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Olivier Body (Université Libre de Bruxelles-ECARES)
Toulouse: TSE, October 13, 2011, 12:45–14:00, room MF 323
Dewatripont and Tirole built an economic model about costly interpersonal communication (2005). In this model, a sender tries to persuade a receiver to accept a project. I extend it in 4 separate ways: 1) agents have social preferences; 2) the sender is uncertain about the receiver's social...
Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 13, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
The rural north-western districts of Bangladesh, home to 10 million people, experience a pre-harvest seasonal famine, locally known as Monga, with disturbing regularity. Inspired by the observations that wages are higher, jobs are more plentiful in nearby urban areas than in the monga-prone region...
Philippe Février (LEI-ENSAE)
Toulouse: TSE, October 11, 2011, 15:30–17:00, room Amphi S
This paper unifies and extends several recent nonparametric identification results on auctions, adverse selection or IV regression models by showing that all these models satisfy what we call an induction property. This property states that if the structural function is identified at a given...
Roberto Patuelli (University of Bologna)
Toulouse: TSE, October 11, 2011, 11:00–15:30, room MF 323
Cultural tourism is gaining increasing importance in the modern tourism industry, and represents a significant force of attraction for tourists (both domestic and international). It allows destinations and regions to both expand their customer base – by gaining new clients otherwise interested in...
Emre Ozdenoren (London Business School)
Toulouse: TSE, October 11, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room Amphi S
Pablo Kurlat (Stanford University)
Toulouse: TSE, October 10, 2011, 17:00–18:30, room Amphi S
The Dodd-Frank Act will eliminate the requirement that credit products must be rated before they can be sold to banks and pension funds. Supporters argue that if the information in ratings is valuable, issuers or investors will choose to buy the information, even without the requirement. But free-...
Alexander Ljungqvist (University of New York)
TSE, October 10, 2011, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
We evaluate differences in investment behavior between stock market listed and privately held firms in the U.S. using a rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities compared to observably similar, matched private...
Carlos Noton (Unversity of Warwick)
Toulouse: TSE, October 10, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
We reveal bargaining power between upstream manufacturers and downstream supermarkets using proprietary data on product-specific wholesale and retail prices of the two largest supermarket chains in Chile. We study two dimensions of players’ bargaining power: the share of total profits each earns,...
Evanston, Illinois, October 9–10, 2011
Julio Rotemberg (Harvard Business School)
Toulouse: IAST, October 7, 2011, 15:30–17:00, room MS 003
This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is people’s disproportionate disposition to help those they agree with while the second is the dependence of peoples’ self-esteem on the...
