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The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory provide a platform for scholars to present their unpublished work to a broad academic audience in the UK and abroad.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

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

VSET restarts after Easter:

• 23 Apr 2026, James Best (Carnegie Mellon): "Divide and Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification", with Daniel Quigley, Maryam Saeedi, and Ali Shourideh.

• 30 Apr 2026, Lea Nagel (Harvard), TBA

• 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)

• 14 May 2026, Harry Pei (Northwestern), TBA

• 21 May 2026, Paul Heidhues (HHU Düsseldorf), TBA

• 28 May 2026, TBA

• 4 Jun 2026, TBA

• 11 Jun 2026, TBA