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Luigi Siciliani (University of York, UK)
TSE, March 8, 2018, 14:00–15:15, room MS 003
Health outcome indicators, such as mortality and readmission rates, are commonly used as indicators of hospital quality and as a basis to design pay-for-performance (P4P) incentive schemes. We propose a model of hospital behaviour under P4P where patients differ in severity and can choose hospital...
Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development bank)
Toulouse: TSE, March 8, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Francisco José Silva - Àlvarez (Université de Limoges)
Toulouse: TSE, March 8, 2018, 11:00–12:15, room MS001
In this talk, based on an ongoing work with S. Hadikhanloo (U. Paris-Dauphine), we consider a class of finite state and discrete time Mean Field Games (MFGs) introduced by Gomes, Mohr and Rigao Souza in 2009. In this framework we first study an adaptation of the fictitious play procedure for...
Steve Hamilton (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
TSE, March 8, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
A considerable literature has emerged on the effect of consumer boycotts as an instrument to change the behavior of private economic agents. In this paper, we examine retailer responses to a recent consumer boycott of "microbeads", small, polyethylene particles used in toothpaste, facewash, and...
Gabrielle Demange (Paris School of Economics)
TSE & IAST, March 7, 2018, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
In a variety of situations, an agent exerts two types of activities that are 'dual'. On an Internet forum for example, an individual can engage in two types of communication, by providing contributions on one hand and by watching the others' contributions and posting a rating, on the other. Most...
Andres Erosa (Universiy of Carlos III de Madrid)
TSE, March 6, 2018, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
We document a robust negative relationship between the log of mean annual hours in an occupation and the standard deviation of log annual hours within that occupation. We develop a unified model of occupational choice and labor supply that features heterogeneity across occupations in the return to...
Frank Windmeijer (University of Bristol)
TSE, March 6, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Jérôme Renault (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, March 6, 2018, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
Luigi Iovino
March 6, 2018
Matthew Grennan (The Wharton School -The University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, March 5, 2018, 14:00–15:30, room MS 001
Many transactions occur via expert advisors, especially in the healthcare sector, and as such, firms frequently implement strategies to influence these advisors. The efficiency of these interactions is an empirical question. Using data on physician-industry interactions and prescribing behavior...
