VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory
@vset.bsky.social
Our team: Spyros Galanis, Francesco Giovannoni, Angel Hernando-Veciana, Max Kwiek, Julia Wirtz
https://sites.google.com/view/vset
https://sites.google.com/view/vset
This series of online seminars in political economy restarts in a few days. About half of their talks are theory.
Visit them and join their mailing list.
Visit them and join their mailing list.
POLECONUK Webinar is back for a new season! Our first event is on 28 September. Oliver Vanden Eynde (@pse.bsky.social) will present "Science under Threat? A Natural Experiment in Economics" (with Dominic Rohner and @phinifa.bsky.social). 1/2
September 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
This series of online seminars in political economy restarts in a few days. About half of their talks are theory.
Visit them and join their mailing list.
Visit them and join their mailing list.
VSET is back! We start our new season on Thu, 1 Oct 2026. We're delighted to host Iván Werning (MIT) presenting "Tâtonnement and Price Setting in General Equilibrium" (w. Guido Lorenzoni). Guest panellists: Felix Kubler & Karthik Sastry @ivanwerning.bsky.social #EconSky @kubler.bsky.social
August 28, 2026 at 8:45 PM
VSET is back! We start our new season on Thu, 1 Oct 2026. We're delighted to host Iván Werning (MIT) presenting "Tâtonnement and Price Setting in General Equilibrium" (w. Guido Lorenzoni). Guest panellists: Felix Kubler & Karthik Sastry @ivanwerning.bsky.social #EconSky @kubler.bsky.social
POLECONUK Webinar has announced the start of its new season, but we’re coming back too!
Our first talk is on Thursday, 1 October 2026, and it’s a cracker 🧨. Stay tuned, we’ll be announcing our programme any day now!
Our first talk is on Thursday, 1 October 2026, and it’s a cracker 🧨. Stay tuned, we’ll be announcing our programme any day now!
POLECONUK Webinar is back for a new season! Our first event is on 28 September. Oliver Vanden Eynde (@pse.bsky.social) will present "Science under Threat? A Natural Experiment in Economics" (with Dominic Rohner and @phinifa.bsky.social). 1/2
August 25, 2026 at 3:43 PM
POLECONUK Webinar has announced the start of its new season, but we’re coming back too!
Our first talk is on Thursday, 1 October 2026, and it’s a cracker 🧨. Stay tuned, we’ll be announcing our programme any day now!
Our first talk is on Thursday, 1 October 2026, and it’s a cracker 🧨. Stay tuned, we’ll be announcing our programme any day now!
Looking forward to seeing you all at today’s seminar 👇
::: LAST TALK OF THE TERM :::
Join us on Thursday, 11 Jun 2026, to see ➡️ Fei Li ⬅️ (UNC Chapel Hill) present "Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms". This is join work with Yi Chen and Marcel Preuss. Panellists: Ellen Muir and Heski Bar-Isaac.
@profeski.bsky.social
Join us on Thursday, 11 Jun 2026, to see ➡️ Fei Li ⬅️ (UNC Chapel Hill) present "Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms". This is join work with Yi Chen and Marcel Preuss. Panellists: Ellen Muir and Heski Bar-Isaac.
@profeski.bsky.social
June 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Looking forward to seeing you all at today’s seminar 👇
::: LAST TALK OF THE TERM :::
Join us on Thursday, 11 Jun 2026, to see ➡️ Fei Li ⬅️ (UNC Chapel Hill) present "Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms". This is join work with Yi Chen and Marcel Preuss. Panellists: Ellen Muir and Heski Bar-Isaac.
@profeski.bsky.social
Join us on Thursday, 11 Jun 2026, to see ➡️ Fei Li ⬅️ (UNC Chapel Hill) present "Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms". This is join work with Yi Chen and Marcel Preuss. Panellists: Ellen Muir and Heski Bar-Isaac.
@profeski.bsky.social
June 5, 2026 at 10:24 AM
::: LAST TALK OF THE TERM :::
Join us on Thursday, 11 Jun 2026, to see ➡️ Fei Li ⬅️ (UNC Chapel Hill) present "Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms". This is join work with Yi Chen and Marcel Preuss. Panellists: Ellen Muir and Heski Bar-Isaac.
@profeski.bsky.social
Join us on Thursday, 11 Jun 2026, to see ➡️ Fei Li ⬅️ (UNC Chapel Hill) present "Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms". This is join work with Yi Chen and Marcel Preuss. Panellists: Ellen Muir and Heski Bar-Isaac.
