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Gabriel Ulyssea (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
Toulouse: TSE, October 8, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we find that labor market conditions have a strong...
Vincent Sterk (University College London)
TSE, October 6, 2015, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
What can happen to unemployment after a severe disruption of the labor market? Standard models predict a reversion to a long-run steady state. By contrast, this paper shows that a large shock may set the economy on a path towards a different steady state with possibly extreme unemployment. This...
Adam Kapor (Yale University)
TSE, October 6, 2015, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
The “Texas Top Ten” law guaranteed admissions to all students ranking in the top decile of their high school class to each public university in the state of Texas, including the state flagship universities. This paper evaluates the effects of Texas Top Ten and associated scholarship programs on the...
Yukio Koriyama (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
Toulouse: TSE, October 6, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
This paper introduces an endogenous cognitive hierarchy model in which players are assumed to best-reply holding heterogeneous beliefs on the other players' cognitive levels. Contrary to the previous models, players are allowed to consider presence of opponents at their own cognitive level. This...
Facundo Piguillem
October 6, 2015
Martin Schmalz (University of Michigan)
TSE, October 5, 2015, 14:00–15:30, room MS 001
Many natural competitors are jointly held by a small set of large diversified institutional investors. In the US airline industry, taking common ownership into account implies increases in market concentration that are 10 times larger than what is “presumed likely to enhance market power” by...
Marian Garcia-Valinas (University of Oviedo)
Toulouse: TSE, October 5, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
Since the late 1970s, water services have been privatised in some developed countries in an attempt to improve performance. However, after three decades of privatisations the superiority of private management is being questioned and several cities are returning to public provision. In this paper we...
Alessandro Iaria (CREST, ENSAE)
TSE, October 2, 2015, 11:00–12:15, room MS003
We describe methods to estimate demand parameters in the presence of choice set misspecification due to unobserved individual choice sets. We show that a consumer’s probability of making a choice from her true choice set can be written as the probability she makes the same choice from a universal...
Redmond, Washington, October 2–3, 2015
Barry Hewlett (Washington State University)
Toulouse: IAST, October 1, 2015, 15:30–16:30, room MS001
