EVENTS
School
The aim of this summer school is to introduce young macroeconomists to experimental approaches of research. Macroeconomic theories have traditionally been tested using non-experimental "field...
Call deadline: 01 April 2019
School
Climate change poses the greatest threat to future generations that urgently needs a concerted effort by policy makers, businesses, individuals, and the scientific community. Given the significant...
Call deadline: 31 March 2019
Conference
LEG2019 is intended to bring together researchers who are interested in the evolutionary foundations of economic and social behavior, evolutionary game theory, and learning in games. We welcome...
Call deadline: 15 February 2019
Workshop
Macroeconomic theories have traditionally been tested using non‐experimental data from the field. However, modern, micro‐based macroeconomic models can also be tested in the laboratory, which affords...
Call deadline: 15 March 2019
Conference
The Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops that cover the main fields of Economics. With each edition, the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum has grown in participation by top researchers,...
Workshop
Second Behavioral Macroeconomics Workshop:
„Heterogeneity and Expectations in Macroeconomics and Finance’’
14.-15.06.2019
Following the success of last year’s workshop, the Bamberg Research...
Call deadline: 31 March 2019
Conference
The broad topic of M-BEES is Theory and Experiments. M-BEES centers around
the question if and how economic experiments can inform economic theory and
vice versa. M-BEPS brings together behavioral...
Call deadline: 18 March 2019
CTN PhD candidates
PUBLICATIONS
Article
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For single decision maker optimization problems that lack time efficient algorithms to determine the optimum, there is a need for heuristics. In the context of coordinated production planning, the...
07 February 2019
Working paper
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In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state...
07 February 2019
Article
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The stability of Nash equilibria has often been studied by examining the asymptotic behavior of the best-response dynamics. This is generally done in games where interactions are global and...
05 February 2019
Article
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Competition between two-sided platforms is shaped by the possibility of multihoming (i.e., some users joining both platforms). If initially both sides singlehome, each platform provides users on one...
05 February 2019
Article
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We analyze a Sender–Receiver game in which the Sender can choose between a costless cheap-talk message and a costly verifiable message. In a discrete setting we state conditions under which the...
05 February 2019
Article
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This paper deals with roommate problems (Gale and Shapley, Am Math Mon 69(1):9–15, 1962) that are solvable, i.e., have a non-empty core (set of stable matchings). We study rank-fairness within pairs...
31 January 2019
Article
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In this paper we examine the effects of valence in a continuous spatial voting model with two incumbent candidates and a potential entrant. All candidates are rank-motivated. We first consider the...
29 January 2019
Article
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We study a discrete model of jurisdiction formation in the spirit of Alesina and Spolaore. A finite number of agents live along a line. They can be divided into several groups. If a group is formed,...
24 January 2019