Past seminars
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MET Seminar - Ran Shorrer
17:00 - 18:00 5 March 2025
Title: Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models Authors: Sara Fish, Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Ran I. Shorrer Abstract: The rise of algorithmic pricing raises concerns of algorithmic collusion. We conduct experiments with algorithmic pricing agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs). We find...
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MET Seminar - Bettina Klaus
17:00 - 18:00 26 February 2025
Title: Happy birthday TTC! A survey and some recent results Abstract: I present a survey talk commemorating more that 50 years of Gale's famous top trading cycles (TTC) algorithm. The classical housing market model and the TTC algorithm were introduced by Shapley and Scarf (1974) in their seminal paper...
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MET Seminar - Claudia Herresthal
17:00 - 18:00 27 November 2024
Speaker website: http://www.cherresthal.com/ Contact: david.delacretaz@manchester.ac.uk
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MET Seminar - Claudia Herresthal
17:00 - 18:00 27 November 2024
Title: Data linkage between Markets: Does the Emergence of an Informed Insurer Cause Consumer Harm? Abstract: A merger of two companies active in seemingly unrelated markets creates data linkage: by operating in a product market, the merged company acquires an informational advantage in an insurance...
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MET Seminar - Dimitri Migrow
17:00 - 18:00 20 November 2024
Title: Disclosure in insurance markets with limited screening (joint with Andriy Zapechelnyuk) Abstract: We investigate the impact of information disclosure, via a statistical instrument, on consumer welfare in competitive insurance markets with limited screening. We demonstrate that, under natural...
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