Organizers: @fugger.bsky.social, @patricklahr.bsky.social‬, D. Larionov, M. Greinecker & @marionott.bsky.social. Previous organizers: @olivierbos.bsky.social, V. Gretschko, H. Mass, M. Pollrich and N. Szech (1980-2023). https://virtual-md-seminar.com/https://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3mld5phbrxc2hOn Monday, we are excited to host Frank Yang from Harvard University. Frank will present his paper ' Screening Frontiers'. ➡️ Paper: https://web.stanford.edu/~shuny/papers/frontier.pdf Looking forward to seeing you on Monday! 📉📈 #EconSky08 May 2026 06:57 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mld5phbrxc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3mku6bkjf522eOn Monday, we are excited to host Alex Chan from Harvard University. Alex will present: 'Opt in? Opt out?' (with Ayush Gupta and Yetong Xu). ➡️ Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17OjqOcTHIRx8NmK9lR6PmBj5oal-tAgq/view Looking forward to seeing you on Monday! 📉📈 #EconSky02 May 2026 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mku6bkjf522ehttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3mk6h6lmads23On Monday, we are excited to host Sulagna Dasgupta from Cornell University. Sulagna will present: 'Screening Knowledge with Verifiable Evidence' (with Zizhe Xia). ➡️ Paper: https://www.economics.utoronto.ca/conferences/index.php/cetc/2025/paper/viewFile/1926/508. Looking forward to seeing you on Monday! 📉📈 #EconSky https://www.qianjunlyu.com/uploads/1/2/..23 Apr 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6h6lmads23https://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3mj2yj6uf2s2wOn Monday, we are excited to host Qianjun Lyu from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Qianjun will present: 'Complete Contracts under Incomplete Information' (with Gregorio Curello and Yimeng Zhang). ➡️ Paper: https://www.qianjunlyu.com/uploads/1/2/2/7/122704715/ccuii1102.pdf Looking forward to seeing you! 📉📈 #EconSky https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...09 Apr 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2yj6uf2s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3mi6ok72rbk2kOn Monday, we are excited to host Mengxi Zhang from the University of Bonn. Mengxi will present: 'Mechanism Design Beyond Expected Utility: Dynamic (In)Consistency and Full Surplus Extraction' (with David Ahn). ➡️ Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5208157 Looking forward to seeing you! 📉📈 #EconSky https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/28ghi..29 Mar 2026 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi6ok72rbk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3mguquxuj622j‪On Monday, we are excited to host Umut Dur from North Carolina State University. He will present: 'Who Gets the Bonus? High School Admission Reforms in China' (w Onur Kesten, Tong Wang, and Congyi Zhou). ➡️ Paper: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/28ghiaxbrfgtl88wg6fr7/Early_Admission.pdf?rlkey=smxptx59zf5wi6ksqx44teisr&dl=0 Looking forward to seeing you! 📉📈 #EconSky12 Mar 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mguquxuj622jhttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3mfrgrntnyk2mOn Monday, we are excited to host Alex Chan from Harvard University for the first talk this season. He will present: 'Opt in? Opt out?' with Ayush Gupta and Yetong Xu. ➡️ Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17OjqOcTHIRx8NmK9lR6PmBj5oal-tAgq/view Looking forward to seeing you! 📉📈 #EconSky https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...26 Feb 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfrgrntnyk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3m7aog3q55c2aOn Monday we are excited to host Ali Aouad from MIT, who will present 'Centralized versus Decentralized Pricing Controls for Dynamic Matching Platforms' w/ Ömer Sarıtaç and Chiwei Yan. ➡️ Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4453799 Looking forward! 📉📈 #EconSky05 Dec 2025 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7aog3q55c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3m65ndyeal22wOn Monday we are excited to host Alexander Bloedel from UCLA, who will present 'The Proper (Scoring Rule) Approach to Incentivizing Information Acquisition' with Ilya Segal. Looking forward! 📉📈 #EconSky21 Nov 2025 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m65ndyeal22whttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3m4xic5a4t22hOn Monday we are excited to host Andrés Carvajal from UC Davis, who will present 'Satisficing Matching' with Tina Danting Zhang and Ester Camiña. ➡️ Paper: https://acarvajal.weebly.com/uploads/9/9/5/8/99589200/satmat.pdf Looking forward! 📉📈 #EconSky06 Nov 2025 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4xic5a4t22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3m3ws6cebfc2sOn Monday we are excited to host Meg Meyer, from the University of Oxford, who will present ' Selecting the Best: The Persistent Effects of Luck ' with Mikhail Drugov and Marc Möller. ➡️ Paper: https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/economics/Papers/2024/2024-W03_Drugov_Meyer_and_Moeller.pdf Looking forward! 