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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
Pascale Déchamps (Autorité de la Concurrence)
Toulouse: TSE, December 3, 2021, 15:00–17:00, Auditorium 4
Toulouse: TSE, December 2, 2021, 17:00–18:00, room Auditorium 3
Pascale Déchamps is Head of unit (Rapporteure générale adjointe) at the French competition authority, in charge of antitrust cases in the digital and telecom sectors. Since joining the Autorité in January 2021, she worked with her team on the decision not to impose interim measures on Apple in...
Yanos Zylberberg (Bristol University)
December 2, 2021, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Agricultural productivity is low in rural economies compared to that of developed economies, and there is disparity in measured productivity across farms. The dispersion of measured productivity might reflect (i) volatile, fast-moving conditions and (ii) sluggish adjustments in agricultural...
TSE, Toulouse, December 2–3, 2021, room Online
December 2–3, 2021
Isaiah Andrews (Harvard University)
TSE, November 30, 2021, 15:30–17:00, Online
Many empirical questions concern target parameters selected through optimization. For example, researchers may be interested in the effectiveness of the best policy found in a randomized trial, or the best-performing investment strategy based on historical data. Such settings give rise to a winner...
Chris Roth (University of Cologne)
TSE, November 30, 2021, 14:00–15:30, Online
We provide evidence on the stories that people tell to explain a historically notable rise in inflation with a representative sample of the U.S. population, U.S. managers, and experts. We document substantial heterogeneity in narratives about the drivers of higher inflation rates. Experts put more...
