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Events for 2024-25

Theory and Policy in the Digital Economy

The workshop will take place on October 7-8, 2024 at Durham University and will bring together theorists and policy analysts to discuss current questions in industrial economics. The featured speakers are 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

Events for 2023-24

Seminar Series

DREAM organises an internal seminar series on Thursdays and co-organises the following external seminars for 2023-24.

Savitar Sundaresan (Imperial) on November 8, 2023

Flavio Toxvaerd (Cambridge) on November 23, 2023

Joel Kariel (CMA) on February 29, 2024

Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern) on April 25, 2024

Emir Kamenica (Chicago) on May 15, 2024

Workshop in Economic Theory (MSET24), 21-22 March 2024

DREAM co-organises the Workshop in Economic Theory, in Memory of Miltos Makris (MSET), together with the Universities of Bristol, Carlos III and Southampton. The workshop started in 2013, at the University of Southampton. 

The next workshop will take place at Durham on 21-22 March 2024.

Speakers:

Durham York Workshop in Economic Theory  

The Durham York workshop takes place annually and it is a one-day event where colleagues from both Universities meet and present their research. The next workshop will take place in York on May 9, 2024.

4th Durham Economic Theory Conference, 6-7 June 2024

The 4th Durham Economic Theory Conference (DETC2023) will take place on 6-7 June 2024 at Durham University Business School.

The three keynote speakers are

We invite paper submissions from all major fields of economic theory and its applications, with a focus on micro-theory, industrial organization, mechanism/market design, bargaining/auction theory and behavioural/experimental economics.

You can find more information at the DETC2024 website.

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 2023-24 is as follows.