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William Goetzmann (Yale University)
IDEI, September 5, 2011, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
The first global financial bubbles occurred in 1720 in France, Great-Britain and the Netherlands. Explanations for these linked bubbles primarily focus on the irrationality of investor speculation and the corresponding stock price behavior of two large firms: the South Sea Company in Great Britain...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, July 6–8, 2011
Paul Cox (TSE)
Toulouse: TSE, June 30, 2011, 12:45–14:00, room MF 323
In this paper I embed politically motivated media in a political business cycle model where taxes and spending in the provision of two public goods must be set in order to meet a balanced-budget condition, elections are held every other period, and there is technological uncertainty in the...
Theodore Papageorgiou (Penn State University)
Toulouse: TSE, June 27, 2011, 17:00–18:30, room MH 002
This paper studies the interaction between the size of a firm and the labor market outcomes of its workers. In our model, firms are internal labor markets where workers are matched with occupations. The quality of matches is uncertain and learned over time. Larger firms offer more opportunities to...
Toulouse, France, June 27–28, 2011
Paris, France: SCOR-TSE, June 24, 2011
David Pacini (TSE)
Toulouse: TSE, June 23, 2011, 12:45–14:00, room MF 323
We investigate what can learned about the coefficients (β,δ) in the linear projection model Y=Xβ+Z′δ+ε from data consisting of two independent random samples with common variables; the first sample gives information on variables (Y,Z) but not X, while the second sample gives information on (X,Z)...
Christopher Blattman (Yale University)
Toulouse: TSE, June 23, 2011, 11:15–12:30, room MF 323
The idea that economic shocks provoke conflict is perhaps the most widely-cited theories and empirical findings in the study of political instability. In developing countries, commodity prices are a large and arguably exogenous source of income levels and volatility. Hence, if economic shocks...
M. Ghatak
Toulouse: TSE, June 23, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Ford Runge (University of Minnesota)
Toulouse: TSE, June 23, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room Amphi S
