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Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois)
Toulouse: TSE, December 13, 2021, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
We estimate the effects of sulfur dioxide (SO2) exposure on short- and long-run mortality in the US over the period 1972-1988. Using wind direction as an instrument for changes in daily SO2 levels, we estimate that a one-day, one part-per-billion increase in SO2 raises all-age mortality by 0.18...
Toulouse, December 13, 2021, room Auditorium 3
Mark Egan (Harvard Business School)
Toulouse: TSE, December 10, 2021, 14:00–15:30, room Online
We study empirical patterns in investment behavior using a comprehensive data set of defined contribution plans. Using plan-level portfolio allocation data for 70,000 401(k) plans over the period 2009-2019, we document substantial differences in investment behavior across plans. Plans with...
Jean-François Bonnefon, César Hidalgo, and Dana Pizarro
December 9, 2021, 17:00, room Online (zoom)room Online (zoom)
Bruno Ziliotto (CEREMADE - Université Paris Dauphine)
Toulouse: TSE, December 9, 2021, 11:00–12:15, room A5
We consider zero-sum absorbing games where the payoff depends on two fixed parameters drawn randomly at the outset of the game, one that is announced to Player 1, the other one that is announced to Player 2. We solve two open problems, that correspond to the Mertens conjectures (1986) for this...
Pamela Giustinelli (Bocconi University)
TSE, December 7, 2021, 15:30–17:00, room Auditorium 4
The paper studies the effect of health on work among older workers using data on individuals' subjective probabilities of working to specified future horizons under alternative health states. It constructs within-person differences in work expectations across health states, interpretable as...
Corina Boar (New York University)
TSE, December 7, 2021, 14:00–15:30, Online
Based on responses in the General Social Survey, we construct an index that captures non-monetary qualities of occupations, such as respect, learning, and work hazards, relevant to the well-being of workers. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, we...
Norman Schürhoff (HEC, Lausanne)
December 7, 2021, BDF Paris
We examine technology enabling dispersed investors to directly trade with each other in over-thecounter markets. The largest electronic trading platform in corporate bonds started Open Trading (OT) to allow investor-to-investor trading. Over our 2014-2018 sample OT grew to win 12% of trades on the...
Adrien Fabre (ETH, Zurich)
Toulouse: TSE, December 6, 2021, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Decision-makers rely on experts who often disagree. Aversion to expertdisagreement is usually modelled with ambiguity-averse preferences which rest on a unanimity principle: if according to all experts one choice is better than another, so should the decision-maker. Such unanimity among...
TSE, December 6, 2021, room Auditorium A3
