NBER/NSF/CEME Conference on Mathematical Economics

§ 01 — About the Conference

The NBER/NSF/CEME Conference on Mathematical Economics brings together leading researchers in economic theory for two days of presentations, discussion, and informal exchange. The 2026 meeting will be hosted by the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

The program will feature contributed papers, alongside a keynote address by Dirk Bergemann (Yale University).

The conference is supported by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the National Science Foundation.

§ 02 — Keynote

Keynote.

Keynote Speaker

Dirk Bergemann

Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics, Yale University

Dirk Bergemann is the Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics at Yale University, with secondary appointments in Computer Science and Finance. He is the founding director of the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, and a former chair of the Yale Department of Economics.

His research lies in mechanism design, information design, and the economics of data and digital platforms. The title of his keynote address will be announced.

Personal website

§ 03 — Call for Papers

Submissions.

Submissions are closed.

§ 04 — Program

Program.

Registration is open through October 7, 2026.

Register

Friday, November 6

12:30 – 1:00
Registration
1:00 – 2:30
Session 1: Economics and Computer Science Chair: James Best
Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University)General Search Techniques Without Common Knowledge for Imperfect-Information Games, and Application to Superhuman Fog of War Chess

Jacob Leshno (Chicago Booth)Auction Design with a Bit of Information
2:30 – 3:00
Coffee
3:00 – 5:15
Session 2 Chair: Beixi Zhou
Eran Shmaya (Stony Brook University)Endogenous News in Bandit Problems

Svetlana Boyarchenko (University of Texas at Austin)Two-Clock Models of Learning and Valuation of Fast Growing Startups

Anqi Li (University of Waterloo)Implicit Incentive Provision with Misspecified Learning
5:30 – 7:30
PhD Poster Session
Lina Uhe (University of Bonn)The Economics of Convex Function Intervals

Daniel Luo (MIT)Paying and Persuading

Renjie Zhong (Columbia University)Selling Training Data: Optimal Bundling of Statistical Error

Saturday, November 7

8:30 – 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30
Session 3 Chair: Richard Van Weelden
Guillaume Sublet (Université de Montréal)The Optimal Allocation of Policy-Making Between Executive Agencies and the Legislature

Alessandro Dovis (University of Pennsylvania)Long-Term Contracts, Commitment, and Optimal Information Disclosure
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee
11:00 – 12:30
Session 4 Chair: Luca Rigotti
Navin Kartik (Yale University)How Wasteful is Signaling?

In-Koo Cho (Emory University)Validation and Stable Equilibria
12:30 – 1:45
Lunch
1:45 – 4:00
Session 5 Chair: Aniko Öry
Arjada Bardhi (New York University)Anecdotes or Statistics?

Sephorah Mangin (Australian National University)Optimal Competitive Dispersion

Mark Whitmeyer (Arizona State University)Outside Options and Risk Attitude
4:00 – 4:30
Coffee
4:30 – 5:30
Keynote Address
Dirk Bergemann (Yale University)
7:00
Conference dinner

Sunday, November 8

8:45 – 9:15
Breakfast
9:15 – 10:00
Session 6 Chair: Yu Fu Wong
Drew Fudenberg (MIT)Racing to Ruin
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee
10:30 – 12:00
Session 7 Chair: Maryam Saeedi
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (UCLA)Simple Contagion Dynamics in Tree-Like Networks

Kai Hao Yang (Yale University)Stochastic Optimization and Coupling
12:00
Adjourn

§ 05 — Venue & Travel

Tepper School of Business, Pittsburgh.

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Tepper School of Business

Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA

The conference will be held at the Tepper School of Business on the Carnegie Mellon University campus. Specific room information will be circulated to registered participants closer to the conference.

Tepper School of Business →

Getting to Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) serves the city with direct flights from major U.S. and several international hubs. The airport is approximately 25 minutes from CMU by taxi or rideshare.

Conference hotel

Hotel Indigo Pittsburgh East Liberty · 123 N Highland Ave

A block of rooms is held at a group rate for the nights of November 6 and 7. Book online through the group link below, or call the hotel at (412) 665-0555 and say you are with the NSF/CME/NBER Conference in Mathematical Economics.

The group rate is available for reservations made by October 7, 2026. After that date, rooms are subject to regular rates and availability.

Book at the group rate

§ 06 — Organizers