Microeconomic Theory
Microeconomic Theory
The Department of Economics at the University of Warwick has an active Microeconomic Theory Research Group, with a weekly external seminar, a weekly internal workshop, and high quality PhD students. We also organise international conferences on campus, or in Venice.
Our activities
CRETA Seminars in Economic Theory
Wednesday: 4-5.30pm
Since its creation in 2006, CRETA has run a seminar series with external and internal talks on economic theory and applications. For a detailed scheduled of speakers please follow the link below:
Organisers: Daniele Condorelli and Costas Cavounidis
Micro Theory Work in Progress (MIWP) Workshop
Thursday: 1-2pm
For faculty and PhD students at Warwick and other top-level academic institutions across the world. For a detailed scheduled of speakers please follow the link below.
Organiser: Agustin Troccoli-Moretti
People
Academics
Academics associated with the Reseach Group Name research group are:
Ilan Kremer
Co-ordinator
Sinem Hidir
Deputy Co-ordinator
Events
CRETA Theory Seminar - Marcus Pivato (Cergy Paris)
Title. Weighted representative democracy
Abstract. I will discuss a new system of democratic representation. In this system, any voter can choose any legislator as her representative; thus, different legislators can represent different numbers of voters. Decisions in the legislature are made by weighted majority voting, where the weight of each legislator is determined by the number of voters she represents. In the first part of the talk, I will discuss some joint work with Arnold Soh, in which we show that, if the size of the electorate is very large, then with very high probability, the decisions obtained in the legislature will agree with those which would have been reached by a popular referendum decided by simple majority vote. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss my more recent work on endogenous candidacy in this model (this is work in progress).