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Francesco Franzoni
TSE, September 21, 2015, 12:30–14:00, room MF323
Due to their exceptional liquidity, ETFs are likely to be a catalyst for noise traders. This noise can propagate to the underlying securities through the arbitrage channel. Therefore, we explore whether ETFs increase the non-fundamental volatility of the securities in their baskets. We exploit...
Claire Galez-Davis
TSE, September 21, 2015, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
Mare Sarr (University of Cape Town)
Toulouse: TSE, September 21, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003.
History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behavior significantly over time (like Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe) as well as dictators who displayed remarkable improvements (like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana). We show that such mutations can result from rational behavior when the dictator’s...
Rebecca Sear (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Toulouse: IAST, September 18, 2015, 11:30–12:30, room MS001
Davide Dragone (University of Bologna)
TSE, September 18, 2015, 11:00–12:15, room MS003
Non-separable intertemporal preferences and “novelty consumption” can explain the persistentcorrelation between economic development and obesity. Employing the German reunification as afast motion natural experiment of economic development, we study how the sudden availability ofnovel food products...
Marie-Laure Breuillé (INRA)
TSE, September 18, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS003
We consider a multi-tier government in charge of providing a bun- dle of public goods to a large and diverse population. Public goods differ in both their provision cost and their access cost for the citizens. We characterize the optimal territorial organization, i.e. the number of tiers and...
Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins University)
Toulouse: IAST, September 17, 2015, 15:30–16:30, room MS001
Abraham Neyman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Toulouse: TSE, September 17, 2015, 14:00–15:15, room MF 323
Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we definea cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of boththe competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We proveexistence in the general (NTU) case and uniqueness in the TU case.Our main result is an extension of...
Jean-Pierre Zigrand
September 17, 2015, BDF, Paris
Sylvain Chabé-Ferret
Toulouse: IAST, September 16, 2015, 14:00–15:15, Toulouse, room MS003
This is a joint seminar that is organized on a rotating basis by the IAST history program along with historians from UT2, IAE, and Toulouse-Science Po. This time it is organized by the IAST history program.
