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Mark Kayser (Hertie School of Governance)
Toulouse: IAST, May 18, 2018, 11:30–12:30, room MF 323
The economy influences election outcomes across a broad swath of countries, periods, institutions and contexts. How this comes about is less clear. Employing over 2 million machine-coded articles related to the economy from 32 mainstream newspapers---one left-wing and one right-wing in 16 developed...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, May 18–19, 2018, room MS001
Garance Genicot (Georgetown University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 17, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
This paper revisits the economic effects of constitutions. We propose a model of governmental resource allocation under political competition and contrast majoritarian and proportional representation systems. We derive predictions regarding the relationship between resource allocation and local...
Léopold Simar (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Toulouse: TSE, May 17, 2018, 11:00–12:15, room MC 203
Deterministic nonparametric frontier estimation has been popularized by the use of envelopment estimators in the family of FDH/DEA estimators. Once the efficient frontier has been estimated, the efficiency of each firm is evaluated by gauging its distance to the estimated efficient frontier. The...
May 17–18, 2018, room MS 001
Elie Tamer (Harvard University)
TSE, May 15, 2018, 15:30–16:50, room MS 001
Given a sample of bids from independent auctions, this paper examines the question of inference on auction fundamentals (e.g. valuation distributions, welfare measures) under weak assumptions on information structure. The question is important as it allows us to learn about the valuation...
Mira Frick (Yale University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 15, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
Motivated by the fact that people’s perceptions of their societies are routinely incorrect, we study the possibility and implications of misperception in social interactions. We focus on coordination games with assortative interactions, where agents with higher types (e.g., wealth, political...
Antonio Moreno
May 15, 2018
Nicola Pavanini (Tilburg University)
TSE, May 14, 2018, 14:00–15:30, room MS 001
An increasing number of households installing solar panels raises two challenges for regulators: network financing and vertical equity. We propose an optimal tariff design for policymakers to incentivise solar panel adoptions, while guaranteeing the sustainability and equitable distribution of...
Sabrina Howell
TSE, May 14, 2018, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
How does corporate innovation investment affect employee departures to entrepreneurship (spawning)? Research and development (R&D) investment may generate growth options for the firm or make it a more interesting workplace, which could decrease spawning. Conversely, R&D investment could...
