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Melanie Xue (Northwestern University)
Toulouse: IAST, March 30, 2018, 11:30–12:30, room MD103
Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. This vast expressive body, studied by the corresponding discipline of folklore, has evaded the attention of economists. In this study we do four things that...
Enisse Kharroubi
March 30, 2018
Davy Paindaveine (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Toulouse: TSE, March 29, 2018, 11:00–12:15, room MF 323
We propose halfspace depth concepts for scatter, concentration and shape matrices. For scatter matrices, our concept is similar to those from Chen, Gao and Ren (2017) and Zhang (2002). Rather than focusing, as in these earlier works, on deepest scatter matrices, we thoroughly investigate the...
Maria Polyakova (Stanford University)
March 29, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
TSE, Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, March 29–30, 2018, room MS001-MS002-MS003
Daniel Coublucq (Economist, European Commission)
Toulouse: TSE, March 28, 2018, 17:00–18:30, room MB II
The European Commission's Directorate General for Competition often relies on quantitative economic techniques in its review of complex mergers (UPP analysis, merger simulation, direct estimation of past entry events or mergers, analysis of tender data, analysis of patent data). This analysis is...
Martin Watzinger (University of Munich)
TSE & IAST, March 28, 2018, 12:30–13:30, room MS 003
Is compulsory licensing an effective antitrust remedy to increase innovation? To answer this question, we analyze the 1956 consent decree which settled an antitrust lawsuit against Bell, a vertically integrated monopolist charged with foreclosing the telecommunications equipment market. Bell was...
Athanasios Orphanides
March 28, 2018
Zsofia Barany (Sciences Po, Paris)
TSE, March 27, 2018, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
To study the drivers of the employment reallocation across sectors and occupations between 1960 and 2010 in the US we propose a model where technology evolves at the sector-occupation cell level. This framework allows us to quantify the bias of technology across sectors and across occupations. We...
Anders Rahbek (University of Copenhagen)
TSE, March 27, 2018, 15:30–16:50, room MS 001
