Ian Crawford

Reader in Economics. Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UQ
Fellow. New College, Holywell Street, Oxford OX1 3BN
Research Fellow. Institute for Fiscal Studies, Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE.

Email: ian.crawford@economics.ox.ac.uk
Phone: +44(0)1865 281441
Fax: +44(0)1865 271094

Office Hour: Thursday Noon-1pm, in my office in the Department (Rm 260). No need to book, just turn up.

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Welcome back! I'll be taking you for tutorials for the Microeconomics finals paper in Michaelmas Term, and for Quantitative Economics in Trinity. There will be a sequence of 6 tutorials for each paper.

Microeconomics

Tutorials will start in Week 3. The pairings, timings, textbook recommendations, hand-in info. etc. for this tutorial sequence are here : download  

Tutorial Material

Week 3 download   Useful papers: Rubenstein on welfare economics in the jungle - read it! (Skip the proofs)   Paretian Liberal   Critique of Welfare Economics   Tony Atkinson on Sen  

Week 4 download   Useful papers: Hepburn's OxRep paper   Coase   Farrell on Coase and Asymmetric Info.  

Week 5 download   Useful papers: Overview of Schelling and Aumman by the Nobel committee   Dixit's model of Entry Deterrence   Robert Wilson's survey paper on Entry Deterrence  

Week 6 download   Useful papers: Farrell and Katz on Welfare Standards   Green and Porter's Model of collusion in a noisy environment  

Week 7 download   Useful papers: Schoemaker's JEL overview of EUT   Machina's critical discussion   Thaler and Siegel on the Equity Premimum Puzzle  

Week 8 download   Useful papers: GIC Insurance adverse selection paper   Lemons   Spence on why your BA is useless  

Quantitative Economics

Tutorials Groups: EM 1pm-3pm Thursday; PPE 3pm-5pm Thursdays, Weeks 2,3,4, 6,7,8.
Hand-in: noon the day before the tutorial; usual place.

Tutorial Material

Tutorial 1 (Week 2) download   Instructions: please do Q's 1,2,3,4,5,9 and 13.

Tutorial 2 (Week 3) download   Instructions: please do Q's 1,2,3,4,and 8.

Tutorial 3 (Week 5) download   Instructions: please do the sheet on Topic 2: Program Evaluation.

Tutorial 4 (Week 6) download   Instructions: please do Theory 1, 2 & 4, Applied 1 & 2 and Data 1.

Tutorial 5 (Week 7) download   Instructions: please do Theory 1, 3 & 4, Applied 3 and Data 1.

Tutorial 6 (Week 8) download   Instructions: please do General Issues 1 to 4, 6 and 7, Exercises 1 and Empirical Modelling 1, 2, 3 (you can omit the graphs as they are time-consuming and you have less time than usual).

Vacation Work Please write a paper on "Real income inequality and social welfare in the UK household population, 1962-2000: a quantitative study" .
You will find links to the data and further guidance under Topic 1 "Inequality and Social Welfare" on the sheet for Tutorial 3. Hand in date: Friday of 0th Week, MT 2010.