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Clémentine Galles (Head of MacroSectoral and Macrofinancial Analysis)
Toulouse: TSE, January 12, 2017, 17:00–18:30, room MB II
Toulouse, France, January 12–13, 2017
Bert Willems
Toulouse: TSE, January 9, 2017, 11:00–12:15, room MS001
We model the optimal regulation of continuous, irreversible, capacity expansion, where a regulated firm has private information about capacity costs, investments are financed from the firm's cash flows, and demand is stochastic. The optimal mechanism consists can be implemented as revenue tax that...
Sarah Hill (Texas Christian University)
Toulouse: IAST, December 16, 2016, 11:30–12:30, room MF 323
Lorenzo Rotunno (Aix-Marseille School of Economics - GREQAM - Aix-Marseille University)
TSE, December 16, 2016, 10:00–11:15, room MQ 212
This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalization, consumption of unhealthy foods, and the related health outcomes in the case of Mexico. It empirically assesses the role of food imports from the U.S. in explaining the spectacular rise in obesity and changes in other diet-related...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Building S, Toulouse, France: Toulouse School of Economics, December 16–17, 2016, room Auditorium MS001
Reka Juhasz (Princeton University - Columbia University)
Toulouse: TSE, December 15, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
This paper uses a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of temporary trade protection on long-term economic development. I find that regions in the French Empire which became better protected from trade with the British for exogenous reasons during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-15) increased...
Jérémie Bigot (Université de Bordeaux)
Toulouse: TSE, December 15, 2016, 11:00–12:15, room MS 001
The concept of barycenter in the Wasserstein space allows to define a notion of Frechet mean of a set of probability measures. The purpose of this talk is to discuss potential applications of Wasserstein barycenters for characterizing the mean of random histograms or random planar objects, and to...
Vikas Agarwal
December 15, 2016
Marc Bourreau
TSE & IAST, December 14, 2016, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
