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Eugenio Zucchelli (Lancaster University)
TSE, December 2, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
Despite its clear relevance and policy significance, there is still sparse evidence on the effects of ill-health on the dynamics of labour state transitions among older individuals. We provide novel evidence by considering retirement as mobility among full-time work, part-time work, self-employment...
Brian Boyd (Auckland University)
Toulouse: IAST, December 1, 2016, 18:00–20:00, room Amphi Cujas
Basit Zafar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Toulouse: TSE, December 1, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
We use a hypothetical choice methodology to estimate preferences for workplace attributes, and quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. This method robustly identifies preferences for various job attributes, free from omitted variable bias and...
Alexandre Popier (Université du Maine)
Toulouse: TSE, December 1, 2016, 11:00–12:15, room MS 001
In this talk we present in details an optimal stochastic control problem related to portfolio liquidation problems. Then we explain how it can be solved using backward stochastic differential equation. We generalize the existing results in three directions: firstly there is no assumption on the...
Kjell Nyborg
December 1, 2016
Jérôme Pouyet, and Thomas Tregouet
TSE & IAST, November 30, 2016, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
Salomé Baslandze (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
TSE, November 29, 2016, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
What is the impact of information and communications technologies (ICT) on aggregate productivity growth and sectoral reallocation? In this paper, I analyze the impact of ICT through facilitating knowledge diffusion in the economy. There are two opposing effects. The increased flow of ideas between...
Tai Otsu (London School of Economics)
TSE, November 29, 2016, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
Ben Golub (Harvard University)
Toulouse: TSE, November 29, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
In coordination games of incomplete information, as well as in speculative over-the-counter financial markets, agents care about what their counterparties, on average, expect their counterparties to think, and so forth. Iterated average expectations of a group of agents are formed by starting with...
Armin Schmutzler (University of Zurich)
TSE, November 28, 2016, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
