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Andrés Salamanca Lugo (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, December 8, 2016, 09:30–11:00, room MS 003
Kamenica and Gentzkow (2011) consider a model in which a sender chooses a public communication device for signaling his information to an uninformed receiver, who then takes an action that affects the welfare of both individuals. In their model, the sender is fully committed to truthfully...
Aurélien Eyquem (Université Lyon II)
TSE, December 6, 2016, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
Following the Great Recession, U.S. government debt levels ended up well over 100% of output. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model to evaluate the role of various shocks during and after the Great Recession; shocks directly affecting the labor market are found to have the greatest impact...
Juan Carlos Escanciano (Indiana University)
TSE, December 6, 2016, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University)
Toulouse: TSE, December 6, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
We propose a new abstract definition of equilibrium in the spirit of competitive equilibrium: a profile of alternatives and a public ordering (expressing prestige, price, or a social norm) such that each agent prefers his assigned alternative to all lower-ranked ones. The equilibrium operates in an...
Antonella Trigari
December 6, 2016
Julia Cagé (Sciences Po, Paris)
TSE, December 5, 2016, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
Sylvain Chassang
IDEI, December 5, 2016, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
This paper develops a prior-free version of Markowitz (1952)'s efficient portfolio theory that allows the decision maker to express preferences over risk and reward, even though she is unable to express a prior over potentially non-stationary returns. The corresponding optimal allocation strategies...
Andrew Yates (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Toulouse: TSE, December 5, 2016, 11:00–12:15, room MS 003
We examine the distributional effects of changes in local air pollution from driving electric vehicles in the United States. We employ an econometric model to estimate power plant emissions and an integrated assessment model to value damages in air pollution from both electric and gasoline vehicles...
Jorge Padilla (Compass Lexecon)
Toulouse: TSE, December 2, 2016, 15:30–17:30, room MF 323
Brian Boyd (Auckland University)
Toulouse: IAST, December 2, 2016, 11:30–12:30, room MS 001
The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania (often called, ever since its opening five years ago, the most interesting new art museum for decades, or simply the most interesting art museum in the world; its average visitor time is longer than for any other art museum, including the Louvre)...
