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Tommaso M. Valletti (Imperial College London-University of Rome)
TSE, November 18, 2013, 14:00–15:30, room MS003
We consider the impact of a regulatory process forcing an incumbent telecom operator to make its local broadband network available to other companies (local loop unbundling, or LLU). Entrants are then able to upgrade their individual lines and offer Internet services directly to customers....
David Ginsbourger (University of Bern)
Toulouse: TSE, November 15, 2013, 14:00–15:15, room MF 323
Gaussian field models have become commonplace in the design and analysis of costly experiments. Thanks to convenient properties of associated conditional distributions (Gaussianity, interpolation in the case of deterministic responses, etc.), Gaussian field models not only allow predicting black-...
Laurent Simula (Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies & University of Uppsala)
Toulouse: TSE, November 15, 2013, 10:00–11:15, room MF 323
We investigate how potential tax-driven migrations modify the Mirrlees income tax schedule when two countries play Nash. The social objective is the maximin and preferences are quasilinear in income. Individuals differ both in skills and migration costs, which are continuously distributed. We...
Sergio Firpo (São Paulo School of Economics of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation)
Toulouse: TSE, November 14, 2013, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
This paper uses a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rules of the National Secondary Education Examination in Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance, the composition of students in schools, and school observable inputs. We find that test score disclosure...
Toulouse, France, November 14–15, 2013
Mirko Wiederholt
November 14, 2013, room B 230
Toulouse, France, November 13, 2013, room MF 323
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille
Toulouse: TSE, November 12, 2013, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
This paper studies the identification of nonseparable models with continuous, endogenous regressors, also called treatments, using repeated cross sections. We show that several treatment effect parameters are identified under two assumptions on the effect of time, namely a weak stationarity...
James Malcomson (University of Oxford)
Toulouse: TSE, November 12, 2013, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
This paper investigates relational incentive contracts with a continuum of privatelyobserved agent types that are persistent over time. For a sufficiently productive relationship, a full pooling contract exists in which all agent types continuing the relationship choose the same action. When some...
Susanne Foitzik (Gutenberg Universität)
Toulouse: IAST, November 8, 2013, 11:30–12:30, room MS001
Social insect colonies - also called superorganisms - may exhibit personalities, similar to other animals, in which individuals consistently differ in behavior. However, insect societies can not only vary in the mean, but also in the variance of a behavior. Our recent studies on ants demonstrate...
