Title: Cost of Consumer Collateral: Evidence from Bunching

Title: Patient-Centric Clinical Trial Design

Abstract: Clinical trials are critical for advancing medical knowledge about the safety and efficacy of new drugs and treatments. However, traditional clinical trial designs have often prioritized the research objectives of investigators, with limited consideration of patient behavior in both enrollment and treatment selection. This seminar will present a series of Bayesian dynamic programming techniques developed to provide a more comprehensive...

Title: Modeling and Measuring Affective Polarization of the Society

Abstract: Politically divided societies are also often divided emotionally: people like and trust those with similar political views (in-group favoritism) while disliking and distrusting those with different views (out-group animosity). This phenomenon, called affective polarization, influences individual decisions, including seemingly apolitical choices such as whether to wear a mask or what car to buy. We present a dynamical...

Meghan Esson is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Tippie College of Business. Her presentation is titled, “Private Equity in Public-Provider Markets: Cost Efficiency vs. Cream-Skimming.” 

Abstract: We examine the cost-cutting strategies employed by private equity (PE) firms in markets where public firms also provide services. We use the ambulance industry as a laboratory as price and choice regulation limits other avenues of increasing profitability. We exploit the staggered acquisition...