Events
Week of Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Kym Pram (EUI)
Monday Lunch Seminars Kym Pram (EUI)
"Hard Evidence and Welfare in Adverse Selection Environments" abstract I consider environments in which an agent with private information can acquire arbitrary hard evidence about his type before interacting with a principal. In a broad class of screening models, I show that there is always an equilibrium which interim Pareto-improves over the no-evidence benchmark whenever…
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Seminars in Economics Antoine Dechezlepretre (LSE)
Seminars in Economics Antoine Dechezlepretre (LSE)
"Do pollution offsets offset pollution? Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism in India" Abstract We examine the impact of low-cost imports on firms’ propensity to engage in material-saving (’clean’) innovation and product innovation using a dataset that combines firm-level international trade data with self-reported innovation data for around 9,000 French companies observed from 1998 to…
Seminars in Economics Ron Siegel (Pennsylvania State University)
Seminars in Economics Ron Siegel (Pennsylvania State University)
"Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions"
Seminars in Politics and Society John Gal & Idit Weiss (Tel Aviv University)
Seminars in Politics and Society John Gal & Idit Weiss (Tel Aviv University)
"Exploring the Engagement of Social Workers in Social Policy" abstract Social workers are the professionals most associated with the modern welfare state and with its social policies. These professionals are generally regarded as primarily street-level bureaucrats who implement the social policies determined by decision-makers. However, a key ethos of the social work profession is that…