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Olof Johansson-Stenman (University of Gothenburg - Sweden)
TSE, November 13, 2015, 11:20–12:30, room MS 003
This paper deals with tax policy responses to inequality aversion by examining the first-best Pareto efficient marginal tax structure when people are inequality averse. In doing so, we distinguish between five different widely used mesures of inequality. The results show that empirically and...
Sanford C. Gordon (NYU)
Toulouse: TSE, November 13, 2015, 10:00–11:15, room MS001
Orazio Attanasio (University College London)
Toulouse: TSE, November 12, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Thomas Philippon (Stern School of Business, USA)
November 12, 2015, BDF, Paris
Luca Fornaro (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional)
TSE, November 10, 2015, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
We provide a Keynesian growth theory in which pessimistic expectations can lead to permanent, or very persistent, slumps characterized by unemployment and weak growth. We refer to these episodes as stagnation traps, because they consist in the joint occurrence of a liquidity and a growth trap. In a...
Barbara Sianesi (IFS London)
TSE, November 10, 2015, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
One of the most powerful critiques of the use of randomised experiments in the social sciences is the possibility that individuals might react to the randomisation itself, thereby rendering the causal inference from the experiment irrelevant for policy purposes. In this paper we set out a...
Semyon Malamud
November 10, 2015
Régis Renault (Université de Cergy-Pontoise - THEMA)
TSE, November 9, 2015, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
A tractable model of pricing under directed search is proposed and integrated with a position auction for better slots (which rationalizes the consumer search order). Search is always inefficiently low because firms price out further exploration. Equilibrium product prices are such that the...
Elyès Jouini
TSE, November 9, 2015, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
(joint with R.A. Dana and M. Bianchi)
Ruth Mace (University College London)
Toulouse: IAST, November 6, 2015, 11:30–12:30, room MS001
