Our faculty has been involved in designing new school matching mechanisms, regulation and competition policy and policy evaluation in development, labor and health care. We also do more fundamental research on micro foundations of macroeconomics, mechanism design, big data and microeconometrics.
Our research covers topics such as: identifying peer effects in education using school lottery data, the economics of crime and discrimination, and field experiments on recommendation systems in labor and development.
Our research covers topics such as: Individual and Social Choice Theory, Game Theory, Claims Problems, Fair Allocation, Social and Economic Networks , Voting Power, Bargaining Theory, Market Power and Economic Policy, Voluntary and Coercive Exchange. Applications include Transportation, Environmental, Development and Agricultural Economics.
Our research covers topics such as: measuring poverty, the effects of globalization on developing countries, early childhood development, intra household decision making, and field experiments on job search in the labor market.
Our research covers topics such as: Aristotelian fairness in distributive justice, axiomatic just-price rules, ancient bankruptcy problems with claims, welfare comparisons between deterministic and stochastic Hobbesian jungle economies and Walrasian market economies and the game-theoretical foundations of social contract theory.
Our research covers topics such as: The importance of nature, nurture and their interaction and Human Capital Formation and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status.
Our research covers topics such as: Long term care, the effects of traumatic experiences and low nutrition intake during childhood on labor market outcomes, and disability enrollment in the Netherlands.
Our research covers topics such as: The economics of search and matching, Mismatch and wages over the business cycle, market power in the labor market, labor market effects of criminal victimization, and how wage announcements affect job search.
Our research covers topics such as: search and matching models of the labor market, understanding productivities between countries, how does employment protection affects labor market outcomes, the relation between wage cyclicality and mismatch and the theory of wage bargaining.
Our research covers topics such as: Information frictions in consumer and labor markets, search and advertising, platforms, R&D, competition policy and regulation and law and economics.
Our research covers topics such as: Bargaining theory, networks, optimal selling mechanisms, interactions between meeting frictions and price mechanisms, consumer search, and innovation.
Our research covers topics such as: Understanding inflation by (i) conflict, (ii) supply chain disruptions and (iii) fiscal regimes.
Our research covers topics such as: intergenerational transfers and wealth inequality, optimal (capital) taxation, human capital and optimal education policy and environmental tax policy.
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