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The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory provide a platform for scholars to present their unpublished work to a broad academic audience in the UK and abroad.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

• 22 Oct 2026, Maryam Saeedi (Carnegie Mellon), "Getting the Agent to Wait", with Ali Shourideh and Yikang Shen. Guest panellists: Johannes Hörner and Jan Knoepfle.

In the UK, the clocks go back one hour on 25 October. In the US, they move on 1 November

• 29 Oct 2026, Sevgi Yuksel (NYU), People as Intuitive Modelers: How Model Complexity Adapts to Data, with Guillaume Frechette and Emanuel Vespa.  Guest panellists: Chiara Aina and Tilman Fries. 

• 5 Nov 2026, Annie Liang (Northwestern), "AI and the Production of Ideas".

• 12 Nov 2026, Andrew Rhodes, (Toulouse SE), Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation, with Jidong Zhou and Junjie Zhou.

• 19 Nov 2026, Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton), TBA

• 26 Nov 2026, No seminar (Thanksgiving)

• 3 Dec 2026, Paulo Natenzon (WUSTL), TBA

• 10 Dec 2026, Fedor Sandorminskiy (Princeton), "On the Power of Mediation in Games".  Guest panellists: Frederic Koessler and Karen Wu.