ThReD Conference

Daniel Barron, Northwestern University
Daniel Barron is an associate professor of strategy with the Kellogg School of Management with Northwestern University. His interests include contract theory and organizational economics, and his research focuses on how firms and other organizations use relational contracts to motivate their long-term partners. He has published several working papers as well as articles in the journals Management Science, Theoretical Economics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and American Economic Review. Barron earned a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013.

Alberto Bisin, NYU
Alberto Bisin is a professor of economics at New York University. His research interests include general equilibrium theory, finance and cultural evolution. He has published several working papers in the journals Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Theory and Economic Policy. He is the founding editor at noiseFromAmerika.org and a columnist for La Repubblica. Bisin earned a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1994.

Jean-Paul Carvalho, UC Irvine
Jean-Paul Carvalho is an associate professor of economics and the interim director for the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is an economist who works on game-theoretic approaches to social dynamics. His work aims to understand the cultural foundations of economic and political institutions. At UC Irvine, he teaches a course in evolution and learning in games. He has working papers and publications in the journals Forum for Social Economics, The Economic Journaland Economic Theory. Carvalho earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford in 2009.

Benoit Decerf, University of Namur
Benoit Decerf is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Namur. His interests include poverty, public economics, mechanism design and microeconomic theory. He has published several working papers as well as articles in the journals Journal of Public Economics and Social Choice and Welfare. Decerf earned his PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Bielefeld.

Miaomiao Dong, Pennsylvania State University
Miaomiao Dong is an assistant professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University. Her interests include dynamic games, information economics, and behavioral economics. She has several working papers on studies in strategic experimentation and addictive good consumption. Dong earned her PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics in 2017.

Yuhta Ishii, ITAM
Yuhta Ishii is an assistant professor of economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). His interests include game theory, macroeconomic theory and information economics. He has several working papers and publications in journals such as the Journal of Economic Theory. Ishii earned his PhD from Harvard University in 2014.

Suraj Malladi, Stanford University
Suraj Malladi is an economics PhD candidate at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He has several working papers that study the value of network information, informational asymmetries and the impact of message mutation, transmission failure and deliberate bias. Malladi earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor of the Arts in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2014.

Roger Myerson, University of Chicago
Roger Myerson is the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies in the Harris School of Public Policy and the Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. His interests include game theory, incentive constraints in economic communication and applying game theory to political science. He has published books as well as articles in professional journals including, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Decisions, American Political Science Review, Mathematics of Operations Research, and International Journal of Game Theory. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Myerson earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1976.

Andy Newman, Boston University
Andy Newman is a professor of economics at Boston University. His research and teaching interests are in economic theory and its applications to understanding organizations, economic development and income distributions. He has published several working papers in the journals International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic Theory and Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. Newman earned his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1989. 

Cian Ruane, IMF
Cian Ruane is an economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. His primary fields of research are macroeconomics, growth, and trade with a focus on firms and economic development. Ruane earned his PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2018. 

Xu Tan, University of Washington
Xu Tan is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Washington. Her interests include game theory, social networks, information economics, microeconomic theory, and development economics. She has published several working papers as well as articles in the journals Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory, American Economic Review, and Economics Letters. Tan earned her PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2013.

Yiqing Xing, Johns Hopkins University
Yiqing Xing is an assistant professor in economics at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include social and economic networks, mechanism design, and microeconomics theory. He has published several working papers in the journals Review of Economic Design, Economics Letters, Economic Research Journal, and Games and Economic Behavior. Xing earned his PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2016.