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Antony Millner (Grantham Research Institute London School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, May 14, 2018, 11:00–12:15, room MS 003
The long-run social discount rate converts the long-term costs and benefits of public projects into present values. Its value depends on parameters of social preferences that capture social impatience and aversion to intertemporal consumption inequalities. Experts disagree about these ethical...
Francesco Decarolis (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
TSE, May 7, 2018, 14:00–15:30, room MS001
The transition of the advertising market from traditional media to the internet has induced a proliferation of marketing agencies specialized in bidding in the auctions that are used to sell ad space on the web. We analyze how collusive bidding can emerge from bid delegation to a common marketing...
Claire Celerier (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management)
TSE, May 7, 2018, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
Using a large administrative panel of Swedish households, we document the fast and broad adop- tion of retail structured products, an innovative class of contracts offering non-linear exposures to equity markets. Households investing in structured products differ from traditional stock market...
Roberto Weber (University of Zurich)
Toulouse: IAST, May 4, 2018, 11:30–12:30, room MF 323
There exists a widespread perception that heterogeneity in the moral characteristics of jobs and workers interact to produce differential selection by immoral individuals into jobs that require performing immoral acts. Moreover, the aversion among many individuals to performing such acts may...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse: TSE, May 4–5, 2018, room MS001
Michelle Sovinsky (University of Mannheim)
TSE, May 3, 2018, 14:00–15:15, room MS 001
Finding strategies to bridge the digital divide has been a major goal of public policy over the last decades. Accordingly, multiple demand-side interventions have been implemented to decrease Internet adoption barriers. In this paper, we assess the impact on internet adoption from a pricing subsidy...
Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, May 3, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
While a large literature has analysed labour supply responses to social insurance program, the corresponding insurance value of these programs is not well known. The challenge has been to assess the insurance value of mandated programs when no choice is allowed for. This paper analyses the value of...
Abdelaati Daouia (Toulouse School of Economics - Research - UT Capitole)
Toulouse: TSE, May 3, 2018, 11:00–12:15, room MC 204
Quantiles and expectiles of a distribution are found to be useful descriptors of its tail in the same way as the median and mean are related to its central behavior. This paper considers a valuable alternative class to expectiles, called extremiles, which parallels the class of quantiles and...
Mikhaël Chernov
May 2, 2018
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France: TSE, April 26–27, 2018, room MS002-MS003
