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Jose Luis Peydro
TSE, October 15, 2018, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
Marshall Burke (Stanford University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 15, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
We construct the first global estimates for the welfare impact of warming under unmitigated climate change using household-level micro-data. By combining household surveys from around the world, we construct a global panel of household income and consumption that we link to historical temperature...
Salle des Illustres : Hôtel de Ville, Toulouse, France, October 12, 2018
Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
October 11, 2018, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
Nicolas Juillet (IRMA-Université de Strasbourg)
Toulouse: TSE, October 11, 2018, 11:00–12:15, room MD 006
Horacio Larreguy (Harvard University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 11, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
We study a nationwide debate initiative ahead of Liberia’s 2017 elections for House of Representatives designed to solicit and rebroadcast policy promises from candidates. Leveraging random variation in candidates’ debate participation and the intensity of debate radio broadcasting we shock the...
Isaac Baley (UPF)
October 10, 2018, Banque de France
We develop a new framework to analyze the aggregate implications of lumpiness in microeconomic adjustment, which is pervasive in many economic environments. We derive structural relationships between the steady state moments and the business cycle dynamics of lumpy economies, and we show how to...
Juuso Välimäki (Aalto University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 9, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
We analyze all-pay auctions with affiliated values and binary signals. We analyze the unique symmetric equilibrium with any number of bidders and show that the bidders earn positive rents only if the equilibrium is monotone. We also characterize the symmetric equilibrium of the closely related two-...
David de La Croix (Université catholique de Louvain)
TSE, October 8, 2018, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
Nikhil Agarwal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
TSE, October 8, 2018, 14:00–15:30, room MS001
A transplant can improve a patient’s life while saving several hundreds of thousandsof dollars in healthcare expenditures. Organs from deceased donors, like many otherscarce public resources (e.g. public housing, child-care, publicly funded long-term care),are rationed via a sequential offer...
