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  • 2012 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Alberto Bisin is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their academic work predominantly spans the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with notable contributions in several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Modeling and Simulation, and Accounting.

The research topics covered by Bisin focus on areas such as Culture, Economy, and Development Studies; COVID-19 epidemiological studies; Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation; Historical Economic and Social Studies; Economic Policies and Impacts; Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models; and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis.

Selected recent papers published by Alberto Bisin include:

  • On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Political Institutions: Elites and Civil Society (2023, Journal of Political Economy)
  • Culture, institutions and the long divergence (2023, Journal of Economic Growth)
  • Advances in the Economic Theory of Cultural Transmission (2023, Annual Review of Economics)
  • Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution (2024, Journal of Economic Literature)
  • JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses (2021, Journal of Urban Economics)

Frequent co-authors in Bisin's research include Thierry Verdier, Andrea Moro, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror, and Andrea Moro (appearing twice with different counts of collaborations).

The most common publication venues for Bisin's work include the SSRN Electronic Journal, The Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, arXiv (Cornell University), and the Journal of Political Economy.

Alberto Bisin has been recognized by being named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The Economics of Cultural Transmission and the Dynamics of Preferences

    Alberto Bisin;Thierry Verdier

  • “Beyond the Melting Pot”: Cultural Transmission, Marriage, and the Evolution of Ethnic and Religious Traits

    Alberto Bisin;Thierry Verdier

  • The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization

    Alberto Bisin;Thierry Verdier

  • The Distribution of Wealth and Fiscal Policy in Economies With Finitely Lived Agents

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin

  • Commitment Devices

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  • Present-Bias, Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting, and Fixed Costs

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin;Andrew Schotter

  • Religious Intermarriage and Socialization in the United States

    Alberto Bisin;Giorgio Topa;Giorgio Topa;Thierry Verdier

  • Skewed Wealth Distributions: Theory and Empirics

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin

  • Handbook of Social Economics

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin;Matthew O. Jackson

  • Modeling internal commitment mechanisms and self-control: A neuroeconomics approach to consumption-saving decisions

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin

  • Formation and persistence of oppositional identities

    Alberto Bisin;Eleonora Patacchini;Eleonora Patacchini;Eleonora Patacchini;Thierry A Verdier;Yves Zenou

  • Ethnic identity and labour market outcomes of immigrants in Europe

    Alberto Bisin;Eleonora Patacchini;Thierry Verdier;Yves Zenou

  • ARE MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF CULTURAL INTEGRATION

    Alberto Bisin;Eleonora Patacchini;Thierry Verdier;Yves Zenou

  • Wealth Distribution and Social Mobility in the US: A Quantitative Approach

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin;Mi Luo

  • On the cultural transmission of preferences for social status

    Alberto Bisin;Thierry Verdier

  • Counterparty Risk Externality: Centralized Versus Over-the-Counter Markets

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  • Moral hazard and nonexclusive contracts

    Alberto Bisin;Danilo Guaitoli

  • Efficient Competitive Equilibria with Adverse Selection

    Alberto Bisin;Piero Gottardi

  • On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions

    Alberto Bisin;Thierry Verdier

  • A model of cultural transmission, voting and political ideology

    Alberto Bisin;Thierry Verdier

  • Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe

    Yann Algan;Alberto Bisin;Allan Manning;Thierry Verdier;Thierry Verdier

  • Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

    Alberto Bisin;Eleonora Patacchini;Eleonora Patacchini;Eleonora Patacchini;Thierry Verdier;Thierry Verdier;Yves Zenou;Yves Zenou

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Verdier
Thierry Verdier Paris School of Economics
Jess Benhabib
Jess Benhabib New York University
Eleonora Patacchini
Eleonora Patacchini Cornell University
Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou Monash University
Viral V. Acharya
Viral V. Acharya New York University
Giorgio Topa
Giorgio Topa Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Matthew O. Jackson
Matthew O. Jackson Stanford University
Andrew Schotter
Andrew Schotter New York University
John Geanakoplos
John Geanakoplos Yale University
Andrew Postlewaite
Andrew Postlewaite University of Pennsylvania

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