2025 Program


Kansas Workshop in Economic Theory

May 9, 2025

Conference Program
Location: Kansas Memorial Union, Centennial Room. All times Central.

 

TimeSession
8:50 a.m.

Opening Remarks:

Arash Mafi, Executive Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas

Session 1

Chair: Tarun Sabarwal, University of Kansas

9:00 a.m.

The Evolutionary Success of Moral Universalism vs Moral Particularism

Presenter: Michelle Avataneo, Kellogg School, Northwestern University

9:30 a.m.

 

Sequential team contests: alternating or specializing?

Presenter: Stefano Barbieri, Tulane University 

10:00 a.m.

 

Inertial Updating with General Information

Presenter: Matthew Kovach, Purdue University  

10:30 a.m.Refreshment Break

Session 2

Chair: Bernard Cornet, University of Kansas 

11:00 a.m.

Title: Dynamic Reward Design 

Presenter: Yijun Liu, Northwestern University 

11:30 a.m.

Money-metric complementarity and normal demand 

Presenter: Edward Schlee, Arizona State University

12:00 p.m.

Order nearest comparative statics of equilibria

Presenter: Tarun Sabarwal, University of Kansas 

12:30 p.m.Lunch Break
1:15 p.m.Spencer Museum of Art: Guided Tour
  

Session 3

Chair:John Zhu, University of Kansas 

2:30 p.m.

 

Rediscovery

Presenter: Suraj Malladi, Kellogg School, Northwestern University 

3:00 p.m.

Comparison of extensions of ratio equilibrium to local public good economies

Presenter: Anne van den Nouweland, University of Oregon

3:30 p.m.

 

Stable matching as transport: A welfarist perspective on market design 

Presenter: Federico Echenique, University of California at Berkeley 

  
4:00 p.m.Refreshment break

Session 4

Chair:Tarun Sabarwal, University of Kansas

4:30 p.m.

 

Limits to Disclosure in Competitive Search Markets 

Presenter: Silvana Krasteva, Texas A&M University 

5:00 p.m.

 

Title: Characterizing arbitrage-free Choquet pricing rules 

Presenter: Bernard Cornet, University of Kansas

 

5:30 p.m.

 

The Second Welfare Theorem for Quota Equilibrium

Presenter: Kevin Duanmu, Harbin Institute of Technology

6:00 p.m.Closing remarks: Tarun Sabarwal, University of Kansas