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Seema Jayachandran
Toulouse: TSE, September 12, 2016, 11:00–12:15, room MS003
This paper evaluates a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in western Uganda that offered forest-owning households cash payments if they conserved their forest. The program was implemented as a randomized trial in 121 villages, 60 of which received the program for two years. The PES...
Tatsuya Kameda (University of Hokkaido)
Toulouse: TSE, September 9, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
We introduce a game theory model of individual decisions to cooperate by contributing personal resources to group decisions versus by free riding on the contributions of other members. In contrast to most public-goods games that assume group returns are linear in individual contributions, the...
Edward Jaenicke (Penn State University)
TSE, September 7, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS003
To investigate two consumer-choice applications, this research uses the Pinkse, Slade, and Brett distance-metric (DM) method, which frames cross-product substitution as a function of relative distance in physical or virtual attribute space. The first application investigates the demand for health-...
Giovanni Caggiano
September 6, 2016
Lana Friesen (University of Queensland, Australia)
Toulouse: TSE, September 5, 2016, 11:00–12:15, room MS003
Considerable evidence demonstrates that consumers make poor choices in complex decision environments. One such environment is the choice of a mobile (cell) phone plan, where consumers frequently encounter complicated nonlinear tariffs. We study the efficacy of five policy interventions to improve...
Gabriel Zucman
July 5, 2016
Toulouse, June 30 to July 2, 2016
Toulouse, France, June 28–29, 2016
Ana Babus
IDEI, June 27, 2016, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
We provide a theory of trading through intermediaries in OTC markets. The role of intermediaries is to sustain trade, when trade is beneficial. In our model, traders are connected through a network. Agents observe their neighbors’ actions, and can trade with their counterparty in a given period...
France, June 27, 2016
