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Aditya V. Kuvalekar, Ph.D.

University of Essex, United Kingdom

Authors: Aditya Kuvalekar, Deepal Basak, Joyee Deb

Abstract: Change may be socially beneficial, but causing change requires enough people to take a costly action—a classic collective action problem. More similar information about the benefits of regime change may help people coordinate and mobilize toward a shared goal, but it can also exacerbate free-riding. We propose a notion of information similarity to characterize when more similar information hinders or facilitates regime change. We show that more similar information helps overthrow stronger regimes but enables weaker regimes to survive. We apply our framework to collective action settings such as protests and voting in committees.

JEL Classification: D82, D83
Keywords: collective action, information similarity, regime change

Full Text: #Change

We are pleased to invite CERGE-EI students&alumni to an #AlumniLive seminar withour PhD alumnus Vojtěch Bartoš, a Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Milan, Italy. Vojta will speak about his career path and will introduce the most inspiring research projects he was working on. 

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Program:

15:45 - 16:30 - lecture
16:30 - 16:45 - Q&A session
16:45 - 17:30 - coffee&snacks, networking 

Topics:

Personal career path
The most interesting projects Vojta has been involved
Current research projects

Moderator:

Eva Hromádková, CERGE-EI PhD in Economics alumna, an analyst at Czech National Bank

Vojtěch Bartoš is a Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at the Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) University of Milan (La Statale) and a Fellow of the Fondazione Cav. Lav. Carlo Pesenti. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität in Munich. His research interests include Behavioral economics, Development economics, Experimental economics, and Applied microeconomics in general. He focuses on studying various behavioral aspects of individual decision-making in poor and disadvantaged populations, both in developed and developing countries. His interests range from the effects of poverty and inequality on individual behavior and underlying sources of discrimination to the role formal institutions play in populations living mainly in informal or transitional arrangements. He has been involved in field experiments in Afghanistan, India, Malawi, and Uganda, Internet field experiments in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, and a lab experiment in Germany.

#AlumniLive is a series of networking events for CERGE-EI students & alumni. We bring inspiring alumni to hold #AlumniLive Seminar or to informally network at #AlumniLive Coffee with Alumni.