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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory

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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
VSET is back! We start our new season on Thu, 1 Oct 2026. We're delighted to host Iván Werning (MIT) presenting "Tâtonnement and Price Setting in General Equilibrium" (w. Guido Lorenzoni). Guest panellists: Felix Kubler & Karthik Sastry @ivanwerning.bsky.social #EconSky @kubler.bsky.social
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
::: 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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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
Poster based on Wayne Thiebaud.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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.
Poster based on a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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
Poster based on Georges Seurat's painting.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Our first seminar of the spring season is on Thursday, 23 Apr 2026. 💥James Best💥 (Carnegie Mellon) presents "Divide and Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification", with Daniel Quigley, Maryam Saeedi, and Ali Shourideh. Panellists: Nemanja Antić and Dimitri Migrow.
23 Apr 2026, James Best (Carnegie Mellon): "Divide and Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification", with Daniel Quigley, Maryam Saeedi, and Ali Shourideh. Panellists: Nemanja Antić and Dimitri Migrow. Artwork credit: Stanzioni
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
MSET2026 in Bristol is tomorrow. We start at noon. sites.google.com/view/mset-wo...
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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!
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We are starting!!
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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)
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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... @snageebali.bsky.social
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The Makris Symposium in Economic Theory 2025 has begun. Program: sites.google.com/view/mset-wo...
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Please spread the word about the Vita Kreps International Student Prize in Game Theory! Details: sites.google.com/view/themich...
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If you are coming: see you next week in Madrid!
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
💥A thread on our next seminar💥 (a slightly altered title)
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
There is no seminar on 28 Nov. We resume on 5 Dec 2024, when we host 👉Heski Bar-Isaac👈 from Toronto, who will present "Selling Attention through Steering and Certification" (with Rahul Deb and Matt Mitchell). Guest panellists are Itay Fainmesser and Marco Ottaviani @profeski.bsky.social
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Coming up next is 💥Jonathan Libgober💥 from USC. Jonathan will present "Implementing Evidence Acquisition: Time Dependence in Contracts for Advice" which is based on joint work with Yingkai Li. Our guest panellists are Alex Bloedel and Yingni Guo. Join us on 21 Nov 2024 @jlibdoesecon.bsky.social
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Modibo K. Camara (Stanford GSB) will present "Eliciting Informed Preferences" on 14 Nov 2024. This is based on joint work with Brendan Lucier and Nicole Immorlica. Our guest panellists are Geoffroy de Clippel, Antonio Penta and Agathe Pernoud.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Our next presentation is on Thursday, 7 November 2024. We welcome ➡️Faidra Monachou⬅️ (Yale), who will discuss "Optimal Cohort Partitions," her joint work with Sofoklis Goulas. Natalia Lazzati will be our guest panellist.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Our next talk is on 31 Oct. Ji Hee Yoon (UCL) presents "Dynamic Trading and Inference in Non-Markovian Equilibria" based on joint work with Marzena Rostek and Xian Wu. Guest panellists: Daniel Chen and Piero Gottardi. Reminder: the UK is changing clocks this weekend 🕓
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Our next event, on 24 Oct, is a talk by Andrew Caplin (NYU) who will present "Human and Machine Learning: A Cognitive Economic Approach". Guest panellists are Larry Samuelson and Emir Kamenica.
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Our next seminar on 17 Oct 2024 will be given by ⭐Paula Onuchic⭐ from Oxford. The talk "How do Groups Speak and How are They Understood?" is based on joint work with Ala Avoyan. Our guest panellists are Agata Farina and Eduardo Perez-Richet
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Our next talk is on Thursday 10 Oct 2024. We are pleased to have 💥Mariagiovanna Baccara💥 from WashU presenting "Research Waves" (based on joint work with Gilat Levy & Ronny Razin). Guest panellists are Steve Callander and Julia Salmi.
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