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Spring 2015
The EconCS Group holds an Economics and Computer Science research seminar each semester.
Spring 2015 meetings are held at 1:45 to 3:30pm Fridays in Maxwell Dworkin 123.
Seminar Coordinator for '14-'15: Thibaut Horel, thibaut.horel@gmail.com
Link to Google Calendar with EconCS Seminar Schedule and other talks of interest in the Boston Area is Here.
| January 22 | Hadi Hosseini |
Sequential Matching with Dynamic Preferences |
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January 30 |
Shaddin Dughmi |
On the Hardness of Signaling |
| February 6 | Bo Waggoner |
Fair Information Sharing for Treasure Hunting |
| February 13 | Darrell Hoy |
When the Output Affects the Input: Robust Analysis & Design of Non-Truthful Mechanisms |
| February 20 |
Chien-Ju Ho (1st) Jean Pouget-Avadie (2nd) |
Incentivizing High Quality Crowdwork (1st) |
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March 6 Littauer Center |
Practical Revenue-Maximizing Mechanism Design for Selling Online Ads |
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| March 13 | Prakash Ishwar |
A Topic Modeling Approach to Ranking |
| April 3 | Andrey Fradkin (NBER) |
Bias and Reciprocity in Online Reviews: Evidence from Field Experiments on Airbnb |
| April 10 | Shuchi Chawla |
Revenue maximization in interdependent value settings |
| April 24 |
Hongyao Ma (1st) Ming Yin (2nd) |
Are you Going to Use That? Contingent-Payment Mechanisms to Improve Coordination (1st) Bonus or Not? Learn to Reward in Crowdsourcing |