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Christopher Timmins (Duke University)
Toulouse: TSE, June 1, 2015, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
With the growth of shale gas in the U.S., lease negotiations have become an important part of the energy landscape. Royalty payments are a potential source of benefit to homeowners and restrictions negotiated directly in leases are an important tool by which the industry is regulated. Using a...
Pablo Kurlat
IDEI, June 1, 2015, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
This paper studies competitive equilibria of economies where assets are heterogeneous and traders have heterogeneous information about them. Markets are defined by a price and a procedure for clearing trades and any asset can in principle be traded in any market. Buyers can use their information to...
Torsten Persson (University of Stockholm)
Toulouse: TSE, June 1, 2015, 10:30–12:00, room MS 001
This paper provides a framework to study how individual and social motives shape identity choice and applies it to the ethnic choice of children in ethnically mixed marriages. The model highlights the interaction of material benefits, identity costs, and social reputations. It is consistent with...
Yann Bramoullé (Aix-Marseille University)
Toulouse: IAST, May 29, 2015, 11:30–12:30, room MF323
Michael Chwe (University of California, LA)
Toulouse: IAST, May 28, 2015, 15:30–16:30, room MF323
Debraj Ray (University of New York)
Toulouse: TSE, May 28, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
This paper develops a theory in which society-wide economic outcomes shape individual aspirations, which affect the investment incentives of individuals. Through its impact on investments, individual aspirations in turn affect ambient social outcomes. We explore this two-way link in setting in...
Toulouse, France, May 28–29, 2015
Manufacture des Tabacs MS 001, Toulouse, France, May 27, 2015
The objective of the TSE Student Workshop is to introduce work done by TSE PhD students and to promote interactions between researchers and PhD students. During this day selected students will give a short presentation (25 minutes) of his or her work, which will be followed by a short discussion (...
Gian Luca Clementi
May 27, 2015
Gilles Stupfler (GREQAM - Marseille)
Toulouse: TSE, May 26, 2015, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
Among the many possible ways to study the right tail of a real-valued random variable, a particularly general one is given by considering the family of its Wang distortion risk measures. This class of risk measures encompasses various interesting indicators, such as the widely used Value-at-Risk (...
