The Microeconomic Theory Research Group hosts regular events that bring together experts from within the University of Bath, other institutions and the wider industry.
A workshop on the role of auctions in the allocation of resources
22 - 23 May 2025
This workshop examined the role of auctions in allocating resources in various fields and industries, including economic, social, and computational.
The two-day event brought together researchers and industry professionals for a range of sessions covering theoretical and empirical research around this topic.
It included insights from guest speakers (details below) who shared their perspectives and detailed recent advancements and key challenges.
| Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|
| Dr Elizabeth Baldwin - University of Oxford | Product-mix auctions |
| Professor Todd Kaplan - University of Exeter and University of Haifa | A natural experiment in fair division: Armageddon chess |
| Professor Indrajit Ray - Cardiff University | An experiment on the role of priors in a discrete bid Japanese English auction for a wallet game |
| Dr Aleksei Chernulich - Durham University | Duels between duals: Compensation auctions |
| Dr Xiaoyu Zhou - University of Nottingham | Market selection of strategic thinking types |
| Professor Subhasish M Chowdhury - University of Sheffield | Optimal reimbursement schemes in contests |
| Dr Sohail Ahmed - Lead Structurer, EP Commodities B.V | Dutch power market, renewable subsidies and structured products |
| Dr Georgios Piliouras - Google DeepMind | The complex dynamics of real world markets and auctions |
| Dr Ron Lavi - University of Bath | Principal-Agent VCG contracts |
| Dr Tatiana Kornienko - King’s College London | Competitive bidding, predation, and expropriation: A unified model |
| Alessandro Veneri - European University Institute | Competition in digital advertising with asymmetric consumer information |
| Dr Elnaz Bajoori - University of Bath | Bidding behaviour in security bid auctions: theory and experiment |
| Dr Kei Tsutsui - University of Bath | Experimental effects of institutionalizing co-determination by a procedurally fair bidding rule |
| Professor Francesco Giovannoni - University of Bristol | Pricing novel goods |
Philosophy and Economics workshop
21 June 2024
This workshop explored philosophy and economics, with a number of guest speakers from leading global educational institutions discussed topics spanning this fascinating intersection.
See the full programme from the workshop
| Time | Session | Host/presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 8.30am – 8.50am | Welcome with refreshments | - |
| 8.50am - 9am | Introduction | Professor Ajit Mishra, Head of the Department of Economics |
| 9am – 10am | Homo Moralis goes to the voting booth: a new theory of voter turnout | Professor Ingela Alger, Toulouse School of Economics |
| 10am 11am | Communicating Ethics | Professor Jaideep Roy, University of Bath |
| 11am – 12pm | Spurious Unanimity Revisited | Professor Jean Baccelli, Oxford University |
| 12.10pm – 1.30pm | Lunch | - |
| 1.30pm – 2.30pm | Meta-predictions as a solution to the shared information problem | Dr Janina Hoffmann, University of Bath |
| 2.30pm – 3.30pm | Strategic Reciprocity in Large Scale Contests | Dr Jorg Franke, University of Bath |
| 3.30pm – 4.30pm | Universal recursive preference structures | Professor Marcus Pivato, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| 4:30am – 5pm | Break with refreshments | - |
| 5pm - 6pm | Keynote Lecture: The Knowledge Curse | Professor Kaushik Basu, Cornell University |
| 6pm onwards | Post-event drinks | - |