The Theory and Models Working Group at Emory University is an informal, but regularly meeting, group of students and faculty interested in learning more about, developing, analyzing, and publishing social science research based on “formal models” including, but not limited to, decision-theoretic, game-theoretic, social choice-theoretic, and computational models of individual and group decision-making.
Activities include brainstorming and collaboration about ongoing and future projects, practice presentations, and reading others’ work. We occasionally host outside speakers, as well.
All are welcome! If you would like to receive information— including the zoom link — about the working group’s meetings and speakers, please use this form: (https://forms.gle/bxNkvkjALcj8NY689)
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the faculty coordinators, Professor John Patty (jwpatty@gmail.com) and/or Professor Elizabeth Maggie Penn (elizabeth.m.penn@gmail.com)
Logistics
The group will meet remotely during the Spring 2023 semester.
Spring 2023 Schedule
All meetings are from 1-2pm, Mondays, on zoom.
January 23, 2023: Introduction
January 30, 2023: TBD
February 6, 2023: TBD
February 13, 2023: No Meeting
February 20, 2023: TBD
February 27, 2023: TBD
March 6, 2023: No Meeting
March 13, 2023: TBD
March 20, 2023: External Speaker: Carlo Prato (Columbia)
March 27, 2023: TBD
April 3, 2023: External Speaker: Avi Acharya (Stanford Political Science/GSB)
April 10, 2023: External Speaker: Sean Gailmard (Berkeley)
April 17th, 2023: External Speaker: Giovanna Invernizzi (Bocconi)
April 24, 2023: TBD
TBD: Marco Battaglini (Cornell/Bocconi)
Fall 2022 Schedule
All meetings are from 1-2pm, Mondays, on zoom.
8/29/2022: Introduction
9/5/2022: No Meeting: Labor Day
9/12/2022: Working Group Meeting
9/19/2022: No Meeting
9/26/2022: In-Koo Cho (Emory Economics): “Learning Underspecified Models” (with Jonathan Libgober, University of Southern California)
10/3/2022: Jessica Sun (Emory Political Science): “A Humanitarian’s Dilemma” (with Livio Di Lonardo (Bocconi) and Scott Tyson (Emory))
10/10/2022: No Meeting
10/17/2022: Ian Turner (Yale)
10/24/2022: Jenny Kim (Emory Political Science)
10/31/2022: Teddy Kim (Emory Economics)
11/7/2022: Andrew McCall (Columbia): “Professional Standards are Political Strategy: Implications for Policing”
11/14/2022: Andrew Mack (Princeton/Stanford): “Incentives for Learning in Repeated Elections” (NOTE: This talk will be at 3pm ET. on 11/14)
11/21/2022: No Meeting
11/28/2022: Michael Gibilisco (Caltech): “Juking the Stats: Policing, Misreporting, and Policy Evaluation”
Spring 2022 Schedule
| 2/23/2022 | Introduction |
| 3/2/2022 | Sara Heridia |
| 3/9/2022 | NO MEETING: SPRING BREAK |
| 3/16/2022 | Michael Hanley |
| 3/23/2022 | Jiwon Kim |
| 3/30/2022 | Speaker TBA |
| 4/6/2022 | NO MEETING: MPSA |
| 4/13/2022 | Jenny Kim |
| 4/20/2022 | Lazare Kovo |
Fall 2021 Schedule
September 7: Introduction
September 14: John Patty, “Legislative Particularism, Bureaucratic Policymaking, and Budgets” (joint with Ian Turner (Yale)) (presentation slides)
September 21: Umberto Mignozzetti, “Electoral Systems, Competition, and Incentives for Corruption”
September 28: Ernesto Calvo (Maryland), TBA
October 5 (10:30am, rather than noon): Martin Van der Linden, “Exclusion of Extreme Jurors and Minority Representation: The Effect of Jury Selection Procedures“
October 12: No Meeting
October 19: No Meeting
October 22 (Friday, 10/22, noon): Jenny Kim, 3rd Year Paper
October 26: Stefano Jud, Dissertation Chapter
November 2: Alicia Byers, 3rd Year Paper
November 9: No Meeting
November 16: Jenny Kim & Alicia Byers, Practice Presentations