]
• Monday, June 29, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania): "Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination" (with K. Haggag, A. Imas and D.G. Pope). [slides]
• Monday, June 15, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford GSB): "Just a Few Seeds More: Value of Network Information for Diffusion" (with S. Malladi and A. Saberi). [slides]
  
• Monday, June 1, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Peter Cramton (University of Cologne): "Electricity Markets in Transition" (with E. Bobbio, D. Malec and P. Sujarittanonta). [slides]
• Monday, May 18, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn): "Extreme Points and Majorization: Economic Applications" (with A. Kleiner and P. Strack). [slides]
• Monday, May 4, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Renato Gomes (Toulouse School of Economics): "Regulating Platform Fees under Price Parity" (with A. Mantovani). [slides]
• Monday, April 20, 4:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Business School): "Redistribution through Markets" (with P. Dworczak and M. Akbarpour). [slides]
• Thursday, April 9, 2:00pm CET (Paris time).
  Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna): "Regulating Product Communication" (with S. Roy). [slides]