ba thesis – topics in microeconomics fall 2011 info meeting, september 7, 2011 lars peter...
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BA thesis – topics in MicroeconomicsFall 2011
Info meeting, September 7, 2011
Lars Peter Østerdal, Department of EconomicsEmail: [email protected]/lpo
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Decision theory and practice
Decision under uncertainty
Decisions over time
How do consumers behave in experiments? in the real world?
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Game theory and applications
Equilibrium refinements
Evolutionary game theory
Game-theoretic analysis of chess (or other board games)
Cooperative game theory /Cost and surplus sharing methods.
IO applications
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Industrial Economics / Organization
Competition models (Cournot, Bertrand, etc.)
Collusion / Cartel formation (how to prevent?)
Digital goods. Piracy.
R&D, patent rights, regulation …
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Social choice, welfare economics, and ethics
Social welfare measurement (How to measure the overall well-being?)
Inequality measurement
Comparisons over time or across countries.
Population ethics: (how many people should we be?)
Voting rules – manipulability, optimality, etc.
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Development microeconomics
Poverty measurement (how? why?)
The Human Development Index
Burden of Disease measurement
Country studies (e.g. Vietnam, Mozambique)
Impact of the 2007–2008 world food price crisis
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Urban economics
Road pricing
Congestion charging zones
Network economics
Housing economics
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Market design
What is the optimal auction design?
Matching markets. How to match - kids to daycares?- students to places at uni? - donor organs to patients on waiting list?- etc.
Efficient/fair lottery design
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Health economics
How to make priorities in the health care sector?
How the evaluate the benefit of a new drug/treatment?
How to ensure efficient production of health care services?
Why is life-expectancy so low in Denmark?
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Environmental and energy economics
Project evaluation (e.g. should we build a Kattegat Bridge?)
Game-theoretic analysis ofinternational climate change negotiations
Economics of climate change (who wins? Who losses?)
Energy markets (for example, analyse the electricity market)
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Good luck!
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