Seminar Schedule Spring 2016
Spring 2016
The EconCS Group holds an Economics and Computer Science research seminar each semester.
Spring 2016 meetings are held at 1:45 to 3:30pm Fridays in Maxwell Dworkin 221.
Seminar Coordinator for Spring'16 is Paul Tylkin, ptylkin@g.harvard.edu
February 19 | Chen Hajaj | Intelligent Mechanisms and Modern Markets Platforms | ||
March 4 | Bo Waggoner (1st) Debmalya Mandal (2nd)
| Informational Substitutes (1st) Correlated Voting (2nd) | ||
March 11 | Kevin Leyton-Brown | Incentive Auctions and Spectrum Repacking | ||
April 1 | Paul Tylkin (1st) Thibaut Horel (2nd)
| Thwarting Vote Buying in Random Sample Elections through Fake Ballots (1st) On the Complexity of Submodular Optimization with Error (2nd) | ||
April 8 | Renato Paes Leme | Feature-Based Dynamic Pricing | ||
April 15 | Chiara Farronato | Market Structure with the Entry of Peer-to-Peer Platforms: The Case of Hotels and Airbnb (Joint with Andrey Fradkin) | ||
April 22 | Ming Yin | Curiosity Killed the Cat, but Makes the Crowdwork Better | ||
April 29 | Harikrishna Narasimhan (1st) Emma Heikensten (2nd)
| A Statistical Framework for Strategy-proof Mechanism Design (1st) Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics (2nd) | ||
May 6 | Yang Liu (1st) Lior Seeman (2nd)
| A Bandit Framework for Strategic Regression (1st) An Intro to Bitcoin and the Blockchain (2nd) | ||
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