📢 Next UNET Seminar: Jan Knoepfle (QMUL)
📅 Tue 10 Mar, 14:00–15:00
📍 C43, SCGB (@UoNEconomics) + MS Teams
📝 “Who and How? Adverse Selection and Flexible Moral Hazard” (w/ Henrique Castro-Pires & Deniz Kattwinkel)
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12979
📢 Next UNET Seminar (joint w/ Senior Academic Seminars): John Vickers (Oxford)
📅 Tue 3 Mar, 14:00–15:00
📍 A39, SCGB (@UoNEconomics) + MS Teams
📝 “Multibrand Price Dispersion” (w/ Mark Armstrong)
📄 mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/127017/1/MPR...
📢 Next UNET Seminar by Mariann Ollar (NYU Shanghai)
📅 Thursday, 11 Dec 2025, 14:00–15:00
📍 Room C43, Sir Clive Granger @uoneconomics.bsky.social + MS Teams
The paper is on "Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions"
🔗 sites.google.com/site/omariann/
📢 Next UNET Seminar already on Monday!
Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick)
📅 Monday, 17 Nov 2025, 14:00–15:00
📍 Room C43, Sir Clive Granger
@UoNEconomics + MS Teams
The paper is on "Peer Selection with Friends and Enemies"
🔗 profiles.warwick.ac.uk/ecsfd-bhaska...
📢 The next UNET seminar: In-Uck Park (University of Bristol)
📅 Tuesday, Oct 28, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 @uoneconomics.bsky.social + Teams
In-Uck presents “Selling Information for Bilateral Trade” (with Robert Evans)
🔗 inuck-park.com
It's the first day of the new term at the University of Nottingham and the first post on Bluesky from the School of Economics 🎓
Wishing all those that are joining us today a fantastic year ahead on what we hope you will come to agree is a beautiful campus 🍂
#WeAreUoN #Economics #Autumnvibes
Well done to @lucasdemelo93.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva!
Congratulations from all of us in @uoneconomics.bsky.social 🍾
The next UNET seminar: Eyal Winter
📅 Tuesday, Oct 21, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 @UoNEconomics + Teams
Eyal presents “Organizing negative externalities among consumers” (with Alex Gershkov)
🔗 www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/people/...
Great prize. Of course, I'm personally especially happy for Joel Mokyr from @NUEconomics. Congratulations!
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
The UNET seminars continue!
📅 Tuesday, Oct 14, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 + online
Our next speaker is Mehmet Mars Seven (@mehmetmars7.bsky.social, King’s), presenting “Elo performance in sports.”
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/people/mehmet-ismail
The first chance to see the presentation:
bsky.app/profile/unet...
Trailer: Collusion without Patience
The UNET seminars are back!
📅 Tuesdays, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 + online
The first talk is "Collusion without Patience" on Oct 7 by Toomas Hinnosaar (@toomas.hinnosaar.net), joint with Jacopo Bizzotto.
toomas.hinnosaar.net
Map of Walmart Supercenter locations in North Dakota and neighbouring states. Sunday morning store closures impose significant costs on consumers, but supporters of such ‘blue laws’ argue these rules protect workers, family life, and small retailers. This column uses GPS data to study the effects of lifting North Dakota’s strict Sunday morning retail ban in 2019. After the repeal, Sunday morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel and shifting shopping to preferred times and stores. The consumer welfare loss from the ban was equivalent to an extra 1.4 miles (2.25 km) per shopping trip, highlighting a trade-off between a day of shared rest and consumer flexibility.
After a repeal of North Dakota's Sunday morning retail ban, morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel & shifting shopping to preferred times and stores.
J Donna, @marit.hinnosaar.net @toomas.hinnosaar.net @andre-trindade.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "The Limits of Limited Commitment" by Jacopo Bizzotto, Toomas Hinnosaar, and Adrien Vigier. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event
Shop open sign
This paper examines the effects of deregulating store opening hours, specifically focusing on North Dakota's repeal of its Sunday closing law in 2019.
spkl.io/63326A1iQu
@marit.hinnosaar.net @andre-trindade.bsky.social @toomas.hinnosaar.net
Summer 2025 reality check for those who rely on LLMs for help with math and logic: chatgpt.com/s/t_6880b52a...
I tested four models, all gave wrong answers (ChatGPT (4o), Gemini (2.5flash), Perplexity, DeepSeek). For some other numbers, the answers were correct.
Our final UNET seminar of the year is on May 20th by Rossella Argenziano (University of Essex), and she will present "Data governance with vulnerable individuals" (with Francesco Squintani). As usual, it is from 3-4pm in C43 and on Teams.
sites.google.com/site/rargenz...
I think people don’t yet realize that the new Pope might prefer Chicago-style pizza over Italian pizza.
The speaker for the next week's UNET seminar on Tuesday (May 6) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Gianni De Fraja (Nottingham). He presents "Discrimination spillovers, glass ceilings and pay gaps" (with Jozsef Sakovics)
sites.google.com/site/giannid...
The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 29) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Martin Cripps (UCL). He presents a paper, "The asymptotic cost of complexity".
sites.google.com/site/mwcripp...
The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 15) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Larry Samuelson (Yale). He presents a paper, "Delegated Bidding".
sites.google.com/site/larryat...
"For every economist, there is an equal and opposite economist." - John N Kennedy
Has anybody met my equal and opposite economist? What about yours?
youtu.be/zJepmdxrf7Q?...
Congratulations to @marit.hinnosaar.net and @aggraziano.bsky.social on their promotion to Associate Professors! Well done, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social !
Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 25) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. @fgiovannoni.bsky.social (Bristol) presents "Pricing Novel Goods" (with @toomas.hinnosaar.net ). sites.google.com/site/frances...
Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 18) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Mikhail Safronov from @Cambridge_Uni presents "Strategic renegotiation in repeated games" (with Bruno Strulovici).
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr...
Our first UNET seminar in 2025 is on Tuesday (March 4) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Jack Fanning (Brown University) presents "Searching for surplus"
sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/...
A deep joke by DeepSeek?
The result? All three could solve Gemini’s and DeepSeek’s problems, but only DeepSeek solved ChatGPT’s! Impressive.
