Tomorrow, we will learn about points 👇. Join us at 4 pm UK time.

Our next talk on 13 Nov 2025 is by Giacomo Lanzani (Berkeley), who will present "Nonlinear Fixed Points and Stationarity: Economic Applications". Panellists: Agathe Pernoud, Sanjeev Goyal.

Join us today 👇 at 4 pm UK time. Check your time zone: dateful.com/convert/uk?t...

Our next seminar is on 6 Nov 2025. Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (UCLA) will present "Simple Contagion Dynamics in Tree-like Networks", with Simon Board. Panellists: Sanjeev Goyal and Evan Sadler #EconSky

Join us on Thursday, 30 Oct, for a talk by 💥Hülya Eraslan💥 (Rice) on "Reputation and disagreement in bargaining with imperfect commitment" with Kirill Evdokimov and Mingzi Niu. Panellists: Deepal Basak and Jack Fanning. NOTE: The US and UK are on different daylight savings schedules this week!

Join us on Thursday, 30 Oct, for a talk by 💥Hülya Eraslan💥 (Rice) on "Reputation and disagreement in bargaining with imperfect commitment" with Kirill Evdokimov and Mingzi Niu. Panellists: Deepal Basak and Jack Fanning. NOTE: The US and UK are on different daylight savings schedules this week!

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We start in a few minutes 👇

Tomorrow's seminar is on "Collusion with Optimal Information Disclosure"

Our next event, on 23 Oct 2025, is a presentation by ➡️Takuo Sugaya⬅️ (Stanford) on "Collusion with Optimal Information Disclosure", joint work with Alexander Wolitzky. Panellist: Jeanine Miklos-Thal

🤔 How does a firm actually know the demand for its product? Join us today for this talk by Suraj Malladi 👇

We’re back next week! Join us to hear about new research on the timely topic of protests: 🐸🦖🪧

Our next talk is on Thursday, 16 Oct 2025. 👉Suraj Malladi👈 from Northwestern/Kellogg will present "Guarantees in Price Experimentation". The session will feature panellists In-Koo Cho and Karl Schlag.

Today 👇

After a great start to the term, join us for our second talk! On 9 Oct 2025, 💥Alessandro Bonatti💥 (MIT Sloan) presents "The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing" (with Dirk Bergemann and Alex Smolin). Panellists: Ron Siegel and Frank Yang.

Today 👇

This Thursday!

WE ARE BACK! Our 1st seminar this academic year is next Thursday, Oct/2, 2025. We are extremely pleased to host Qingmin Liu (Columbia), who will present "A Cooperative Analysis of Incomplete Information". Our panellists are Doron Ravid & Roberto Serrano.

Join us in October for the next season of VSET. We have a fantastic line-up this Fall 👇👇👇 Qingmin Liu, Alessandro Bonatti, Suraj Malladi, Takuo Sugaya, Hulya Eraslan, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Giacomo Lanzani, Marina Halac, Alex Frankel @franktron.bsky.social, Niko Matouschek

Join us in October for the next season of VSET. We have a fantastic line-up this Fall 👇👇👇 Qingmin Liu, Alessandro Bonatti, Suraj Malladi, Takuo Sugaya, Hulya Eraslan, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Giacomo Lanzani, Marina Halac, Alex Frankel @franktron.bsky.social, Niko Matouschek

VSET is back! Our first talk of the academic year will be held next month, on the first Thursday in October. The full program will be announced soon.

Our last talk this term is tomorrow - don't miss it as there is no paper yet!!!

OUR LAST TALK OF THE TERM is on Thursday, 12 June 2025. 👉Tommaso Denti (NYU)👈 will present "Understanding information acquisition through f-informativity and duality," with Alex Bloedel and Luciano Pomatto. Guest Panellists: Weijie Zhong and Annie Liang.

Yesterday's talk, "Allocation Mechanisms with Mixture-Averse Preferences" by David Dillenberger, is now available on our YouTube channel: sites.google.com/view/vset/pa.... Despite a few brief connectivity hiccups, the full talk is available to watch.

Join us tomorrow for David Dillenberger's talk.

