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Andy Eggers (University of Oxford)
Toulouse: TSE, December 12, 2014, 10:00–11:15, room MS 001
We develop a theoretical framework and conduct a survey experiment to assess electoral accountability in multiparty plurality contests. Compared to two-party elections, multiparty elections offer voters additional channels with which to respond to incumbent performance, with subtle but potentially...
Petra Moser (University of Stanford)
Toulouse: TSE, December 11, 2014, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
This paper exploits variation in the adoption of copyright laws within Italy – as a result of Napoleon’s military campaign – to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure variation in the quantity and quality of creative output, we have collected detailed data on 2,598 operas that...
Manasa Patnam (ENSAE - CREST Paris)
TSE, December 9, 2014, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
In this paper we examine conditions under which optimal risk sharing may not fully insure individuals against idiosyncratic shocks to their endowments or income, even when markets are complete. We analyze the benchmark risk-sharing model, but allow for the possibility that idiosyncratic shocks can...
Benjamin Guedj (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Toulouse: TSE, December 9, 2014, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
Cet exposé compile un certain nombre de résultats issus de mes travaux de doctorat, qui ont essentiellement porté sur deux stratégies d'agrégation d'estimateurs, tant d'un point de vue théorique qu'algorithmique. Dans un premier temps, je présenterai une extension des méthodes issues de la théorie...
Lars Stole (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)
TSE, December 8, 2014, 14:00–15:30, room MS 001
We study influence games in which n principals attempt to influence the choice of a privately-informed agent by offering payment menus (i.e., nonlinear transfer schedules) which promise monetary rewards in exchange for actions by the agent.We provide a simple necessary condition which characterizes...
Bruno Ziliotto (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, December 5, 2014, 14:00–15:15, room MF 323
(joint work with Xavier Venel) In Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP), at each stage, the decision-maker chooses an action, and receives a reward depending on the current state of the world. Then a new state is randomly drawn from a distribution depending on the action and on the...
Sarah Smith (University of Bristol)
Toulouse: IAST, December 5, 2014, 11:30–12:30, room MS001
Elisabeth Wood (Yale University)
Toulouse: TSE, December 5, 2014, 10:00–11:15, room MS001
Patterns of wartime sexual violence differ sharply across insurgencies, militias and state militaries. Whether rape by a particular group is more frequent than that by civilians varies radically across settings. Although rape occurs with high frequency by some groups, it often does so as a practice...
Toulouse: IAST, December 4, 2014, 18:00–20:00, room Amphi Cujas UT1
Why do people participate in political violence as members of insurgencies, paramilitary organizations, and state armies, particularly violence that targets civilians? And why do these organizations differ sharply in the violence they inflict on civilians? Individuals join an armed group for a wide...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
Toulouse: TSE, December 4, 2014, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
In order to induce farmers to adopt agricultural technologies in Malawi, we apply diffusion models of simple and complex contagion on rich social network data from 200 villages in Malawi to identify optimal seed farmers to target and train on the new technologies. A randomized controlled trial...
