Events
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Monday Lunch Seminars Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Monday Lunch Seminars Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Equality-Minded Treatment Choice" ABSTRACT Empirical studies in program evaluation often concern policies that aim to reduce economic inequality in the population. A utilitarian policy maximizing the sum of individual outcomes in the population may not be the best choice if it magnifies economic inequality and post-treatment redistribution of income among the subjects is infeasible. This…
Seminars in Economics Rachel Griffith (IFS)
Seminars in Economics Rachel Griffith (IFS)
"Estimating Demand Parameters with Choice Set Misspecication" abstract We describe methods to estimate demand parameters in the presence of choice set misspeci-cation due to unobserved individual choice sets. We show that a consumer's probability ofmaking a choice from her true choice set can be written as the probability she makes the samechoice from a universal…
Seminars in Economics Jeff Ely (Nothwestern University)
Seminars in Economics Jeff Ely (Nothwestern University)
"Dynamic Multi-Agent Persuasion" abstract I study dynamic persuasion mechanisms with multiple agents. A principal privately observes the evolution of a stochastic process and sends messages over time to strategically interacting agents. Filtering information allows the principal to control beliefs and higher order beliefs, thereby influencing the behavior of agents. In a stylized example of a…
Seminars in Politics and Society Francesco Ramella (University of Torino)
Seminars in Politics and Society Francesco Ramella (University of Torino)
"South European Countries’ Systems of Innovation in Hard Times" at Campus Einaudi (CLE), Dept of Cultures, politics and society, 3rd floor, room D233