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The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory provide a platform for scholars to present their unpublished work to a broad academic audience in the UK and abroad.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

Upcoming seminars

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

• 18 April 2024, Vincent Crawford (Oxford), "Meaningful Theorems: Nonparametric Analysis of Reference-dependent Preferences" (with Laura Blow). Guest Panelists: Ernst Fehr, Alec Brandon

• 25 April 2024, Agathe Pernoud (Chicago Booth), "How Competition Shapes Information in Auctions" (with Simon Gleyze). Guest Panelists: Juuso Välimäki, Harry Pei.

• 02 May 2024, Nemanja Antic (Northwestern), "Selected Facts", (with Archishman Chakraborty). Guest panelist: Rakesh Vohra.

• 9 May 2024, Mallesh Pai (Rice), "Taxing Externalities Without Hurting the Poor" (with Philipp Strack). Guest panelists: Scott Kominers and Zi Yang Kang

• 16 May 2024, Ricardo Alonso (LSE), "Competitive Capture of Public Opinion" (with Gerard Padro-i-Miquel). Guest panelists: Jacopo Perego, Wing Suen

• 23 May 2024, Alex Smolin (Toulouse), TBA

• 30 May 2024, Michèle Mueller-Itten (St. Galllen) Rational Inattention via Ignorance Equivalence  (with Roc Armenter and Zachary Stangebye). Guest panelists: Alex Bloedel, Andrew Caplin.

• 6 June 2024, TBA

• 13 June 2024, Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern),  "A mechanism-design approach to property rights" (with Ellen V. Muir). Guest panelists: David Martimort, Ludvig Sinander.