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Laura Schechter (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Toulouse: TSE, May 27, 2010, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
While vote-buying is common, most models of elections suggest it should not exist given that politicians and voters cannot credibly commit. We argue that vote-buying is sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation, while not receiving money...
Toulouse, France, May 27–29, 2010
Makoto Watanabe (Universidad Carlos III)
Toulouse: TSE, May 25, 2010, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Martin Ellison
May 25, 2010
Toulouse, France, May 21–22, 2010
Roel Mehlkopf (Tilburg University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 20, 2010, 12:45–14:00, room MF 323
This paper evaluates intergenerational risk-sharing in the context of a pre-funded social security scheme. The central feature of the model is that the welfare costs from labor-market distortions from risk-sharing transfers are explicitly taken into account. Equity risk manifests itself in the form...
Randall Wright (Wisconsin - School of Business)
Toulouse: TSE, May 19, 2010, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
We study banking using mechanism design, without prior assumptions about what banks are, who they are, or what they do. Given preferences, technologies, and frictions — including imperfect commitment, monitoring and collateral — we characterize incentive feasible and efficient allocations, and...
Matthew Adler
Toulouse: TSE, May 19, 2010, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Alberto Abadie (Harvard University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 18, 2010, 15:30–17:00, room MD 004
Matching methods provide simple and intuitive tools for adjusting the distribution of covariates among samples from different populations. Probably because of their transparency and intuitive appeal, matching methods are widely used in evaluation research to estimate treatment effects when all...
Christophe Croux (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Toulouse: TSE, May 18, 2010, 14:00–15:30, room MD 004
Nonparametric correlation measures as the Kendall and Spearman correlation are widely used in the behavioral sciences. These measures are often said to be robust, in the sense of being resistant to outlying observations. In this note we formally study their robustness by means of their influence...
