Economics Seminars

Find seminars on economics that are open to Stanford GSB faculty and PhD students, or request permission to attend.

Economics seminars are held Wednesdays from 3:45 to 5:00 p.m., unless otherwise indicated. Stanford GSB faculty may also schedule a session to meet the speaker individually.

Winter 2026

Date & Time Speaker Title
Jan 6
11:45 am-1:00 pm
M104
Nicholas Wu
Yale University
Solving Problems of Unknown Difficulty 
Jan 8
11:45 am-1:00 pm
M109
Jose Higueras
Northwestern University
Price Impact of Insurance
joint paper with Andrea Di Giovan Paolo
Jan 12
11:45 am-1:00 pm
M104
Sydney Costantini
University of California, Berkeley
Housing First or Treatment First? Evidence from the VA’s homelessness programs
Jan 13
11:45 am-1:00 pm
M104
Dana Scott
Yale University
Workplace Amenities and Labor Market Inequality 
Jan 20
11:45 am-1:00 pm
M104
Ignacio Banares-Sanchez
London School of Economics
Trading Trash on Tricycles joint paper with Yoshiki Wiskamp
Feb 11
3:45-5:00 pm
BC104
Emir Kamenica
The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Commitment and Randomization in Communication joint paper with Xiao Lin
Mar 11
3:45-5:00 pm
C105
Joseph Root
The University of Chicago
 

Spring 2026

Date & Time Speaker Title
Apr 1
3:45-5:00 pm
TBD
Bruno Strulovici
Northwestern University
 
Apr 8
3:45-5:00 pm
TBD
Gabriel Carroll
Toronto University
 
Apr 15
3:45-5:00 pm
TBD
Alex Smolin
Toulouse School of Economics
 
Apr 22
3:45-5:00 pm
TBD
Leeat Yariv
Princeton University
 
May 6
3:45-5:00 pm
TBD
Igal Milchtaich
Bar-Ilan University
 
May 13
3:45-5:00 pm
TBD
Sylvain Chassang
Princeton University
 
May 20
3:45-5:00 pm
TBD
Yusufcan Masatlioglu
The University of Maryland
 
May 27
3:45-5:00 pm
TBD
Canice Prendergast
The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
 

Fall 2025

Date & Time Speaker Title
Sep 24
3:45-5:00 pm
P107
Giacomo Lanzani
University of California, Berkeley
joint paper with Drew Fudenberg and Philipp Strack
Oct 1
3:45-5:00 pm
P107
Jan Knoepfle
Queen Mary University in London
Competitive Sequential Screening
joint paper with Ian Ball and Deniz Kattwinkel 
Oct 8
3:45-5:00 pm
P107
Axel Niemeyer
Caltech

joint paper with Patrick Lahr
Oct 15
3:45-5:00 pm
P107
David McAdams
Fuqua School of Business
Oct 22
3:45-5:00 pm
P107
Songzi Du
University of California, San Diego
An Informationally-Robust Market Model of Perfect Competition joint paper with Benjamin Brooks and Linchen Zhang.
Oct 29
3:45-5:00 pm
P107
Laura Doval
Columbia Business School
Calibrated Mechanism Design joint paper with Alex Smolin
Nov 5
3:45-5:00 pm
P107
Nageeb Ali
The Pennsylvania State University 
When Colleges Compete: Signals, Noise, and Equilibrium Outcomes joint paper with Salvador Candelas and Ran Shorrer
Nov 12
3:45-5:00 pm
P107
Alessandro Pavan
Northwestern University
Robust Procurement Design joint paper with Debasis Mishra, and Sanket Patil 
Dec 3
3:45-5:00 pm
C105
Marina Halac
Yale University 
Agreeing to Implement joint paper with Elliot Lipnowski and Doron Ravid

Seminar Organizers

The STANCO 25 Professor of Economics
Associate Professor of Economics
Assistant Professor of Economics