2026 AETW

The Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS) and the Department of Economics at The University of Auckland are pleased to host the 43rd Australasian Economic Theory Workshop (2026 AETW) in collaboration with the Department of Economics and Finance and the Centre for Social Data Analytics (CSDA) at Auckland University of Technology on Thursday & Friday, 19 & 20 February 2026.

Keynote speakers: Annie Liang (Northwestern University) sponsored by AUT and Joel Sobel (University of California San Diego) sponsored by The University of Auckland and the Kalman Foundation.

Preceding the workshop, there will be three sessions (Monday, 16 February 2026, morning & afternoon, and Tuesday, 17 February 2026, morning) part of a mini course with Joel Sobel as a guest lecturer. Find out more, here.

These events are made possible thanks to the generous sponsorship of the University of Auckland Transdisciplinary Ideation Fund (TIF), the Kalman Foundation, the Centre for Mathematical Social Science, and the Centre for Social Data Analytics.

Annie Liang is an Associate Professor of Economics and (by courtesy) of computer science at Northwestern University. She is an economic theorist, whose research focuses on three themes: (1) the welfare implications of machine learning algorithms, (2) using machine learning to improve economic modelling, and (3) dynamic information acquisition. Prior to Northwestern, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

She earned an S.B. in Mathematics and an S.B. in Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in Economics at Harvard University.

Joel Sobel is a prominent Professor of Economics based at the University of California at San Diego, where he has worked for more than 40 years. He studies game theoretic models of communication and signaling. His work with Vincent Crawford established the game-theoretic concept of 'cheap talk'. He is interested in strategic communication. He has enjoyed extended leaves at many academic institutions, such as Oxford, Caltech, UC Berkeley, UW Madison, Stanford, Barcelona, and Amsterdam/Rotterdam.

He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1990; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010; and the Economic Theory Society in 2011. He is the recipient of Sloan and Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships. He has served as co-editor of the American Economic Review and served as editor of Econometrica, among other highly reputed journals in economics.

He earned an MA in economics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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