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Daniel Martin (Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 31, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
In this paper I propose a general model of consumption for consumers who are uncertain about prices. The behavioral implications of this model can be summarized by a set of non-parametric and testable restrictions on stochastic demand functions that are simple and bear a resemblance to classical...
Ulrike Malmendier
IDEI, May 30, 2016, 12:30–13:45, room MF 323
Macroeconomic models of monetary policy assume that central bankers form rational beliefs based on all available data. We show that personal lifetime experiences significantly affect the forecasts and voting behavior of FOMC members. We link experience-based inflation expectations to the desired...
Hunt Allcott (New York University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 30, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Do natural resources benefit producer economies, or is there a "Natural Resource Curse," perhaps as Dutch Disease crowds out manufacturing? We combine new data on oil and gas abundance with Census of Manufactures microdata to estimate how oil and gas booms have affected local economies in the...
Manufacture des Tabacs, S Building, Toulouse, France, May 30–31, 2016
Angelo Zago (Università degli Studi di Verona)
TSE, May 27, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
Collective labels are widespread in food markets, either separated or nested with private brands, in this latter case then known as nested names. We propose a model to explain the rationale of nested names, with collective labels being effective in reaching unaware consumers, while individual...
Andrew Jones (University of York, UK)
James Snyder (Harvard University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 27, 2016, 10:00–11:15, room MF 323
We develop a theory of legislative competition in which voters care about local candidate valence and national party positions that are determined by the parties’ median legislators. As long as election outcomes are predictable enough, the only stable equilibria exhibit policy divergence between...
Christopher Neilson
Toulouse: TSE, May 26, 2016, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
We test the impact of information about institution- and major-specific labor market outcomes on college enrollment decisions using a randomized controlled trial administered within the online Chilean federal student loan application process. Using linked secondary and post-secondary education...
Benedikt Herrmann (Nottingham University)
TSE, May 26, 2016, 15:30–16:45, room MS001
Clément Marteau (Université Lyon I - Claude Bernard)
Toulouse: TSE, May 26, 2016, 11:00–12:15, room MS003
We consider a Gaussian sequence model that contains ill-posed inverse problems as special cases. We assume that the associated operator is partially unknown in the sense that its singular functions are known and the corresponding singular values are unknown but observed with Gaussian noise. For the...
