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Glen Weyl (Harvard University)
Toulouse: TSE, June 17, 2010, 15:30–17:00, room MF 323
Although mutualisms are common in all ecological communities and have played key roles in the diversification of life, our current understanding of the evolution of cooperation applies mostly to social behavior within a species, while mutualism theory has lagged behind. A major question is whether...
Hillel Rapoport (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Toulouse: TSE, June 17, 2010, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
International migration is certainly one of the most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that particular country as well as a positive externality for all those who care about world poverty....
Toulouse: TSE, June 15, 2010, 15:30–17:00, room MC 201
Marschak (1953) suggested that applied research should begin by determining the minimal set of assumptions and data needed to make a prediction of interest. Standard identification analyses correspond poorly to this search, as they have either stringent data (local average treatment effects/IV and...
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Steve Ambler
June 9, 2010
Marc Henry (Université de Montréal)
Toulouse: TSE, June 8, 2010, 15:30–17:00, room MC 201
Models with unobserved heterogeneity, hidden Markov chains, and many other econometric models are based on mixtures of distributions. It seems crucial to have a general approach to identify them nonparametrically. Yet the literature so far only contains isolated examples, applied to specific models...
Guido Lorenzoni (MIT)
Toulouse: TSE, June 7, 2010, 17:00–18:30, room MC201
Ilya Strabulaev
TSE, June 7, 2010, 12:30–14:00, room MC 204
The traditional regression methodology of estimating “optimal” capital structure is profoundly misspecified if firms follow dynamic financial policies. Instead, capital structure researchers, under many reasonable scenarios, should estimate the conditional mode of the leverage distribution. This...
Toulouse: TSE, June 3, 2010, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
A holdout problem arises when a disparately-owned good is desired by a prospective buyer only in its entirety, as in land assembly. Market design is then crucial, as fully respecting property rights of many sellers eventually eliminates all trade. We propose a Concordance principle, inspired by the...
