The second event of the 2022 "Editor in Chief Face to Face" Conference on Economics, a special lecture by Professor Tim Börgers, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Theory, was successfully held on June 21, 2022. From 20:00 to 22:00 Beijing time, Professor Börgers, who is also a professor of risk economics at the University of Michigan, delivered his lecture titled "Dominance and Optimization" online. Hosted by the School of Economics and Management at Beijing Jiaotong University and co-organized with Elsevier Group and the Management Home Forum, the event was streamed across multiple platforms, garnering over 10,000 viewers.

The lecture, presided over by Professor Li Hongchang from Beijing Jiaotong University, featured guest reviewers Professor Li Jianpei from the University of International Business and Economics and Assistant Professor Liu Shuo from Peking University.

Professor Börgers, a renowned academic with a PhD from the London School of Economics and extensive teaching and research experience, shared his insights on "Dominance and Optimality." His lecture outlined a generalized theory of the dominance relationship among choices, encompassing game strategies, experiments, and lotteries. He discussed how non-inferior choices could be optimal for decision-makers in certain environments, providing a theoretical framework for this assertion. The key to his findings is the use of convex combinations in the comparison of dominant choices.

Professor Li Jianpei praised the research for encompassing dominant relationships across various environments and prompted discussions on the limitations and implications of the study. Assistant Professor Liu Shuo highlighted the theoretical value of Professor Börgers' work and suggested potential refinements in model settings.

The lecture provided a rich academic discourse, with Professor Börgers engagingly addressing feedback from reviewers and further discussing the direction of future research. The event, part of a series aimed at bridging the gap between academia and publishing, offered participants an in-depth look at cutting-edge research and the opportunity for intellectual exchange.