VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory

The wait is over. Join us today to watch "Getting the Agent to Wait" online, #econsky Ways to watch: 🔜 www.youtube.com/@vset315 🔜 mailchi.mp/durham/marya...

Join us on 22 Oct 2026 to listen to Maryam Saeedi's (Carnegie Mellon) talk on "Getting the Agent to Wait", with Ali Shourideh and Yikang Shen. Our guest panellists are Johannes Hörner and Jan Knoepfle. #econsky

Our next talk is TODAY: Thursday, 15 Oct 2026. Daniel Hauser (Aalto) will present 🦩🦩"Social learning with endogenous timing"🦩🦩 (with Pauli Murto and Juuso Välimäki). Guest panellists: Peter Achim and Catherine Bobtcheff.

Join us today 👇

Our next talk is on Thu, 8 Oct. 👉 Evan D Sadler (Boston) will present “A Theory of Network Games” (with Joseph Root). Part 1 of the project has been circulated as a WP, but some new results will also be presented. Guest panellists: Francis Bloch and Giacomo Lanzani. #econsky

Join us today for our first talk this term Here is the link: mailchi.mp/durham/ivan-...

This series of online seminars in political economy restarts in a few days. About half of their talks are theory. Visit them and join their mailing list.

POLECONUK Webinar has announced the start of its new season, but we’re coming back too! Our first talk is on Thursday, 1 October 2026, and it’s a cracker 🧨. Stay tuned, we’ll be announcing our programme any day now!

Looking forward to seeing you all at today’s seminar 👇

::: LAST TALK OF THE TERM ::: Join us on Thursday, 11 Jun 2026, to see ➡️ Fei Li ⬅️ (UNC Chapel Hill) present "Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms". This is join work with Yi Chen and Marcel Preuss. Panellists: Ellen Muir and Heski Bar-Isaac. @profeski.bsky.social

Join us in a few minutes!

On 4 Jun 2026, Andrew McClellan ( #chicagobooth ) will present "Signaling with Plausible Deniability", with Daniel Rappoport. Panellists: Ian Ball and Roi Orzach No paper or abstract is available yet, but the mystery will be resolved this Thursday.

We start now!

Join us on Thursday, 28 May 2026. 👉 Omer Tamuz (Caltech) will present "Local Coordination and the Geometry of Social Networks", with Tom Hutchcroft and Olga Rospuskova. Panellists: Antonio Cabrales and Evan Sadler. #Econsky #econtheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social

Join us today to learn about a model of price competition with procrastinating consumers.

Our next seminar is on 21 May 2026. 💥Paul Heidhues💥 (@dice.hhu.de, University of Düsseldorf) will present "Procrastination and Competition Failure" (joint with Peter Andre, Botond Köszegi, and Takeshi Murooka). Panellists: Yair Antler and Andrew Rhodes. @peterandre.bsky.social

Join us today to hear Harry Pei's presentation on selective disclosure within an overlapping generation framework. 👇 👇 👇

Join us on Thursday, 14 May 2026, to watch 👉Harry Pei👈 (Northwestern) presenting "Selective Disclosure in Overlapping Generations" (joint with Nemanja Antić). Panellists: Dino Gerardi and João Ramos.

Seminar today! Access: mailchi.mp/durham/carol...

We are not slowing down!! ▶️Caroline Liqui-Lung◀️ @cityeconomics.bsky.social will give a talk on 7 May 2026: "Social Priors and the Informational Multiplier: The Hidden Costs of Coarse Social Information". Panellists: Chiara Aina and Arjada Bardhi @chiaraina.bsky.social #EconTheory #Econsky

Join us tomorrow to relax 🏖️🍸💆‍♀️. Finally, we learn about simpler mechanisms!

I study algorithmic collusion. One difficulty is that if sellers' costs are not verifiable, then sellers can jointly pretend to have higher costs and the algorithmic prices will appear competitive for these costs. This is what just happened with the illegal Trump tariffs. Cf arxiv.org/abs/2501.09740

After a great inauguration of the spring season, our next talk is on 30 April. 💥Lea Nagel💥 from #Harvard will present "Designing Simpler Mechanisms: Transparency and As-If Dominance”, with Roberto Saitto. Guest panellists: Andrew Mackenzie and Linchen Zhang. #Econsky #Econtheory

MSET2026 in Bristol is tomorrow. We start at noon. sites.google.com/view/mset-wo...

@poleconukinar.bsky.social returns with a series of great seminars, some of which are theory-focused 👇

After the winter break, the POLECONUK Webinar resumes on Monday, 16 March at 3 pm UK time. We have a great line-up confirmed, so please mark your calendars ‼️

We are done for this term, but our friends at POLECONUK Webinars have one more gem for you 👇. Join to listen to Bård Harstad from Stanford talking about political commitment bonds: mailchi.mp/51c83923847a...

Join us in a few moments 👇

Our last talk this calendar year is on Monday, 15 December 2025. We host Bård Harstad (Stanford), who will present new research titled "Political Commitment Bonds" @bardharstad.bsky.social. See abstract in the thread below 👇

Our last talk this calendar year is on Thursday, 11 Dec 2025. Niko Matouschek (Northwestern Kellogg) will present "Paying with Purpose," with Luis Rayo. Our panellist is Luis Garicano. Everyone is welcome!!! @lugaricano.bsky.social

Holiday reminder! While everyone else decorates trees, we get to decorate our priors: Alex Frankel, 4 Dec, “Correlation Games”

Great seminar this week by our colleague Kemal Ozbek on “Optimal Auction Design under Flexible Learning.” A very insightful talk with plenty of thought-provoking ideas! #Research #AcademicTalks #Economics #econtwitter

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. We don't have a seminar today, but next week we will learn about correlation games.

We’re taking a break for Thanksgiving, but we’ll meet again on Thursday, 4 December, when we host Alex Frankel (Chicago Booth), presenting “Correlation Games”, joint with Emir Kamenica. The panel will include Alex Bloedel and Tommaso Denti @franktron.bsky.social

Don't miss this talk today!

Two great theory presentations next week. On Thursday, we have Marina Halac presenting "Agreeing to Implement", and on Monday, @poleconukinar.bsky.social hosts Catherine Hafer 👇

Please join us on 20/Nov to hear Marina Halac (Yale) present "Agreeing to Implement", a joint work with Elliot Lipnowski and Doron Ravid. Panellists: Matteo Camboni and Sam Kapon. @elliotlip.bsky.social @doronravid.bsky.social @samkapon.bsky.social

Tomorrow, we will learn about points 👇. Join us at 4 pm UK time.

Our next talk on 13 Nov 2025 is by Giacomo Lanzani (Berkeley), who will present "Nonlinear Fixed Points and Stationarity: Economic Applications". Panellists: Agathe Pernoud, Sanjeev Goyal.

Join us today 👇 at 4 pm UK time. Check your time zone: dateful.com/convert/uk?t...

Our next seminar is on 6 Nov 2025. Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (UCLA) will present "Simple Contagion Dynamics in Tree-like Networks", with Simon Board. Panellists: Sanjeev Goyal and Evan Sadler #EconSky

Join us on Thursday, 30 Oct, for a talk by 💥Hülya Eraslan💥 (Rice) on "Reputation and disagreement in bargaining with imperfect commitment" with Kirill Evdokimov and Mingzi Niu. Panellists: Deepal Basak and Jack Fanning. NOTE: The US and UK are on different daylight savings schedules this week!