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Paris, France, June 8, 2017
Emir Kamenica (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)
Toulouse: TSE, June 6, 2017, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
When the state space is binary or when only posterior means matter, it is possible to represent any experiment (joint distribution of truth and data) as a convex function. I present three applications of this representation: (i) manipulating posterior means, (ii) determining joint informational...
Atria Mercure Compans Caffarelli, Toulouse, France, June 6–7, 2017
Harald Uhlig
June 6, 2017
James M. Sallee (University of California, Berkeley)
Toulouse: TSE, June 2, 2017, 11:00–12:15, room MF 323
We study the effectiveness and efficiency of air pollution standards for new vehicles, which are among the most important environmental regulation for transportation in the U.S. and most other wealthy countries. These standards regulate air pollutants like hydrocarbons, which we show have very...
James Feigenbaum (Princeton University)
Toulouse: TSE, June 1, 2017, 11:00–12:30, room MC 202
Do severe economic downturns increase intergenerational economic mobility by breaking links between generations, or do they instead reduce mobility by limiting opportunity for the young? To answer this question, I estimate rates of intergenerational mobility during the Great Depression for...
Manufacture des Tabacs, S Building, Toulouse, France, June 1–2, 2017
London: French Institute, June 1, 2017
Antonio Russo
TSE & IAST, May 31, 2017, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, May 30, 2017, 11:00–12:30, room MS001
Following d’Aspremont and Gérard-Varet (1979) the study of Bayesian incentive compatibility mechanisms has stressed the difficulties caused by the budget balance requirement, but relatively neglected the role of individual rationality constraints Using the techniques introduced by d’Aspremont,...
