Faculty profile
Alexander Karaivanov
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Research
Latest papers
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake.
Nature human behaviour · 2022 · first author
Face masks, public policies and slowing the spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Canada.
Journal of health economics · 2021 · first author
A social network model of COVID-19.
PloS one · 2020 · first author
Latest funding
- $40,500
Digital Finance Platforms and Mechanism Design - Theory, Data and Applications
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $77,740
Contracts and markets in the new digital economy: theory, data analysis and policy
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $83,412
Obstacles to credit, risk sharing and investment in developing communities: a dynamic structural approach to measurement and policy evaluation
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake.
Karaivanov A, Kim D, Lu SE, Shigeoka H
Face masks, public policies and slowing the spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Canada.
Karaivanov A, Lu SE, Shigeoka H, Chen C, Pamplona S
A social network model of COVID-19.
Karaivanov A
Digital Finance Platforms and Mechanism Design - Theory, Data and Applications
Principal investigators: Karaivanov, Alexander
Keywords: financial markets and contracts; digital platforms; mechanism design; insurance; risk sharing; private information; limited commitment; structural estimation; robustness
Contracts and markets in the new digital economy: theory, data analysis and policy
Principal investigators: Karaivanov, Alexander
Keywords: financial contracts and markets; private information; enforcement; smart contracts; peer-to-peer markets; blockchains
Obstacles to credit, risk sharing and investment in developing communities: a dynamic structural approach to measurement and policy evaluation
Principal investigators: Karaivanov, Alexander
Keywords: development; financial constraints; credit; risk sharing; poverty; entrepreneurship; measurement; policy evaluation
Distinguishing across models of incomplete markets
Principal investigators: Karaivanov, Alexander
Keywords: financial constraints; incomplete markets; asymmetric information; structural estimation
Financial market imperfections - theory, estimation, policy
Principal investigators: Karaivanov, Alexander
Keywords: financial constraints; occupational choice; maximum likelihood; asymmetric information; dynamic mechanism design; collateral; policy evaluation
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Hitoshi Shigeoka and Alexander Karaivanov: 2 shared papers
- Hitoshi Shigeoka and Dongwoo Kim: 1 shared paper
- Alexander Karaivanov and Dongwoo Kim: 1 shared paper
- Economic Development, Technological Change and Growth
- Department of Economics
- Other
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