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Salvatore Nunnari (Bocconi University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 31, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
This paper develops a model of voters’ and politicians’ behavior based on the notion that voters focus disproportionately on, and hence overweight, certain attributes of policies. We assume that policies have two attributes - benefits and costs - and that voters focus more on the attribute in which...
Alfred Galichon (New York University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 31, 2018, 11:00–12:15, room MC 204
In this paper, we address the problem of estimating transport surplus (a.k.a. matching affinity) in high dimensional optimal transport problems. Classical optimal transport theory specifies the matching affinity and determines the optimal joint distribution. In contrast, we study the inverse...
Moshe Hoffman (Harvard University)
TSE, May 31, 2018, 10:30–12:00, room MS 003
In many instances, moral hazard can be curtailed via deterrence mechanisms that a governing body can unilaterally enforce and commit to follow through on. However, in many other instances, good behavior is induced via coordinated punishment, such as when democratic norms are maintained via the...
Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France, May 31 to June 1, 2018, room MS001
Marc flandreau
May 31, 2018
Katja O'Mann
TSE & IAST, May 30, 2018, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
We provide a new measure of automation based on patent texts and study its impact on employment. Classifying all 5 million U.S. patents granted between 1976 and 2014 as automation or non-automation patents, we document a rise in the share of automation patents from 25 percent to 67 percent. We link...
Antonio Penta (University of Pennsylvania)
Toulouse: TSE, May 29, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
We study the strategic impact of players' higher order uncertainty over whether their actions are observable to their opponents. We characterize the predictions of Rationality and Common Belief in Rationality (RCBR) which are `robust' in the sense that they do not depend on the restrictions on...
Andrea Prat (Columbia University)
TSE, May 28, 2018, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
This paper models social media platforms that have proprietary information about their users and sell targeted ad space to producers. Producers, who can be incumbents or entrants, compete for the attention of final consumers. The paper characterizes equilibrium producer entry and consumer welfare...
Andreas Lange (University of Hamburg)
Toulouse: TSE, May 28, 2018, 11:00–12:15, room MS 003
Inspired by fertilizer use, we investigate behavior in settings where externalities arise from individual activities crossing an uncertain individual threshold. We show within an analytic model that only threshold uncertainty causes individual and social interests to diverge with individuals...
Sergio Rebelo
May 28, 2018