We meet on Thursday, 5 June 2025, to watch David Dillenberger's (Penn) presentation on 💥Allocation Mechanisms with Mixture-Averse Preferences💥 (with Uzi Segal). Guest panellists: Alex Gershkov and Todd Sarver.

Now on YouTube: sites.google.com/view/vset/pa...

This seminar by @timroughgarden.bsky.social is today!

Tim Roughgarden (a16z crypto and Columbia) is giving a seminar on Thursday, 29 May 2025: "Shill-Proof Auctions" (with Andrew Komo and Scott Kominers). Guest panellists: Marek Pycia and Zhou Yu. @timroughgarden.bsky.social @skominers.bsky.social

Now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmtM...

What do you think: is data collection by a price-discriminating monopoly good 👼 or bad 👿 for welfare? Join us in a few hours to learn more.

Up next: Maryam Farboodi (MIT Sloan) presents “Good Data and Bad Data: The Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination” on Thursday, 22 May 2025. Joint work with @nimahaghpanah.bsky.social and @shourideh.bsky.social. Guest panelists: Alexander Wolitzky and Stephen Morris.

We are on. We hope the recording will be uploaded to YT later.

This is today! Join us at 4 pm UK time: dateful.com/convert/uk?t...

Our next seminar is on Monday, 19 May 2025. We welcome Germán Gieczewski (@princetonpolitics.bsky.social), who will present "Noisy Screening and Brinkmanship". We will send the usual email with the Zoom link on Thursday.

Coming up next: On 15/May, Mohammad Akbarpour (@akbarpour.bsky.social, Stanford) will present "Optimal Redistribution via Income Taxation and Market Design", with Paweł Doligalski, Piotr Dworczak, @skominers.bsky.social. Guest panellists: @ahlviklassi.bsky.social and Mingshi Kang.

We are starting!!

Get ready for tomorrow's talk:

The YouTube recording of Arina Nikandrova's seminar is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPIx...

On 8 May 2025, our next speaker, Markus Brunnermeier (@princetonecon.bsky.social), will present "Strategic Money with Credit Ledgers" (joint with Jonathan Payne). Guest Panellists: Emre Ozdenoren and Daniel Sanches. @emreozdenoren.bsky.social

join us today👇

What can be more important in this day and age than data linkage between markets? Join us on Thursday to learn more!

After a great start to the season yesterday, our next talk is on 1 May. 👉Arina Nikandrova👈 (City) presents "Data Linkage between Markets: Hidden Dangers and Unexpected Benefits", joint with Tatiana Mayskaya and Claudia Herresthal. Panellists: Humberto Moreira and Andrew Rhodes.

Live today!!! At 4 pm UK time.

We start tomorrow👇 Join us for a great talk by Alex Wolitzky at our first seminar of 2025. If you're on our mailing list, you should have the Zoom link in your inbox. (Note: the Zoom link is different from previous ones. Also, our YouTube livestream may be delayed by a few hours.)

We are back after Easter!!! Here is our current program for spring 2025: 24 Apr A. Wolitzky (MIT) 1 May A. Nikandrova (City) 8 May M. Brunnermeier (Princeton), 15 May M. Akbarpour (Stanford) 22 May M. Farboodi (MIT) 29 May T. Roughgarden (a16z crypto & Columbia) 5 Jun TBA 12 Jun T. Denti (NYU)

WE ARE BACK next week!!! On Thursday, 24 April 2025, Alexander Wolitzky (MIT) will present "Marginal Reputation" (joint work with Daniel Luo). Our guest panellists: Jeff Ely and Elliot Lipnowski. Share the news! @jeffely.bsky.social @elliotlip.bsky.social

It was a fantastic conference and an excellent way to remember an economist who left us too early

Last week, we had a wonderful time in Madrid at the Makris Symposium in Economic Theory (MSET2025). Many thanks to all our speakers for their excellent talks. More photos now available on our website: sites.google.com/view/mset-wo... @snageebali.bsky.social

The University of Bath hosts "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀" workshop on 22 & 23 May. Funded by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership. More details: www.bath.ac.uk/events/the-r...