We welcome nominations for Highlights beyond EC!
Simply out this very short form: forms.gle/MF428Z2qsLDo...
The amazing Highlights Beyond EC Committee for EC'26 is:
Elliot Lipnowski, Vahideh Manshadi, and Alex Psomas
Deadline: April 30, 2026.
See you all in Rome! @acmsigecom.bsky.social 🇮🇹🍕🍝
If you want extend your European conference tour in 2026, swing by IFORS (i.e., international INFORMS www.ifors2026.at/home/) taking place in Vienna 12-17 July! 🏰🇦🇹💃 The indefatigable @martinbichler.bsky.social is organising an Area on "Game Theory, Market Design, and Mathematical Economics" 😎
If you work on matching market design, then, on your way to Rome, you can swing by the MATCH-UP Workshop on 1-3 July in Paris 🇫🇷❤️ organized by @combeju.bsky.social and the Parisian gang: matchup2026.crest.science.
🚨 EC'26 website is now live! 🚨
Deadline for abstracts 2 Feb & for papers 9 Feb ⏱️ 1st round decisions 26 March 😥 Rebuttal period 21-25 April 🙅 Decisions by 18 May 🎯 Conference 6-10 July in Rome 🍕🇮🇹🍝.
Instead of tracks, there are 13 amazing track chairs!
ec26.sigecom.org/index.html
Delighted to be EC'26 PC co-chair w. Matt Weinberg who is one of the most prolific scholars in algorithmic mechanism design & EconCS: www.cs.princeton.edu/~smattw/Rese.... We really look forward to working with the whole EC community, welcoming new members, & making sure EC'26 is a huge success. 🫡🥳🤟
I found out yesterday that birds are dinosaurs 🦅,🦢->🦖,🦕(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_...) and decided to join the Royal Society for the Protection of the Remaining Dinosaurs @rspb.bsky.social.
The @nytimes.com says: "The Bull Market for Economists Is Over." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b....
But Oxford Econ Dept & Nuffield College continue to offer their prestigious 3-year postdoc in economics! 👏 🎯
Deadline 🚨 30 September 🚨 to get offer by Xmas 🎄: economics.web.ox.ac.uk/nuffield-pos...
A staggeringly thoughtful and balanced podcast episode by @ezraklein.bsky.social "Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another" which is worth 24 minutes of anyone's time. I wonder to what extent these "family feuds" also happen among British Jews. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
For those in and around Oxford, come join this event tomorrow! @oxfordcsae.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @wwhglobaled.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
📍CEPS Workshop | European Workshop on Market Design
The CEPS is pleased to announce the 5th European Workshop on Market Design on 16-17 June at ZEW Mannheim, co-organized by @olivierbos.bsky.social.
➡️ Information & Program: www.marketdesign-workshop.com/outline.html @univparissaclay.bsky.social
📢 Following our recent #AGM, we're delighted to announce:
👤 Prof Imran Rasul as RES President
👤 Prof Tony Venables as President-Elect (2025–26)
👤 Prof Diane Coyle as President-Elect (2026–27)
Plus, 6 new Council members confirmed 👉 bit.ly/4mMrrMz
#EconSky #RESPresident @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Yes. The other issue is, of course, preferences over the entire allocation at which point you're really quite stuffed.
As a parent, one learns to appreciate a brutal corollary of Gale's Top Trading Cycles: to avoid inefficiency, one of the kids must get their first-choice toy.
"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.
A lovely paper by two splendid auction theorists!
Auction practitioners might wish to pay attention to this one...
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🚨 Excited to share a new paper just out in Journal of Economic Theory: "Bidding in Multi-Unit Auctions Under Limited Information" by @B_Kasberger & Kyle Woodward.
What happens when bidders in multi-unit auctions don’t know what others might bid? Let's break down our approach 👇 #EconSky
Wise advice from an experienced editor and an exceptional scholar! 👇👇👇
I updated my posteriors the most after reading points 8 and 9...
After being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.
If I could give a talk at 20% of clarity, depth and enthusiasm* of @yannaigonch.bsky.social, it would be the best talk of my life!
Sample: yannai.gonch.name/scientific/t...
Thank you for hosting me @shengwuli.bsky.social
*OK, maybe 50% enthusiasm, I'm prone to being enthusiastic about my papers.
Hard to tell, but possibly. It's Einstein and Gödel.
1/n It’s been a long week, and we're only halfway, so here is a fun story of how new classical macroeconomics came to France - not the whole story, but part of the fabric of how economic ideas do travel
As any 1980s French story, it involves postmodernism, art, fashion & nudes (and macro)
#econsky
I'm in Princeton for the first time and I was wondering if anyone knows where exactly this picture was taken, what is the house in the background, and whether one can still walk on this path? Thank you, hive-mind!
For theory, I always thought that the story on how the proof was found is much more valuable than the super optimized backward engineered final version of it which, most of the time, kills the intuition but "looks impressive", I would love to see more on this in small "sketch" paragraphs
Hello, Bluesky! ☀️
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
Reposted from Stephan Lauerman on Twitter
Do you want to join our theory group in Bonn for a PostDoc? Several open positions:
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
Bonn is a great place for micro theory with about 11 faculty members, 10 postdocs, a weekly theory seminar, and many other activities.
Every year, there is a Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship that often attracts excellent theorists (e.g., Bruno Strulovici, David Delacretaz, Paula Onuhic and Ludvig Sinander). There is an extra postdoc in theory that I'm hosting for next year too: econjobmarket.org/positions/11.... Thanks, Ben!
New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We have just advertised a one-year postdoc in Oxford for anyone interested in economic theory and especially market design: econjobmarket.org/positions/11.... Feel free to reach out for more info! Applications from folks on the current job market and those planning to go next year are welcome!
BBC Radio 3's music on the 80th anniversary of Liberation of Auschwitz was unforgettable. (Especially besterquartet.com/about-us/jar...) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
🌎Does unilateral decarbonization pay for itself? In our new working paper, @adrienbilal.bsky.social and I analyze whether large economies like the U.S. and E.U. can justify broad decarbonization policies based purely on domestic economic benefits.
WP: nber.org/papers/w3336...
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