How do rational people behave? How do various markets function? What are their welfare properties? How to regulate a market when it fails? Should health markets be liberalized? How to allocate radio spectrum rights to operators? Do voting mechanisms matter? How to optimize internet search engines or trading mechanisms? Should public building projects be initiated and, if so, how should they be financed? How to match human organ donors with patients in a need of a transplant?
Microeconomics Research Group
Microeconomics begins on individual decision making and, from this foundation, builds a theory of economic mechanisms. Game theoretic techniques are used to capture rational and strategic aspects of behavior.
The theory is partly basic research, building solid and tractable foundations for economics. But modern microeconomic theory is also much more. It is, in particular, vital in solving practical real world problems. For example, theoretical tools are needed to evaluate how different – often hypothetical – economic institutions work. This knowledge is crucial in designing our economic environment. Often the questions pertain to the design of regulatory frameworks or trading mechanisms.
Microeconomics Reading Group
Members
Daniel Hauser
Chair of the group,
Assistant Professor
daniel.hauser at aalto.fi
Homepage
Michele Crescenzi
Member,
Post-doc
michele.crescenzi at helsinki.fi
Marja-Liisa Halko
Member,
University Lecturer
marja-liisa.halko at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Topi Hokkanen
Member,
PhD student
topi.h.hokkanen at aalto.fi
Mitri Kitti
Member,
Lecturer
mitri.kitti at aalto.fi
Jan Knoepfle
Member,
Post-doc
jan.knoepfle at aalto.fi
Homepage
Klaus Kultti
Member,
Professor
klaus.kultti at helsinki.fi
Anustup Kundu
Member,
PhD student
anustup.kundu at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Nino Lindström
Member,
PhD student
nino.lindstrom at helsinki.fi
Matti Liski
Member,
Professor
matti.liski at aalto.fi
Eero Mäenpää
Member,
PhD student
eero.maenpaa at aalto.fi
Peter H. Matthews
Member,
Visiting professor
peter.matthews at aalto.fi
Homepage
Topi Miettinen
Member,
Professor
topi.miettinen at hanken.fi
Amin Mohazab
Member,
PhD student
amin.mohazabrahimzadeh at aalto.fi
Pauli Murto
Member,
Professor
pauli.murto at aalto.fi
Homepage
Aleksi Paavola
Member,
PhD student
aleksi.m.paavola at aalto.fi
Petteri Palonen
Member,
PhD student
petteri.palonen at helsinki.fi
Teemu Pekkarinen
Member,
PhD student
teemu.pekkarinen at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Jorge Soria
Member,
PhD student
jorge.soria at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Juuso Välimäki
Member,
Professor
juuso.valimaki at aalto.fi
Homepage
Hannu Vartiainen
Member,
Professor
hannu.vartiainen at helsinki.fi
Upcoming Seminars
11 Sep 2019
Microeconomics
Robust bidding and revenue in descending price auction
- Sarah Auster
- University of Mannheim and Bocconi University
23 Oct 2019
Microeconomics
Experts, Quacks and Fortune-Tellers: Dynamic Cheap Talk with Career Concerns
- Egor Starkov
- University of Copenhagen
22 Oct 2019
Microeconomics
Microeconomics PhD Workshop
13 Nov 2019
Microeconomics
Information Acquisition in Social Learning
- Helene Mass
- Bonn
4 Dec 2019
Microeconomics
On the Importance of Social Status for Labor Markets
- Pawel Gola
- BI
29 Nov 2019
Microeconomics
Mechanism design with farsighted agents (with Ville Korpela)
- Michele Lombardi
- Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
11 Mar 2020
Microeconomics
Nash bargaining with endogenous outside options
- Eduard Talamàs
- IESE
29 May 2020
Microeconomics
Microeconomics PhD Workshop
23 Sep 2020
Microeconomics
Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting? (with Yingni Guo and Bruno Strulovici)
- Arjada Bardhi
- Duke
21 Oct 2020
Microeconomics
Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information (joint with Xiaosheng Mu and Vasilis Syrgkanis)
- Annie Liang
- University of Pennsylvania
18 Nov 2020
Microeconomics
“Are Simple Mechanisms Optimal when Agents are Unsophisticated?” (with Piotr Dworczak).
