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Alfredo Di Tillio (Bocconi University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 18, 2021, 17:00–18:30, Zoom
The main purpose of this paper is to provide a simple criterion enabling to conclude that two agents do not share a common prior. The criterion is simple, as it does not require information about the agents' knowledge and beliefs, but rather only the record of a dialogue between the agents. In each...
Manuel Arellano (CEMFI, Madrid)
TSE, May 18, 2021, 15:30–16:50, Zoom
In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history, income, and demographics. We document that...
Kai Hao Yang (Yale University)
May 18, 2021, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
An intermediary has the technology to provide information about a product to consumers and serves as a platform through which transactions between a monopoly and consumers take place. This paper explores the intermediary’s revenue maximization problem across all possible business models. By...
Andreas Fuster (Swiss National Bank)
TSE, May 18, 2021, 14:00–15:30, Online
Increasing the diversity of policy committees has taken centre stage worldwide. Whereas the equitable and ethical motivations are clear, the economic channels through which more diverse policy committees might be more or less effective are still elusive. In this paper, we design a randomized...
Mariassunta Giannetti ( Stockholm School of Economics)
May 18, 2021, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris
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Luis Cabral (New York University - Stern)
TSE, May 17, 2021, 14:00–15:30, Online
The growth of Amazon and other online retailers questions the survival of brick-and-mortar retail. We show that, in response to the online trend, offline retailers optimally follow a specialization strategy, in particular specialization in narrow niches. This may lead to an offline long tail that...
Ulf Von Lilienfeld-Toal
Toulouse, May 17, 2021, 12:30–13:30, room Zoom
House prices have increased faster than average income in many countries over the last decade, raising concerns on the affordability of housing. We study the impact of transaction taxes on the real estate market and the effectiveness of tax subsidies to make housing more affordable. We show how the...
Andreas Gerster (Mannheim University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 17, 2021, 11:00–12:15, Online
Access to morally relevant information could lead to behavioral change, but only if individuals attend to such information. We investigate this issue in the context of food choices, where the consumption of meat from intensive farming negatively affects animal welfare. Based on a pre-registered...
