Welcome to the SET webpage

SET is a series of online economic theory seminars. Here you will be able to find information about the format, rules, schedule and Zoom access information.

The seminar is open for everyone who desires to attend. Before joining us for the first time, pelase read the rules.

Our seminars take place on the first Tuesday of every month, starting at 15:00 London time.

Like last year, we will feature interesting job market candidates in a special segment, Not-The-2023-Theory-Market (NT2023TM), running through the end of January.

NT2023TM will feature 3 presentations per week held on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, between January 9th and 26th, at 3:00 London / 10:00 NY time

TBA soon

• Wednesday 15th of July: Philipp Strack (Yale University), "Extreme Points and Majorization: Economic Applications" (with Andy Kleiner, Benny Moldovanu)

• Wednesday 22nd of July: Jakub Steiner (Cerge-Ei in Prague and University of Zurich), "Attention Please!" (slides)(with Olivier Gossner and Colin Stewart)

• Wednesday 29th of July: Mira Frick (Yale University), "Stability and Robustness in Misspecified Learning Models'' (with Ryota Iijima and Yuhta Ishii).

• Wednesday 5th of August: Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern University), "Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms" (with Mohammad Akbarpour and Scott Duke Kominers)

• Wednesday 12th of August: Benjamin Golub (Harvard University), Supply Network Formation and Fragility (with Matthew Elliot and Matthew Leduc)

• Wednesday 26th of August: Vasiliki Skreta (University of Texas Austin and UCL), "Test Design Under Undetectable Falsification" (with Eduardo Perez-Richet)

• Wednesday 2nd of September: Daniel Gottlieb (LSE), "Long-Term Contracting with Time-Inconsistent Agents" (with Xingtan Zhang)

• Wednesday 9th of September: Elliot Lipnowski (Columbia University), "Rank Uncertainty in Organizations" (slides)(with Marina Halac and Daniel Rappoport)

• Wednesday 16th of September: Florian Scheuer (University of Zurich), "Signaling to Experts" (with Pablo Kurlat)

• Wednesday 23rd of September: Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale University), "Path dependency and stochastic process elasticity” (with Georgii Riabov)

• Wednesday 30th of September: Ian Ball (Microsoft Research NYC), "Scoring Strategic Agents"

• Wednesday 7th of October: Yingni Guo (Northwestern University), Robust Monopoly Regulation (slides) (with Eran Shmaya)

• Wednesday 14th of October: Costis Daskalakis (MIT), "Min-max Optimization and the Foundations of Deep Learning"

• Wednesday 21st of October: Takuo Sugaya (Stanford University), "Do a Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel? Cooperation in Large Populations with Incomplete Information". The seminar will be a combination of two papers: A Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel: An Anti-Folk Theorem for Anonymous Repeated Games with Incomplete Information and Communication and Community Enforcement (both with Alexander Wolitzky)

• Wednesday 28th of October: Alexander Wolitzky (MIT), "The Economics of Partisan Gerrymandering" (with Anton Kolotilin) View seminar recording

• Wednesday 4th of November: Pawel Dziewulski (University of Sussex), "Normal demand and comparison of multi-prior beliefs- Comparative statics in optimisation problems with linear objectives" (with John Quah) View seminar recording

• Wednesday 11th of November: Rahul Deb (University of Toronto), "When are Dynamic Choices Consistent with Learning from Common Information?" (with Ludovic Renou)

• Wednesday 18th of November: Rossella Argenziano (University of Essex), "Information Revelation and Privacy Protection" (with Alessandro Bonatti) Slides

• Wednesday 25th of November: Marek Pycia (University of Zurich), "Auctions of Homogeneous Goods: A Case for Pay-as-Bid" (with Kyle Woodward)

• Wednesday 2nd of December: Gabriel Carroll (Stanford University), "Dynamic Incentives in Incompletely Specified Environments"

• Wednesday 9th of December: Wioletta Dziuda (University of Chicago), "Voters and the Policy Stability versus Responsiveness Tradeoff" (with Antoine Loeper)

• Wednesday 16th of December: Harry Pei (Northwestern University), "Reputation Building under Observational Learning"

