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Hans Degryse
October 26, 2017
Pietro Tebaldi (University of Chicago)
TSE, October 23, 2017, 14:00–15:30, room MS 001
To design premium subsidies in a health insurance market it is necessary to estimate consumer demand, cost, and study how different subsidy schemes affect insurers’ incentives. I combine data on household-level enrollment and plan-level claims from the Californian Affordable Care Act insurance...
Matthew Kotchen (Yale School of Forestry)
Toulouse: TSE, October 23, 2017, 11:00–12:15, room MS 003
This paper develops a theoretical foundation for the social cost of carbon (SCC). The model highlights the source of debate over whether countries should use the global or domestic SCC for regulatory impact analysis. I identify conditions under which a country's decision to internalize the global...
Pascal Cardonnel (Court of Justice of the European Union)
Toulouse: TSE, October 20, 2017, 15:30–17:30, room MF 323
Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing”. And yet, their decisions contribute to shaping the law. To illustrate how the litigation process works and affects the development of competition law, this presentation will preview the Court of Justice of the European Union docket...
Ian Armit (Bradford University)
Toulouse: IAST, October 20, 2017, 11:30–12:30, room MF323
In Iron Age Europe, the severed human head carried symbolic associations with power, fertility, status and gender. Evidence ranges from classical literary references to iconography and skeletal remains. Traditionally, this was associated with a Celtic “head-cult,”. This lecture explores instead how...
Paris, October 20, 2017, room Auditorium
Julio Andres Blanco
October 20, 2017
Tomaso Duso (Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung - Berlin)
TSE, October 19, 2017, 14:00–15:15, room MS 003
We use an original dataset on Dutch supermarkets to assess the effect of a merger that was conditionally approved by the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) on prices and on the depth of assortment. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger's effects. We...
Melanie Morten (Stanford University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 19, 2017, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Paper is joint with Costas Meghir, Mushfiq Mubarak, and Corina Mommaerts We investigate the relationship between seasonal migration and informal risk sharing in rural Bangladesh. We use data from a randomized controlled trial which provided incentives for households to migrate (Bryan et al., 2014...
Laurent Miclo (Université Paul Sabatier - IMT - TSE)
Toulouse: TSE, October 19, 2017, 11:00–12:15, room MS001
Consider a deck of N cards that is shuffled in the following way: take the card at the top and put it at a uniformly random position in the deck. For how long this procedure must be repeated in order to mix the deck? Aldous et Diaconis (1986) gave a simple answer to this question by resorting to a...