📉📈 #EconSky24 Oct 2025 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ws6cebfc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3m2u6kdiu422pOn Monday we are excited to host Stanford's Shoshana Vasserman, who will present 'The Short-Run Effects of Congestion Pricing in New York City' with Cody Cook, Aboudy Kreidieh, Hunt Allcott, Neha Arora, Freek van Sambeek, Andrew Tomkins, Eray Turkel. ➡️ Paper: https://shoshanavasserman.com/files/2025/03/NYC_Congestion_Pricing_2025.pdf https://jleshno.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/4/6/37467639/econ_security_of_dist_ledgers.pdf10 Oct 2025 17:19 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2u6kdiu422phttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3lznlnsncfc2kOn Monday we are excited to host Jacob Leshno, from the U of Chicago, who will present 'On the Viability of Open-Source Financial Rails: The Economic Security of Permissionless Consensus' w/ Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi. ➡️ Paper: https://jleshno.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/4/6/37467639/econ_security_of_dist_ledgers.pdf Looking forward! 📉📈 #EconSky https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uNMo..25 Sep 2025 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lznlnsncfc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3lxmduxgxuc2tSome news about the @vmdseminar.bsky.social team: - @olivierbos.bsky.social is stepping down. Huge thanks Olivier for your dedication and all the great work we accomplished together! - Welcome Michael Greinecker (@yesthatsme.bsky.social) to the team! Excited to have you on board Michi! #EconSky 📉📈30 Aug 2025 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxmduxgxuc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3lu6s34k4vs2mGreat opportunity for market designers. Join University of Mannheim and #ZEW as a Professor of Market Design if you fit the profile: outstanding research, especially on auction or matching markets, experience in policy advice and leadership of teams https://inomics.com/job/professor-of-economics-market-design-w3-154971917 Jul 2025 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu6s34k4vs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3lrbdbnsrhs24My sister’s annual June visit: time for the European Workshop on Market Design 🙌 This year’s 5th edition is on 16–17 June at @zew.de. The Lecture in Memory of Nora Szech will be given by Thomas Mariotti (@tse-fr.eu). ➡️ Program here: www.marketdesign-workshop.com/program.html An exciting line-up👇10 Jun 2025 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrbdbnsrhs24https://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3lpbq2amqhc2s📽️ One day, one video! (Re)watch the fantastic talk on April 14 by Mallesh Pai from Rice University, 'Taxing Externalities without Hurting the Poor,' with @philippstrack.bsky.social. ➡️ It is now available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_X0e3tFkEA 📉📈 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_X0e3tFkEA📉📈16 May 2025 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpbq2amqhc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3lp7q2suyic25Last Monday's great talk by Peter Troyan (University of Virginia), 'A Desirable Rankings: A New Method for Ranking Outcomes of a Competitive Process' with @gaurabaryal.bsky.social & Thayer Morrill is now available on our YouTube channel. ➡️ Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSgO7Gc1c84 📉📈15 May 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp7q2suyic25https://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3lp2fidjisk2eThank you Peter Troyan (University of Virginia) for yesterday great talk! Peter's talk was the last of the semester. Stay tuned as we will soon release videos of previous talks soon! virtual-md-seminar.com #Econsky http://virtual-md-seminar.com/13 May 2025 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2fidjisk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3lotkyvnums2gDon't miss it: this is the final talk of the term! And the paper looks great! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2025 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lotkyvnums2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3loqmxuzwt22vOn Monday we are excited to host Peter Troyan, from University of Virginia, who will talk about 'ADesirable Rankings: A New Method for Ranking Outcomes of a Competitive Process' with @gaurabaryal.bsky.social & Thayer Morrill. ➡️ Paper: https://petertroyan.com/files/DesirableRankings.pdf Looking forward! 📉📈 #EconSky https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uNMo..09 May 2025 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqmxuzwt22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/vmdseminar.bsky.social/post/3lny3nahlls23Thank you Lea Nagel (Stanford University) for Monday's great talk! In case you missed it, we will be sharing the video soon. The next talk is on May 12. We will be welcoming Peter Troyan (University of Virginia). Don't miss it, that's the last talk of the term! virtual-md-seminar.com #Econsky http://virtual-md-seminar.com/29 Apr 2025 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:ecnl2r6cyqixmrjkw23wwfbc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lny3nahlls23