@profeski.bsky.social
Join us in a few minutes!
On 4 Jun 2026, Andrew McClellan ( #chicagobooth ) will present "Signaling with Plausible Deniability", with Daniel Rappoport. Panellists: Ian Ball and
Roi Orzach
No paper or abstract is available yet, but the mystery will be resolved this Thursday.
Roi Orzach
No paper or abstract is available yet, but the mystery will be resolved this Thursday.
June 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Join us in a few minutes!
On 4 Jun 2026, Andrew McClellan ( #chicagobooth ) will present "Signaling with Plausible Deniability", with Daniel Rappoport. Panellists: Ian Ball and
Roi Orzach
No paper or abstract is available yet, but the mystery will be resolved this Thursday.
Roi Orzach
No paper or abstract is available yet, but the mystery will be resolved this Thursday.
June 1, 2026 at 11:12 AM
On 4 Jun 2026, Andrew McClellan ( #chicagobooth ) will present "Signaling with Plausible Deniability", with Daniel Rappoport. Panellists: Ian Ball and
Roi Orzach
No paper or abstract is available yet, but the mystery will be resolved this Thursday.
Roi Orzach
No paper or abstract is available yet, but the mystery will be resolved this Thursday.
We start now!
Join us on Thursday, 28 May 2026. 👉 Omer Tamuz (Caltech) will present "Local Coordination and the Geometry of Social Networks", with Tom Hutchcroft and Olga Rospuskova. Panellists: Antonio Cabrales and Evan Sadler. #Econsky #econtheory
@caltecheconthry.bsky.social
@caltecheconthry.bsky.social
May 28, 2026 at 2:56 PM
We start now!
Join us on Thursday, 28 May 2026. 👉 Omer Tamuz (Caltech) will present "Local Coordination and the Geometry of Social Networks", with Tom Hutchcroft and Olga Rospuskova. Panellists: Antonio Cabrales and Evan Sadler. #Econsky #econtheory
@caltecheconthry.bsky.social
@caltecheconthry.bsky.social
May 22, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Join us on Thursday, 28 May 2026. 👉 Omer Tamuz (Caltech) will present "Local Coordination and the Geometry of Social Networks", with Tom Hutchcroft and Olga Rospuskova. Panellists: Antonio Cabrales and Evan Sadler. #Econsky #econtheory
@caltecheconthry.bsky.social
@caltecheconthry.bsky.social
Join us today to learn about a model of price competition with procrastinating consumers.
Our next seminar is on 21 May 2026.
💥Paul Heidhues💥 (@dice.hhu.de, University of Düsseldorf) will present "Procrastination and Competition Failure" (joint with Peter Andre, Botond Köszegi, and Takeshi Murooka). Panellists: Yair Antler and Andrew Rhodes.
@peterandre.bsky.social
💥Paul Heidhues💥 (@dice.hhu.de, University of Düsseldorf) will present "Procrastination and Competition Failure" (joint with Peter Andre, Botond Köszegi, and Takeshi Murooka). Panellists: Yair Antler and Andrew Rhodes.
@peterandre.bsky.social
May 21, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Join us today to learn about a model of price competition with procrastinating consumers.
Our next seminar is on 21 May 2026.
💥Paul Heidhues💥 (@dice.hhu.de, University of Düsseldorf) will present "Procrastination and Competition Failure" (joint with Peter Andre, Botond Köszegi, and Takeshi Murooka). Panellists: Yair Antler and Andrew Rhodes.
@peterandre.bsky.social
💥Paul Heidhues💥 (@dice.hhu.de, University of Düsseldorf) will present "Procrastination and Competition Failure" (joint with Peter Andre, Botond Köszegi, and Takeshi Murooka). Panellists: Yair Antler and Andrew Rhodes.
@peterandre.bsky.social
May 15, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Our next seminar is on 21 May 2026.
💥Paul Heidhues💥 (@dice.hhu.de, University of Düsseldorf) will present "Procrastination and Competition Failure" (joint with Peter Andre, Botond Köszegi, and Takeshi Murooka). Panellists: Yair Antler and Andrew Rhodes.
@peterandre.bsky.social
💥Paul Heidhues💥 (@dice.hhu.de, University of Düsseldorf) will present "Procrastination and Competition Failure" (joint with Peter Andre, Botond Köszegi, and Takeshi Murooka). Panellists: Yair Antler and Andrew Rhodes.
