Seminar Schedule Spring 2015

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
Sequential Matching with Dynamic Preferences
 
January 30
Littauer Center
On the Hardness of Signaling

*please note different room location*
 
February 6
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)

How can we estimate the parameters of a graph by observing it's cascades? (2nd)
March 6
Littauer Center
Practical Revenue-Maximizing Mechanism Design for Selling Online Ads
*please note different room location*
March 13
A Topic Modeling Approach to Ranking
 
April 3
Bias and Reciprocity in Online Reviews:  Evidence from Field Experiments on Airbnb
 
April 10
Revenue maximization in interdependent value settings

*please note different room location*
 
April 24
Are you Going to Use That?  Contingent-Payment Mechanisms to Improve Coordination (1st)

Bonus or Not?  Learn to Reward in Crowdsourcing