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Ulf Axelson
TSE, February 15, 2016, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
We study how efficient primary financial markets are in allocating capital wheninformation about investment opportunities is dispersed across market participants.Paradoxically, the very fact that information is valuable for making real investmentdecisions destroys the efficiency of the market. To...
William Kovacic (Geoge Washington University Law School)
Toulouse: TSE, January 22, 2016, 15:30–17:30, room MF323
Louis Kaplow (Harvard Law School)
Toulouse: TSE, January 15, 2016, 15:30–17:30, room MF323
Toulouse, France, January 7–8, 2016
Toulouse, France, January 6, 2016, room MS 001- MS 002
The Digital Chair Jean-Jacques Laffont was launched in February 2015 to promote research on the impact of digital technology - in areas such as industrial organization, competition policy, education, finance, culture or health. Within this initiative, we organize a Workshop to discuss the...
Florian Scheuer (Stanford University)
TSE, December 18, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
How are optimal taxes affected by the presence of superstar phenomena at the top of the earnings distribution? To answer this question, we extend the Mirrlees model to incorporate an assignment problem in the labor market that generates superstar effects. Perhaps surprisingly, rather than providing...
Todd Keister
December 18, 2015, BDF, Paris
Steven J. Davis
December 18, 2015
Toulouse, France, December 16–17, 2015
Eric Zwick (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)
TSE, December 15, 2015, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
We estimate the effect of temporary tax incentives on equipment investment usingshifts in accelerated depreciation. Analyzing data for over 120,000 firms, we present threefindings. First, bonus depreciation raised investment 17.3 percent on average between2001 and 2004 and 29.5 percent between 2008...
