📢 Next UNET Seminar by Mariann Ollar (NYU Shanghai) 📅 Thursday, 11 Dec 2025, 14:00–15:00 📍 Room C43, Sir Clive Granger @uoneconomics.bsky.social + MS Teams The paper is on "Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions" 🔗 sites.google.com/site/omariann/

📢 Next UNET Seminar already on Monday! Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick) 📅 Monday, 17 Nov 2025, 14:00–15:00 📍 Room C43, Sir Clive Granger @UoNEconomics + MS Teams The paper is on "Peer Selection with Friends and Enemies" 🔗 profiles.warwick.ac.uk/ecsfd-bhaska...

📢 The next UNET seminar: In-Uck Park (University of Bristol) 📅 Tuesday, Oct 28, 2–3 pm 📍 Room C43 @uoneconomics.bsky.social + Teams In-Uck presents “Selling Information for Bilateral Trade” (with Robert Evans) 🔗 inuck-park.com

It's the first day of the new term at the University of Nottingham and the first post on Bluesky from the School of Economics 🎓 Wishing all those that are joining us today a fantastic year ahead on what we hope you will come to agree is a beautiful campus 🍂 #WeAreUoN #Economics #Autumnvibes

Well done to @lucasdemelo93.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva! Congratulations from all of us in @uoneconomics.bsky.social 🍾

The next UNET seminar: Eyal Winter 📅 Tuesday, Oct 21, 2–3 pm 📍 Room C43 @UoNEconomics + Teams Eyal presents “Organizing negative externalities among consumers” (with Alex Gershkov) 🔗 www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/people/...

Great prize. Of course, I'm personally especially happy for Joel Mokyr from @NUEconomics. Congratulations! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

The UNET seminars continue! 📅 Tuesday, Oct 14, 2–3 pm 📍 Room C43 + online Our next speaker is Mehmet Mars Seven (@mehmetmars7.bsky.social, King’s), presenting “Elo performance in sports.” 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/people/mehmet-ismail

Trailer: Collusion without Patience

The UNET seminars are back! 📅 Tuesdays, 2–3 pm 📍 Room C43 + online The first talk is "Collusion without Patience" on Oct 7 by Toomas Hinnosaar (@toomas.hinnosaar.net), joint with Jacopo Bizzotto. toomas.hinnosaar.net

After a repeal of North Dakota's Sunday morning retail ban, morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel & shifting shopping to preferred times and stores. J Donna, @marit.hinnosaar.net @toomas.hinnosaar.net @andre-trindade.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "The Limits of Limited Commitment" by Jacopo Bizzotto, Toomas Hinnosaar, and Adrien Vigier. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event

This paper examines the effects of deregulating store opening hours, specifically focusing on North Dakota's repeal of its Sunday closing law in 2019. spkl.io/63326A1iQu @marit.hinnosaar.net @andre-trindade.bsky.social @toomas.hinnosaar.net

Summer 2025 reality check for those who rely on LLMs for help with math and logic: chatgpt.com/s/t_6880b52a... I tested four models, all gave wrong answers (ChatGPT (4o), Gemini (2.5flash), Perplexity, DeepSeek). For some other numbers, the answers were correct.

Our final UNET seminar of the year is on May 20th by Rossella Argenziano (University of Essex), and she will present "Data governance with vulnerable individuals" (with Francesco Squintani). As usual, it is from 3-4pm in C43 and on Teams. sites.google.com/site/rargenz...

I think people don’t yet realize that the new Pope might prefer Chicago-style pizza over Italian pizza.

The speaker for the next week's UNET seminar on Tuesday (May 6) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Gianni De Fraja (Nottingham). He presents "Discrimination spillovers, glass ceilings and pay gaps" (with Jozsef Sakovics) sites.google.com/site/giannid...

The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 29) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Martin Cripps (UCL). He presents a paper, "The asymptotic cost of complexity". sites.google.com/site/mwcripp...

The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 15) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Larry Samuelson (Yale). He presents a paper, "Delegated Bidding". sites.google.com/site/larryat...

"For every economist, there is an equal and opposite economist." - John N Kennedy Has anybody met my equal and opposite economist? What about yours? youtu.be/zJepmdxrf7Q?...

