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Events in 2025-26

 

6th Durham Economic Theory Conference

We are happy to announce the 6th Durham Economic Theory Conference, to be held on June 4–5, 2026, organised by the DREAM Research Centre (Durham Research in Economic Analysis and Mechanisms). The conference will take place at the Business School Waterside Building, and will be free to attend.

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

The keynote speakers are Drew Fudenberg (MIT), Gilat Levy (LSE), and Phil J. Reny (University of Chicago).

Further information, including submission details and key dates, can be found on the conference website.

 

Events in 2024-25

 

5th Durham Economic Theory Conference

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

The two keynote speakers were:

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 took place on May 19 in Edinburgh. The programme was 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 took place on May 8-9 at the Waterside Building. The speakers were:

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 took place on 3-4 April, 2025, in Madrid. It was 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)

 

CMA Durham Workshop: Aggregate Market Power and the Competitive Process

The workshop was jointly organised with the Microeconomics Unit of the CMA and it took place on November 14-15, 2024. The keynote speaker was Tommaso Valletti (Imperial). 

 

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.