Leo Simon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3706348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo Simon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Simon |
| SIGNATURE | SIMON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Identity Economics and Intrahousehold Bargaining
Intrahousehold bargaining theory predicts that an income increase will cause an unambiguous increase in women’s bargaining power. Identity theory, in contrast, predicts that women may voluntarily give up power to compensate their husbands whose identity is challenged by the increase in their wives’ incomes. We outline a model of these competing forces. We then present empirical tests that use amendments to women’s inheritance laws in India to ide…
Confirmation bias and signaling in Downsian elections
Policy experimentation, political competition, and heterogeneous beliefs
We consider a two period model in which an incumbent political party chooses the level of a current policy variable unilaterally, but faces competition from a political opponent in the future. Both parties care about voters' payoffs, but they have different beliefs about how policy choices will map into future economic outcomes. We show that when the incumbent party can endogenously influence whether learning occurs through its policy choices (po…
Agri-environmental policies in the EU and United States
Public–private alliances in biotechnology
Public–private alliances in biotechnology
Agri-environmental policies in the EU and United States
Policy experimentation, political competition, and heterogeneous beliefs
We consider a two period model in which an incumbent political party chooses the level of a current policy variable unilaterally, but faces competition from a political opponent in the future. Both parties care about voters' payoffs, but they have different beliefs about how policy choices will map into future economic outcomes. We show that when the incumbent party can endogenously influence whether learning occurs through its policy choices (po…
Confirmation bias and signaling in Downsian elections
Identity Economics and Intrahousehold Bargaining
Intrahousehold bargaining theory predicts that an income increase will cause an unambiguous increase in women’s bargaining power. Identity theory, in contrast, predicts that women may voluntarily give up power to compensate their husbands whose identity is challenged by the increase in their wives’ incomes. We outline a model of these competing forces. We then present empirical tests that use amendments to women’s inheritance laws in India to ide…
Economics (5 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public economics (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Positive economics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)