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Events for 2024-25

5th Durham Economic Theory Conference

The 5th Durham Economic Theory Conference (DETC2025) will take place on 5-6 June 2024 at the Durham University Business School.

The three keynote speakers are:

George Mailath (UPenn)
Larry Samuelson (Yale)
Leeat Yariv (Princeton)

You can find more information at the DETC2025 website.

Makris Symposium in Economic Theory (MSET)

MSET will take place on 3-4 April, 2025, in Madrid. It is jointly organised with the Universities of Bristol, Carlos III, and Southampton.

The speakers are

S. Nageeb Ali (Penn State)
Nemanja Antic (Northwestern)
Sulagna Dasgupta (Bonn)
Johannes Hörner (Toulouse)
Manuel Mueller-Frank (IESE)
Antonio Penta (ICREA-UPF and BSE)
Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton)
Julia Salmi (Helsinki)

Theory and Policy in the Digital Economy

The workshop took place on October 7-8, 2024 at Durham University and brought together theorists and policy analysts to discuss current questions in industrial economics. The featured speakers were Mike Walker (CMA) and Devesh R. Raval (FTC).

Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory (VSET)

DREAM co-organises VSET, together with the Universities of Bristol, Carlos III, and Southampton. The list of speakers for 2024-25 is as follows.

  • 3 Oct 2024, Philipp Strack (Yale), "Nondiscriminatory Personalized Pricing" with Kai Hao Yang. Guest panellists: Laura Doval and Alex Smolin.
  • 10 Oct 2024, Mariagiovanna Baccara (WashU), "Research Waves" with Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin. Guest panellists: Steve Callander and Julia Salmi
  • 17 Oct 2024, Paula Onuchic (Oxford), "How do Groups Speak and How are They Understood?" with Ala Avoyan. Guest panellists: Agata Farina and Eduardo Perez-Richet
  • 24 Oct 2024, Andrew Caplin (NYU), "Human and Machine Learning: A Cognitive Economic Approach" with Daniel J. Martin and Philip Marx. Guest panellists: Larry Samuelson, Emir Kamenica.
  • 31 Oct 2024, Ji Hee Yoon, (UCL) "Dynamic Trading and Inference in Non-Markovian Equilibria" with Marzena Rostek and Xian Wu. Guest panellists: Daniel Chen and Piero Gottardi.
  • 7 Nov 2024, Faidra Monachou (Yale), "Optimal Cohort Partitions" with Sofoklis Goulas.
  • 14 Nov 2024, Jonathan Libgober (USC), TBA
  • 21 Nov 2024, Modibo K. Camara (Stanford GSB), TBA
  • 28 Nov 2024, Thanksgiving, no seminar
  • 5 Dec 2024, Heski Bar Isaak (Toronto), "Selling Attention through Steering and Certification" with Rahul Deb and Matt Mitchell. Guest panellists: Itay Fainmesser and Marco Ottaviani.
  • 12 Dec 2024, Roberto Corrao (Yale), TBA