UNET

The UNET seminars continue!
📅 Tuesday, Oct 14, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 + online
Our next speaker is Mehmet Mars Seven (@mehmetmars7.bsky.social, King’s), presenting “Elo performance in sports.”
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/people/mehmet-ismail

Trailer: Collusion without Patience

The UNET seminars are back!
📅 Tuesdays, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 + online
The first talk is "Collusion without Patience" on Oct 7 by Toomas Hinnosaar (@toomas.hinnosaar.net), joint with Jacopo Bizzotto.
toomas.hinnosaar.net

The Limits of Limited Commitment (Forthcoming Article) - We study limited strategic leadership. A collection of subsets covering the leader’s action space determines her commitment opportunities. We characterize the outcomes resultin...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "The Limits of Limited Commitment" by Jacopo Bizzotto, Toomas Hinnosaar, and Adrien Vigier. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Map of Walmart Supercenter locations in North Dakota and neighbouring states. Sunday morning store closures impose significant costs on consumers, but supporters of such ‘blue laws’ argue these rules protect workers, family life, and small retailers. This column uses GPS data to study the effects of lifting North Dakota’s strict Sunday morning retail ban in 2019. After the repeal, Sunday morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel and shifting shopping to preferred times and stores. The consumer welfare loss from the ban was equivalent to an extra 1.4 miles (2.25 km) per shopping trip, highlighting a trade-off between a day of shared rest and consumer flexibility.

After a repeal of North Dakota's Sunday morning retail ban, morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel & shifting shopping to preferred times and stores.
J Donna, @marit.hinnosaar.net @toomas.hinnosaar.net @andre-trindade.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

Our final UNET seminar of the year is on May 20th by Rossella Argenziano (University of Essex), and she will present "Data governance with vulnerable individuals" (with Francesco Squintani). As usual, it is from 3-4pm in C43 and on Teams.
sites.google.com/site/rargenz...

The speaker for the next week's UNET seminar on Tuesday (May 6) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Gianni De Fraja (Nottingham). He presents "Discrimination spillovers, glass ceilings and pay gaps" (with Jozsef Sakovics)
sites.google.com/site/giannid...

The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 29) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Martin Cripps (UCL). He presents a paper, "The asymptotic cost of complexity".
sites.google.com/site/mwcripp...

The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 15) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Larry Samuelson (Yale). He presents a paper, "Delegated Bidding".
sites.google.com/site/larryat...

Congratulations to @marit.hinnosaar.net and @aggraziano.bsky.social on their promotion to Associate Professors! Well done, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social !

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 25) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. @fgiovannoni.bsky.social (Bristol) presents "Pricing Novel Goods" (with @toomas.hinnosaar.net ). sites.google.com/site/frances...

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 18) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Mikhail Safronov from @Cambridge_Uni presents "Strategic renegotiation in repeated games" (with Bruno Strulovici).
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr...

Our first UNET seminar in 2025 is on Tuesday (March 4) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Jack Fanning (Brown University) presents "Searching for surplus"
sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/...

Our final UNET seminar of the calendar year is on Tuesday (Dec 10) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv/UCL), presents "Competitive markets with diversely discerning consumers" (joint with Yair Antler)
www.ranspiegler.sites.tau.ac.il

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (Dec 3) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams by Alex Possajennikov (Nottingham), who presents "Unbeatable Strategies in Games".
sites.google.com/view/alex-po...

Our next UNET seminar is an online seminar next Tuesday (Nov 26) from 3-4 pm by Sinem Hidir (Warwick), who presents "Political influence through microtargeting" (with Michael Eldar).
sites.google.com/site/sinemhi...

Next week, we'll have another UNET seminar on Thursday (Nov 7) from 2-3 pm at C43 and on Teams. Joel Flynn (Yale) presents "Optimally Coarse Contracts."
joelflynn.com

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (Nov 5) from 3-4 at C43 and on Teams by Indrajit Ray (Cardiff). He presents "Any outcome is an equilibrium in a market."
sites.google.com/site/indrara...

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (Oct 22) from 3-4 at C43 and on Teams by Stephan Jagau (NUBS). He presents "Context-dependent expected utility".
sites.google.com/view/stephan...

UNET Theory Seminars are back!
Kicking off with David Kelsey (NUBS) presenting "Ambiguity and the Centipede Game" on Oct 8, 3-4pm in C43. More about David's work: sites.google.com/view/david-k...
Full seminar list for the year: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...

The next UNET seminar is on Tuesday at A48 @UoNEconomics from 3-4 pm. Vincent Anesi (Luxembourg) presents "The Politics of Bargaining as a Group" (with @PeterBuisseret). sites.google.com/site/vincent...

Our next UNET seminar will be on Tuesday (March 12) from 3-4 pm at C43. The speaker is Ina Taneva from the University of Edinburgh, and she will present "Strategic ignorance and information design," (with Thomas Wiseman). sites.google.com/site/itaneva...

Happy 2024! May all your models be relevant, proofs gapless, and parameters identified (if that's your cup of tea)!

Next Tuesday from 3-4, we're excited to host the final UNET seminar of the year! Join us as Ludvig Sinander (Oxford) presents "The Comparative Statics of Persuasion," (with Gregorio Curello). The seminar is a hybrid format (DM
@toomash.bsky.social for a link). www.ludvigsinander.net

We are excited to host our upcoming UNET virtual seminar on Tuesday, 3-4 PM (UK time)! Laura Doval will present "The Core of Bayesian Persuasion" (joint work with Ran Eilat).
www.dropbox.com/s/k8tvifa3jg...