VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory

MSET - 2026 MSET Details Date: Monday, 23 March, 12 noon - Tuesday 24 March 2026, 12:30pm. Location: University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building Register here by February 3. Speakers Ben Brooks (Chicago) Andrew E...

We have a great line-up:
⭐ Ben Brooks (Chicago)
⭐ Andrew Ellis (LSE)
⭐ Nenad Kos (Bocconi)
⭐ Paula Onuchic (LSE)
⭐ Anne-Katrin Roesler (Toronto)
⭐ Johannes Schneider (Linz)
⭐ Ludvig Sinander (Oxford)
⭐ Alex Smolin (Toulouse)
Find more information about MSET2026 at: sites.google.com/view/mset-wo...

We are pleased to announce that the Makris Symposium in Economic Theory will take place in Bristol on Monday-Tuesday, 23-24 March 2026. MSET2026 is an in-person event organised by the same team as VSET.

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!

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!

VSET joined LinkedIn 👉 www.linkedin.com/company/virt...

We start in a few minutes 👇

Tomorrow's seminar is on "Collusion with Optimal Information Disclosure"

Our next event, on 23 Oct 2025, is a presentation by
➡️Takuo Sugaya⬅️ (Stanford)
on "Collusion with Optimal Information Disclosure", joint work with Alexander Wolitzky. Panellist: Jeanine Miklos-Thal

🤔 How does a firm actually know the demand for its product?

Join us today for this talk by Suraj Malladi 👇

We’re back next week! Join us to hear about new research on the timely topic of protests: 🐸🦖🪧

Our next talk is on Thursday, 16 Oct 2025.
👉Suraj Malladi👈 from Northwestern/Kellogg will present "Guarantees in Price Experimentation". The session will feature panellists In-Koo Cho and Karl Schlag.

Today 👇

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.

Today 👇

This Thursday!