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Julie Josse (Agrocampus Ouest - Rennes)
Toulouse: TSE, March 24, 2015, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
Low-rank matrix estimation plays a key role in many scientific and engineering tasks including collaborative filtering and image denoising. Low-rank procedures are often motivated by the statistical model where we observe a noisy matrix drawn from some distribution with expectation assumed to have...
Olivier Tercieux (Paris School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, March 24, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
In several countries, teachers' assignment to schools is managed by a central administration. One of the objectives of the reassignment process is to make sure that teachers obtain an assignment which they weakly prefer to their current position. The Deferred-Acceptance mechanism (DA) proposed Gale...
Philippe Mueller
March 24, 2015
Luigi Paciello (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
TSE, March 23, 2015, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
We provide new evidence of the relationship between firm pricing and customer dynamics. We build and quantify a model where firms choose prices taking into account their effect on the evolution of their customer base, and customers face frictions to reallocate to other firms. The model accounts for...
Katja Seim (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, March 23, 2015, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
This paper empirically investigates the add-on or \drip" pricing behavior of firms in the Portuguese market for driving instruction. We present a model in which consumers purchase a base and, with some probability, an add-on product from the same firm, but are not always aware of the possible need...
Clemens Otto
TSE, March 23, 2015, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
How do conflicts between different creditors affect debt contract terms? We study this question by examining the effect of dispersion in firms' existing debt structures on the use of covenants in new corporate loans. We find that more covenants are included when firms' existing debt is more...
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues (University of Toronto)
Toulouse: TSE, March 23, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
The deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon slowed down recently. Part of the recent slowdown may be explained by increased monitoring efforts that took place in the past 10 years. A particularly important change occurred in 2008. In that year, the Brazilian federal government issued a list of...
Sebastien Gerchinovitz (Université Paul Sabatier - IMT)
Toulouse: TSE, March 20, 2015, 14:00–15:15, room MF 323
We consider the problem of online nonparametric regression with arbitrary deterministic sequences. Using ideas from the chaining technique, we design an algorithm that achieves a Dudley-type regret bound similar to the one obtained in a non-constructive fashion by Rakhlin and Sridharan (2014). Our...
Vincent Réquillart (Toulouse School of Economics - GREMAQ)
TSE, March 20, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
Up to now, most nutritional policies have been set up to inform consumers about the health benefits induced by more balanced diets. Reviews of the impacts of these policies show that the effects are often modest. This has led governments to implement, in more recent times, policies focused on the...
Alisha Holland (Harvard University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 20, 2015, 10:00–11:15, room MS 001
Conventional wisdom is that poor voters in Latin America have amorphous electoral interests that lead them to sell their votes, support anti-establishment politicians, or swing between parties. This paper argues that the urban informal sector poor have a coherent material interest in...
