Applied Microeconomics
Applied Microeconomics
The Applied Microeconomics research group unites researchers working on a broad array of topics within such areas as labour economics, economics of education, health economics, family economics, urban economics, environmental economics, and the economics of science and innovation. The group operates in close collaboration with the CAGE Research Centre.
The group participates in the CAGE seminar on Applied Economics, which runs weekly on Tuesdays at 2:15pm. Students and faculty members of the group present their ongoing work in two brown bag seminars, held weekly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1pm. Students, in collaboration with faculty members, also organise a bi-weekly reading group in applied econometrics on Thursdays at 1pm. The group organises numerous events throughout the year, including the Research Away Day and several thematic workshops.
Our activities
Work in Progress seminars
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1-2pm
Students and faculty members of the group present their work in progress in two brown bag seminars. See below for a detailed scheduled of speakers.
Applied Econometrics reading group
Thursdays (bi-weekly) 1-2pm
Organised by students in collaboration with faculty members. See the Events calendar below for further details
People
Academics
Academics associated with the Applied Microeconomics Group are:
Research Students
Events
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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AMES Workshop - Margot Belguise (PGR)S2.79Title: The Normalization of the Far-Right: How the Salience of Victories Shifts Votes and Donations. |
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CRETA Theory Seminar - Elia Sartori (UNINA)S2.79Title: Screening in digital monopolies (with Pietro Dall'Ara (CSEF and Universit脿 di Napoli Federico II)) Abstract: A defining feature of digital goods is that damaging and replication are costless: once a high-quality good is produced, lower-quality versions can be created and distributed at no additional cost. This paper studies screening in markets for digital goods. Unlike in nonlinear pricing 脿 la Mussa and Rosen (1978), production costs only depend on the highest quality supplied and are not separable across delivered qualities. A new productive inefficiency emerges: the monopolist underinvests in the highest quality compared to the efficiency benchmark. As a result, the standard 鈥渆fficiency at the top鈥� result is weakened to distributional efficiency. The welfare comparison between monopoly and competition is ambiguous: while competition exacerbates productive inefficiency, it improves on monopoly in terms of distributional efficiency. |