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John J. Horton (MIT Sloan & NBER)
April 20, 2021, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
A core issue in designed, computer-mediated markets is the effect that platform pricing choices have on the marketplace equilibrium. We explore this issue in the context of ride-sharing. Following Uber-initiated fare increases, drivers make more money per trip and, initially, more per hour-worked....
Daniel Buncic
April 20, 2021, 11:30–12:30, BDF Paris, room Online
This paper corrects the implementation of Median Unbiased Estimation (MUE) in Stage 2 of Holston, Laubach and Williams’ (2017) framework to estimate the natural rate of interest and provides corresponding corrected estimates. The correction is quantitatively important. It yields substantially...
Maha Bahou (JOPACC)
April 16, 2021, 17:00–18:30
William Cook (World Bank)
Hennie Bester
Kevin Spiritus (Erasmus School of Economics, Netherlands)
TSE, April 16, 2021, 11:00–12:30, room Zoom
We study the optimal taxation of risky and non-risky capital income when the government imposes an optimal nonlinear earnings tax on heterogeneous households. Households can hold three assets: one risk-free, one risky but diversifiable, and one a private investment with idiosyncratic risk whose...
Sabrine Bair
April 16, 2021, 03:30–16:30, Online
Does market information enable African farmers to value their products better? To answer this question, we run an RCT in Burkina Faso, focusing on sesame producers: an important cash-crop production. We consider two types of treatment. The first provides information on prices estimated at the...
Online, April 15, 2021, 13:30–17:00
Yohann De Castro (Ecole Central de Lyon)
Toulouse: TSE, April 15, 2021, 11:00–12:15, Zoom
This paper investigates the statistical estimation of a discrete mixing measure µº involved in a kernel mixture model. Using some recent advances in l1-regularization over the space of measures, we introduce a “data fitting and regularization” convex program for estimating µº in a grid-less manner...
Armin Falk (Bonn University)
April 15, 2021, 11:00–12:30, room Zoom
We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of selfreports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the model...
