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Giovanni Compiani (Haas School of Business - University of California - Berkeley)
TSE, October 15, 2019, 15:30–16:50, room MS001
Demand estimates are essential for addressing a wide range of positive and normative questions in economics that are known to depend on the shape|and notably the curvature|of the true demand functions. The existing frontier approaches, while allowing flexible substitution patterns, typically...
Nuno Coimbra (Paris School of Economics)
TSE, October 15, 2019, 14:00–15:30, room MF323
This paper develops a dynamic macroeconomic model with heterogeneous financial intermediaries and endogenous entry. It features time-varying endogenous macroeconomic risk that arises from the risk-shifting behaviour of the crosssection of financial intermediaries. We show that when interest rates...
Nemanja Antic (Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 15, 2019, 10:30–12:00, room MS003
We provide a theory of conversations based on plausible deniability in the face of potential public outrage. Two experts with common preferences and some private information exchange messages in order to coordinate on a decision. An uninformed regulator (perhaps the public) has a conflict of...
John Kuong
Toulouse, October 14, 2019, 12:30–14:00, room MF323
We consider a model in which dealers need to raise external financing to provide immediacy to their clients, and also exert unobservable effort to improve the chance of closing their positions at a profit. This moral hazard problem reduces the amount of external finance dealers can raise, and...
Torben Mideksa (Uppsala University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 14, 2019, 11:00–12:15, room MS003
What is the best way to price carbon and enhance other global public goods? To answer the question, this paper examines a policy-making game among many countries in the face of cost uncertainty. Governments choose both the type of policy: price or quantity (e.g., carbon tax or emissions quota) and...
Mohamed Baccouche (AXA)
Toulouse: TSE, October 10, 2019, 17:00–18:00, room MS 001
Eduardo Engel (University of Chile)
October 10, 2019, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
In 2016, Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht was fined $2.6 billion by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). According to the plea agreement, between 2001 and 2016 Odebrecht paid $788 million in bribes in 10 Latin American and two African countries in more than 100 large projects. The DOJ estimated...
Ingrid Van Keilegom (KU Leuven)
Toulouse: TSE, October 10, 2019, 11:00–12:15, room MS003
In this paper we consider regression models with centred errors, independent of the covariates. Given independent and identically distributed data and given an estimator of the regression function, which can be parametric or nonparametric in nature, we estimate the distribution of the error term by...
Michelangelo Rossi (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
TSE & IAST, October 9, 2019, 12:30, room MS 003room MS 003
Review systems are one of the key ingredients in the success of digital platforms. They ensure the quality of the services provided in the platforms and discipline users' behavior. Reviews reveal user's past performances and form their reputation. I study how changes in competition affect the power...
Jean-Jacques FORNERON (Boston University)
TSE, October 8, 2019, 15:30–16:50, room MS 001
This paper develops an approach to detect identification failures in a large class of moment condition models. This is achieved by introducing a quasi-Jacobian matrix which is asymptotically singular under higher-order local identification as well as weak/set identification; in these settings,...
