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Emmanuel Guerre (Queen Mary, University of London)
TSE, March 22, 2022, 15:30–17:00, Online
We consider nonparametric identification of independent private value first-price auction models, in which the analyst only observes winning bids. Our benchmark model assumes an exogenous number of bidders N. We show that, if the bidders observe N, the resulting discontinuities in the winning bid...
Renata Gaineddenova (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
March 22, 2022, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
Asymmetric information about market participants’ valuations and costs plays a crucial role in the efficiency of a platform’s design. Using novel data from a ride-hailing platform called inDriver, I examine whether decentralizing the pricing mechanism improves market efficiency. Unlike its...
Estelle Cantillon
Toulouse: TSE, March 21, 2022, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
In the presence of uncertainty, information can both enhance efficiency and facilitate the exertion of market power. We explore this trade-off in the context of the New Zealand wholesale electricity market which operates a no-commitment predispatch market aimed at aggregating information before...
Kaisa Kotakorpi (Tampere University;VATT Institute for Economic Research;Helsinki Graduate School of Economics)
TSE, March 18, 2022, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
We analyse differences in the prescription behaviour of physicians in the public and private sector. We conduct the analysis in the context of diseases that are characterised by the availability of an effective, widely accepted low-cost treatment and alternative, more expensive treatments for the...
Olivier Darmouni (Columbia University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 18, 2022, 10:00–11:30, room Auditorium 4
Using micro-data on corporate balance sheets, we study firm behavior after the unprecedented policy support to corporate bond markets in 2020. As bond yields fell, firms issued bonds to accumulate large and persistent amounts of liquid assets instead of investing. Conceptually, the benefits depend...
Céline Duval (Université de Lille)
Toulouse: TSE, March 17, 2022, 11:00–12:15, room A3
After a shot introduction on Hawkes processes, we introduce a general class of mean-field interacting nonlinear Hawkes processes modelling the reciprocal interactions between two neuronal populations, one excitatory and one inhibitory. The model incorporates two features: inhibition, which acts as...
Anna Dreber Almemberg
March 17, 2022, 11:00–12:30, Online
Which results can we “trust”? What share of results replicate in different literatures in the experimental social sciences? I will discuss several recent large replication projects in mainly psychology and economics, where my coauthors and I have redone experiments published in high impact...
Anna D’Annunzio (Toulouse Business School)
TSE & IAST, March 16, 2022, 12:30–13:30, Auditorium A4
A large share of the ads displayed by digital publishers (e.g., newspapers and blogs) are sold via intermediaries (e.g., Google), that have large market power and reportedly allocate the ads in an opaque way. We study the incentives of an intermediary to disclose consumer information to advertisers...
Raffaella Giacomini (University College London)
TSE, March 15, 2022, 15:30–17:00, Online
We propose a method for estimating the effect of a program or policy when all individuals in a population are treated. We show how individual pre-treatment information - even from very short panels - can be exploited to forecast individual counterfactuals, which can then be used to estimate the...
Michael Weber (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)
TSE, March 15, 2022, 14:00–15:30, Online
Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of future...