@peterandre.bsky.social
Join us today to hear Harry Pei's presentation on selective disclosure within an overlapping generation framework.
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Join us on Thursday, 14 May 2026, to watch 👉Harry Pei👈 (Northwestern) presenting "Selective Disclosure in Overlapping Generations" (joint with Nemanja Antić). Panellists: Dino Gerardi and João Ramos.
May 14, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Join us today to hear Harry Pei's presentation on selective disclosure within an overlapping generation framework.
👇 👇 👇
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Join us on Thursday, 14 May 2026, to watch 👉Harry Pei👈 (Northwestern) presenting "Selective Disclosure in Overlapping Generations" (joint with Nemanja Antić). Panellists: Dino Gerardi and João Ramos.
May 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Join us on Thursday, 14 May 2026, to watch 👉Harry Pei👈 (Northwestern) presenting "Selective Disclosure in Overlapping Generations" (joint with Nemanja Antić). Panellists: Dino Gerardi and João Ramos.
Seminar today!
Access: mailchi.mp/durham/carol...
Access: mailchi.mp/durham/carol...
We are not slowing down!!
▶️Caroline Liqui-Lung◀️ @cityeconomics.bsky.social will give a talk on 7 May 2026: "Social Priors and the Informational Multiplier: The Hidden Costs of Coarse Social Information". Panellists: Chiara Aina and Arjada Bardhi
@chiaraina.bsky.social #EconTheory #Econsky
▶️Caroline Liqui-Lung◀️ @cityeconomics.bsky.social will give a talk on 7 May 2026: "Social Priors and the Informational Multiplier: The Hidden Costs of Coarse Social Information". Panellists: Chiara Aina and Arjada Bardhi
@chiaraina.bsky.social #EconTheory #Econsky
May 7, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Seminar today!
Access: mailchi.mp/durham/carol...
Access: mailchi.mp/durham/carol...
We are not slowing down!!
▶️Caroline Liqui-Lung◀️ @cityeconomics.bsky.social will give a talk on 7 May 2026: "Social Priors and the Informational Multiplier: The Hidden Costs of Coarse Social Information". Panellists: Chiara Aina and Arjada Bardhi
@chiaraina.bsky.social #EconTheory #Econsky
▶️Caroline Liqui-Lung◀️ @cityeconomics.bsky.social will give a talk on 7 May 2026: "Social Priors and the Informational Multiplier: The Hidden Costs of Coarse Social Information". Panellists: Chiara Aina and Arjada Bardhi
@chiaraina.bsky.social #EconTheory #Econsky
April 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
We are not slowing down!!
▶️Caroline Liqui-Lung◀️ @cityeconomics.bsky.social will give a talk on 7 May 2026: "Social Priors and the Informational Multiplier: The Hidden Costs of Coarse Social Information". Panellists: Chiara Aina and Arjada Bardhi
@chiaraina.bsky.social #EconTheory #Econsky
▶️Caroline Liqui-Lung◀️ @cityeconomics.bsky.social will give a talk on 7 May 2026: "Social Priors and the Informational Multiplier: The Hidden Costs of Coarse Social Information". Panellists: Chiara Aina and Arjada Bardhi
@chiaraina.bsky.social #EconTheory #Econsky
Join us tomorrow to relax 🏖️🍸💆♀️. Finally, we learn about simpler mechanisms!
After a great inauguration of the spring season, our next talk is on 30 April. 💥Lea Nagel💥 from #Harvard will present "Designing Simpler Mechanisms: Transparency and As-If Dominance”, with Roberto Saitto. Guest panellists: Andrew Mackenzie and Linchen Zhang. #Econsky #Econtheory
April 29, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Join us tomorrow to relax 🏖️🍸💆♀️. Finally, we learn about simpler mechanisms!
Reposted by VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory
I study algorithmic collusion. One difficulty is that if sellers' costs are not verifiable, then sellers can jointly pretend to have higher costs and the algorithmic prices will appear competitive for these costs. This is what just happened with the illegal Trump tariffs. Cf arxiv.org/abs/2501.09740
Regulation of Algorithmic Collusion, Refined: Testing Pessimistic Calibrated Regret
We study the regulation of algorithmic (non-)collusion amongst sellers in dynamic imperfect price competition by auditing their data as introduced by Hartline et al. [2024].
