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Michael Carter (University of California - Davis)
Toulouse: TSE, March 21, 2019, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
The Green Revolution bolstered agricultural yields and rural well-being in Asia and Latin America, but bypassed sub-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A temporary subsidy for Mozambican maize farmers...
Koen Jochmans (University of Cambridge)
TSE, March 19, 2019, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
We consider a situation where the distribution of a random variable is being estimated by the empirical distribution of noisy measurements of the random variable. This is common practice in many settings, including the evaluation of teacher value-added and the assessment of firm efficiency through...
Alp Atakan (Queen Mary University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 19, 2019, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
We study a common-value auction in which a large number of identical, indivisible object are sold to a large number of ex-ante identical bidders with unit demand. There is costly information acquisition or costly entry. We derive the limit price distribution. This allows us to quantify the...
Luigi Paciello (Einaudi)
TSE, March 18, 2019, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
Around one half of the cyclical changes in US non-durable consumption expenditures comes from changes in the products entering households' consumption basket (the extensive margin). Changes in the basket are mostly due to fluctuations in the rate at which households add new products to their basket...
Jeanine Miklos-Thal (University of Rochester)
TSE, March 18, 2019, 14:00–15:30, room MS 001
This paper analyzes supply tariffs that discriminate between resale in different markets. In a setting with competing retailers that operate in multiple (independent or interdependent) markets, we show that, all else equal, the supplier wants to discriminate against resale in the market with the...
Gur Huberman
Toulouse, March 18, 2019, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
Although radically different from a traditional payment system, Bitcoin is functional and transmits value over the internet. Having fixed transaction processing capacity, it experiences service delays which motivate users to pay for service priority. These fees fund the computer servers (\miners")...
Matthieu Lapeyre (Deloitte)
Toulouse: TSE, March 14, 2019, 17:00–18:00, room MB4
Banque de France - Paris, March 14, 2019, 15:30
Mark Koyama (George Mason University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 14, 2019, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
A prominent explanation for Europe’s long history of political fragmentation and China’s tendency towards political unification is the fractured land hypothesis made famous by Diamond (1997a). We build a model to explore the effects of geography on political fragmentation. We find that topography,...
Charles Bertucci (Université Paris Dauphine-CEREMADE)
Toulouse: TSE, March 14, 2019, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
In this talk, we consider the problem of the modeling of a mean field game (MFG) of optimal stopping. After a basic presentation of the MFG theory, we first investigate a 1 dimensional case to understand the structure of such games. We then present a general framework for such MFG. In particular,...
