TRANSATLANTIC THEORY
WORKSHOP 2025

Milan
September 1 - 2, 2025

Location: Bocconi University
Venue: TBD

The Transatlantic Theory Workshop is a conference hosted annually in one of the participating institutions below. For last year's program, see TTW 2024.

Institutions

• Bocconi University

• CREST - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, HEC Paris

• Northwestern University

• Oxford University

Schedule

Monday, 1 September

• 9:30 - 10:00 — Welcome Coffee
• 10:00 - 10:30 — Suraj Malladi (Northwestern University)
  Guarantees in Price Experimentation
• 10:30 - 11:00 — Cesar Barilla (Oxford University)
  When and What to Learn in a Changing World
• 11:00 - 11:30 — Coffee break
• 11:30 - 12:00 — Nikhil Vellodi (Paris School of Economics)
  Self-Prospecting: Optimal Experimentation Under Present Bias (with Polina Borisova)
• 12:00 - 12:30 — Francesco Bilotta (Bocconi University)
  Imperfect Metacognition in Multiple-Choice Tests
• 12:30 - 14:30 — Lunch
• 14:30 - 15:00 — Martino Banchio (Bocconi University)
  Pivot or Persist: Research on Rugged Landscapes (with Christoph Carnehl)
• 15:00 - 15:30 — Roberto Corrao (Stanford University)
  Resilience vs. Fragility: Robust Properties of Endogenous Production Networks (with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Joel Flynn, and Giacomo Lanzani)
• 15:30 - 16:00 — Coffee break
• 16:00 - 16:30 — Polina Borisova (Paris School of Economics)
  TikToks vs. Movies: How Short Content Keeps Us Scrolling (with Ivan Conjeaud)
• 16:30 - 17:00 — Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University)
  A Turing Test for LLMs (with Ben Golub and Annie Liang)
• 19:30 — Dinner (for speakers)

Tuesday, 2 September

• 9:30 - 10:00 — Welcome Coffee
• 10:00 - 10:30 — Nemanja Antic (Northwestern University)
  Monopoly Theory with Price-Increase Aversion
• 10:30 - 11:00 — Tangren Feng (Bocconi University)
  Interim Strategy-Proof Mechanisms (with Qinggong Wu)
• 11:00 - 11:30 — Coffee break
• 11:30 - 12:00 — En Hua Hu (Oxford University)
  Congestion in Matching (with Justin Hadad)
• 12:00 - 12:30 — Toan Le (Oxford University)
  Stability by Design
• 12:30 - 14:30 — Lunch
• 14:30 - 15:00 — Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University)
  Notions of Risk Aversion
• 15:00 - 15:30 — Ludvig Sinander (Oxford University)
  Outside Options and Risk Attitude (with Gregorio Curello and Mark Whitmeyer)
• 15:30 - 16:00 — Alexander Jakobsen (Northwestern University)
  Comparison of Decision Problems
• 16:00 - 16:30 — Coffee break
• 16:30 - 17:00 — Bassel Tarbush (Oxford University)
  Game Connectivity and Adaptive Dynamics (with Tom Johnston, Michael Savery, and Alex Scott)
• 17:00 - 17:30 — George Georgiadis (Northwestern University)
  Incentives and Selection (with Henrique Castro-Pires)

Organizers and Sponsor

Local Organizers: Marco Ottaviani, Martino Banchio
Organizers: Sandeep Baliga (Northwestern), Olivier Gossner (CREST), Margaret Meyer (Oxford), Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (Northwestern), Tristan Tomala (HEC)