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Karine Van Der Straeten ( TSE)
TSE, November 17, 2022, 11:15–12:00, Auditorium 3
Voters' voting decisions crucially depend on their information. Thus, it is an important question how much / what kind of information they should know, as a normative guidance of the optimal extent of transparency. We consider a simple two-alternative majority voting environment, and study the...
Matteo Bobba ( TSE)
TSE, November 17, 2022, 10:00–10:45, Auditorium 3
This paper studies how increasing teacher compensation at hard-to-staff schools can reduce inequality in access to qualified teachers. Leveraging an unconditional change in the structure of teacher compensation in Per ́u, we first show causal evidence that increasing salaries at less desirable...
Liliana Varela (London School of Economics)
November 15, 2022, 11:30–12:30, Banque de France, Paris, room 1 Espace Conférence & Online
This paper uncovers five novel facts about firms' currency exposure and use of foreign currency (FX) derivatives employing a unique dataset covering the universe of FX derivatives transactions in Chile from 2005-2018, together with firm-level census data on balance sheet, international trade, trade...
Pierre Alquier (Riken Aip)
Toulouse: TSE, November 10, 2022, 11:00–12:15, room A3
Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) enjoys strong optimality property for statistical estimation, under strong assumptions. However, when these assumptions are not satisfied, MLE is no longer optimal, and sometimes it is totally catastrophic. In this talk, after a pedagogical introduction to the...
Lars Nesheim (Imperial College London-University of Rome)
TSE, November 8, 2022, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University)
Toulouse: TSE, November 7, 2022, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
A college applicant faces the following risky choice: she applies to a portfolio of colleges whilebeing uncertain about which school would admit her. Admissions decisions are correlated insofaras being rejected by a lower ranked school may imply that she is rejected by a higher...
Yixin Huang (TSM)
Toulouse: TSE, November 7, 2022, 12:45–14:00, room 1 (level - 1)
Using the random selection policy of inspection in firms’ financial misconducts by Chinese securities regulators, I show that market reactions at the selection results announcement date have significant predictability to the upcoming punishments. The firm’s stock price fell by 1% in response to...
Viral Acharya (NYU Stern School of Business)
November 7, 2022, 11:30–12:30, Banque de France, Paris, room 4 Espace Conférence et Online
When the Federal Reserve expanded its balance sheet via large-scale asset purchases (quantitative easing) in recent years, we find an increase in commercial bank deposits with a shortening of their maturity, and also an increase in outstanding bank lines of credit to corporations. However, when it...
Amy Ando (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Toulouse: TSE, November 7, 2022, 11:00–12:15, room Salle 1
Land conservation efforts throughout the U.S. enhance ecological amenities while generating wealth in the housing market through capitalization of amenities. This paper estimates the benefits of conservation that are capitalized into proximate home values and quantifies how those benefits are...
Toulouse, November 7–8, 2022
