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Jean-Pierre Amigues (INRA)
Toulouse: IAST, March 18, 2016, 11:30–12:30, room MF323
Alain Trannoy (GREQAM-IDEP)
TSE, March 18, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS003
Thomas Piketty’s early thesis in Capital in the 21st Century is that capital has been accumulating faster than income in advanced countries over the last decades. We challenge this view in this article. First, capital (return value) should be distinguished from wealth (market value). Second, the...
Toulouse, France, March 17–18, 2016
Rodrigo Montes
TSE & IAST, March 16, 2016, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 16, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
This paper uses a unique data set from the first regional schools in colonial Benin to document and measure intergenerational mobility and its effect on risk aversion, work ethics, mental health and life outlook. The study covers the first generation of students and their unschooled counterparts...
Manufacture des tabacs, Toulouse, France, March 16–17, 2016
Ufuk Akcigit (University of Chicago)
TSE, March 15, 2016, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
Firm dynamics in poor countries show striking differences to those of rich countries. While few firms indeed experience growth as they age, most firms are simply stagnant in that they neither exit nor expand. We interpret this fact as a lack of selection, whereby producers with little growth...
Brendan Beare (University of California, San Diego)
TSE, March 15, 2016, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
Françoise Forges
Toulouse: TSE, March 15, 2016, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
We investigate to which extent the players of a one-shot Bayesian non-cooperative game can agree on a committed joint decision (namely, sign a “contract”) after having exchanged information through cheap talk. The main differences with previous approaches to contracts in Bayesian games (e.g.,...
Eric Mengus
March 15, 2016
