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Hôtel Marriott, Paris Opéra, May 6, 2019, 17:00–20:00
Kevin Bryan (University of Toronto)
TSE, May 6, 2019, 14:00–15:30, room MS 001
Should there be limits on startup acquisitions by dominant firms? Efficiency requires that startups sell their technology to the right incumbents, that they develop the right technology, and that they invest the right amount in R&D. In a model of differentiated oligopoly, we show distortions...
Roman Kozhan
Toulouse, May 6, 2019, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
We study the effect of the predictability of order imbalance on market quality. We measure the degree of predictability by using the predictive likelihood from a dynamic linear model where the dependent variable is the day-ahead order imbalance. Empirically, we show that increasing order imbalance...
Ujjayant Chakravorty (Tufts University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 6, 2019, 11:00–12:15, room MS 003
We use two randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh to study a simple water conservation technology for rice production called \Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD)." Despite proven results in agronomic trials, our first experiment shows that AWD only saves water and increases profits in villages...
Bruxelles, Belgique, May 6–7, 2019
Louvain-la-neuve, May 3, 12:00 to May 4, 2019, 09:00
Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, April 25, 11:00 to April 25, 2019, 11:00, room MF 323
In 1997 the Mexican government designed the conditional cash transfer program Progresa, which became the worldwide model of a new approach to social programs, simultaneously targeting human capital accumulation and poverty reduction. Since then, a large literature has documented the short and...
Arsenal - UT1 Capitole, Toulouse, France: IAST, April 23–26, 2019
Valérie Gares
Toulouse: TSE, April 18, 2019, 11:00–12:15, room MS003room MS003
When databases are constructed from heterogeneous sources, it is not unusual that different encodings are used for the same outcome. This work considers the problem of finding a relevant way to recode a categorical variable before merging two databases. The method is an application of optimal...
Jakub Kastl (Princeton University)
TSE & IAST, April 17, 2019, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
