I'm going to be a busy boy at the AEA/ASSA meetings, since as president of the AEA I'll preside over many champagne receptions and a few other things. But the conference looks like fun. Here are just a few of the sessions that particularly caught my eye, even though I have conflicts with some of them...
Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Liberty Ballroom
Hosted By: ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY Econometric Society Presidential Address
Drew Fudenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Liberty Ballroom Salon A
Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
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Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Meeting Room 305
Hosted By: ECONOMIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
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Hosted By: ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY
Pennsylvania Convention Center, 201-C
Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon G & H
Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION Presiding: David Scharfstein, Harvard Business School
Speaker: Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago
Session/Event
Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon G & H
Hosted By: American Economic Association
Econometric Society Presidential Address
Session/Event
Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Drew Fudenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speaker(s)
Drew Fudenberg
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Learning, Experimentation, and Equilibrium Refinements
Economic Applications of Machine Learning
Paper Session
Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
- Chair: Daniel Björkegren, Brown University
A Large Scale Model of Travel Time and User Choice Behavior
Behavior Revealed in Mobile Phone Usage Predicts Loan Repayment
Estimating Poverty and Wealth From Mobile Phone Data
Forecasting Economic Activity With Yelp Data
Discussant(s)
Michael Luca
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Harvard Business School
Marshall Burke
,
Stanford University
Greg Lewis
,
Microsoft Research
Shane Greenstein
,
Harvard Business School
Like Everybody Else: Experimental Economics of Conformity, Image, and Identity
Paper Session
Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
- Chair: James Andreoni, University of California-San Diego
Identity and Impact in Public Goods Contributions: A Field Experiment on Wikipedia
Status Goods: Experimental Evidence From Platinum Credit Cards
Preference Endogeneity and Conformity
The Conformity Trap: Adaptation and Stagnation of Social Norms in a Changing World
Discussant(s)
Alain Cohn
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University of Michigan
Desmond Ang
,
University of California-San Diego
Florian Ederer
,
Yale University
Ariel Rubinstein
,
New York University
Large Matching Markets
Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Meeting Room 406
- Chair: SangMok Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Stable Matching in Large Economies
The Cutoff Structure of Top Trading Cycles in School Choice
Need Versus Merit: The Large Core of College Admissions Markets
Top Trading Cycles in Two-Sided Matching Markets: An Irrelevance of Priorities in Large Matching Markets
Discussant(s)
Eduardo Azevedo
,
University of Pennsylvania
Utku Unver
,
Boston College
Scott Duke Kominers
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Harvard University
Atila Abdulkadiroglu
,
Duke University
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Inner Workings of Organ Markets and Organ Allocation
Paper Session
Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
- Chair: Eric Budish, University of Chicago
The Inner Workings of Kidney Exchange Markets
A Regulated Market for Kidneys
Strategic Behavior in the Kidney Waitlist
Discussant(s)
Utku Unver
,
Boston College
Glen Weyl
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Microsoft Research
Benjamin R. Handel
,
University of California-Berkeley
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Here are some sessions I'm looking forward to attending ex officio:
AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon - Fee Event
Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 12:30 PM - 2:15 PM
- Chair: David Scharfstein, Harvard Business School
Speaker: Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago
Speaker(s)
Raghuram Rajan
,
University of Chicago
Topic: Liquidity and Leverage
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Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
- Speaker: David Laibson, Harvard University
- Chair: Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Chair: Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Chair: Alvin E. Roth, Stanford University
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AEA Nobel Laureate Luncheon-Fee Event
Session/Event
Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018 12:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Presiding: Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics--
Speakers: Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
AEA Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address
Session/Event
Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Presiding: Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Speaker: Alvin E. Roth, Stanford University
Topic: Markets and Marketplaces
New Insights on Classic Questions in Matching Theory
Paper Session
Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
The Lattice of Envy-free Matchings
Deferred Acceptance with Compensation Chains
Virtual Demand and Stable Mechanisms
Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria
Discussant(s)
Alexander Teytelboym
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University of Oxford
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