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Gaston Chaumont
August 29, 2022, 11:30–12:30, room 4 espace Conference & Online
We propose a model of sovereign default where investors trade bonds and credit default swaps (CDS) contracts of a country, with both assets being traded over the counter. We model the over-the-counter market with directed search, where dealers post the terms of trade and investors choose which...
TSE Building, August 25–26, 2022
Ulrich Laitenberger (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
July 26, 2022, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
We study seller and product recommendations of the hybrid e-commerce platform Amazon. Using web-scraped data, we find that Amazon makes the visibility of offers of third-party suppliers in the "buybox" dependent on prices on competing marketplaces like Walmart and eBay. Amazon’s own offers are...
Leonardo Madio (University of Padova)
July 12, 2022, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
We study a platform’s incentives to delist IP-infringing products and the effects of holding the platform liable for the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. The impact of platform liability on innovation can be either positive or negative and critically depends on the...
Sevilla, July 8, 2022
TSE, July 7–8, 2022, room Auditorium 6
Germain Gaudin (University of Freiburg)
TSE & IAST, July 4, 2022, 12:30–13:30, Auditorium A4
We study the relationship between market power and quality supply. We develop a flexible approach to imperfect competition in product qualities and prices (or quantities), which encompasses several existing models. We uncover sucient statistics, including our quality parameter, which can be...
July 4, 08:00 to July 5, 2022, 18:00, room Auditorium 3
Michael Hertzel
Toulouse: TSE, July 1, 2022, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
We show that the social capital embedded in employees’ networks contributes to firm performance. Using novel, individual-level network data, we measure a firm’s social capital derived from employees’ connections with external stakeholders. Our directed network data allow for differentiating those...
Online, June 30, 2022, 13:45
