"Applied theorists of all departments, UNITE!"
Applied Theory Reading Group (ATRG) is a "joint venture" among Ph.D. students at the Rotman School of Management and the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto, which I initiated in January 2017. It is supervised by the Economic Analysis & Policy faculty, and has benefited from the support of Heski Bar-Isaac, Matt Mitchell, April Franco, Ig Horstmann, Frank Mathewson, and many others over the years. The purpose of this reading group is to bring together Ph.D. students from different disciplines whose research uses similar theoretical tools in economics.
Meetings are typically held once every two weeks. The group was paused for a long time during the COVID-19 period, and resumed in February 2021 in an online format (should be in person now). Members of ATRG are expected to present, in turn, either frontier applied theory papers or their own work.
If you are interested in receiving notifications about the reading group, you may try contacting the current organizers. I do not know who they are, or even whether the group is still active. You might try emailing applied theorists at Rotman to find an answer :)
Please note that no cookies, sandwiches, salads, coffee, beer, or printed papers will be provided. Feel free to bring your own (and share with others).
This page will not be updated, as I have graduated from U of T.
Applied Theory Reading Group (ATRG) is a "joint venture" among Ph.D. students at the Rotman School of Management and the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto, which I initiated in January 2017. It is supervised by the Economic Analysis & Policy faculty, and has benefited from the support of Heski Bar-Isaac, Matt Mitchell, April Franco, Ig Horstmann, Frank Mathewson, and many others over the years. The purpose of this reading group is to bring together Ph.D. students from different disciplines whose research uses similar theoretical tools in economics.
Meetings are typically held once every two weeks. The group was paused for a long time during the COVID-19 period, and resumed in February 2021 in an online format (should be in person now). Members of ATRG are expected to present, in turn, either frontier applied theory papers or their own work.
If you are interested in receiving notifications about the reading group, you may try contacting the current organizers. I do not know who they are, or even whether the group is still active. You might try emailing applied theorists at Rotman to find an answer :)
Please note that no cookies, sandwiches, salads, coffee, beer, or printed papers will be provided. Feel free to bring your own (and share with others).
This page will not be updated, as I have graduated from U of T.
Upcoming meetings
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Date and Location
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Past meetings
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Date
Apr 19, 2022 Apr 5, 2022 Mar 22, 2022 Feb 22, 2022 Feb 8, 2022 Dec 9, 2021 Nov 26, 2021 Nov 12, 2021 Oct 29, 2021 Oct 15, 2021 Oct 1, 2021 Jun 18, 2021 May 14, 2021 Apr 30, 2021 Apr 16, 2021 Mar 19, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 Feb 27, 2020 Feb 13, 2020 Jan 30, 2020 |
Speaker
Zirou Chen Sijie Lin Paul Han Ben Couillard Noemie Bucourt Zheng Gong Setareh Farajollahzadeh Ramtin Salamat Adel Khusnulgatin Sijie Lin Noemie Bucourt Paul Han Tommaso Alba Ruizhi Zhu Setareh Farajollahzadeh Sijie Lin Noemie Bucourt Zheng Gong Enhua Hu Ruoxi Xie |
Paper
"Predictive accuracy, search intensity, and product recommendation" (2022), working paper, Zirou Chen and Mengze Shi "Segmentation versus Agglomeration: Competition between Platforms and Competitive Sellers" (2020), JPE, Karle et al. "Turning Up the Heat: The Discouraging Effect of Competition in Contests" (2020), JPE, Fang, Noe, and Strack "A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods" (2016), Econometrica, Bayer, McMillan, Murphy, and Timmins "ESG Investing: How to Optimize Impact?" (2022), working paper, Augustine Landier and Stefano Lovo "What the Past Tells about the Future: Historical Price in the Durable Good Markets" (2021), working paper, Gong, Huang, and Chen "Potty parity: Process Flexibility of Unisex Restrooms" (2021), working paper, Setareh Farajollahzadeh and Ming Hu "Optimal information disclosure to convince the crowd" (2021), working paper, Ramtin Salamat "Reputation and Venture Capitalism" (2021), working paper, Adel Khusnulgatin "Monitoring Team Members: Information Waste andthe Self-Promotion Trap" (2021), working paper, Camboni and Porcellacchia "Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice" (2021), working paper, Andrey Malenko, Nadya Malenko, and Chester S. Spatt "Confidence Management in Tournaments" (2021), working paper, Deng, Fang, Fu, and Wu "Killer acquisitions and Beyond: Policy effects on Innovation Strategies" (2020), working paper, Letina, Schmutzler and Seibel "Bargaining with Information of a Persistent Type" (2021), working paper, Ruizhi Zhu "Sharing Newsboys" (2021), working paper, Setareh Farajollahzadeh and Ming Hu "The Value of Incumbency When Platforms Face Hetereogeneous Consumers" (2020), AEJ-Micro, Biglaiser and Cremer "Exit versus Voice" (2020), working paper, Eleonora Broccardo, Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales "Managing Buzz" (2017), Rand Journal of Economics, Arthur Campbell, Dina Mayzlin and Jiwoong Shin "Attention Please!" (2019), working paper, Olivier Gossner, Jakub Steiner and Colin Stewart "The Allocation of Future Business: Dynamic Relational Contracts with Multiple Agents" (2016), American Economic Review, Isaiah Andrews and Daniel Barron |
