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Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, May 26–27, 2016, room MS 001
Palais Brongniart, Paris, France, May 26–27, 2016, room Petit auditorium
Robert Deyong
May 26, 2016, BDF, Paris
Benny Man (University of Waterloo)
TSE & IAST, May 25, 2016, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
Arnaud Costinot (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
TSE, May 24, 2016, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
We develop a methodology to construct nonparametric counterfactual predictions, free of functional-formrestrictions on preferences and technology, in neoclassicalmodels of international trade. First, we establish the equivalence between such models and reduced exchange models in which countries...
Flavio Cunha (Rice University, Houston)
TSE, May 24, 2016, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
We formulate a model of early childhood development that includes maternal subjective expectations (MSE) about the technology of skill formation. The model explores how MSE influences the amount and quality of maternal investments in the development of human capital of their child. The model cannot...
Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 23, 2016, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. Weinvented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technologyto a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...
Pietro Veronesi
IDEI, May 23, 2016, 12:30–13:45, room MF 323
We propose a non-parametric empirical benchmark for credit risk analysis. We build fictitious “pseudo firms” that purchase real traded assets by issuing equity and zero-coupon bonds. By no-arbitrage, these bonds equal Treasuries minus put options on the firms’ assets, whose values are all...
Carmen Arguedas (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Toulouse: TSE, May 23, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
We analyze the strategic decision of firms to voluntarily provide high quality on a credence attribute of a product in settings where there is scope for fraud that can be alleviated through third-party certification. Equilibrium outcomes crucially depend on endogenous consumers' beliefs about the...
Steven Ongena
May 23, 2016
