Normative Economics and Economic Policy

January 15, 2024 Hendrik Rommeswinkel (Waseda University)
5pm CET;  11am EST Preference for Verifiability

 January 29, 2024 Peter Wakker (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT The Prettiest Axiomatization of Normative Discounted Expected Utility, the Deceptive Beauty of Monotonicity, and the Million-Dollar Question: Row-First or Column-First

February 12, 2024 James Hammitt (Harvard University)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT Fair Innings: an empirical test

February 26, 2024 Kristoffer Berg (University of Oxford)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT Meritocratic Labor Income Taxation

March 11, 2024 Maya Eden (Brandeis University)
5pm CET;  12pm EST The irrelevance of intergenerational altruism for social discounting

March 25, 2024 Kaname Miyagishima (Aoyama Gakuin University)
5pm CET;  11am EST - Postponed -  

April 8, 2024 Geir Asheim (University of Oslo)
5pm CET;  11am EST Evaluating intergenerational consequences by the Pareto principle: efficiency when future identities are unobservable

April 22, 2024 Frikk Nesje (University of Copenhagen)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT Intergenerational discounting and inequality

May 6, 2024 Ernesto Perez (University of Navarra)
5pm CET;  11am EST Disinterested morality in non-cooperative games

May 20, 2024 David Baqaee (UCLA)
5pm CET;  11am EST A Sufficient Statistics Approach to Measuring Forward-Looking Welfare