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Enrico Perotti
TSE, May 17, 2010, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may share...
Franz Wirl
Toulouse: TSE, May 17, 2010, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
This paper considers a familiar dynamic tragedy of the commons (‘global warming’) and investigates whether and by how much green polluters can mitigate such tragedies. Green consumers feel penalized (‘pain’) for any consumption in excess of the social optimum, which can arise e.g., from Kant’s...
Toulouse, France, May 17–18, 2010
Lorenzo Burlon (University Autonoma Barcelona)
Toulouse: TSE, May 12, 2010, 12:45–14:00, room MD 004
In this paper we analyze the connection between the distribution of public spending across professions and economic growth. We present a general equilibrium model of overlapping generations with profession- Specific human capital accumulation. The distribution of public resources across professions...
Isabelle M. Perrigne
Toulouse: TSE, May 11, 2010, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
We study the identification of an insurance model with multidimensional screening, where insurees are characterized by risk and risk aversion. The model is solved using the concept of certainty equivalence under constant absolute risk aversion and an unspecified joint distriubtion of risk and risk...
Reto Foellmi (University of Berne and CEPR)
Toulouse: TSE, May 10, 2010, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
We study a model of endogenous growth where firms invest both in product and process innovations. Product innovations (that open up completely new product lines) satisfy the advanced wants of the rich. Subsequent process innovations (that decrease costs per unit of quality) transform the luxurious...
Julie Subervie (INRA UMR MOISA Montpellier)
Toulouse: TSE, May 10, 2010, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Post-reform markets in commodity-exporting countries in Africa and Latin America are generally characterized by the withdrawal of government organizations from commodity marketing, the emergence of new private agents operating as traders and exporters, and farmers' participation in the newly-...
Evanston, USA: Northwestern University, May 7–8, 2010
Ernesto Reuben (Columbia University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 6, 2010, 15:30–17:00, room MF 323
In this paper we study whether expectation biases can be responsible for discrimination against women in hiring decisions and what mechanisms exacerbate or mitigate this phenomenon. We study an experimental market in which, in spite of equal performance across genders, individuals discriminate...
Benjamin Dwayne (University of Toronto)
Toulouse: TSE, May 6, 2010, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Between 2003 and 2007, under the auspices of Programs 132 and 134, the government of Vietnam transferred approximately 21,000 Hectares of land to 43,000 minority households in the Central Highlands region. The programs specified relatively sharp eligibility criteria: Households with less than one...
