Matthew Polisson
Senior Lecturer in Economics
University of Bristol
University of Bristol
Office: Priory Road Complex 2B13
Email: matthew.polisson@bristol.ac.uk
Phone: +44 117 928 9091
Links: Bristol, IFS, IDEAS
Email: matthew.polisson@bristol.ac.uk
Phone: +44 117 928 9091
Links: Bristol, IFS, IDEAS
Office Hours: Thursdays/Fridays, 3.30pm-4.30pm
Research Fields
Applied Microeconometrics, Microeconomic Theory, Health Economics
Recent Papers
Revealed Preferences over Risk and Uncertainty (with John K.-H. Quah and Ludovic Renou), American Economic Review, forthcoming June 2020. Develops and implements a nonparametric method called Generalized Restriction of Infinite Domains (GRID), for testing the consistency of contingent consumption data with a broad class of models of choice under risk and under uncertainty. Working Papers: St Andrews 2019, QMUL 2017, IFS 2015, Oxford 2015, Leicester 2013. Slides: GRID Method.
A Lattice Test for Additive Separability, 2018. Establishes necessary and sufficient conditions for a finite data set of price and demand observations to be consistent with an additively separable preference, with an empirical application to panel data on food purchases. Working Papers: IFS 2018, St Andrews 2018. Slides: Additive Separability.