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Charles Henri Weymueller
May 19, 2015
Jonathan Vogel (University of Columbia)
TSE, May 18, 2015, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
We provide an assignment model to decompose changes in between-group wage inequality into changes in the composition of the workforce, the productivity/demand for tasks, computerization, and labor productivity. The model incorporates comparative advantage between many groups of workers, many types...
Justin Pappas Johnson (Johnson Graduate School of Management - Cornell University)
TSE, May 18, 2015, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
Anna Pavlova
IDEI, May 18, 2015, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
A sharp increase in the popularity of commodity investing in the past decade has triggered an unprecedented inflow of institutional funds into commodity futures markets, referred to as the financialization of commodities. In this paper, we explore the effects of financialization in a model that...
Carolyn Fisher (RFF)
Toulouse: TSE, May 18, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
WTO agreements discipline the use of subsidies, particularly for upstream manufacturing or exports. Unlike tariff rules, the Subsidies Code lacks exceptions for transboundary externalities like human health or resource conservation, including those related to combatting global climate change. Yet...
Delger Enkhbayar (London School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, May 15, 2015, 12:45–14:00, room MS 003
Many individuals often lack knowledge about prominent features in insurance products. We expect well-informed individuals to 1) increase adverse selection by choosing insurance products more suitable to their risk profile and 2) increase ex-post moral hazard by reacting more to higher coverage,...
Christine Thomas-Agnan (Toulouse School of Economics - Gremaq)
Toulouse: TSE, May 12, 2015, 14:00–15:15, room MF 323
The analysis of socio-economic data often implies the combination of data bases originating from different administrative sources so that data have been collected on several different partitions of the zone of interest into administrative units. It is therefore necessary to allocate the data from...
John Quah (University of Oxford)
Toulouse: TSE, May 12, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
Consider a finite data set where each observation consists of a bundle of contingent consumption chosen by an agent from a constraint set of such bundles. We develop a general procedure for testing the consistency of this data set with a broad class of models of choice under risk and under...
Anh Le
May 12, 2015
Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, May 11, 2015, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
