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Ana Maria Santacreu (INSEAD)
Toulouse: TSE, October 5, 2009, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
In the last decade, some countries in Asia and Europe grew much faster than average, and experienced a significant increase in the variety of goods that they import. A well known stylized fact in development is the existence of a positive correlation between trade and growth across countries....
Doh-Shin Jeon
IDEI, October 5, 2009, 12:30–14:00, room MF 323
In this paper, we examine whether there is a natural barrier to entry in the credit rating industry. We consider an infinite horizon model in which each period, an original incumbent faces competition from an entrant randomly selected from a pool of ex ante identical potential entrants. The...
Catarina Goulão (TSE and GREMAQ-INRA)
Toulouse: TSE, October 5, 2009, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
We present an OLG model in which is introduced an externality for chronic noncommunicable diseases (CND). Indeed, the probability of suffering from a chronic disease when old depends on individuals’ parents’ choices and, therefore, on the inherited health capital. In this way we introduce a...
Nicolas Hérault (University of Melbourne)
Toulouse: TSE, October 1, 2009, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
South Africa has rapidly reduced trade barriers since the end of Apartheid, yet agricultural production and exports have remained sluggish. Also, poverty and unemployment have risen and become increasingly concentrated in rural areas. This paper examines the extent to which remaining price...
Eric Gautier (Crest-Insee)
Toulouse: TSE, September 29, 2009, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
This paper considers random coefficients binary choice models. The main goal is to estimate the density of the random coefficients nonparametrically. This is an ill-posed inverse problem characterized by an integral transform. A new density estimator for the random coefficients is developed,...
Vanessa Kuentz (Institut de Mathématiques à l'Université de Bordeaux)
Toulouse: TSE, September 29, 2009, 15:30–16:30, room MF 323
Clustering of variables is studied as a way to arrange variables into homogeneous clusters, thereby organizing data into meaningful structures. Once the variables are clustered into groups such that variables are similar to the other variables belonging to their cluster, the selection of a subset...
Olivier Bochet (University of Bern and Maastricht University)
Toulouse: TSE, September 29, 2009, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
George-Marios Angeletos (MIT)
Toulouse: TSE, September 28, 2009, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
This paper investigates an RBC economy that features dispersed information about the underlying aggregate productivity shocks and, potentially, shocks to tastes or monopoly power. We show how the heterogeneity of information can (i) contribute to significant inertia in the response of macroeconomic...
Georg Kirchsteiger (ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and CEPR)
Toulouse: TSE, September 24, 2009, 15:30–17:00, room MF 323
We study competition among market designers who create new trading platforms, when boundedly rational traders learn to select among them. We ask whether “Walrasian” platforms, leading to market-clearing trading outcomes, will dominate the market in the long run. If several market designers compete...
Sarah Baird (George Washington University)
Toulouse: TSE, September 24, 2009, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
As of 2007, 29 developing countries had some type of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in place, while many others were planning or piloting one. However, the evidence base needed by a government to decide how to design a new CCT program is either limited or nonexistent in several critical...
