KTI szeminárium: Kis-Katos Krisztina - Cash Transfers and Violent Crime in Indonesian Communities

2022.10.06.

2022.10.06. 13:00-15:00   Cash Transfers and Violent Crime in Indonesian Communities Elías Cisneros, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Jan Priebe, Lennart Reiners   Abstract This study investigates the impact of Indonesia’s flagship anti-poverty program PKH on community-level violent crime. Exploiting administrative data from PKH’s staggered nationwide roll-out and data from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in combination with different causal identification […]

KTI szeminárium: Luca Sandrini (BME) - Price vs market share: licensing of a process innovation to heterogeneous firms

2022.09.22.

2022.09.22. 13:00-15:00 Abstract This article analyzes the problem of an independent inventor licensing a process innovation to firms with different efficiency levels. By assuming a per-unit royalty contract, this article shows that complete adoption of the innovation is an equilibrium only if i) the new technology is sufficiently more efficient than the best one available […]

KTI szeminárium: Naszódi Anna - Changing educational homogamy: shifting preferences or evolving educational distribution?

2022.09.15.

2022.09.15. 13:00-15:00 Absztrakt: We study changes in educational homogamy in the US and four European countries over the decade covering the Great Recession. The marital preferences identified point to the widening of the social gap between different educational groups since these preferences have increased the inclination of the individuals to match with others of similar […]