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Stijn Baert (Ghent University)
TSE, March 14, 2017, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to (start to) climb the job ladder. Based on the literature, it is unclear whether sticky floors result from (i) gender differences in human capital, (ii) preferences at the employee side or (iii) preferences...
Margaret Meyer (University of Oxford)
Toulouse: TSE, March 14, 2017, 11:00–12:30, room MS001
Given two sets of random variables, how can one determine whether the former variables are more interdependent than the latter? This question is of major importance to economists, for example, in comparing how various policies affect systemic risk or income inequality. Moreover, correlation is ill-...
Jan De Loecker (KU Leuven)
TSE, March 13, 2017, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
Production functions are a central component in a variety of economic analyzes. However, these production functions often first need to be estimated using data on individual production units. There is reason to believe that, more than any other input in the production process, there are severe...
Simon Gervais
TSE, March 13, 2017, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
We propose a model in which employees differ in both skills and ethics. Employees receive a private, non-verifiable signal about the quality of their projects, and decide whether or not to undertake the project. Ethical employees internalize the overall costs and benefits of a project, whereas...
Régis Breton
Toulouse, March 10, 2017, 12:30–14:00, room MS003
We develop a model in which financial intermediaries hold near-cash assets to protect themselves from shocks. Depending on parameter values, banks may choose to hold too much or too little cash on aggregate compared to the socially optimal amount. The model, therefore, provides a unified framework...
Nicholas Rawlins (University College Oxford)
Toulouse: IAST, March 10, 2017, 11:30–12:30, room MF323
Pierre Yves Crémieux (Analysis Group - President)
Toulouse: TSE, March 9, 2017, 17:00–18:30, room MB II
Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 9, 2017, 14:00–15:30, room MS 001
Do politicians manipulate the enforcement of conditional welfare programs to influence electoral outcomes? We study the Bolsa Familia Program (BFP) in Brazil, which provides a monthly stipend to poor families conditional on school attendance. Repeated failure to comply with this requirement results...
Jean Flemming (University of Oxford - Nuffield College)
TSE, March 7, 2017, 17:00–18:30, room MS001
Learning by doing in home production is introduced into a stochastic directed search model. Workers' labor supply choices affect skill accumulation in both the home and market sectors. The optimal search behavior implies that average reemployment wages are only mildly sensitive to unemployment...
Aureo de Paula (University College London)
TSE, March 7, 2017, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
Knowledge of the relevant linkages between individuals is usually necessary for the estimation of social interaction models. We obtain results that allow for the estimation of parameters of interest in a model with endogenous, exogenous and correlated effects without information on the relevant...
