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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
https://sites.google.com/view/vset
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
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
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
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
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
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 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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.
September 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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.
September 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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
September 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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.
June 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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.
May 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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
May 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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.
May 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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.
May 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We are starting!!
May 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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
May 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
After a great start to the season yesterday, our next talk is on 1 May. 👉Arina Nikandrova👈 (City) presents "Data Linkage between Markets: Hidden Dangers and Unexpected Benefits", joint with Tatiana Mayskaya and Claudia Herresthal. Panellists: Humberto Moreira and Andrew Rhodes.
April 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
We are back after Easter!!! Here is our current program for spring 2025:
24 Apr A. Wolitzky (MIT)
1 May A. Nikandrova (City)
8 May M. Brunnermeier (Princeton),
15 May M. Akbarpour (Stanford)
22 May M. Farboodi (MIT)
29 May T. Roughgarden (a16z crypto & Columbia)
5 Jun TBA
12 Jun T. Denti (NYU)
April 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
WE ARE BACK next week!!! On Thursday, 24 April 2025, Alexander Wolitzky (MIT) will present "Marginal Reputation" (joint work with Daniel Luo). Our guest panellists: Jeff Ely and Elliot Lipnowski. Share the news! @jeffely.bsky.social @elliotlip.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Last week, we had a wonderful time in Madrid at the Makris Symposium in Economic Theory (MSET2025). Many thanks to all our speakers for their excellent talks. More photos now available on our website: sites.google.com/view/mset-wo...
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April 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Makris Symposium in Economic Theory 2025 has begun. Program: sites.google.com/view/mset-wo...
April 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Please spread the word about the Vita Kreps International Student Prize in Game Theory!
Details: sites.google.com/view/themich...
March 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you are coming: see you next week in Madrid!
March 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We are pleased to announce that Makris Symposium in Economic Theory returns in 2025. For the first time, we meet outside of the UK.
👉Date: April 3-4, 2025
👉Location: Madrid, Spain
January 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Coming up is the final VSET talk of 2024! On Thursday, 12 December, we will host 👉Roberto Corrao👈 (Yale), who will present 'Mediation Markets: The Case of Soft Information.' Our guest panellists for this session are Xiao Lin and Roland Strausz.
December 7, 2024 at 11:04 AM