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October 8–10, 2020
Anton Kolotilin (University of New South Wales Australian School of Business)
Toulouse: TSE, October 6, 2020, 17:00–18:30, room Zoom
We consider a standard persuasion problem in which the receiver's action and the state of the world are both one-dimensional. Fully characterizing optimal signals when utilities are non-linear is a daunting task. Instead, we develop a general approach to understanding a key qualitative property of...
Dennis Kristensen (University College London)
TSE, October 6, 2020, 15:30–17:00, room Zoom
We propose a novel approximate fixed effects (AFE) estimator that employs interpolation in the computation of its criterion function. This feature greatly reduces the number of times the underlying economic model needs to be solved. In the case of dynamic programming models this can reduce the...
Gregory Lewis (Microsoft Research)
October 6, 2020, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
Platforms such as Yelp and TripAdvisor aggregate crowd-sourced information aboutusers’ experiences with products and services. We analyze their impact on the hotelindustry using a panel of hotel prices, sales and reviews from five US states over a10-year period from 2005-2014. Both hotel demand and...
Xavier Gabaix (Harvard University)
TSE, October 6, 2020, 14:00–15:30, room Zoom
We develop a framework to theoretically and empirically analyze the fluctuations of the aggregate stock market. Households allocate capital to institutions, which are fairly constrained, for example operating with a mandate to maintain a fixed equity share or with moderate scope for variation. As a...
Thomas Drechsel (University of Maryland)
October 6, 2020, BDF Paris
Charles Pébereau (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, October 5, 2020, 14:00–15:30, room Zoom
While disclosing personal information makes individuals accountable for their actions, many laws restrict access to such information. This paper studies the efficient disclosure of information in principal-agent relationships with moral hazard and multiple audiences. The agent's talents are task-...
Matti Liski (Aalto University School of Business - Helsinki)
Toulouse: TSE, October 5, 2020, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 6 - Level 3
How to plan for catastrophes that may be under way? In a simple but general model of experimentation, a decision-maker chooses a ow variable contributing to a stock that may trigger a catastrophe at each untried level. Once triggered, the catastrophe itself occurs only after a stochastic delay....
Chanwoo Kim (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, October 2, 2020, 11:00–12:30, room Zoom
Laurent Miclo ( Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS);IMT;Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, October 1, 2020, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 5 - 2° floor
By acting on the transmission rate of an infectious disease through various measures, which with we are all familiar today, it is possible to control the epidemic so that the health system is not overwhelmed. Such policies have an economic cost, assumed to be (semi-)linear with respect to the...
