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Dynamic Mechanisms (DYNMECH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

This project studies dynamic mechanisms. By “dynamic mechanisms”, we mean policies to which a principal (e.g., a seller, an employer, or a regulator) can commit to induce the agents (e.g., buyers, employees, or regulated firms) to take the desired actions over time. Several components of the project are envisaged: - Competition in dynamic mechanisms. o I propose a competitive setting in which a ...
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Robust Mechanism Design and Robust Prediction in Games (ROBUST)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

In the last several decades, it has been extensively studied how strategic behavior of economic agents could affect the outcomes of various institutions. Game theory and mechanism design theory play key roles in understanding economic agents' possible behavior in those institutions, its welfare consequences, and how we should design economic institutions to achieve desired social objectives even i ...
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Markets and their limits (MARKLIM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

This project aims at investigating new frontiers in the regulation of individuals, firms and the state. It will build on traditional tools, game theory, information economics and mechanism design, further these tools and apply them to a wide range of important economic issues. It will be organized around five topics:- Morality and markets. The goal is to organize the disparate evidence from econom ...
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Information services: competition and externalities (ISECO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

This application aims at fostering our knowledge of the economics of information services by studying the strategic interactions between agents involved in the production and exchange of information services. In this context, externalities play a key role explored by this proposal. Their increasing prevalence in information services can be traced to three features: - Many information services invo ...
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Global Excellence in Modelling of Climate and Energy (GEMCLIME)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

The global GEMCLIME project focuses on major aspects of energy economics and climate change, which is a prime example of an important global and complex scientific and policy problem. GEMCLIME covers the drivers of climate change, the examination of climate change and energy-related risks and vulnerabilities, the valuation of economic impacts of climate change mitigation and adaptation policies, a ...
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Parsimony and operator methods for treatment of endogeneity and multiple sources of unobserved heterogeneity (POEMH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

"Unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity are prevalent notions throughout econometrics. Most of the literature focuses on scalar unobserved heterogeneity. It implies strong restrictions on the heterogeneity of the behaviour of economic agents. This is the case in a binary treatment effect model where scalar unobserved heterogeneity and additive separability of the index in the selection equation ...
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Cooperation and competition in vertical relations: the business strategies and industry oversight of supply agreements and buying patterns (COOPETITION)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

"The application proposes to revisit the economics of cooperation and competition in industry vertical chains and develop new tools for industrial organization (IO). Modern IO theory treats firms as unitary, profit-maximizing entities, characterized by well-identified perimeters of activity, and clearly identified either as competitors or as complementors. Yet in practice:- Industry structures are ...
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Firm Networks Trade and Growth (FiNet)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

The general theme of this research is to introduce the notion of large-scale economic networks into the mainstream of economics, in particular in macroeconomics and international trade. Economic agents often do not have access to all the relevant information they may need: whom they know, whom they interact with represents a small fraction of all possible interactions. I model this limited set of ...
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Dynamic Structural Economic Models: Identification and Estimation (DYSMOIA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2018,

The objective of this project is to enhance knowledge in the construction, identification and estimation of dynamic structural microeconomic models that are used for policy evaluation. This research proposal is built up having specific economic applications in mind as these applications involve inter-temporal trade-offs for a single or several decision makers. It first seeks to develop original i ...
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A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union (ADEMU)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

In response to the European debt crisis and associated deep recession, a number of important steps have recently been taken towards redesigning the institutional architecture of EMU, based on the roadmap outlined in the Van Rompuy Report (2012). But these institutional innovations – in particular the ‘fiscal compact’, the ESM, the SSM and the SRM – retain relatively weak theoretical foundations. I ...
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Economic Modeling for Climate-Energy Policy (ECOCEP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Climate change is one of the most challenging and important problems facing European and world society. Our project concentrates on several key aspects of climate change economics, including the valuation of climate change impacts, the main determinants of key drivers of climate change, the economic impact of climate change mitigation policies and the examination of climate change related risks, ...
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Systemic Risk and Financial Vulnerabilities: Diagnosis and Solutions (SolSys)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The general purpose of this research proposal is to improve our scientific understanding of the risk-taking of financial intermediaries, the sources and structure of systemic risk and to investigate new directions regarding risk measurement and optimal regulation of the financial sector.When financial institutions experience negative shocks, they can contaminate each-other. The amplification of in ...
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Trading and post-trading (TAP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

