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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory
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Our team: Spyros Galanis, Francesco Giovannoni, Angel Hernando-Veciana, Max Kwiek, Julia Wirtz
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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...
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 👇
December 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Join us in a few moments 👇
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
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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 👇
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Holiday reminder! While everyone else decorates trees, we get to decorate our priors: Alex Frankel, 4 Dec, “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
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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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
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Don't miss this talk today!
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
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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 👇
Our next seminar is on Monday, 17 November 2025. We are excited to host Catherine Hafer (NYU), who will present "Non-monotonic Disclosure in Policy Advice". This is joint work with Anna Denisenko and Dimitri Landa.
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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.
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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.
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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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!
October 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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!
October 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We start in a few minutes 👇
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
October 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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
October 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🤔 How does a firm actually know the demand for its product?

Join us today for this talk by Suraj Malladi 👇
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.
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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We’re back next week! Join us to hear about new research on the timely topic of protests: 🐸🦖🪧
POLECONUK Webinars return soon! On Monday, Oct 20, we open the new academic term with Elaine Yao (University of Washington), presenting “Tactical Choice in Repeated Protests.”
October 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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.
October 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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.
October 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM