The 2025 Texas Economic Theory Camp will be held in SMU, Dallas
on October 25-26
(Saturday-Sunday), 2025.
Venue: Umphrey Lee Center (3300 Dyer Street,
Dallas TX), Room 241
Link to Campus Map (search
for “Umphrey Lee Center”)
Keynote Lecture: Dilip Abreu
(NYU)
“Revisiting Shapley-Shubik
(1971) via Nash (1953)"
The purpose of the camp is to foster greater
interaction among researchers working in (pure or applied) economic theory in
Texas, and to provide a forum for scholars to present their current research.
Each institution may nominate up to three speakers (faculty and/or PhD
students). The choice of speakers will be determined by the participating
institution. Any paper (including work in progress) is welcome.
The camp will begin just after 1 PM on October 25, Saturday, and end on
Sunday October 26 (afternoon).
The program will include a dinner for participants on Saturday evening at
the Graduate by Hilton.
Participating institutions and the coordinators for these institutions
are as follows:
· Rice
University (Coordinator: Nina Bobkova)
· Southern
Methodist University (Coordinator: Bo Chen)
· Texas
A&M University (Coordinator: Yunus Aybas)
· Texas
Tech University (Coordinator: Freddie Papazyan)
· University
of Houston (Coordinator: Gergely Ujhelyi)
· University
of Texas Austin (Coordinator: Svetlana Boyarchenko)
· University
of Texas Dallas (Coordinator: Alejandro Rivera Mesias)
· University
of Texas Rio Grande Valley (Coordinator: Jean-Baptiste Tondji )
· University
of Texas San Antonio (Coordinator: Samson Alva)
Links to webpages for a few previous Texas Economic Theory Camps:
2023 TETC@ Texas A&M University
Hotel Information
Here is a list of hotels near
SMU campus. Many of them offer discounted rates to visitors to SMU (check the
list).
The most conveniently located hotel is the Graduate by Hilton
(formerly, the Lumen), just a few minutes’ walk to the conference venue. This
hotel has set aside a block of rooms for our camp attendees at a discounted
rate of $229 per night (for stay between October 24 and 26); please use THIS LINK to reserve a room
online. The rate is guaranteed until September
26 (rooms are guaranteed until
they sell out); after September 26, they will try to accommodate you at the
discounted rate but they cannot guarantee it.
If you prefer to make the reservation over the phone, please call the
hotel at 214-219-2400 and select Option 2 for new reservations;
you will simply need to verbally request the “SMU Economics” group
rate.
The
Beeman is another hotel within convenient walking distance (about 20
minutes).