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 […]
The Microeconometrics Seminar: Every Tuesday at 12:15 pm. Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (exceptionally) Date: 11th of June 2019 Place: Room 3001. Sander WAGNER (CREST) - “The Cost of Terror”. Abstract: We look at discrimination against guests as well as hosts with typically Arab/Muslim names on the online rental market Airbnb. A field experiment […]
The Microeconometrics Seminar: Every Tuesday at 12:15 pm. Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (exceptionally) Date: 11th of June 2019 Place: Room 3001. Sander WAGNER (CREST) - “The Cost of Terror”. Abstract: We look at discrimination against guests as well as hosts with typically Arab/Muslim names on the online rental market Airbnb. A field experiment […]
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 […]
Internal Seminar in Microeconomics : Time: 11:00 am - 12:00pm Date: 17th June 2019 Place: Room 3105. David Benatia - "Strategic Reneging in Sequential Imperfect Markets" Abstract: This paper investigates the incentives to manipulate sequential markets by strategically reneging on forward commitments. First, we study the behavior of a monopolist in a two-period model with […]
Internal Seminar in Microeconomics : Time: 11:00 am - 12:00pm Date: 17th June 2019 Place: Room 3105. David Benatia - "Strategic Reneging in Sequential Imperfect Markets" Abstract: This paper investigates the incentives to manipulate sequential markets by strategically reneging on forward commitments. First, we study the behavior of a monopolist in a two-period model with […]
The Microeconometrics Seminar: Every Tuesday at 12:15 pm. Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Date: 18 th of June 2019 Place: Room 3001 Attila LINDNER (University College London) - "Technological Change and Skill Demand in Non-Competitive Labor Markets" Abstract: This paper investigates the consequences of technological change in the presence of non-competitive labor markets. We propose […]