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Pascale Déchamps (Autorité de la Concurrence)
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...
Erik Madsen (New York University)
November 30, 2021, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
Many platforms operating online marketplaces sell their own products alongside those of third-party sellers, and may use marketplace data on the demand for third-party products to inform the launch of their own products. To evaluate the anti-competitive implications of this practice, we model how a...
Toulouse, November 30 to November 30, 2021, room Auditorium A4
Jens Rommel (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Toulouse: TSE, November 29, 2021, 11:00–12:15, Online
We use public goods games to study farmers’ willingness to cooperate in the context of agri-environmental schemes in Germany. In a workshop with stakeholders, four treatments of a linear public goods game were co-designed, addressing the role of (1) heterogeneous endowments, (2) leading-by-example...
Alessandro Dovis (Upenn)
November 29, 2021, BDF Paris
This paper studies the optimal design of rules in a dynamic model when there is a time inconsistency problem and uncertainty about whether the policy maker can commit to follow the rule ex post. The policy maker can either be a commitment type, which can always commit to follow rules, or an...
