Chris Bidner

Research Interests

I am interested in applied micro theory, with particular interest in the fields of Development and Labour.

Publications

Cultivating Trust: Norms, Institutions, and the Implications of Scale (with Patrick Francois) [draft]
Economic Journal, Volume 121, Issue 555, September 2011.

Pre-Match Investment with Frictions [draft]
Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2010.

In Progress

Trust and Vulnerability (with Ken Jackson) [paper]

The Emergence of Democratic Accountability (with Patrick Francois) [paper]

Marriage Market Transfers of Resources and Property Rights (with Siwan Anderson)

A Spillover-Based Theory of Credentialism [paper]

Peer Effects and the Promise of Social Mobility: A Model of Human Capital Investment [paper]

Industrial Composition, Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from U.S. Cities (with Ben Sand) [paper]

Pre-Match Investment with Search and Transfer Frictions

Book Reviews

"The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action", by Martin Ruef [draft]
Journal of Economic Psychology, 32 (2011), pp. 529-530

"Identity Economics", by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton [draft]
Journal of Economic Psychology, 31 (2010), pp. 1061-1063

Other

Marriage and the Viability of Market-Based Economic Development [paper]
Barriers to Adoption and the Nature of Technological Progress [paper]
Markets as Institutions: Specialisation and Economic Development [paper]