• Wednesday 13th of January: Omer Tamuz (Caltech), "Monotone Additive Statistics" (with Xiaosheng Mu, Luciano Pomatto and Philipp Strack) View seminar recording

NT2021TM

• Wednesday 20th of January: Ludvig Sinander (Northwestern University), "Screening for Breakthroughs" (with Gregorio Curello)

• Friday 22nd of January: Ashwin Kambhampati (University of Pennsylvania), "Robust Performance Evaluation" View seminar recording

• Wednesday 27th of January: Suraj Malladi (Stanford University, GSB), "Delegated Screening and Robustness"

• Friday 29th of January: Florian Brandl (Princeton University), "Belief-Averaged Relative Utilitarianism" (slides) View seminar recording

• Wednesday 3rd of February: Paula Onuchic (New York University), "Advisors with Hidden Motives" View seminar recording

• Friday 5th of February: Krishna Dasaratha (Harvard University), "Innovation and Strategic Network Formation" View seminar recording

• Wednesday 10th of February: Heidi Christina Thysen (London School of Economics), "Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations" (with Heiner Schumacher)

• Friday 12th of February: Duarte Gonçalves (Columbia University), "Sequential Sampling and Equilibrium"

• Wednesday 17th of February: Satoru Takahashi (National University of Singapore), "Implementation via Information Design in Binary-Action Supermodular Games" (with Stephen Morris and Daisuke Oyama) View Seminar Recording

• Wednesday 24th of February: Nikhil Vellodi (Paris School of Economics), "Ratings Design and Barriers to Entry"

• Wednesday 3rd of March: Todd Sarver (Duke University), "An Evolutionary Perspective on Updating Risk and Ambiguity Preferences" (with Philipp Sadowski)

• Wednesday 10th of March: Kareen Rozen (Brown University), "Communication, Perception and Strategic Obfuscation" (with Geoffroy de Clippel)

• Wednesday 17th of March: Lones Smith (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "The Behavioral SIR Model, with Applications to the Swine Flu and COVID-19 Pandemics" (with Samuel Engle, Jussi Keppo, Marianna Kudlyak, Elena Quercioli and Andrea Wilson)

• Wednesday 24th of March: Ben Brooks (University of Chicago), "A Strong Minimax Theorem for Informationally-Robust Auction Design" (with Songzi Du)

• Wednesday 31st of March: Julien Combe (Ecole Polytechnique), "Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money" (with Mohammad Akbarpour, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimer and Olivier Tercieux) (slides)

• Wednesday 7th of April: Navin Kartik (Columbia University), "Lemonade from Lemons: Information Design with Interdependent Values” (with Weijie Zhong)

• Wednesday 14th of April: Georgios Gerasimou (University of St Andrews), "The Decision-Conflict Logit"

• Wednesday 21st of April: Pierre Boyer (Ecole Polytechnique-CREST), "Pareto-Improving Tax Reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit" (with Felix Bierbauer and Emanuel Hansen)

• Wednesday 28th of April: Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University), "Can Society Function Without Ethical Agents? An Informational Perspective"

• Wednesday 5th of May: Martin Cripps (UCL), "Divisible Updating" (slides)

• Wednesday 12th of May: Siyang Xiong (UC Riverside), "An Extensive-Form Representation of Continuous-Time Games with Reaction Lags" (with In-Uck Park)

• Wednesday 19th of May: David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania), "Allocation Mechanisms Without Reduction" (with Uzi Segal)

• Wednesday 26th of May: Zhen Zhou (Tsinghua University), "Timely Persuasion" (with Deepal Basak)

• Wednesday 2nd of June: Chiara Margaria (Boston University), "Exit Dilemma. The Role of Private Learning on Firm Survival" (with Doruk Cetemen)

• Wednesday 9th of June: Marina Halac (Yale University), "Monitoring Teams" (with Ilan Kremer, and Eyal Winter)

• Wednesday 16th of June: Deniz Kattwinkel (UCL), "Allocation with Correlated Information: Too good to be true"

• Wednesday 23rd of June: Laura Doval (Columbia Business School), "Optimal Mechanism for the Sale of a Durable Good" (with Vasiliki Skreta)

