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Timothy Yeung (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, December 19, 2013, 12:45–14:00, room MS 003
This paper explains the adoption of different electoral rules by legal systems. I argue that common law system is intended to protect an individualistic constitution, while civil law system aims at facilitating a more active government. I model the choice of electoral system as a choice of the...
Manufacture des Tabacs, S Building, Toulouse, December 18, 2013, room MS003
Michal Kolesar (University of Princeton)
Toulouse: TSE, December 17, 2013, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
I analyze a Gaussian linear instrumental variables model with a single endogenous regressor in which the number of instruments is large. I use an invariance property of the model and a Bernstein-von Mises type argument to construct an integrated likelihood which by design yields inference...
Francesca Molinari (Cornell University)
Toulouse: TSE, December 17, 2013, 14:00–15:30, room MS001
by Hiroaki Kaido, Francesca Molinari and Joerg Stoye.
Levon Barseghyan (University of Cornell)
Toulouse: TSE, December 16, 2013, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
We present a political economy theory of growth in which the government affects the growth rate both directly through public investments in infrastructure, and indirectly through the effect of taxation on learning by doing. Policy choices are made by a legislature consisting of representatives...
Georgy Chabakauri
TSE, December 16, 2013, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
We consider a general equilibrium Lucas (1978) economy with one consumption good and two heterogeneous Epstein-Zin investors. The output is subject to rare disasters or, more generally, can have non-lognormal distribution with higher cumulants. We demonstrate that the heterogeneity in preferences...
Kristoffer Nimark
December 16, 2013, 11:30–12:30, room Salle 3
Laurent Muller (GAEL - INRA Grenoble)
Toulouse: TSE, December 16, 2013, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
A Framed Field Experiment was implemented in France in order to compare the relative behavioural responses and the induced nutritional effectiveness of seven front-of-pack logo formats: GDA (the science-based generated ‘diet logo’), and six behavioural-based ‘choice logos’ such as keyhole symbol or...
Hervé Cardot (Université de Bourgogne - Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne)
Toulouse: TSE, December 13, 2013, 14:00–15:15, room MF 323
Avec le développement des capteurs automatiques (smart meters, box internet, capteurs de température, ...) il est en de plus en plus fréquent d'avoir à analyser en un temps limité de très grands échantillons de données multidimensionnelles (qui peuvent appartenir à des espaces de très grande...
Peter Karadi
December 13, 2013, 11:00–13:00, room B 230
