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Conference

2026 Conference on Economic Theory

Organizers: Kai Hao Yang (Yale) and Nima Haghpanah (Yale)

Presenters: upload your slides.

The Cowles Summer Conferences at Yale SOM are by invitation only. Registration details can be found in your formal invitation. All participants are expected to abide by the Cowles Foundation Code of Professional Conduct.

Tuesday & Wednesday, June 2-3, 2026

The agenda below is tentative and subject to change.

Tuesday, June 2
Time Title Presented by

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast and Registration

9:00 - 10:00 AM

"Informational Content of Auction Prices" (joint with Yu Awaya and Eduard Osipov)

Vijay Krishna (Penn State)

10:00 - 10:15 AM

Break

10:15 - 11:15 AM

“Anonymous Network Formation” (joint with Itai Arieli and Wade Hann-Caruthers)

Leonie Baumann (McGill University)

11:15 - 11:30 AM

Break

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

"Self-confirming mechanisms" (joint with Zhiming Feng)

Qingmin Liu (Columbia University)

12:30 - 1:45 PM

Lunch

1:45 - 2:45 PM

“Why Anecdotes?” (joint with Nina Bobkova)

Arjada Bardhi (New York University)

2:45 - 3:00 PM

Break

3:00 - 4:00 PM

"Nash Bargaining in Coalitional Games"

Rajiv Vohra (Brown University)

4:00 - 4:15 PM

Break

4:15 - 5:15 PM

"Robust Pricing for Cloud Computing" (joint with Dirk Bergemann)

Rahul Deb (Boston College)

6:00 PM

Dinner - Barcelona Wine Bar, 155 Temple Street

Wednesday, June 3
Time Title Presented by

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 AM

"Learning vs. Optimizing Bidders in Budgeted Auctions"

Eva Tardos (Cornell University)

10:00 - 10:15 AM

Break

10:15 - 11:15 AM

"Nash bargaining with endogenous outside options" 

Eduard Talamas (IESE Business School)

11:15 - 11:30 AM

Break

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

"Strategically Controlling Worldviews"

Cuimin Ba (University of Pittsburgh)

12:30 - 1:45 PM

Lunch

1:45 - 2:45 PM

"Distracted Learning"

Axel Anderson (Georgetown University)

2:45 - 3:00 PM

Break

3:00 - 4:00 PM

"Comparing Experiments in Discounted Problems"

Mark Whitmeyer (Arizona State University)

4:00 - 4:15 PM

Break

4:15 - 5:15 PM

"Comparing Similarity"

Joyee Deb (New York University)

5:15 PM

Adjourn

* Speaker

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How do I get to the conference location from the Blake Hotel?

The conference will be held at the Yale School of Management (SOM), Evans Hall located at 165 Whitney Ave and is about a 20 minute walk from the Blake Hotel. The easiest route to SOM from the Blake Hotel is to go south-east on George Street and turn left on Temple St. Temple will merge into Whitney Avenue. SOM will be on the right side of the street across from the Peabody Museum (see map below).

How do I get to the conference location from the Omni Hotel?

The conference will be held at the Yale School of Management (SOM), Evans Hall located at 165 Whitney Ave and is about a 15 minute walk from the Omni Hotel. The easiest route to SOM from the Omni Hotel is to go north on Temple St. which merges into Whitney Avenue. SOM will be on the right side of the street across from the Peabody Museum (see map below).

What can I do in New Haven during my stay?
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