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
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Flavio Malnati (CERGE-EI)
Title - Benedic, Domine, nos et haec tua dona: Northern Crusades, Institutions and Early Economic Development
Abstract: In this paper, I propose to measure the persistence of the institutions over the economic activities in a setting with varying institutional enforcement over time. Recent literature highlights the long-run interaction between the institutions, urban autonomy, and early economic development in Western Europe before the industrial revolution. However, the role of institutional enforcement by the ruler/lord is neglected, or the causality between the institutional environment and early economic development is missing. The empirical setting proposed in the presentation aims to study the interaction between the Northern Crusades between the 12th and the 16th centuries in the Baltic region and the spread of the town charts across the border of the Teutonic Order state. I intend to employ the polish immovable monuments database, made available by the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, as a proxy for urban development. I aim to use the varying institutional environment and the arguably exogenous expansion of the Teutonic Order to shed new insights on early economic development and, potentially, the reversal of the Order’s economic fortune in the Prussian region.