Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 12:15pm - 1:30pm Date:  9th June 2021 Room: VISIO Iris Kesternich (KU Leuven) - "Entry decisions and asymmetric competition between non-profit and for-profit homes in the long-term care market" Abstract: Mostly due to population aging, the demand for long-term care (LTC) services is growing strongly. Historically, non-profit nursing homes dominated the German LTC market, but […]

Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 12:15pm - 1:30pm Date:  9th June 2021 Room: VISIO Iris Kesternich (KU Leuven) - "Entry decisions and asymmetric competition between non-profit and for-profit homes in the long-term care market" Abstract: Mostly due to population aging, the demand for long-term care (LTC) services is growing strongly. Historically, non-profit nursing homes dominated the German LTC market, but […]

Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 4:00pm - 5:15pm Date:  16th June 2021 Room: VISIO Daniel Waldinger (NYU) - "Targeting In-Kind Transfers Through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation" Abstract: Public housing benefits are rationed through waitlists. Theoretical work on public housing allocation has debated how much choice applicants should have over units, identifying […]

Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 4:00pm - 5:15pm Date:  16th June 2021 Room: VISIO Daniel Waldinger (NYU) - "Targeting In-Kind Transfers Through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation" Abstract: Public housing benefits are rationed through waitlists. Theoretical work on public housing allocation has debated how much choice applicants should have over units, identifying […]

Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 2:15pm - 3:30pm Date:  23th June 2021 Room: VISIO Thomas Mariotti (TSE) - "Investment Timing and Technological Breakthroughs" Abstract: We study the optimal investment policy of a firm facing both technological and cash-flow uncertainty. At any point in time, the firm can decide to invest in a stand-alone technology or to wait […]

Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 2:15pm - 3:30pm Date:  23th June 2021 Room: VISIO Thomas Mariotti (TSE) - "Investment Timing and Technological Breakthroughs" Abstract: We study the optimal investment policy of a firm facing both technological and cash-flow uncertainty. At any point in time, the firm can decide to invest in a stand-alone technology or to wait […]

Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 3:00pm - 4:15pm Date:  30th June 2021 Room: VISIO Lori Beaman (Northwestern)  - "Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali" Abstract: We use a two-stage experiment on agricultural lending in Mali to test whether selection into lending is predictive of heterogeneous returns to capital. Understanding this heterogeneity, and the selection […]

Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 3:00pm - 4:15pm Date:  30th June 2021 Room: VISIO Lori Beaman (Northwestern)  - "Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali" Abstract: We use a two-stage experiment on agricultural lending in Mali to test whether selection into lending is predictive of heterogeneous returns to capital. Understanding this heterogeneity, and the selection […]

Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 3:00pm - 4:15pm Date:  15th of September 2021 Room: VISIO Utku Unver (Boston College) - "Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: A Theory of Multi-unit Exchange with Compatibility-based Preferences" Abstract: In 56 developing and developed countries, blood component donations by volunteer non-remunerated donors can only meet less than 50% of the demand. In […]

Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 3:00pm - 4:15pm Date:  15th of September 2021 Room: VISIO Utku Unver (Boston College) - "Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: A Theory of Multi-unit Exchange with Compatibility-based Preferences" Abstract: In 56 developing and developed countries, blood component donations by volunteer non-remunerated donors can only meet less than 50% of the demand. In […]