Bartley Tablante successfully defended his PhD dissertation in the Dept of Economics yesterday. The dissertation, titled “Learning and Beliefs in Non-Centralized Markets”, comprises three papers: two focused on conditions for learning through distributed trade, and one on “Equilibria in a Market with a Front Runner”. Congratulations, Bartley.
The “Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper Award” at AAMAS-15 was awarded to Elaine Wah, for: Welfare Effects of Market Making in Continuous Double Auctions
Read about it here. This will support Elaine’s final year of PhD study, and adds to her long list of accolades. Congratulations!
first place! This is the annual competition featuring research presentations by advanced CSE PhD students. details here
Ben-Alexander Cassell successfully defended his thesis today. Ben’s dissertation, entitled Scaling Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis, reports several practical advances in EGTA technology, methodology, and application. Congratulations, Ben.
Congratulations, Bartley. It’s been a while since I’ve been on an Econ thesis committee. A very interesting discussion, with Bartley and my fellow committee members Tilman Borgers, David Miller, and Stephan Lauermann.
Congratulations to Elaine, on successfully defending her dissertation proposal, “Computational models of algorithmic trading in financial markets”. Her thesis committee members are Jacob Abernethy, Michael Barr (Law), Uday Rajan (Finance), and myself.
Tuesday 29 April 2014, 3725 BBB A special symposium to present the latest research to come out of the Michigan AI Lab, and celebrate our research accomplishments. The program will comprise presentations by AI Lab grad students of research results presented at conferences over this academic year. All are welcome to attend. So that we […]
One of the brilliant rhetorical devices deployed by Michael Lewis in his public interviews about Flash Boys is referring to some HFT practices as “legal front running”. By inserting the “legal”, he takes off the table any accusations of lawbreaking. Nevertheless, defenders of HFT seem to cling to legalistic definitions of “front running” in making […]
The Guardian comment piece on Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys and the HFT debate.
