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Laura Grigolon (University of Mannheim)
TSE, November 2, 2020, 14:00–15:30, room Zoom
Diseases such as mental illnesses, HIV, or certain cancer types carry a stigma that may deter patients from seeking treatment and, in turn, hinder the diffusion of innovative therapies. We investigate the link between social stigma as a barrier to access treatment and the adoption of innovation...
Kim Oosterlinck
Toulouse, November 2, 2020, 12:30–13:45
Trade sanctions are often presented as a mechanism to enforce sovereign debt contracts. This paper explores how bond markets reacted to the threat and imposition of trade sanctions following the German external debt default of 1934. When the German government announced its intention to default in...
Mark Freeman (York University -United Kingdom)
Toulouse: TSE, November 2, 2020, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 5 - Level 2 & Zoom
online, October 27–28, 2020
TSE, October 26–27, 2020, room Auditorium 3 (Ground floor & Online)
Patrick Detzel (Nestle)
Toulouse: TSE, October 22, 17:00 to October 22, 2020, 17:00, room ONLINE EVENT
Ismael Castillo (Sorbonne Université)
Toulouse: TSE, October 22, 2020, 11:00–12:15, room Zoom
This paper affords new insights about Bayesian CART in the context of structured wavelet shrinkage. We show that practically used Bayesian CART priors lead to adaptive rate-minimax posterior concentration in the supremum norm in Gaussian white noise, performing optimally up to a logarithmic factor...
Camille Hemet
October 22, 2020, 11:00–12:30, room Zoom
How do individuals convicted to incarceration fare in terms of later crime and labor market outcomes compared to those who receive a non-custodial sentence? We answer this question by taking advantage of a Danish reform whereby most offenders tried for a drunk-driving crime were placed on probation...
Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University)
TSE, October 20, 2020, 14:00–15:30, room Zoom
The rise of information technology and big data analytics has given rise to \the new economy." But are its economics new? This article constructs a classic growth model where firms accumulate data. Data has three key features: 1) Data is a by-product of economic activity; 2) data is information...
Benjamin Leyden (Cornell University)
October 20, 2020, 14:00–15:00, Zoom meeting
A lack of system-level competition among digital platforms can result in socially inefficientplatform designs and meaningful welfare losses, even independent of active anti-competitivebehavior. To illustrate the social costs that can be incurred in such scenarios, I investigate how...
