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 |
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| 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 |
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| Apr 1 3:45-5:00 pm TBD |
Bruno Strulovici Northwestern University |
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| Apr 8 3:45-5:00 pm TBD |
Gabriel Carroll Toronto University |
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| Apr 15 3:45-5:00 pm TBD |
Alex Smolin Toulouse School of Economics |
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| Apr 22 3:45-5:00 pm TBD |
Leeat Yariv Princeton University |
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| May 6 3:45-5:00 pm TBD |
Igal Milchtaich Bar-Ilan University |
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| May 13 3:45-5:00 pm TBD |
Sylvain Chassang Princeton University |
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| May 20 3:45-5:00 pm TBD |
Yusufcan Masatlioglu The University of Maryland |
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| May 27 3:45-5:00 pm TBD |
Canice Prendergast The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business |
Fall 2025
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
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| Sep 24 3:45-5:00 pm P107 |
Giacomo Lanzani University of California, Berkeley |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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Seminar Organizers
Charles Jones
The STANCO 25 Professor of Economics
Weijie Zhong
Associate Professor of Economics
Modibo Camara
Assistant Professor of Economics