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The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory provide a platform for scholars to present their unpublished work to a broad academic audience in the UK and abroad.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

• 23-24 March 2026, Makris Symposium in Economic Theory in Bristol

Upcoming seminars

VSET restarts after Easter:

• 7 May 2026, Caroline Liqui-Lung (City St George’s, UoL), "Social Priors and the Informational Multiplier: The Hidden Costs of Coarse Social Information" (abstract). Panellists: Chiara Aina and Arjada Bardhi

• 14 May 2026, Harry Pei (Northwestern), "Selective Disclosure in Overlapping Generations", with Nemanja Antić. Panellists: Dino Gerardi and João Ramos.

• 21 May 2026, Paul Heidhues (HHU Düsseldorf), "Procrastination and Competition Failure", with Peter Andre, Botond Köszegi and Takeshi Murooka.  Panellists: Yair Antler and Andrew Rhodes.

• 28 May 2026, Omer Tamuz (Caltech), "Local Coordination and the Geometry of Social Networks", with Tom Hutchcroft and Olga Rospuskova.

• 4 Jun 2026, Andrew McClellan (Chicago Booth), "Signaling with Plausible Deniability", with Daniel Rappoport. Panellists: Ian Ball and Roi Orzach.

• 11 Jun 2026, Fei Li (UNC Chapel Hill), "Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms", with Yi Chen and Marcel Preuss.