Congratulations to @marit.hinnosaar.net and @aggraziano.bsky.social on their promotion to Associate Professors! Well done, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social !

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 25) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. @fgiovannoni.bsky.social (Bristol) presents "Pricing Novel Goods" (with @toomas.hinnosaar.net ). sites.google.com/site/frances...

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 18) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Mikhail Safronov from @Cambridge_Uni presents "Strategic renegotiation in repeated games" (with Bruno Strulovici). www.caths.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr...

Our first UNET seminar in 2025 is on Tuesday (March 4) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Jack Fanning (Brown University) presents "Searching for surplus" sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/...

A deep joke by DeepSeek?

I did a simple test to check the math capabilities of three AI models: ChatGPT (model o1), Gemini (2.0 experimental), and DeepSeek (DeepThink R1). I asked each to create a math problem they could solve but the other AI tools would struggle with.

Those email footers should be updated: Sent from my mobile device. My sincerest and most heartfelt apologies for all of the autocorrections, as well as the semantically optimized yet contextually irrelevant phrasing that has been generously introduced by AI without my explicit intention or approval.

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky

Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (http://www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x

Friends, I don't think bluesky is the new town square. Announced our cool new AI tool to improve education (AlldayTA.com!). Response: that I'm "only good as firewood", shame!, gross, scab...and not from randos, but from academics and a Yale Review Editor.

I have made a starter pack for experimental economics. Please let me know if you would like to be added or deleted from the list. Thank you. go.bsky.app/2U7CMUC #Econsky

@marciano.bsky.social has created a nice starter pack "Economic Theorists on BlueSky" bsky.app/starter-pack...

Our final UNET seminar of the calendar year is on Tuesday (Dec 10) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv/UCL), presents "Competitive markets with diversely discerning consumers" (joint with Yair Antler) www.ranspiegler.sites.tau.ac.il

Has anyone heard of this "Econometrica" journal? They seem really eager for my papers—advertising themselves so aggressively!

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (Dec 3) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams by Alex Possajennikov (Nottingham), who presents "Unbeatable Strategies in Games". sites.google.com/view/alex-po...

University of Nottingham is hiring! Looking for an Assistant Professor in international trade. Deadline: Dec 13. #EconJobMarket #EconSky econjobmarket.org/positions/11263

My cat stole my chair and Twitter is dying, so here I am, exploring this platform.

Our next UNET seminar is an online seminar next Tuesday (Nov 26) from 3-4 pm by Sinem Hidir (Warwick), who presents "Political influence through microtargeting" (with Michael Eldar). sites.google.com/site/sinemhi...

Happy International Men’s Day! Today Ralph De Haas and I talk about our paper Masculinity Around the World, joint with @iedamatavelli.bsky.social and Pauline Grosjean, on VoxTalks @voxeu.org cepr.org/multimedia/m... podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/v...

Starter pack is convenient, but it created fragmented communities of economists. An easy solution is for Acemoglu to create a starter pack for those who cited him.

Francesco Giovannoni, Toomas Hinnosaar Pricing Novel Goods https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04985

Jacopo Bizzotto, Toomas Hinnosaar, Adrien Vigier The Limits of Limited Commitment https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05546

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (Nov 5) from 3-4 at C43 and on Teams by Indrajit Ray (Cardiff). He presents "Any outcome is an equilibrium in a market." sites.google.com/site/indrara...

Next week, we'll have another UNET seminar on Thursday (Nov 7) from 2-3 pm at C43 and on Teams. Joel Flynn (Yale) presents "Optimally Coarse Contracts." joelflynn.com

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (Oct 22) from 3-4 at C43 and on Teams by Stephan Jagau (NUBS). He presents "Context-dependent expected utility". sites.google.com/view/stephan...

Winter is coming! #ColdOffices

As we are all thinking of this right, here is a helpful tool to put your mind at ease: toomas.hinnosaar.net/nobel/

BBC weather forecast for Nottingham right now: 403 degrees Celsius and 4808 mph (or m/s?) wind. Should I be worried? bbc.co.uk/weather/2641...

UNET Theory Seminars are back! Kicking off with David Kelsey (NUBS) presenting "Ambiguity and the Centipede Game" on Oct 8, 3-4pm in C43. More about David's work: sites.google.com/view/david-k... Full seminar list for the year: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...