Applied Microeconomics
Applied Microeconomics
The Applied Microeconomics research group unites researchers working on a broad array of topics within such areas as labour economics, economics of education, health economics, family economics, urban economics, environmental economics, and the economics of science and innovation. The group operates in close collaboration with the CAGE Research Centre.
The group participates in the CAGE seminar on Applied Economics, which runs weekly on Tuesdays at 2:15pm. Students and faculty members of the group present their ongoing work in two brown bag seminars, held weekly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1pm. Students, in collaboration with faculty members, also organise a bi-weekly reading group in applied econometrics on Thursdays at 1pm. The group organises numerous events throughout the year, including the Research Away Day and several thematic workshops.
Our activities
Work in Progress seminars
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1-2pm
Students and faculty members of the group present their work in progress in two brown bag seminars. See below for a detailed scheduled of speakers.
Applied Econometrics reading group
Thursdays (bi-weekly) 1-2pm
Organised by students in collaboration with faculty members. See the Events calendar below for further details
People
Academics
Academics associated with the Applied Microeconomics Group are:
Research Students
Events
PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Ferenc Szucs (Stockholm)
Title: The Political Economy of Alternative Realities
We build a model in which a politician can persuade voters of a false alternative reality that serves to discredit the intellectual elite. In the alternative reality, elite members conspire to criticize the competence of a politician whose ideology they dislike. If believed, the alternative reality inverts the effect of the elite's message, so that criticism helps the politician. This force leads to reduced accountability, distrust in experts, and bad policies that invite elite criticism. Alternative realities feature conspiracies which solve a collective action problem, evolve in response to evidence, and create demand for new media that reinforce them.