Francis Bloch, Professor of Economics at Université Paris 1 and the Paris School of Economics, visted the NCID to give as seminar entitled "Task allocation in networks".
He studies dynamic task allocation when there is a fixed bipartite network associating workers to tasks. Also he analyzes two approaches - centralized and decentralized. First, the optimal policy of a planner whose objective is to minimize the expected time of completion of all tasks. Second, a game played by workers who independently choose their tasks and are rew...
Dominic Parker, Professor of Applied Economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison, visited the NCID to give as seminar entitled "Causes and Consequences of Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from McGirt vs. Oklahoma".
Argues that economists agree that policy uncertainty can distort private investment, but several questions remain. What triggers empirically significant uncertainty? And, if uncertainty impacts investment, does it do so by postponing, accelerating, or diminishing it? They examine these questions in the context of the July 2020 U....
Dominic Parker, Professor of Applied Economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison, visited the NCID to give a seminar entitled "Causes and Consequences of Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from McGirt vs. Oklahoma".
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