3rd Annual Chicago Booth Market Design Conference 

June 8-9, 2026

Attendance was in person and by invitation only.

Program

Monday, June 8, 2026

 

Session 01: ALGORITHMIC COLLUSION

9:30 – 11:00 AM

 

Alexander MacKay

University of Virginia

 

Martino Banchio

Bocconi University 

 

Session 02: BEHAVIORAL MARKET DESIGN

11:00 AM –12:15 PM


Alex Chan
Harvard Business School

 

Session 03: WATER MARKETS
2:00–3:30 PM

 

Zane Kashner
Stanford University

 

Billy Ferguson
University of California, Berkeley

 

 

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

 

Session 04: AI AND MARKET DESIGN

9:30–11:00 AM

 

Zoe Hitzig

Anthropic Institute 

 

Nikhil Agarwal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Session 05: EDUCATION MARKET DESIGN

11:30 AM–12:15 PM

 

Christopher Campos 

University of Chicago Booth School of Business


Session 06: ADVANCES IN MECHANISM DESIGN

2:00 PM–3:30 PM

 

Haoyuan Zeng

University of Zurich

 

Roberto Saitto
Northwestern University

 

 
Date & Location
 

The conference was held in Chicago. 

Organizers


Eric Budish (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)


Jacob Leshno (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) 

Shengwu Li (Harvard University) 

Agathe Pernoud (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)


For questions or additional information, contact Peggy Eppink.