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Date
Nov 28, 2019 Nov 7, 2019 Oct 17, 2019 Oct 3, 2019 Sep 17, 2019 Apr 9, 2019 Mar 19, 2019 Mar 5, 2019 Feb 19, 2019 Jan 15, 2019 |
Speaker
Tommaso Alba Ruizhi Zhu Noémie Bucourt Zheng Gong Setareh Farajollahzadeh Daphné Baldassari Yan Xiong Ruoxi Xie Ruizhi Zhu Tommaso Alba |
Paper
"A model of patent trolls" (2018), International Economic Review, Jay Pil Choi and Heiko Gerlach "Crime Engagement, Deterrence, and Witness Credibility" (2019), working paper, Harry Pei and Bruno Strulovici "Information Cascades and Threshold Implementation" (2019), working paper, Lin William Cong and Yizhou Xiao "Optimal Dynamic Allocation of Attention" (2019), American Economic Review, Che and Mierendorff "Network Games" (2010), The Review of Economic Studies, Galeotti, Goyal, Jackson, Vega-Redondo and Yariv "The Risk of Failure: Trial and Error Learning and Long-Run Performance" (2019), AEJ Micro, Callander and Matouschek "Banks as Secret Keepers" (2017), American Economic Review, Dang, Gorton, Holmstrom and Ordonez "Consumer Obfuscation by a Multiproduct Firm" (2018), RAND Journal of Economics, Vaiva Petrikaite "Attention Oligopoly" (2019), working paper, Andrea Prat and Tommaso M. Valletti "Input complementarity, patent trolls and unproductive entrepreneurship" (2018), IJIO, John Turner |
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Nov 27, 2018
Nov 13, 2018 Oct 23, 2018 Oct 2, 2018 Sep 18, 2018 Sep 4, 2018 Apr 10, 2018 Mar 27, 2018 Mar 13, 2018 Feb 27, 2018 Feb 12, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 Jan 16, 2018 |
Michelangelo Rossi
Ruizhi Zhu Daphné Baldassari Zheng Gong Michelangelo Rossi Ruoxi Xie Yan Xiong Zheng Gong Qianjun Lyu Moein Javadian Ruizhi Zhu Wei Lu Ruoxi Xie |
"Reputation and Competition: Theory and Evidence from Airbnb" (2018), working paper, Michelangelo Rossi
"Evidence Games: Truth and Commitment" (2017), American Economic Review, Hart, Kremer and Perry "Two Sided Reputation in Certification Markets" (2017), Management Science, Matthieu Bouvard and Raphael Levy "Moving the Goalposts" (2018), forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy, Jeffrey Ely and Martin Szydlowski "Should Buyers or Sellers Organize Trade in a Frictional Market?" (2018), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Shi and Delacroix "False Advertising" (2018), Rand Journal of Economics, Andrew Rhodes and Chris Wilson "Managerial Short Termism and Market Competition" (2018), working paper, Yan Xiong "Tourture and the Commitment Problem" (2016), Review of Economic Studies, Sandeep Baliga and Jeffery Ely "Competition in Persuasion" (2017), Review of Economic Studies, Matthew Gentzkow and Emir Kamenica "Match Your Own Price? Self-Matching as a Retailer’s Multichannel Pricing Strategy" (2017), Marketing Science, Kireyev, Kumar and Ofek "Advertising and Attachment: Exploiting Loss Aversion through Pre-purchase Information" (2017), Rand Journal, Karle and Schumacher "Multiproduct Intermediaries and Optimal Product Range" (2017), working paper, Rhodes, Watanabe and Zhou "Agenda Chasing and Contests Among News Providers" (2017), Rand Journal of Economics, Katona, Knee and Sarvary |
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Nov 21, 2017
Nov 7, 2017 Oct 17, 2017 Oct 3, 2017 Sep 19, 2017 Sep 5, 2017 Apr 18, 2017 Apr 4, 2017 Mar 14, 2017 Feb 28, 2017 Feb 9, 2017 Jan 17, 2017 |
Zheng Gong
Ruizhi Zhu Qianjun Lyu Wei Lu Ruoxi Xie Yan Xiong Ying Bao Zheng Gong Yan Xiong Rami Abou-Seido Ying Bao Zheng Gong |
"Dynamic Mechanism without Money" (2017), working paper, Yingni Guo and Johannes Horner
"Cheap Talk with Transparent Motives" (2017), working paper, Elliot Lipnowski and Doron Ravid "Deliberating Collective Decisions" (2017), Review of Economic Studies, Chan, Lizzeri, Suen and Yariv "Raising Search Costs to Deter Window Shopping can Increase Profits and Welfare" (2017), Rand Journal of Economics, Greg Taylor "Consumer Search with Observational Learning" (2017), Rand Journal of Economics, Daniel Garcia and Sandro Shelegia "The Paradox of Pledgeability" (2017), Working Paper, Donaldson, Gromp and Piacentino "Consumer Inattention and Bill-Shock Regulation" (2015), Review of Economic Studies, Michael Grubb. "Dynamic Delegation of Experimentation" (2016), American Economic Review, Yingni Guo. "Government Intervention and Information Aggregation by Price" (2015), Journal of Finance, Philip Bond and Itay Goldstein "Disclosure in Relationships" (2017), Working Paper, Rami Abou-Seido "Getting to the Top of Mind: How reminder increase saving" (2016), Management Science, Dean Karlan et al. "Power Dynamic in Organization" (2017), AEJ Micro, Li, Matouschek and Powell |
