Past events
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Brownbag Seminar: Maria Plakhtieva
13:00 - 13:50 28 October 2026
Title: How do acute health shocks impact individual preferences? Evidence from Employment Decisions. Author: Maria Plakhtieva Abstract: This paper studies whether acute health shocks alter the intertemporal preferences that govern employment, leisure, and consumption decisions. I combine British Household...
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MET Seminar - Matthew Polisson (Leicester)
17:00 - 18:00 28 October 2026
Title: Ever since Ellsberg Authors: Aluma Dembo, Shachar Kariv, John K.-H. Quah & Matthew Polisson Abstract: Ellsberg's famous paradox challenged Savage’s subjective expected utility theory (EUT) --- which reduces uncertainty to risk --- by suggesting an aversion toward ambiguity. We provide a revealed...
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Lewis Lab Seminar - Christopher Meissner (UC Davis)
15:00 - 16:00 15 October 2026
Christopher Meissner (UC Davis) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.
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Brownbag Seminar: Lucía Contreas
12:00 - 12:50 14 October 2026
Title: Less Simple, Less Distortionary? Evidence from Costa Rica’s Corporate Tax Reform Authors: Lucía Contreas and Jonathan Garita Abstract: This paper studies how firms respond to a less distortionary but less simple tax schedule in a developing economy. We do so in the context of Costa Rica’s...
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MET Seminar - Tan Gan (LSE)
16:00 - 17:00 14 October 2026
Title: Robust Delegation Authors: Ricardo Alonso, Tan Gan & Ju Hu Abstract: We study delegation rules by principals uninformed of the underlying state (external uncertainty) and the preferences of better-informed agents (internal uncertainty). Evaluating delegation sets with a max–min criterion,...
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