VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory

After a great start to the term, join us for our second talk! On 9 Oct 2025, 💥Alessandro Bonatti💥 (MIT Sloan) presents "The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing" (with Dirk Bergemann and Alex Smolin). Panellists: Ron Siegel and Frank Yang.

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This Thursday!

Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory Thursdays, 4 pm UK time The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory provide a platform for scholars to present their unpublished work to a broad academic audience in the UK and abroad. They are organised ...

Most talks are recorded and available on our YouTube channel. Learn more and join our mailing list: sites.google.com/view/vset

Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory run every Thursday in term time at 4pm UK. Each 75-minute session features a 1-hour talk and 15-minute Q&A, with panellists intervening during the presentation to keep the discussion lively and engaging.

WE ARE BACK!
Our 1st seminar this academic year is next Thursday, Oct/2, 2025. We are extremely pleased to host Qingmin Liu (Columbia), who will present "A Cooperative Analysis of Incomplete Information". Our panellists are Doron Ravid & Roberto Serrano.

Join us in October for the next season of VSET. We have a fantastic line-up this Fall
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Qingmin Liu, Alessandro Bonatti, Suraj Malladi, Takuo Sugaya, Hulya Eraslan, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Giacomo Lanzani, Marina Halac, Alex Frankel @franktron.bsky.social, Niko Matouschek

Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory Thursdays, 4 pm UK time The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory provide a platform for scholars to present their unpublished work to a broad academic audience in the UK and abroad. They are organised ...

For details, visit us at sites.google.com/view/vset

Join us in October for the next season of VSET. We have a fantastic line-up this Fall
👇👇👇
Qingmin Liu, Alessandro Bonatti, Suraj Malladi, Takuo Sugaya, Hulya Eraslan, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Giacomo Lanzani, Marina Halac, Alex Frankel @franktron.bsky.social, Niko Matouschek

VSET is back!
Our first talk of the academic year will be held next month, on the first Thursday in October. The full program will be announced soon.

Our last talk this term is tomorrow - don't miss it as there is no paper yet!!!

OUR LAST TALK OF THE TERM is on Thursday, 12 June 2025.
👉Tommaso Denti (NYU)👈 will present "Understanding information acquisition through f-informativity and duality," with Alex Bloedel and Luciano Pomatto. Guest Panellists: Weijie Zhong and Annie Liang.

Yesterday's talk, "Allocation Mechanisms with Mixture-Averse Preferences" by David Dillenberger, is now available on our YouTube channel: sites.google.com/view/vset/pa.... Despite a few brief connectivity hiccups, the full talk is available to watch.

Join us tomorrow for David Dillenberger's talk.

We meet on Thursday, 5 June 2025, to watch David Dillenberger's (Penn) presentation on 💥Allocation Mechanisms with Mixture-Averse Preferences💥 (with Uzi Segal). Guest panellists: Alex Gershkov and Todd Sarver.

Now on YouTube: sites.google.com/view/vset/pa...

This seminar by @timroughgarden.bsky.social is today!

Tim Roughgarden (a16z crypto and Columbia) is giving a seminar on Thursday, 29 May 2025: "Shill-Proof Auctions" (with Andrew Komo and Scott Kominers). Guest panellists: Marek Pycia and Zhou Yu. @timroughgarden.bsky.social @skominers.bsky.social

Now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmtM...

What do you think: is data collection by a price-discriminating monopoly good 👼 or bad 👿 for welfare?

Join us in a few hours to learn more.

Up next: Maryam Farboodi (MIT Sloan) presents “Good Data and Bad Data: The Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination” on Thursday, 22 May 2025. Joint work with @nimahaghpanah.bsky.social and @shourideh.bsky.social. Guest panelists: Alexander Wolitzky and Stephen Morris.

We are on. We hope the recording will be uploaded to YT later.

This is today! Join us at 4 pm UK time: dateful.com/convert/uk?t...

Our next seminar is on Monday, 19 May 2025. We welcome Germán Gieczewski (@princetonpolitics.bsky.social), who will present "Noisy Screening and Brinkmanship". We will send the usual email with the Zoom link on Thursday.

Coming up next: On 15/May, Mohammad Akbarpour (@akbarpour.bsky.social, Stanford) will present "Optimal Redistribution via Income Taxation and Market Design", with Paweł Doligalski, Piotr Dworczak, @skominers.bsky.social. Guest panellists: @ahlviklassi.bsky.social and Mingshi Kang.

We are starting!!

Get ready for tomorrow's talk:

The YouTube recording of Arina Nikandrova's seminar is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPIx...

On 8 May 2025, our next speaker, Markus Brunnermeier (@princetonecon.bsky.social), will present "Strategic Money with Credit Ledgers" (joint with Jonathan Payne). Guest Panellists: Emre Ozdenoren and Daniel Sanches. @emreozdenoren.bsky.social

join us today👇