"Two of the main functions of financial markets are to discover equilibrium prices, thus providing useful information to the economy, and to enable investors to realize mutually beneficial trades. For markets to serve these goals, it is necessary that i) investors be matched efficiently and trade at prices accurately reflecting relevant information, and that, ii) transactions be executed without c ...
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Multilateral adverse selection in industrial economics and general equilibrium (MASIEGE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

It is aimed to understand the economic consequences of multilateral private information, and to obtain corresponding policy implications. The focus will be on two types of contexts: (i) oligopolistic firms seeking to constitute a collusive agreement, having private information about their costs and/or the quality of their products; (ii) agents trading in an otherwise perfectly competitive environm ...
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Cooperation for European Research in Economics (COEURE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The European Union is the world's largest economic entity, yet its ability to design and implement effective economic policies is not commensurate with its size. While the field of economics has seen an impressive growth, the economic research remains fragmented across the Member States. Developing an efficient research area is essential for growth and to the process of European integration. Howev ...
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Risk Incentives in Financial Institutions and Financial Instability (RIFIFI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

The main objective of this research project is to develop a new framework for the study of the informational frictions that separate investors from sophisticated traders operating in complete markets. I plan to develop a model of “generalized risk-shifting,” in which traders in complete markets can secretly take fair bets with any arbitrary distribution. The goal is to study the interplay of this ...
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"Cognition and Decision-Making: Laws, Norms and Contracts" (COGNITION)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"The application's unifying theme is cognition. Any decision reflects the information that comes to the decision-maker's awareness at the moment of making the decision. In turn, this information is the stochastic outcome of a sequence of more or less conscious choices and of awareness manipulation by third parties. The three parts of this application all are concerned with two factors of limited a ...
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RISK MANAGEMENT AFTER THE CRISIS (RMAC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The current financial crisis testifies that the sophisticated risk management models used by large financial institutions are inadequate. The main objective of this research project is to analyze the sources of this failure and to develop sound conceptual principles for founding new risk management methods for financial institutions. In spite of the wide use of sophisticated risk management models ...
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Information Heterogeneity and Frictions in the Macroeconomy (InfoMacro)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

This proposal seeks to analyze the effects of incomplete dispersed information for macroeconomic dynamics, broadly defined.First, the proposal seeks to develop methods for the analysis of dynamic equilibrium models, in which different participants hold different views of the aggregate conditions. Theoretical and quantitative solution methods will be proposed that can be applied to almost arbitrary ...
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Evaluation and management of collective long-term risks (LONG-TERM RISKS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The aim of this research proposal is to provide a unified framework to evaluate and to manage collective long-term risks, with applications to environmental risks (climate change, genetically modified organisms, nuclear wastes, non-renewable resources, biodiversity, &). What should we be willing to give up to reduce these risks? What is the best timing for action? How should the risk evaluation be ...
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Acency Costs and Asset Pricing (ACAP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

"The main objective of this research project is to contribute at bridging the gap between the two main branches of financial theory, namely corporate finance and asset pricing. It is motivated by the conviction that these two aspects of financial activity should and can be analyzed within a unified framework. This research will borrow from these two approaches in order to construct theoretical mod ...
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Producer Organizations in Food Supply Chains (ProdOrg&FoodSupply)

Start date: Jun 20, 2013, End date: Sep 19, 2014,

The objective of the proposed fellowship is to investigate the working of Producer Organizations (POs) and their interactions with other actors in the food supply chains, e.g., processing and retailing firms. POs are important players in EU food markets, because they can improve their performances and possibly assure a fairer economic welfare distribution across farmers, processing and retailing f ...
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Impacts Quantification of global changes (Global-IQ)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

World societies experience today large transformation processes both in the social, economic and environmental dimensions. These transformations are usually described under the heading of ‘global change’, to emphasize the increasing interactions between them. The objective of the proposal is three-fold: (1) to provide significant advances in the estimation of socio-economic impacts of global chall ...
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Transparency of Food Pricing (TRANSFOP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"The overall objective of this project is to address the key aspects of the food chain both that determine the transmission of price changes from farm to consumer levels, emphasising the role of competition in the intermediate and retail stages of the food chain and the broader regulatory environment in which firms in food supply chains across the EU compete. Given that the characteristics of the ...
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SCience, Innovation, FIrms and markets in a GLObalized World (SCIFI-GLOW)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

In 2000, EU leaders committed to the objective of making Europe ‘the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs, greater social cohesion and respect for the environment.’ They drew up the ‘Lisbon agenda’ to achieve this goal by 2010. The central strategy was based on policies to encourage investment in knowle ...
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