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Transatlantic Theory Workshop 2026
September 9 - 10, 2026
The Kellogg School of Management is pleased to host the Transatlantic Theory Workshop 2026. This annual event gathers researchers in economic theory from Northwestern University, the University of Oxford, and institutions from the Paris area.
Agenda
TIME
EVENT
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Francesco Bilotta, Bocconi University, "Delegated Information Provision"
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Suraj Malladi, Northwestern University - Kellogg, "Space Exploration"
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Daniel Quigley, University of Oxford, "Divide and confer: Aggregating information without verification"
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Julian Chitiva, HEC Paris, "Sequential Redistribution in Networked Exchange Economies"
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Bocconi University, "Robust Mean-Variance Approximations" (with Fabio Maccheroni and Massimo Marinacci)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch, 4101
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Franz Ostrizek, Sciences Po, "The Noise is in the Mind: Existence of Trading Equilibria with Transparent Prices" (with Elia Sartori)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Peter Eso, University of Oxford, “Creating Experts” (with Sophie Kreutzkamp and Dezso Szalay)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Pooya Molavi, Northwestern University - Kellogg, "The Empirical Content of Bayesian Updating under Misspecification"
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Justin Hadad, University of Oxford, "Balancing welfare and distributional goals in school choice" (with Irene Lo and Ivan Aleksandar-Mavrov)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Cocktail Reception
6:00 PM
Dinner – by invitation only
TIME
EVENT
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
En Hua Hu, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, "How rich are mixture attitudes? Theory and Experiments"
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Roberto Saitto, Northwestern University - Kellogg, “Algorithm-Robust Market Design” (with Lea Nagel and Martino Banchio)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Olivier Gossner, ´Ecole polytechnique-CREST, "Direct Representations for Interim Correlated Rationalizability" ( with Rafael Veiel)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Nicola Persico, Northwestern University - Kellogg, "Exit, Voice, and Polarization" (with Enrichetta Ravina)
11:30 AM - 12:00PM
Marco Ottaviani, Bocconi University, "Local Comparison of Experiments: What is the Best Voting Rule?” (with Alfredo Di Tillio and Peter N. Sørensen)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch, 4101
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Nikhil Vellodi, Paris School of Economics, "AI Overviews" (with Erik Madsen)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University, “Engagement Design” (with Daniel Fershtman)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Christoph Carnehl, Bocconi University, "Research Programs" (with Martino Banchio)
3:30 PM
Closing remarks