Events for 2024-25

5^th Durham Economic Theory Conference

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

The two keynote speakers are:

George Mailath (UPenn)
Leeat Yariv (Princeton)

You can find more information at the DETC2025 website.

 

York Durham Edinburgh Workshop in Economic Theory

The York Durham Edinburgh workshop is a one-day event that takes place annually, rotating across the three Universities. The 2025 Workshop takes place on May 19 in Edinburgh. The programme is as follows:

Dimitri Migrow (Edinburgh), “Disclosure of Causal vs. Correlational Information in Markets With Correlation Neglect”

Andrew Clausen (Edinburgh), “Turning bribes into lemons: an optimal mechanism”

Gabriel Ziegler (Edinburgh), “Bounded or Full Rationality”

Keynote by Ludovic Renou (QMUL)

Yuan Ju (York), “Decentralized Multilateral Bargaining”

Zaifu Yang (York), TBA

Peter Achim (York), “Flexible Learning via Noise Reduction”

Daniel Li (Durham), “Optimal Search Auction by a Deadline”

Mauro Bambi (Durham), “Different Strokes for Different Folks: Behavioral Factors versus Ability in the Higher Education Tenure System”

Spyros Galanis (Durham), “Information Aggregation with Costly Information Acquisition”

 

Matching and Market Design Workshop

The workshop takes place on May 8-9 at the Waterside Building. The speakers are

Mark Whitmeyer (Arizona State)

Elizabeth Baldwin (Oxford)

Ayşe Yazıcı (Durham)

Battal Doğan (Bristol)

Jörgen Kratz (York)

Albin Erlanson (Essex)

Sophie Bade (Royal Holloway)

Flip Klijn (Barcelona School of Economics)

Alexander Teytelboym (Oxford)

David Delacrétaz (Manchester)

Kenzo Imamura (Tokyo)

Bumin Yenmez (Washington Univ. & Durham)

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 were

Nageeb Ali (Penn State)
Nemanja Antic (Northwestern)
Sulagna Dasgupta (Bonn)
Johannes Hörner (Toulouse)
Álvaro Delgado-Vega (University of Chicago)
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 and panellists for 2024-25 is as follows. You can view past seminars at our YouTube Channel.

• 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" (based on a paper with Daniel J. Martin, Philip Marx, and a paper with David Deming, Shangwen Li, Daniel Martin, Philip Marx, Ben Weidmann, and Kadachi Jiada Ye). 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. Guest panellists: Tugce Cuhadaroglu and Natalia Lazzati.
• 14 Nov 2024, Modibo K. Camara (Stanford GSB), "Eliciting Informed Preferences", with Brendan Lucier and Nicole Immorlica. Guest panellists: Geoffroy de Clippel, Antonio Penta and Agathe Pernoud. 
• 21 Nov 2024, Jonathan Libgober (USC), "Implementing Evidence Acquisition: Time Dependence in Contracts for Advice" with Yingkai Li. Guest panellists: Alex Bloedel and Yingni Guo.
• 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.
• 24 April 2025, Alexander Wolitzky (MIT), "Marginal Reputation", with Daniel Luo. Guest Panelists: Jeff Ely and Elliot Lipnowski.
• 1 May 2025, Arina Nikandrova (City University), "Data Linkage between Markets: Hidden Dangers and Unexpected Benefits", with Tatiana Mayskaya and Claudia Herresthal. Guest Panelists: Humberto Moreira and Andrew Rhodes.
• 8 May 2025, Markus K. Brunnermeier (Princeton University), "Strategic Money with Credit Ledgers," with Jonathan Payne.  Guest Panelists: Emre Ozdenoren and Daniel Sanches.
• 15 May 2025, Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford University), "Optimal Redistribution via Income Taxation and Market Design", with Paweł Doligalski, Piotr Dworczak, Scott Kominers. Guest panelists: Lassi Ahlvik and Mingshi Kang.
• 22 May 2025, Maryam Farboodi (MIT Sloan), "Good Data and Bad Data: The Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination", with Nima Haghpanah and Ali Shourideh. Guest panelists: Alexander Wolitzky and Stephen Morris.
• 29 May 2025, Tim Roughgarden (a16z crypto and Columbia University) "Shill-Proof Auctions", with Andrew Komo and Scott Duke Kominers.
• 5 June 2025, David Dillenberger (Penn), Allocation Mechanisms with Mixture-Averse Preferences, with Uzi Segal.
• 12 June 2025, Tommaso Denti (NYU), TBA.