Special thanks to our funders: @fundacionareces.bsky.social, and the Departments of Economics: @durhameconomics.bsky.social, @sotonecon.bsky.social, University of Bristol, and the University Carlos III.

Last week, we had a wonderful time in Madrid at the Makris Symposium in Economic Theory (MSET2025). Many thanks to all our speakers for their excellent talks. More photos now available on our website: sites.google.com/view/mset-wo... @snageebali.bsky.social

The University of Bath hosts "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀" workshop on 22 & 23 May. Funded by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership. More details: www.bath.ac.uk/events/the-r...

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Pls re-skeet for reach: CALL FOR PAPERS for a special issue of EER in honor of Nora Szech editors: S. Huck, N. Schweizer, M. Serra-Garcia #econsky 📉📈 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro...

Today's edition of "📈📉 papers you should know" is Dezsö Szalay's @reveconstudies.bsky.social paper, "The Economics of Clear Advice and Extreme Options". The paper concerns itself with information acquisition choices under delegated decision making. Let's go through an example...

Today's edition of "📈📉 papers you should know": a finite asymmetric information game in which *every* sequential equilibrium (in fact, every PBE) has a player convinced of a state and subsequently relinquishing that belief. Let's go through the example (changing language a bit).

Today's edition of "📈📉 papers you should know" is Amanda Friedenberg's @econometric.bsky.social paper, "Bargaining Under Strategic Uncertainty: The Role of Second-Order Optimism". It's a wonderful example of a paper that delivers new insights from studying an old game.

Paper worth reading: "The Optimality of Majority Rule" by Nina Bobkova. It offers a new perspective on why simple majority-rule may be best: it not only aggregates information but it also motivates voters to learn about what really matters. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1pVVE... #polecon