Research areas
Luc’s primary interests are in the economics of information, particularly when economic agents face a trade-off between experimenting to learn about their environment and behaving optimally based on what they already know. He is also interested in behavioural economics questions related to image concerns, self-delusion and self-signalling, and in the use of indirect inference methods to match these theoretical models to real-world data, particularly in higher education applications.
Microeconomic theory and applications, industrial organisation, public economics, contract theory, experimentation, indirect inference.
Selected publications
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Selling dreams: endogenous optimism in lending markets
Bridet, L. & Schwardmann, P., 20 Dec 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. Forthcoming ArticlesResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The bullsh*t tax: Taxing persuasion expenditures to encourage early concessions
Bridet, L., 14 Jan 2018, p. 1, 17 p.Research output: Working paper › Discussion paper
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Open access
The major decision: Labor market implications of the timing of specialization in college
Bridet, L. & Leighton, M. A., 16 Oct 2015, St Andrews: University of St Andrews, p. 1-74, 74 p. (School of Economics & Finance Discussion Paper; no. 1510).Research output: Working paper › Discussion paper