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Tobit Gamp (Humboldt University, Berlin)
TSE, November 16, 2020, 14:00–15:30, room Zoom
We study a search market in the spirit of Diamond (1971) in which some (naive) consumers have biased beliefs about what the market supplies which only partially reflect the true market conditions. Specifically, a belief function specifies for any (true) distribution of utility offers in the market...
Maria Guadalupe
Toulouse, November 16, 2020, 12:30–13:45, room zoom
This paper studies team dynamics in the product development section of a large bank that is structured following the Agile model i.e. around self-managed teams, with few interdependencies among them. In collaboration with the bank, I ran 5 surveys of teams between October 2015 and February 2017...
Kathrine Von Graevenitz (ZEW, Mannheim)
Toulouse: TSE, November 16, 2020, 11:00–12:30, room Zoom
Climate policy often implies increasing electricity costs. Due to incomplete regulation across the globe, concerns about employment effects play an important role in the policy debate. Using micro data on network charges and the official plant census data for Germany we study the impact of rising...
Jean Tirole, and Pierre Dubois
Cambridge, MA, USA, November 12, 2020
Mengxi Zhang (Bonn University)
Toulouse: TSE, November 10, 2020, 17:00–18:30, room Zoom
We derive the revenue maximizing mechanism for a risk-neutral seller who faces Yaari's [1987] dual risk-averse bidders. The optimal mechanism oers \full- insurance" in the sense that each agent's utility is independent of other agents' reports. The seller excludes less types than under risk...
Andrews Donald (University of Yale)
TSE, November 10, 2020, 15:30–17:00, room Zoom
Standard tests and confidence sets in the moment inequality literature are not robust to model misspecification in the sense that they exhibit spurious precision when the identified set is empty.This paper introduces tests and confidence sets that provide correct asymptotic inference for a pseudo-...
Nir Jaimovich (University of Zurich)
TSE, November 10, 2020, 14:00–15:30, room Zoom
Unemployed individuals face pecuniary search costs when looking for a job. A the same time, it is well documented that unemployed face binding liquidity constraints. We develop a quantitative incomplete markets search-and-matching model featuring such search costs and employ it as a policy...
Michael McMahon (Oxford)
November 10, 2020, BDF Paris
Simona Abis
Toulouse, November 9, 2020, 15:00–16:15, room Zoom
Hsin-Tieng Tiffany Tsai (National University of Singapore)
TSE, November 9, 2020, 14:00–15:30, room Zoom
We study the effect of Amazon's dual role, as a marketplace and retailer, on product recommendations. We find that products sold by Amazon receive substantially more ``Frequently Bought Together” recommendations across product categories and popularity deciles. To establish causality, we exploit...