We develop an auditing m...
arxiv.org
April 24, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I study algorithmic collusion. One difficulty is that if sellers' costs are not verifiable, then sellers can jointly pretend to have higher costs and the algorithmic prices will appear competitive for these costs. This is what just happened with the illegal Trump tariffs. Cf arxiv.org/abs/2501.09740
After a great inauguration of the spring season, our next talk is on 30 April. 💥Lea Nagel💥 from #Harvard will present "Designing Simpler Mechanisms: Transparency and As-If Dominance”, with Roberto Saitto. Guest panellists: Andrew Mackenzie and Linchen Zhang. #Econsky #Econtheory
April 24, 2026 at 10:54 AM
After a great inauguration of the spring season, our next talk is on 30 April. 💥Lea Nagel💥 from #Harvard will present "Designing Simpler Mechanisms: Transparency and As-If Dominance”, with Roberto Saitto. Guest panellists: Andrew Mackenzie and Linchen Zhang. #Econsky #Econtheory
Our first seminar of the spring season is on Thursday, 23 Apr 2026. 💥James Best💥 (Carnegie Mellon) presents "Divide and Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification", with Daniel Quigley, Maryam Saeedi, and Ali Shourideh. Panellists: Nemanja Antić and Dimitri Migrow.
April 9, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Our first seminar of the spring season is on Thursday, 23 Apr 2026. 💥James Best💥 (Carnegie Mellon) presents "Divide and Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification", with Daniel Quigley, Maryam Saeedi, and Ali Shourideh. Panellists: Nemanja Antić and Dimitri Migrow.
MSET2026 in Bristol is tomorrow. We start at noon.
sites.google.com/view/mset-wo...
sites.google.com/view/mset-wo...
March 22, 2026 at 9:57 AM
MSET2026 in Bristol is tomorrow. We start at noon.
sites.google.com/view/mset-wo...
sites.google.com/view/mset-wo...
@poleconukinar.bsky.social returns with a series of great seminars, some of which are theory-focused 👇
⭐ 16 Mar, Andrea Prat @andreaprat.bsky.social (Columbia), "Competing Ideologies: Fit, Simplicity, and Fear", with José Luis Montiel Olea.
⭐ 20 Apr, Nina Bobkova @ninabob.bsky.social (Rice), TBA
⭐ 27 Apr, Nancy Qian (Northwestern, Kellogg), TBA
⭐ 18 May, TBA
⭐ 1 Jun, Ro'ee Levy (Tel Aviv), TBA
⭐ 20 Apr, Nina Bobkova @ninabob.bsky.social (Rice), TBA
⭐ 27 Apr, Nancy Qian (Northwestern, Kellogg), TBA
⭐ 18 May, TBA
⭐ 1 Jun, Ro'ee Levy (Tel Aviv), TBA
March 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
@poleconukinar.bsky.social returns with a series of great seminars, some of which are theory-focused 👇
Reposted by VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory
After the winter break, the POLECONUK Webinar resumes on Monday, 16 March at 3 pm UK time. We have a great line-up confirmed, so please mark your calendars ‼️
March 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
After the winter break, the POLECONUK Webinar resumes on Monday, 16 March at 3 pm UK time. We have a great line-up confirmed, so please mark your calendars ‼️
We are pleased to announce that the Makris Symposium in Economic Theory will take place in Bristol on Monday-Tuesday, 23-24 March 2026. MSET2026 is an in-person event organised by the same team as VSET.
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM
We are pleased to announce that the Makris Symposium in Economic Theory will take place in Bristol on Monday-Tuesday, 23-24 March 2026. MSET2026 is an in-person event organised by the same team as VSET.
We are done for this term, but our friends at POLECONUK Webinars have one more gem for you 👇. Join to listen to Bård Harstad from Stanford talking about political commitment bonds: mailchi.mp/51c83923847a...
Our last talk this calendar year is on Monday, 15 December 2025. We host Bård Harstad (Stanford), who will present new research titled "Political Commitment Bonds" @bardharstad.bsky.social. See abstract in the thread below 👇
December 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We are done for this term, but our friends at POLECONUK Webinars have one more gem for you 👇. Join to listen to Bård Harstad from Stanford talking about political commitment bonds: mailchi.mp/51c83923847a...
Join us in a few moments 👇
Our last talk this calendar year is on Thursday, 11 Dec 2025. Niko Matouschek (Northwestern Kellogg) will present "Paying with Purpose," with Luis Rayo. Our panellist is Luis Garicano. Everyone is welcome!!! @lugaricano.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Join us in a few moments 👇