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Denis Fougère (Sciences Po, Paris)
Toulouse: TSE, December 8, 2011, 15:30–17:00, room Amphi MB II
Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both industry and firm levels in France, we document stylized facts on wage stickiness and the impact of wage-setting institutions on wage rigidity. First, the average duration of wages is a little less than one year and around 10 percent of...
Marion Fourcade (Berkeley)
Toulouse: IAST, December 8, 2011, 15:30–17:00, room MS001
How do we attribute a monetary value to non-market goods? This presentation offers a general sociological approach to this question. I argue that a full-blown sociology of economic valuation must solve three problems: the “why,” which refers to the general place of money as a metric for subjective...
Philipp Zahn (CDSE, University of Mannheim)
Toulouse: TSE, December 8, 2011, 12:45–14:00, room Amphi S
Toulouse, France, December 8–9, 2011
Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University)
Toulouse: TSE, December 6, 2011, 15:30–17:00, room Amphi S
We provide a lifecycle framework for comparing the insurance value of disability benefits and the incentive cost. We estimate the risks that individuals face and the parameters governing the disability insurance program using longitudinal US data on consumption, health, disability insurance, and...
Matthieu Vignes (INRA, Auzeville)
Toulouse: TSE, December 6, 2011, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
Modern technologies and especially next generation sequencing facilities are giving a cheaper access to genotype and genomic data measured on the same sample at once. This creates an ideal situation for multifactorial experiments designed to infer gene regulatory networks. The fifth “Dialogue for...
Joseph Harrington (Johns Hopkins University)
Toulouse: TSE, December 6, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room Amphi S
A theory of tacit collusion is developed based on coordination through price leadership and less than full mutual understanding of strategies. It is common knowledge that price increases are to be at least matched but who should lead and at what price is not common knowledge. The steady-state price...
Patrick Bolton
December 6, 2011, BDF, Paris
Mirko Wiederholt (Northwestern University)
Toulouse: TSE, December 5, 2011, 17:00–18:30, room Amphi S
Why were people so unprepared for the global financial crisis, the European debt crisis, and the Fukushima nuclear accident? To address this question, we study a model in which agents make state-contingent plans - think about actions in different contingencies - subject to the constraint that...
Yiquan Gu (University of Liverpool - Management School)
Toulouse: TSE, December 5, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room MS003
Including the entry decision in a Bertrand model with imperfectly informed consumers,we introduce a trade-off at the level of socialwelfare. On the one hand, market transparency is beneficial when the number of firms is exogenously given. On the other, a higher degree of market transparency implies...
