CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 5th June 2019 Place: Room 3001. Anasuya Raj (CREST) - "Optimal income taxation in the presence of networks of altruism" Abstract: This paper characterizes the optimal income tax in the presence of networks of altruism. Individuals take into account the private utility of the individuals […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 5th June 2019 Place: Room 3001. Anasuya Raj (CREST) - "Optimal income taxation in the presence of networks of altruism" Abstract: This paper characterizes the optimal income tax in the presence of networks of altruism. Individuals take into account the private utility of the individuals […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 12th June 2019 Place: Room 3001. Larry Samuelson (Yale) - "The Wisdom of a Confused Crowd: Model-Based Inference" Abstract: “Crowds” are often regarded as “wiser” than individuals, and prediction markets are often regarded as effective methods for harnessing this wisdom. If the agents in prediction […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 12th June 2019 Place: Room 3001. Larry Samuelson (Yale) - "The Wisdom of a Confused Crowd: Model-Based Inference" Abstract: “Crowds” are often regarded as “wiser” than individuals, and prediction markets are often regarded as effective methods for harnessing this wisdom. If the agents in prediction […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 14th June 2019 Place: Room 3001. John Rust (Georgetown) - "Has dynamic programming improved decision making?" Abstract: Dynamic programming (DP) is a powerful tool for solving a wide class of sequential decision making problems under uncertainty. In principle, it enables us to compute optimal decision […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 14th June 2019 Place: Room 3001. John Rust (Georgetown) - "Has dynamic programming improved decision making?" Abstract: Dynamic programming (DP) is a powerful tool for solving a wide class of sequential decision making problems under uncertainty. In principle, it enables us to compute optimal decision […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 19th June 2019 Place: Room 3001. Rossa O'Keeffe - O'Donovan (Oxford) - "Water, Spillovers and Free Riding: Provision of Local Public Goods in a Spatial Network" Abstract:When public goods are provided locally, investments may be made strategically in the presence of free riding and spillover […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 19th June 2019 Place: Room 3001. Rossa O'Keeffe - O'Donovan (Oxford) - "Water, Spillovers and Free Riding: Provision of Local Public Goods in a Spatial Network" Abstract:When public goods are provided locally, investments may be made strategically in the presence of free riding and spillover […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 26th June 2019 Place: Room 3001. Frederic Koessler (PSE) - "Long Information Design" with M. Laclau, J. Renault and T. Tomala Abstract:"We study competitive information design games between two designers who want to influence the final action of a decision-maker. Each designer controls the public […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 26th June 2019 Place: Room 3001. Frederic Koessler (PSE) - "Long Information Design" with M. Laclau, J. Renault and T. Tomala Abstract:"We study competitive information design games between two designers who want to influence the final action of a decision-maker. Each designer controls the public […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 3rd July 2019 Place: Room 3001. Antoine Ferey (CREST) - "Generalized Capital Taxation with Sufficient Statistics" with Benjamin Lockwood (Wharton) and Dmitry Taubinsky (UC Berkeley) Abstract: How should capital and labor income be taxed when people have heterogeneous income-earning abilities and heterogeneous savings preferences? […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 3rd July 2019 Place: Room 3001. Antoine Ferey (CREST) - "Generalized Capital Taxation with Sufficient Statistics" with Benjamin Lockwood (Wharton) and Dmitry Taubinsky (UC Berkeley) Abstract: How should capital and labor income be taxed when people have heterogeneous income-earning abilities and heterogeneous savings preferences? […]