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Melissa Dell (University of Harvard)
Toulouse: TSE, May 22, 2014, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
This study exploits within-state variation in drought severity to identify how insurgency during the Mexican Revolution, a major early 20th century armed conflict, impacted subsequent government policies and long-run economic development. Using a novel municipal-level dataset on revolutionary...
Manufacture des Tabacs, S Building, Toulouse, France, May 22–23, 2014
Bryan Graham (University of California, Berkeley)
Toulouse: TSE, May 20, 2014, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
Timothy Armstrong (Yale University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 20, 2014, 14:00–15:15, room MF 323
Jennifer La'O (University of Columbia)
Toulouse: TSE, May 19, 2014, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
I construct a dynamic economy in which agents are interconnected: the output produced by one agent is the consumption good of another. I show that this economy can generate recessions which resemble traffic jams. At the micro level, each individual agent waits for his own income to increase before...
Johannes Van Biesebroeck (University of Leuven)
TSE, May 19, 2014, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
We analyze strategic trade policy within a WTO compliant framework. Countries are assumed to select an FTA partner by comparing the domestic welfare implications of each potential agreement. First, we evaluate theoretically the features of import demand and domestic supply that can produce...
Stefan Nagel
IDEI, May 19, 2014, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
Near-money assets are money substitutes for storing liquidity. As a consequence, the liquidity premium of near-money assets is tied to the opportunity cost of holding money. When money does not bear interest, this opportunity cost is given by the level of short-term interest rates. The time-series...
Werner Antweiler (University of British Columbia)
Toulouse: TSE, May 19, 2014, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
This paper develops an economic theory of cross-border two-way trade in electricity in which regulated electric utilities engage in profitable trading opportunities when they have sufficient reserve capacity. Electricity demand is stochastic. Twoway trade emerges in similarity to models of ‘...
Benjamin Klaus
May 19, 2014, BDF, Paris
Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 16, 2014, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
Graphs and Networks seem to be everywhere nowadays. Naturally, statisticians and mathematicians have introduced a host of models to work with this kind of data. One surprise: Even simple models lead to intractable estimation and testing problems. In joint work with Sourav Chatterjee, we have...
