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Matti Liski (Aalto University)
Toulouse: TSE, March 16, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
We consider a model of cake eating with private information. The model captures phenomena such as trust and “security of supply” in resource-use relationships. It also predicts supply shocks as an equilibrium phenomenon: privately informed sellers have incentives to reveal resource scarcity too...
Marco Scarsini (LUISS)
Toulouse: TSE, March 13, 2015, 14:00–15:15, room MF 323
Motivated by the proliferation of user-generated product-review information and its widespread use, this note studies a market where consumers are heterogeneous in terms of their willingnessto-pay for a new product. Each consumer observes the binary reviews (like or dislike) of customers who...
Hanna Kokko (University of Zurich)
Toulouse: IAST, March 13, 2015, 11:30–12:30, room MS001
Felix Bierbrauer (University of Cologne)
TSE, March 13, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our framework covers models of income taxation, public-goods provision or publicly provided private goods. Politicians are vote-share-maximizers. They can propose any policy that is...
Nathalie Luca (EHESS)
Toulouse: IAST, March 12, 2015, 15:30–16:30, room MF323
Vincent Meisner (University of Mannheim)
Toulouse: TSE, March 12, 2015, 12:45–14:00, room MF 323
We consider a budget-constrained mechanism designer who wants to select an optimal subset of projects to maximize her utility. Project costs are private information and the value the designer derives from their provision may vary. In this allocation problem the choice of projects - both which and...
Ivan Fernandez-Val (University of Boston)
TSE, March 10, 2015, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
We consider estimation of general modern moment-condition problems in econometrics in a data-rich environment where there may be many more control variables available than there are observations. The framework allows for a continuum of target parameters and for Lasso-type or Post-Lasso type methods...
Matthias Keyrig
March 10, 2015
Paul Heidhues (ESMT European School of Management and Technology)
TSE, March 9, 2015, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
We initiate the study of naivete-based discrimination, the practice of conditioning offers on external information about a consumer's naivete. We identify a broad class of situations in which such discrimination typically lowers social welfare. In our primary example, a credit market with time-...
Cecilia Parlatore-Siritto (The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, March 9, 2015, 12:30–14:00, room MS 001
I study a dynamic model of optimal funding to understand why liquid financial assets are used as collateral. Firms need to borrow to invest in risky projects with non-verifiable returns. Since projects are profitable and assets allow firms to invest in them, firms with investment opportunities...
