DREAM organises an internal seminar series on Thursdays and co-organises the following external seminars for 2023-24.
Savitar Sundaresan (Imperial) on November 8, 2023
Flavio Toxvaerd (Cambridge) on November 23, 2023
Joel Kariel (CMA) on February 29, 2024
Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern) on April 25, 2024
Emir Kamenica (Chicago) on May 15, 2024
DREAM co-organises the Workshop in Economic Theory, in Memory of Miltos Makris (MSET), together with the Universities of Bristol, Carlos III and Southampton. The workshop started in 2013, at the University of Southampton.
The 2024 workshop took place at Durham on 21-22 March 2024.
Speakers:
The Durham York workshop takes place annually and it is a one-day event where colleagues from both Universities meet and present their research. The 2024 workshop took place in York on May 9, 2024.
The 4th Durham Economic Theory Conference (DETC2023) took place on 6-7 June 2024 at Durham University Business School.
The three keynote speakers were
We invite paper submissions from all major fields of economic theory and its applications, with a focus on micro-theory, industrial organization, mechanism/market design, bargaining/auction theory and behavioural/experimental economics.
You can find more information at the DETC2024 website.
DREAM co-organises VSET, together with the Universities of Bristol, Carlos III, and Southampton. The list of speakers for 2023-24 was as follows.
For more information on the programme and past recorded talks, click here. Seminars are held weekly and around 1100 economists are subscribed in our mailing list.
The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics and the DREAM Research Centre organised a small in-person workshop on the topic of “Innovation, business dynamism and market power”, that took place on 6-7 November 2023 at the Durham University Business School (DUBS). The workshop was designed to facilitate a dialogue between academic researchers and policymakers trying to understand what makes an economy competitive, innovative and productive.
The workshop featured a keynote speeches by Sara Calligaris (OECD) and Jan De Loecker (KU Leuven), as well as a policy panel of senior UK policymakers.
For more information, click here.
The 3rd Durham Economic Theory Conference (DETC2023) took place on 29-30 June 2023 at Durham University Business School.
The three keynote speakers were:
We invited paper submissions from all major fields of economic theory and its applications, with a focus on micro-theory, industrial organization, mechanism/market design, bargaining/auction theory and behavioural/experimental economics.
You can find more information at the DETC2023 website.
DREAM co-organises the Workshop in Economic Theory, in Memory of Miltos Makris (MSET), together with the Universities of Bristol, Carlos III and Southampton. The workshop started in 2013, at the University of Southampton. The 2023 workshop took place on 2-3 March, 2023, at the University of Bristol. The keynote speakers were:
The 2nd Durham Economic Theory Conference (DETC2022) took place on 21-22 June 2022 at Durham University Business School.
You can find more information at the DETC2022 website.
The Durham York workshop takes place annually and it is a one-day event where colleagues from both Universities meet and present their research. The last workshop took place on May 18, 2022 at the University of York.
The second workshop took place on May 11, 2023 at Durham University.
The confirmed speakers were:
Daniel Li (Durham)Khushboo Surana (York)Sergei Mikhalishchev (Durham)Anindya Bhattacharya (York)Gabriel Ziegler (Edinburgh) Paulo Santos Monteiro (York)