The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory provide a platform for scholars to present their unpublished work to a broad academic audience in the UK and abroad. They are organised by the team behind the Makris Symposium in Economic Theory (MSET), which has taken place annually since 2013.
Each seminar starts at 4:00 pm UK time (check your time zone) and lasts 1:15 h, with a 60 min presentation and 15 min of Q&A with the audience. We endeavour to invite relevant experts as panellists and encourage co-authors to attend the talk.
The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory are open to any interested economist worldwide.
To view the talk in Zoom, join our mailing list here. We will send out a weekly email with details about that week's seminar and joining instructions to all registered users. With the speakers' permission, we also upload the talks to our YouTube Channel.
1 Oct 2026, Iván Werning (MIT), "Tâtonnement and Price Setting in General Equilibrium", with Guido Lorenzoni. Guest panellists: Felix Kubler, Karthik Sastry.
8 Oct 2026, Evan D Sadler (Boston), "A Theory of Network Games", with Joseph Root.
15 Oct 2026, Daniel Hauser (Aalto), "Social learning with endogenous timing ", with Pauli Murto and Juuso Välimäki. Guest panellists: Peter Achim and Catherine Bobtcheff.
22 Oct 2026, Maryam Saeedi (Carnegie Mellon), "Getting the Agent to Wait", with Ali Shourideh and Yikang Shen
29 Oct 2026, Sevgi Yuksel (NYU), TBA (In the UK, the clocks go back one hour on 25 October. In the US, they move on 1 November)
5 Nov 2026, Annie Liang (Northwestern), TBA
12 Nov 2026, Andrew Rhodes, (Toulouse SE), TBA
19 Nov 2026, Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton), TBA
26 Nov 2026, No seminar (Thanksgiving)
3 Dec 2026, TBA
10 Dec 2026, TBA
Have you come across an important recent paper in economic theory?
Do you think it would be of broad interest?
Is there someone, perhaps too far away to visit in person, whose work you would like to see presented online?
Please send us a short with the speaker’s name or the paper you would like to suggest, and we will consider them when putting together future programmes. Use this form or send us an email at vsetcontact@gmail.com.
We welcome suggestions of early-career and established scholars. We are keen to encourage broad professional service and wider engagement with the field. For this reason, we ask that suggestions do not include self-nominations or nominations of close collaborators.
Organizers: Spyros Galanis, Francesco Giovannoni, Angel Hernando-Veciana, Max Kwiek, Julia Wirtz
Contact: vsetcontact@gmail.com