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Alexandre Kohlhas
November 14, 2017
André Trindade (FGV/EPGE - Escola Brasileira de Economia e Finanças)
TSE, November 13, 2017, 14:00–15:30, room MS 001
We empirically investigate the welfare implications of intermediaries in oligopolistic markets, where intermediaries offer additional services to differentiate their products from the ones of the manufacturers. Our identification strategy exploits the unique circumstance that, in the outdoors...
Jessica Jeffers
TSE, November 13, 2017, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
I investigate the impact of restricting labor mobility on two components of growth: en-trepreneurship and capital investment. To identify the mechanism, I combine LinkedIn’sdatabase of employment histories with staggered changes in the enforceability of non-competeagreements that come mostly from...
Mads Greaker (Statistics Norway)
Toulouse: TSE, November 13, 2017, 11:00–12:15, room MS 003
An innovator may not be able to capture the full social benefit of her innovation. Governments therefore support private R&D through various measures. We compare a market good innovation with an abatement technology innovation with the same potential to increase social surplus. The first-best...
Ralph Winter (UBC, Sauder)
Toulouse: TSE, November 10, 2017, 15:30–17:00, room MF323
Noam Lupu (Vanderbilt University)
Toulouse: IAST, November 10, 2017, 11:30–12:30, room MS001
Do elected representatives reflect the preferences of the citizens they represent? Recent studies from the U.S. have found that elected representatives tend to be more responsive to the preferences of affluent citizens. But we still know little about why this bias exists. We examine whether a...
Roxana Fernandez (Tilburg University)
TSE, November 9, 2017, 14:00–15:15, room MS 003
Over the last decades, the success of cities has hinged on their ability to become centers of consumption. Encouraging firms to settle and to provide a rich variety of services is therefore central for increasing the liveliness of cities. However, firms consider potential spillover effects...
Karim Lounici (School of Mathematics - Georgia Institute of Technology)
Toulouse: TSE, November 9, 2017, 11:00–12:15, room MS001
Prashant Bharadwaj (University of California, San Diego)
Toulouse: TSE, November 9, 2017, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
The partition of British India in 1947 resulted in one of the largest and most rapid migrations in human history. This paper examines how areas affected by the partition fare in the long run. Using migrant presence as a proxy for the intensity of the impact of the partition, and district level data...
Cosmina Dorobantu (European Commission)
TSE & IAST, November 8, 2017, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
We study a natural experiment in the release of a new ad targeting feature onto an online advertising platform. The experiment affects the precision with which advertisers can target the platform's users in certain geographic ad markets. We find evidence that the additional ad targeting precision...
