Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory

Thursdays, 4 pm UK time

The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory provide a platform for scholars to present their unpublished work to a broad academic audience in the UK and abroad.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.

Registration

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.

Upcoming seminars

The recordings of most of the talks are in past seminars. You can also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel. 

• 2 Oct 2025, Qingmin Liu (Columbia), "A Cooperative Analysis of Incomplete Information". Panellists: Doron Ravid, Roberto Serrano.

• 9 Oct 2025, Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan), "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.

• 16 Oct 2025, Suraj Malladi (Northwestern Kellogg), "Guarantees in Price Experimentation". Panellists: In-Koo Cho, Karl Schlag.

• 23 Oct 2025, Takuo Sugaya (Stanford), "Collusion with Optimal Information Disclosure". 

• 30 Oct 2025: Please note: the US and UK are on different daylight savings schedules this week!
  Hulya Eraslan (Rice), "Reputation and disagreement in bargaining with imperfect commitment" with Kirill Evdokimov and Mingzi Niu. Panellists: Deepal Basak and Jack Fanning.

• 6 Nov 2025, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (UCLA), "Simple Contagion Dynamics in Tree-like Networks", with Simon Board.

• 13 Nov 2025, Giacomo Lanzani (Berkeley), "Nonlinear Fixed Points and Stationarity: Economic Applications".

• 20 Nov 2025, Marina Halac (Yale), TBA

• 27 Nov 2025, no seminar (Thanksgiving)

• 4 Dec 2025, Alex Frankel (Chicago Booth), Correlation Games, with Emir Kamenica.

• 11 Dec 2025, Niko Matouschek (Northwestern Kellogg), TBA