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Christoph Weiss (University of Vienna)
Toulouse: TSE, March 28, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room MD 305
The present paper highlights the importance of ‘centrality’ for the determination of firms’ prices. Some products/firms are more influential in determining prices of rival products/firms than others; the influence of an individual product/firm is captured by the concept of ‘centrality’. Our...
Erwin Bulte
Toulouse: TSE, March 28, 2011, 11:00–12:30
Jean François Rault (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale)
Toulouse: TSE, March 25, 2011, 11:15–12:45
Francisco Gonzales (University of Calgary)
Toulouse: TSE, March 25, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
Elodie Alet (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, March 24, 2011, 12:45–14:00, room MF 323
How to motivate academically struggling students? For those tracked in the vocational stream in France, two alternatives paths are competing: full-time vocational training and apprenticeship. Little research has been done on comparing the effectiveness of these two competing templates as ways to...
Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
Toulouse: TSE, March 24, 2011, 12:30–14:00, room MS 003
There is an extensive applied mathematics literature developed for problems in the biological and physical sciences. Our understanding of social science problems from a mathematical standpoint is less developed, but also presents some very interesting problems, especially for young researchers....
John Maluccio (Middlebury College)
Toulouse: TSE, March 24, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Previous studies report that schooling and adult height have significant associations with wages. But schooling and height are imperfect measures of adult cognitive skills (“brains”) and strength (“brawn”); further they are not exogenous. Analysis of rich Guatemalan longitudinal data over 35 years...
Michael Jansson (University of California, Berkeley)
Toulouse: TSE, March 22, 2011, 15:30–17:00, room MF 323
Asymptotic linearity of kernel-based weighted average derivative estimators is established under weak conditions. The bandwidth conditions employed are shown to be necessary in some cases. A bias-corrected version of the estimator is proposed and shown to be asymptotically linear under yet weaker...
Olivier Lopez (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Toulouse: TSE, March 22, 2011, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
Sylvain Chassang (University of Princeton)
Toulouse: TSE, March 22, 2011, 11:00–12:30, room Amphi S
This paper studies a financial agency problem which includes limited liability, moral hazard and adverse selection. The paper develops a robust approach to dynamic contracting based on calibrating the payoffs that would have been delivered by simple benchmark contracts that are attractive but...
