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Simone M. Sepe
TSE, December 11, 2017, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
Geoffrey Barrows (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Toulouse: TSE, December 11, 2017, 11:00–12:15, room MS 003
Developing countries characterized by increasing electricity demand face a dilemma: fossil-fuel fired generation is cheap and reliable yet has substantial environmental consequences. Using a difference-in-differences approach comparing locations close to versus far away from coal-fired power plants...
Dorian Beauchêne (MAPP), and Romain De Nijs (MAPP)
Toulouse: TSE, December 8, 2017, 15:30–17:00, room MF323
The recent EU Damages Directive establishes a set of measures to facilitate actions for damages stemming from infringements of the competition law provisions. The Directive recognizes the importance of taking into account of the "passing-on" in assessing the harm suffered by direct and indirect...
Suzannah Lipscomb (University of Roehampton)
Toulouse: IAST, December 8, 2017, 11:30–12:30, room MS003
Manufacture des Tabacs, S Building, MS001, Toulouse, France, December 8, 2017
Toulouse: IAST, December 7, 2017, 18:00–20:00, room Amphiteater Cujas
Pawel Doligalski (University of Bristol)
TSE, December 7, 2017, 14:00–15:30, room MS003
We extend the theory of the optimal redistributive taxation by Mirrlees (1971) to economies with an informal labor market. The existence of the shadow economy can be welfare improving either by enhancing the efficiency of labor allocation or by strengthening possible redistribution. Conditional on...
Daniel Roggers (World Bank Development Economics Research Group)
Toulouse: TSE, December 7, 2017, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
A common assertion is that decentralized agents such as local government organizations have better information than their centralized counterparts. We test this assertion by measuring the beliefs of public officials regarding the characteristics of the citizens they serve at the federal, regional...
Markus Grasmair (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Toulouse: TSE, December 7, 2017, 11:00–12:15, room MS 001
For the stable solution of ill-posed inverse problems, it is necessary to incorporate a-priori knowledge about the solution and also the noise into the solution process. A typical assumption about the solution is its regularity, which can for instance be measured with respect to some homogeneous...
Robert Somogyi
TSE & IAST, December 6, 2017, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
This paper studies zero-rating, an emerging business practice consisting in a mobile internet service provider (ISP) excluding the data generated by certain content providers (CPs) from its consumers' monthly data cap. Being at odds with the principle of net neutrality, these arrangements have...
