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BA thesis – topics in Microeconomics
Fall 2011
Info meeting, September 7, 2011
Lars Peter Østerdal, Department of Economics
Email: [email protected]
www.econ.ku.dk/lpo
Decision theory and practice
Decision under uncertainty
Decisions over time
How do consumers behave in experiments?
in the real world?
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
Industrial Economics / Organization
Competition models (Cournot, Bertrand, etc.)
Collusion / Cartel formation (how to prevent?)
Digital goods. Piracy.
R&D, patent rights, regulation …
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.
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
Urban economics
Road pricing
Congestion charging zones
Network economics
Housing economics
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
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?
Environmental and energy economics
Project evaluation (e.g. should we build a Kattegat Bridge?)
Game-theoretic analysis of
international climate change
negotiations
Economics of climate change
(who wins? Who losses?)
Energy markets (for example,
analyse the electricity market)
Good luck!
Questions?
Do not hesitate to contact me