Department of Economics

              Mireia Jofre-Bonet

CURRENT RESEARCH:

1. Individual Incentives and socially transmitted health related behaviour, joint with Joan Costa-Font

2. Obesity and parental lifestyles, joint with Joan Costa-Font and Julian LeGrand

3. Do payments Crowd Out Blood Donation?, joint with Joan Costa-Font and Steven Yen

4. Social Transmission of Lifestyles: What do we know so far?, joint with Joan Costa-Font

5. An Approach to Sympathy and Commitment, joint with Alistair J. McGuire and Maria Raikou, work in progress

6. Benefits and costs of knowledge and technology transfer: measuring the dynamic effects, joint with Albert Banal-Estañol (funded by ESRC Small Grant, pilot study funded by City University Pump Priming Grant).

7. Mortality and Business Cycles revisited, joint with Joan Costa-Font and José Olmo

8. Health Care Expenditure Projection of the Balearic Islands from 2009 to 2050: A simulation

9. Benefits and costs of knowledge and technology transfer: measuring the dynamic effects, joint with Albert Costa-Estañol (funded by ESRC Small Grant, pilot study funded by City University Pump Priming Grant)

10. Cost Effectiveness for the Project for Rapid Elimination of Trachoma in Africa,  joint project of John Hopkins University, the University of California at San Francisco, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant)

11. Cost Effectiveness Analysis of adjunctive beta-irradiation for trabeculectomy in an African setting, joint with Ian Murdoch, Simon Cousens et al., work in progress

12. The relative degree of inheritance of  illnesses using the informative contents of surnames, joint with Maia Güell (Edinburgh University) and José V. Rodríguez Mora (Edinburgh University)

13. Cost Effectiveness Analysis of intra-operative 5-fluorouracil in primary glaucoma filtration surgery, with Kerry Gairy, Peng Khaw and Jonathan Clarke, work in progress

14. Developing an algorithm to infer quality of life in glaucoma patients joint with Yasmene Alavi, Catey Bunce, Richard Worlmald, Roger Hitchings and Allen Foster , submitted.

15. “Optimal Sequential Auctions,” with Martin Pesendorfer, May 2005, technical report, LSE