SIEPR Research Projects
The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) currently manages over $5 million in sponsored projects. The sponsored research team at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research consists of Administrative Director Deborah Carvalho, Assistant Director for Finance and HR Karen Prindle and Sponsored Projects Administrator Shehnaz Khan. SIEPR provides pre- and post award support for faculty in the Economics department.
Our sponsored research projects cover the areas of Auctions, Market Design, Microfinance, gender and its influence on economic choice, and Macro - and Microeconomics. A growing trend towards synergistic research has led to funding for projects in Neuroeconomics and the areas of energy efficiency/resource allocation and its economic impact. In recognition of the ‘global village’ reality of today’s world, our faculty has received funding for their research on how sociopolitical factors affect global economics. SIEPR is excited to devote its resources towards the burgeoning fields of Health Economics and Education Economics.
The majority of our sponsored projects are funded by federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The past couple of years have seen an increasing number of projects being funded internally at Stanford by departments such as the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency. Our sponsors also include foundations such as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Koret Foundation.
At SIEPR, we believe that effective economic policy research requires interaction with policy-makers and researchers. Successful projects assemble researchers with different backgrounds, test theory against experience, and produce new and relevant insights.
Projects
Exchange Rates and Firm Behavior, 9/1/09 - 8/31/12 PI: Doireann Fitzgerald
Can Community Participation Improve School Quality? An Evaluation of a Schooling Program in India - II, 8/1/09 - 9/30/12 PI: John Shoven
Problems in Applied Market Design, 4/27/09 - 8/31/12 PI: Jonathan D. Levin
Fuel Economy and Urban Congestion, 1/1/09 - 8/31/10 PI: Matthew C. Harding
Evaluation of Resource Costs in Imperfect Economies, 11/18/08 - 11/17/10 PI: Kenneth J. Arrow
Sloan Research Fellowship, 9/16/08 - 9/15/10 PI: Nicholas Bloom
The Middle East and the World Economy, 9/1/08 - 8/31/11 PI: Matthew C. Harding
CAREER: Understanding How Markets Work in Enough Detail So We Can Fix Them When They're Broken, 8/1/08 - 7/31/13 PI: Muriel Niederle
Why Are Indian Firms Badly Managed? A Survey and a Randomized Field Intervention, 3/3/08 - 10/29/10 PI: Nicholas Bloom
Divisible Good Auctions with Constrained Bidding: Theory, Empirics and Test for Common Values, 3/1/08 - 2/28/11 PI: Jakub Kastl
Career: Macroeconomic Implications of Gender Roles and Consumer Credit Markets: Using Quantitative Life-Cycle Models for Policy Analysis, 3/1/08 - 2/28/13 PI: Michele Tertilt
A Framework for Behavioral Welfare Analysis, 3/1/08 - 2/28/11 PI: B. Douglas Bernheim
Collaborative Research: Social Networks and the Diffusion of Microfinance, 2/15/08 - 1/31/10 PI: Matthew Jackson
CAREER: Empirical Analysis of Markets with Adverse Selection, 9/1/07 - 8/31/12 PI: Liran Einav
The Selection and Incentive Effects of Equal-Sharing, 8/1/07 - 7/31/10 PI: Ran Abramitzky
Collaborative Research: Empirical Analyses of Static and Dynamic Models of Strategic Interactions, 8/1/07 - 7/31/10 PI: Han Hong
Studies of the Effects of Social Structure on Economic Behavior, 6/1/07 - 5/31/10 PI: Matthew Jackson
Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions and International Macro Puzzles, 3/15/07 - 2/28/10 PI: Doireann Fitzgerald
Market Design, 3/1/07 - 2/28/10 PI: Paul Milgrom
Sovereign Debt and Political Economy, 1/1/07 - 12/31/09 PI: Manuel Amador
A Study of the Impacts of U.S. Copyright Legislation on the Open Access to Texts and Other Cultural Works in the Public Domain, 9/1/06 - 8/31/10 PI: Paul A. David
The Dynamics of Technological-Industrial Co-evolution: A Research Proposal to the Mellon Foundation, 9/1/06 - 8/31/10 PI: Paul A. David
Columbia-Stanford Universities Joint Program on Medical Innovation, 1/1/06 - 12/31/09 PI: Walter W Powell
CAREER: Market Design and the Limits of Markets, 4/1/04 - 3/31/10 PI: Jonathan D. Levin