2026 Program
Kansas Workshop in Economic Theory
May 8, 2026
Conference Program
Location: Kansas Memorial Union, Centennial Room. All times Central.
| Time | Session | ||
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| 8:50 a.m. | Opening Remarks: Shelley Hooks, Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Kansas | ||
Session 1Chair: Tarun Sabarwal, University of Kansas | |||
| 9:00 a.m. | Title: Optimal Cohort Partitions Presenter: Faidra Monachu, School of Management, Yale University | ||
| 9:30 a.m. | Title: Lexicographic Robustness and the Efficiency of Optimal Mechanisms Presenter: Ashwin Kambhampati, United States Naval Academy | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | Title: Social Attention and Information Transmission Presenter: David McAdams, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | ||
| 10:30 a.m. | Refreshment Break | ||
Session 2Chair: Chair: John Zhu, University of Kansas | |||
| 11:00 a.m. | Title: Two-clock models of learning and decision making Presenter: Svetlana Boyarchenko, University of Texas at Austin | ||
| 11:30 a.m. | Title: On a Game-Theoretic Reframing and a Generalization of Berge’s Maximum Theorem Presenter: M. Ali Khan, John Hopkins University | ||
| 12:00 p.m. | Title: The theory of order nearest equilibrium: Existence, computability, and stability Presenter: Tarun Sabarwal, University of Kansas | ||
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch Break | ||
Session 3Chair:Chair: Tarun Sabarwal, University of Kansas | |||
| 1:30 p.m. | Title: Auctions as Experiments Presenter: Ryota Iijima, Princeton University | ||
| 2:00 p.m. | Title: Whistleblowing Presenter: Ayca Kaya, University of Miami | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | Title: Distributional Preferences for Market Design Presenter: M. Bumin Yenmez, Washington University in St. Louis | ||
Session 4Chair:Chair: John Zhu, University of Kansas | |||
| 3:30 p.m. | Title: The Optimal Design of Countervailing Incentives Presenter: Bing Liu, Stanford University | ||
| 4:00 p.m. | Title: Match Effects and the Gains from Alternative Job Assignments: Evidence from a Teacher Labor Market Presenter: Mariana Laverde, Boston College
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| 4:30 p.m. | Title: Interventions Against Machine-Assisted Statistical Discrimination Presenter: John Zhu, University of Kansas | ||
| 5:00 p.m. | Closing remarks: Tarun Sabarwal, University of Kansas | ||