• Wednesday 30th of June: Annie Liang (Northwestern University), "Data and Incentives" (with Erik Madsen)

• Wednesday 7th of July: Alvaro Sandroni (Northwestern University), "The Evolution of Ineptitude"

• Wednesday 14th of July: Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi University), "Grantmaking" (slides)

• Wednesday 21st of July: Inga Deimen (University of Arizona), "Communication in the Shadow of Catastrophe" (with Dezsö Szalay)

• Wednesday 28th of July: Shengwu Li (Harvard University), "A Theory of Ex-Post Rationalization" (with Erik Eyster and Sarah Ridout)

• Wednesday 8th of September: Juan Ortner (Boston University), "Screening Adaptive Cartels" (with Sylvain Chassang, Jun Nakabayashi and Ken Kawai)

• Wednesday 15th of September: Alex Bloedel (Caltech), "Persuading a Rationally Inattentive Agent" (with Ilya Segal)

• Wednesday 22nd of September: Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University), "Making the Most of Limited Government Capacity: Theory and Experiment" (with Lucia del Carpio and Samuel Kapon)

• Wednesday 29th of September: Philipp Sadowski (Duke University), “Risk Sharing and Strategic Choice” (with Brendan Daley)

• Wednesday 13th of October Meg Meyer (Oxford University), "A Welfare Analysis of a Steady-State Model of Observational Learning" (with Eszter Kabos)

• Wednesday 20th of October: Simone Cerreia Vioglio (Bocconi University), "Making Decisions under Model Misspecification" (with Lars Peter Hansen, Fabio Maccheroni and Massimo Marinacci)

• Wednesday 27th of October: Andres Carvajal (UC Davis), "Idiosyncratic Risk and the Equity Premium" (with H. Zhou)

• Wednesday 3rd of November: Sarah Auster (University of Bonn), "Dynamic Information Acquisition under Ambiguity" (with Yeon-Koo Che and Konrad Mierendorff)

• Wednesday 10th of November: George Lukyanov (Ecole Polytechnique), "Reputation for Learning with Moral Hazard" (with Stepan Svistunov and Anna Vlasova) (slides)

• Wednesday 17th of November: Filipe Martins da Rocha (Sao Paulo School of Economics- FGV), "Second Order Expected Utility: An Anscombe—Aumann Approach" (with Rafael Mouallem Rosa) (slides)

• Wednesday 24th of November: Gilat Levy (LSE), "Short-term Political Memory and the Inevitability of Polarisation" (with Ronny Razin)

• Wednesday 1st of December: Mehmet Ekmekci (Boston College), "Informal Elections with Dispersed Information: Protests, Petitions, and Nonbinding Voting" (with Stephan Lauermann)

• Wednesday 8th of December: Miaomiao Dong (Penn State University), "Strategic Disclosure in Research Races" (with Kalyan Chatterjee and Kaustav Das)

• Wednesday 15th of December: Linda Schilling (Washington University in St Louis), "Voters, Bailouts, and the Size of the Firm"

NT2022TM

• Monday 10th of January: Modibo Camara (Northwestern University), "Computationally Tractable Choice"

• Wednesday 12th of January: Enrico de Magistris (Boston University), "Investing in Outside Options in Bargaining"

• Friday 14th of January: Evgenii Safonov (Princeton University), "Slow and Easy: a Theory of Browsing"

• Monday 17th of January: Yingkai Li (Northwestern University), "Optimization of Scoring Rules" (with Jason D. Hartline, Liren Shan and Yifan Wu)

• Tuesday 18th of January: Ellen Muir (Stanford University), "Contracting and vertical control by a dominant platform" (with Zi Yang Kang)

• Friday 21st of January: Sara Shahanaghi (Columbia University), "Competition and Errors in Breaking News"

• Monday 24th of January: Daniel Clark (MIT), "The Informed Principal with Agent Moral Hazard"

• Wednesday 26th of January: Jaden Chen (Cornell University), "Sequential Learning under Informational Ambiguity"

• Friday 28th of January: Ravi Jagadeesan (Stanford University), "Matching and Prices" (with Alexander Teytelboym)

