Welcome to the Kalman Foundation & Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS) Public Lecture featuring Prof Clemens Puppe from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.
You can find slides of the talk here, and a recording of the talk here. Photos taken at the public lecture are available here.
Timing of the event:
- 6pm-6:30pm Welcome reception in the foyer on level 1 of Sir OGGB
- 6:35pm-6:40pm Opening speech in room 260-055 (CaseRoom 3) on level 0 of Sir OGGB
- 6:40pm-7:40pm Public Lecture in room 260-055 (CaseRoom 3) on level 0 of Sir OGGB
- 7:40pm-7:55pm Q&As Session in room 260-055 (CaseRoom 3) on level 0 of Sir OGGB
Title of the Public Lecture: “Direct Democracy: The Budget Allocation Problem and Multi-Dimensional Medians” – copy of the paper related to the lecture can be found here
Abstract: The budget allocation problem is the problem of allocating a fixed amount of money (e.g. tax revenue) to different purposes (e.g. infrastructure, health, defense, education). What if different stakeholders (e.g. citizens) have different views and ideas how the money should be spent? Prof Puppe investigates different methods of formulating a compromise between the involved parties, and shows that the problem transforms into the mathematical problem of defining an appropriate notion of multi-dimensional median.
About our guest speaker: See his Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens_Puppe
Bio: Clemens Puppe studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin and received his Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe with a thesis on individual decision making under uncertainty. After a post-doc year at Harvard, he joined the Department of Economics at the University of Vienna where he received his habilitation in 1997. From 1997 to 2003 he was associate professor of economics at Bonn University, and since 2003 he is full professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (formerly, University of Karlsruhe). His research centers around topics in microeconomic theory, especially decision theory and social choice theory. In either area, he is interested both in normative questions and in issues related to behavioral analysis. He held visiting positions at a number of institutions abroad, among them the University of California at Davis, the University of Melbourne, the University of Auckland and the Université Paris-Dauphine. From 2020 – 2023, he served as “Leading International Researcher” at the Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation). In the academic year 2021/22, he was appointed “Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow” at Balliol College, Oxford University. For the academic year 2024/25 he serves as “Invited Distinguished Research Fellow” of the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS) in Budapest. He is co-editor of the “Handbook for Rational and Social Choice” for Oxford University Press. From 2012 – 2024, he served as managing and coordinating editor of Social Choice and Welfare. Currently, he is member of the Editorial Board of Economics and Philosophy. He served as dean (2008 – 2012) and vice-dean (“Prodekan”, 2004 – 2008 and 2014 – 2016) of the Department of Economics and Management at KIT. From 2018 – 2022 he was elected member of the senate of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Since 2023, he is the dean of studies responsible for the new study course “Digital Economics”.
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