Past seminars
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MET Seminar - Arina Nikanrova
17:00 - 18:00 13 November 2024
Title: The Effect of Mergers on Innovation (joint with Kaustav Das and Tatiana Mayskaya) Abstract: We study the effect of a merger on R&D activity in a dynamic model with uncertainty about the feasibility of innovation. The merger has three effects on innovation. Once an innovation has already taken...
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MET Seminar - Simon Jantschgi
17:00 - 18:00 6 November 2024
Title: The Hidden Cost of Zero-Commission Abstract: This paper studies how transaction cost transparency influences incentives and welfare in two-sided markets. Hidden transaction costs induce price cycles in markets that would be stable with transparent transaction costs. To compete with hidden transaction...
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MET Seminar - Aram Grigoryan
16:00 - 17:00 23 October 2024
Title: Robust Market Design under Opaque Announcements Authors: Aram Grigoryan & Markus Möller Abstract: We introduce a framework where the announcements of a clearinghouse about the allocation process are opaque in the sense that there can be more than one outcome compatible with a realization of...
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MET Seminar - Ani Guerdjikova
16:00 - 17:00 16 October 2024
Title: Do You Know What I mean? A Syntactic Representation for Differential Bounded Awareness (joint with JohnQuiggin) Abstract: This paper provides methodological foundations for the study of learning and interactions in the presence of bounded awareness by exploiting the interplay between semantic...
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MET Seminar - Kim-Sau Chung
16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2024
Title: Designing Open Source Licenses (joint with Melody Lo) Abstract: Open source licenses are noted for being self-referential. The two most popular licenses are GPL and BSD. GPL says the next developer cannot go proprietary, and can only go open source with the same license, namely GPL. BSD says...
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