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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...
Daniel Ershov (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE & IAST, September 30, 2020, 12:30–13:30, Zoom Meeting
Economic theory provides ambiguous and conflicting predictions about the association between algorithmic pricing and competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany’s retail gasoline market where algorithmic-pricing software became widely...
Susanne Goldlücke (University of Konstanz)
Toulouse: TSE, September 29, 2020, 17:00–18:30, room Zoom
Chao Fu (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
TSE, September 29, 2020, 15:30–17:00, room Zoom
We build and estimate an equilibrium model of the labor market of public school teachers, where districts are given the autonomy in choosing their teacher salary schemes. In the model, teachers, who differ in their comparative advantages in teaching low- and high-achieving students, care about...
Harold Cole (University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, September 29, 2020, 14:00–15:30, room Zoom
We combine novel data and theory to show that asymmetric information amonginvestors is an important friction in primary sovereign debt markets. We exploit aunique dataset of Mexican auctions for Cetes bonds. Auctions are pay-your-bid, andour data includes all bids made by all individual bidders...
Gernot Müller (University of Tübingen)
September 29, 2020, BDF, Paris
Willy Lefez (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, September 28, 2020, 14:00–15:30, room Zoom
Using an information design framework, I study how platforms can affect the pricing decisions of their sellers by using price recommendations. Sellers are too small to take into account their influence on the total mass of buyers visiting the platform in their pricing decisions. By contrast, the...
Jacopo Bregolin
Toulouse, September 28, 2020, 12:30–13:45, room Zoom
Many online platforms rely on user-generated content and need to incentivize free effort. In this paper, I investigate if users provide more and better quality contributions when endowed with more autonomy over actions. Using a dynamic discrete choice model, I show that control rights have positive...
Cloe Garnache (University of Oslo)
Toulouse: TSE, September 28, 2020, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 5 -
Using detailed electricity consumption data for about 15,000 households in Norway, we conduct an RCT to evaluate the impact of interventions aimed at reducing residential electricity consumption during peak load days. The main intervention increases the price of consuming electricity in the...
Edouard Pauwels (IRIT, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier,)
Toulouse: TSE, September 24, 2020, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 5 (2°floor)
We are interested in nonsmooth analysis of algorithmic differentiation, a central building block of the learning phase implemented in modern deep learning software librairies, such as Tensorflow or Pytorch. First I will illustrate how blind application of differential calculus to nonsmooth objects...
