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Who matters in coordination problems on networks? Simon Schopohl, USL-B, CORE This paper studies a model of social interaction in a fixed network where agents play a coordination game - a game where it is optimal for a player to choose an action like most of her friends. The different...

Joint with OR and Econometrics Seminars Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University Exploiting the exogenous and regional nature of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, this paper provides a systematic...

A friendly Smoothed Analysis of the Simplex Method Dan Dadush, CWI Explaining the excellent practical performance of the simplex method for linear programming has been a major topic of research for over 50 years. One of the most successful frameworks for understanding the simplex method...

Projection of Private Values in Auctions Antonio Rosato, Cambridge University This paper explores how taste projection --- the tendency for people to overestimate how similar others' tastes are to their own --- affects bidding in auctions. We consider auctions for a good with both private...