- Jiangtao Li
- Singapore Management University
2 Dec 2020
Microeconomics
“Multi-Dimensional Screening with Buyer-Optimal Learning” (joint with Rahul Deb)
- Anne-Katrin Roesler
- University of Toronto
9 Dec 2020
Microeconomics
“Strategic Disclosure in Research Races,” joint with Kalyan Chatterjee and Kaustav Das
- Miaomiao Dong
- Penn State
7 Oct 2020
Microeconomics
Inspecting Experimentation
- Jan Knoepfle
- Aalto
4 Nov 2020
Microeconomics
Incentives for Collective Innovation
- Gregorio Curello
- Bonn
24 Feb 2021
Microeconomics
Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specifications: Theory and Applications (Joint with Jonathan Libgober)
- Kevin He
- University of Pennsylvania
10 Mar 2021
Microeconomics
Communication in the shadow of catastrophe
- Inga Deimen
- University of Arizona
19 May 2021
Microeconomics
Robust Monopoly Regulation
- Yingni Guo
- Northwestern
24 Mar 2021
Microeconomics
Reputation Building under Obervational Learning
- Harry Pei
- Northwestern
5 May 2021
Microeconomics
Insider Imitation
- Erik Madsen
- NYU
21 Apr 2021
Microeconomics
Global manipulation by local obfuscation
- Fei Li
- UNC
2 Jun 2021
Microeconomics
Paying with Information
- Ayca Kaya
- University of Miami
16 Jun 2021
Microeconomics
Search, Matching, and Signaling: Do Markets Help Relationships? (From 3-4pm)
- Arda Gitmez
- Bilkent
31 May 2021
Microeconomics
Microeconomics PhD Workshop
15 Sep 2021
Microeconomics
Tests of Bayesian Rationality
- Pooya Molavi
- Northwestern
22 Sep 2021
Microeconomics
Equilibrium Existence in Independent Private Value First-Price Auctions
- Ron Siegel
- Penn State
6 Oct 2021
Microeconomics
Wealth Dynamics in Communities (with Yingni Guo and Bryony Reich)
- Daniel Barron
- Northwestern
17 Nov 2021
Microeconomics
Purchase history and product personalization (Joint with Vasiliki Skreta)
- Laura Doval
- Columbia
1 Dec 2021
Microeconomics
Dynamic Price Competition: Theory and Evidence from Airline Markets (joint with Ali Hortacsu, and Kevin R. Williams)
- Aniko Oery
- Yale
20 Oct 2021
Microeconomics
“Misconduct, Peer Learning, and Strategic Enforcement,” (joint with Kai Du, Phillip Stocken and Zhe Wang)
- Yi Chen
- Cornell
3 Nov 2021
Microeconomics
“Probabilistic Verification in Mechanism Design” (joint with Deniz Kattwinkel)
(NOTE EXCEPTIONAL TIME)
- Ian Ball
- MIT
12 Jan 2022
Microeconomics
Microeconomics PhD Workshop
2 Mar 2022
Microeconomics
Optimal Contests with Incomplete Information and Convex Effort Costs
- Mengxi Zhang
- University of Bonn
16 Mar 2022
Microeconomics
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects (With Debraj Ray)
- Paula Onuchic
- Oxford
30 Mar 2022
Microeconomics
Computing and Comparing Measures of Rationality
- Lasse Mononen
- University of Zurich
27 Apr 2022
Microeconomics
Subjective Causality in Choice (with Andrew Ellis)
- Heidi Thysen
- NHH
25 May 2022
Microeconomics
Should the timing of inspections be predictable? (with Ian Ball)
- Jan Knoepfle
- Aalto
25 May 2022
Microeconomics