• Wednesday 9th of February: Srihari Govindan (University of Rochester), "Large Auctions" (slides) (with Paulo Barelli and Robert Wilson) View seminar recording

• Wednesday 16th of February: Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University), “Expectation Conformity in Strategic Cognition” (slides)(with Jean Tirole) View seminar recording

• Wednesday 23rd of February: Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht University), "Expectational Equilibria in Many-to-one Matching Models with Contracts - A Reformulation of Competitive Equilibrium" View seminar recording

• Wednesday 2nd of March: Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University), "Caution and Reference Effects" (with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio and David Dillenberger) View seminar recording

• Wednesday 9th of March: Bart Lipman (Boston University), "Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition" (with Eddie Dekel and Elchanan Ben-Porath) View seminar recording

• Wednesday 16th of March: Adam Brandenburger (NYU Stern), "Agreement and Disagreement in a Non-Classical World" (with Patricia Contreras-Tejada, Aleksander Kubicki, Pierfrancesco La Mura, Giannicola Scarpa and Kai Steverson)

• Wednesday 23rd of March: Andrea Attar (Toulouse School of Economics), "Keeping the Agents in the Dark: Private Disclosures in Competing Mechanisms" (with Eloisa Campioni, Thomas Mariotti and Alessandro Pavan)

• Wednesday 30th of March: Leslie Marx (Duke University), “Vertical Integration with Incomplete Information” (with Simon Loertscher)

• Wednesday 6th of April: Kai Hao Yang (Yale University), "Market-Minded Informational Intermediary and Unintended Welfare Loss" (with Wenji Xu) View seminar recording

• Wednesday 27th of April: Caroline Thomas (UT Austin): "Social Choice Under Gradual Learning” (with Yiman Sun and Takuro Yamashita) View seminar recording

• Wednesday 4th of May: Ina Taneva (University of Edinburgh): "Strategic Ignorance and Information Design" (with Tom Wiseman)

• Tuesday 7th of June: Olivier Gossner (Ecole Polytechnique, IP-Paris; LSE), "Rationalizable Outcomes in Games with Incomplete Information"

• Tuesday 5th of July: Paul Voss (Central European University), "The Evolution of the Market for Corporate Control" (joint with Mike Burkart and Samuel Lee)

• Tuesday 6th of September: Alexey Kushnir (Carnegie Mellon University), "Undergraduate Course Allocation through Competitive Markets" (with Daniel Kornbluth)

• Tuesday 4th of October: Jakub Steiner (Univeristy of Zurich and CERGE-EI), "Decision Theory and Stochastic Growth" (with Arthur Robson and Larry Samuelson)

• Tuesday 1st of November: Nicolas Lambert (USC), "Elicitability"

• Tuesday 6th of December: Anqi Li (Virginia Polytechnic and State University). "Rational Inattentive Statistical Discrimination: Arrow meets Phelps" (with Federico Echenique)

NT2023TM

• Monday 9th of January: Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado (Columbia University), "The Behavioral Implications of Statistical Decision Theory" View seminar recording

• Tuesday 10th of January: Ernesto Rivera Mora (University of Arizona), "Neutral Mechanisms: On the Feasibility of Information Sharing"

• Thursday 12th of January: Sophie Kreutzkamp (University of Bonn), "Endogenous Information Acquisition in Cheap-Talk Games"

• Monday 16th of January: Raghav Malhotra (University of Warwick), "Price Changes and Welfare Analysis: Measurement under Individual Heterogeneity" (with Sebastiaan Maes)

• Thursday 19th of January: Udayan Vaidya (Northwestern University), "Regulating Discolsure: The Value of Discretion"

• Monday 23rd of January: Zi Yang Kang (Stanford University), "The Public Option and Optimal Redistribution"

• Thursday 26th of January: Nathan Hancart (UCL), "Designing the Optimal Menu of Tests"

• Costas Cavounidis - University of Warwick

• Olivier Gossner- CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique and LSE

• Sinem Hidir- University of Warwick

• Felix Kubler- University of Zurich

• Herakles Polemarchakis- University of Warwick

• Philipp Strack- Yale University

• Dezsö Szalay- University of Bonn