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Heidi Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
TSE, October 26, 2012, 14:00–15:30, room MS 003
Patents award innovators a fixed term of market exclusivity. Yet, since in many industries firms file patents at the time of discovery ("invention") rather than first sale ("commercialization"), fixed patent terms can generate variation in effective patent lengths. We present a simple model...
Monique Jeanblanc (Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne)
Toulouse: TSE, October 26, 2012, 13:45–15:00, Toulouse: TSE, room MF 323
Agustín Pérez-Barahona (INRA-AgroParisTech (Economie publique))
Toulouse: TSE, October 26, 2012, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
We build a model to study optimal land use, encompassing land use activi- ties, pollution and climate change. This benchmark set-up allows us to identify the spatial drivers behind the interaction between land use and the environment. Pollution generates local and global damages since it ows...
Michel Loreau (SEEM)
Toulouse: IAST, October 26, 2012, 11:00–12:00, room MF323
André Veiga (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, October 25, 2012, 12:45–14:00, room MF 323
Economic theory makes ambiguous predictions about the effect on product quality of competition, in markets with assymetric information. I present a model that expresses firm incentives to sort users based on product quality in such markets, and relate it to primitives of the distribution of...
Ernst Schaumburg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Toulouse: TSE, October 23, 2012, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
The prediction of multivariate outcomes in a linear regression setting with a large number of potential regressors is a common problem in macroeconomic and financial forecasting. We exploit that the frequently encountered problem of nearly collinear regressors can be addressed using standard...
Sébastien Gadat (Institut Mathématiques de Toulouse)
Toulouse: TSE, October 23, 2012, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
De nombreux problèmes de traitement d'images, en médecine font intervenir des données issues d'une forme commune soumise à une variabilité géométrique et un bruit de mesure. Nous nous intéresserons dans cet exposé au cas le plus simple du modèle de courbe translatée aléatoirement et des estimations...
Andrea Galeotti (University of Essex)
Toulouse: TSE, October 23, 2012, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
In many markets, ranging from markets for agricultural goods in developing countries to financial markets, goods flow via a sequence of intermediated trade before reaching final customers, information is asymmetric, and trading opportunities are incomplete. We study a dynamic model of bargaining in...
Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Toulouse: TSE, October 22, 2012, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
Vikrant Vig
TSE, October 22, 2012, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
We present evidence that shared codes, beliefs, ethnicity --cultural proximity-- be- tween lenders and borrowers improves the efficiency of credit allocation. We identify in-group preferential treatment using dyadic data on the religion and caste of officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and...
