Research
My research interest is in market design, with a specific focus on matching markets. Matching is like marriage: both sides have to choose each other and prices don’t do (all) the work. The economic discipline of market design examines the reasons why markets institutions fail and considers the properties of alternative mechanisms. I seek to combine microeconomic theory and microeconometrical analysis to gain insights about the design of market rules and institutions.
In the pipeline
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Does Anti-Diversification Pay? A One-Sided Matching Model of Microfinance. Cambridge Working Papers in Economics #1521, University of Cambridge, 2015.
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Analysis of stable matchings in R: Package matchingMarkets. Vignette to R package matchingMarkets, The Comprehensive R Archive Network, 2017.
Other working papers
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Access to New Data Sources for Statistics: Business Models and Incentives for the Corporate Sector, OECD Statistics Working Paper #17/06, OECD Publishing, Paris, 2017. (with S. Verhulst)
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Public-Private Partnerships for Statistics. Lessons Learned, Future Steps, OECD Development Co-operation Working Paper #27, OECD Publishing, Paris, 2016. (with N. Robin and J. Jütting)
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An Indicator for Statistical Literacy Based on National Newspaper Archives, IASE 2016 Roundtable Paper, International Association for Statistical Education, Berlin, 2016. (with A. Galdin and E. Mohamedou)
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Making Data Portals Work for SDGs: A View on Deployment, Design and Technology, PARIS21 Discussion Paper #8, Paris, 2016. (with G. Greenwell et al.)
Publications
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Why Do India’s Urban Poor Choose to Go Private? Health Policy Simulations in Slums of Hyderabad. Ibidem Press, 2012. [working paper version]
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Microfinance 2.0 - Group Formation & Repayment Performance in Online Lending Platforms. Ibidem Press, 2010.