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Economics 631 Applied Microeconomics Methods
No full textDecision-making techniques in applied microeconomics including cost-benefit analysis, choice under uncertainty and applied game time series analysis
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Full text linkThree essays in Applied Microeconomics. The first essay describes a detailed agent based model of disease transmission and its application to the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. The second provides methods for uncertainty quantification in structural economic models and embeds them in a decision theoretic framework. The third applies dynamic latent factor models from the skill formation literature to the context of aging
Knelpunten in de personeelsvoorziening. Strategieen van werkgevers
No full textOndanks de huidige economische teruggang is de verwachting dat de arbeidsmarkt in de nabije toekomstgekenmerkt zal worden door (structurele) schaarste. Als werkgevers geconfronteerd worden met personeelstekorten, kunnen zij twee categorieën maatregelen nemen: gericht op vergroting van het arbeidsaanbod of gericht op reductie van de vraag naar arbeidskrachten. Op basis van gegevens van 1.054 organisaties wordt beschreven welke maatregelen Nederlandse werkgevers in de publieke en private sector namenin 2002, toen sprake was van schaarste op de arbeidsmarkt. Binnen deze maatregelen blijken vier strategieën te kunnen worden onderscheiden: ( l) aanboren van nieuwe doelgroepen, (2) vergroten van het arbeidsaanbod van zittend personeel, (3) uitbesteden van werk en samenwerken en (4) structurele aanpassingen. Geen van de strategieën blijkt uitsluitend te bestaan uit vraagreducerende dan wel aanbodvergro-tende maatregelen. Elke strategie is een mix van beid
Essays in applied microeconomics
Full text linkThis dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters. Each chapter applies the tools of applied microeconomics to questions related to health economics, the economics of education, and peer effects. The unifying theme of this thesis is the emphasis on the social context as a primary driver of individuals’ decisions and lifetime trajectories, including their health and human capital. Largely, I focus on two topics. The first topic covers the causes and consequences of mental health problems, both during adolescence and in adulthood. The second topic investigates the role of peer effects in individuals’ decision making. Chapter 1 and 2 contribute to the first topic; Chapter 3 to the latter
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Full text linkThis thesis consists of 4 chapters in the field of applied microeconomics.
Chapter 1 develops a model of international roaming. International alliances emerge endogenously and serve as a commitment device to soften competition on the retail market.
Chapter 2 provides an explanation for why political leaders may want to adopt ideological positions. Because voters expect the perceived ideology of office holders to determine their future political actions, politicians are tempted to act according to their ideology.
Chapter 3 analyzes a procurement problem in which two specialized agents compete for selling a good. The optimal procurement scheme trades off increasing the buyer’s chances to obtain a suitable product against reducing the sellers’ rents.
Chapter 4 compares certification to a minimum quality standard (MQS) policy when some consumers cannot discern the quality of the offered goods. Depending on the proportion of informed customers, either instrument may be preferred
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
No full textThis thesis combines three essays in applied microeconomics. The first essay studies hospital responses to price changes and the introduction of DRG reimbursements; using a large administrative data set on all inpatient hospital admissions in Germany from 2005 to 2013, we find that hospitals respond stronger to financial incentives in areas of higher medical discretion. The second essay studies the effect of two UK compulsory schooling law changes; deriving an optimal pooled regression outcome and pooling data across 50 surveys, I show that the two reforms had no measurable impact on a large set of job market outcomes. The third essay studies the benefit of observing more customer data on optimizations of a large online retailer; predicting optimal product display ranks based on smaller data sets than the actually observed data, we estimate the effect of less data on click and order conversion rates.EconomicsApplied Microeconomics; Industrial Organizations; Health Economics, Education; E-Commerc
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Full text linkThis thesis consists of 4 chapters in the field of applied microeconomics. Chapter 1 develops a model of international roaming. International alliances emerge endogenously and serve as a commitment device to soften competition on the retail market. Chapter 2 provides an explanation for why political leaders may want to adopt ideological positions. Because voters expect the perceived ideology of office holders to determine their future political actions, politicians are tempted to act according to their ideology. Chapter 3 analyzes a procurement problem in which two specialized agents compete for selling a good. The optimal procurement scheme trades off increasing the buyer’s chances to obtain a suitable product against reducing the sellers’ rents. Chapter 4 compares certification to a minimum quality standard (MQS) policy when some consumers cannot discern the quality of the offered goods. Depending on the proportion of informed customers, either instrument may be preferred.roaming; political polarization; procurement; certification
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Full text linkThis dissertation contains three chapters. Each applies the tools of applied microeconomics to questions in labor economics, the economics of education, and social economics, respectively. In the first chapter, which is joint work with Amanda Pallais, we present the results of a series of field experiments in an online labor market designed to test whether workers referred to a firm by existing employees perform differently from their non-referred counterparts and, if so, why. We find that referred workers have higher performance and lower turnover than non-referred workers. We demonstrate a large role for selection: referred workers perform better and persist longer even at jobs to which they are not referred at a firm where their referrers do not work. Team production is also important: referred workers are much more productive when working with their own referrer than with someone else's referrer.Economic
ECON 676: Applied Microeconomics for Labor and Development SP 2023 Radchenko
No full textSyllabus - ECON 676: Applied Microeconomics for Labor and Development Spring 2023; Natalia Radchenko</p
A Federal Reserve System conference on research in applied microeconomics
Full text linkThis article summarizes papers presented at the System Applied Microeconomics Conference organized and hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis on May 5-6, 2011. This annual conference brings together economists from the Federal Reserve District Banks across the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Board to present their latest economic research.Microeconomics
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