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Online, January 7–8, 2021
Chiara Canta (Toulouse Business School)
TSE, December 18, 2020, 11:00–12:30, room Zoom
We study optimal income taxation in a framework where the cost misreporting income is positively correlated with productivity. We show that allowing low-wage types to cheat leads to Pareto-superior outcomes as compared to deterring them, even if audits can be performed costlessly. When there is no...
Jonathan De Quidt (Stockholm University)
December 17, 2020, 11:00–12:30, room Zoom
Market design has increased efficiency in complex reallocation problems in the developed world. Because reallocation may be necessary for development, there is potential for market design to contribute to reducing poverty. A key constraint is that low levels of literacy and numeracy may preclude...
Jean-Michel Zakoïan (CREST)
Toulouse: TSE, December 17, 2020, 11:00–12:15, room Zoom
Jean Tirole, Claude Crampes, and Christian Gollier
Online, December 16, 2020, 17:00
Ozlem Bedre Defolie (ESMT-Berlin)
December 15, 2020, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
We provide a canonical and tractable model of a trade platform which enables buyers and sellers to transact and charges commission for hosting third party products. We extend it for “hybrid" platforms (like Amazon), which also resell their own products. The hybrid platform controls both the number...
Michael Weber (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)
December 15, 2020, 11:30–12:30, BDF Paris, room Visio
Huan Tang
Toulouse, December 14, 2020, 12:30–13:30, room Zoom
This paper studies the value of privacy, for individuals, using data from large-scale field experiments that vary disclosure requirements for loan applicants and loan terms on an online peer-to-peer lending platform in China. I find that loan applicants attach positive value to personal data: Lower...
Sylvain Chabé-Ferret (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, December 14, 2020, 11:00–12:30, room Zoom
The nitrogen cycle is one of the most perturbed geo-chemical cycles on earth. Human activity, mainly through intensive farming, releases nitrogen by-products such as nitrates and ammonium in the environment where they have wide ranging impacts on human health, biodiversity and climate change. In...
Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University)
December 10, 2020, 11:00–12:30, room Zoom
Can a brief personal interaction with a person from an ethnic minority reduce discrimination? We run a natural field experiment with small teams of Dutch high-school pupils who engage in a cooperative task, accompanied by either a majority or a minority team member. One month later, the pupils...
