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Tomasz Strzalecki (University of Harvard)
Toulouse: TSE, May 26, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
Abstract: We model the joint distribution of choice probabilities and decision times in binary choice tasks as the solution to a problem of optimal sequential sampling, where the agent is uncertain of the utility of each action. The resulting optimal policy better matches the observed correlation...
Loriano Mancini
May 26, 2015
Nicolas Vayatis (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan)
Toulouse: TSE, May 22, 2015, 14:00–15:15, room MF 323
La courbe ROC est le "gold standard" pour l'évaluation des règles de décision dans le domaine du scoring (risque de crédit, ciblage marketing, ciblage thérapeutique, ...). Or, il n'est utilisé pour l'instant que comme un simple outil de monitoring de la performance et de visualisation, et la...
Gabriella Conti (University College London)
Toulouse: IAST, May 22, 2015, 11:30–12:30, room MS001
Climent Quintana-Domeque (University of Oxford)
TSE, May 22, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview in a nation- ally representative sample is related to weight, height, and body mass index (BMI), separately by gender and accounting for interviewers' characteristics or fixed effects. We also compute the non-anthropometric residual...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, May 22–23, 2015, room MS 001, S Building
Christian Dippel (UCLA Anderson School of Management)
Toulouse: TSE, May 21, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
The 19th century collapse of world sugar prices should have depressed wages in the British West Indies sugar colonies. It did not. We explain this by showing how lower prices weakened the power of the white planter elite and thus led to an easing of the coercive institutions that depressed wages e....
Guillaume Plantin
May 20, 2015, BDF, Paris
Tomasz Sadzik (University California - Los Angeles)
Toulouse: TSE, May 19, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
We consider a dynamic asset pricing model with one asset, in which one informed trader trades against liquidity traders and competitive market makers. Informed trader has private information about the fundamental value of the asset as well as the exogenous demand shock on the market. We...
Toulouse, France, May 19, 2015, room MF323
The workshop "Religion, Politics, and Development" aims to bring together leading scholars to present their work on the topic of religion and economics and to hold an in-depth discussion on the forthcoming book by Jean-Philippe Platteau, "Religion, Politics, and Development: Is Islam a Special...
