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Sumudu Kankanamge (Toulouse School of Economics-GREMAQ)
Toulouse: TSE, September 14, 2009, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
This paper assesses the long-run optimal level of public debt in a non Ricardian framework with aggregate fluctuations. Households are subject to aggregate and idiosyncratic risk, face borrowing constraints and the incompleteness of markets prevents them from perfectly insuring against risk. We...
Emily Oster (University of Chicago and NBER)
Toulouse: TSE, September 10, 2009, 11:00–12:30, room MF323
We estimate the role of benefits and peer effects in technology Adoption using data from randomized distribution of menstrual cups in Nepal. Using individual randomization, we estimate causal effects of peer exposure on adoption; using differences in potential returns we estimate effects of...
Toulouse, France, September 10–11, 2009
Alejandra Cabaña (Universidad de Valladolid)
Toulouse: TSE, September 8, 2009, 15:30–16:30, room MF 323
We present a test of fit for the hypothesis that a time series comes form an AR(p) process, specially sensitive to alternative models AR(p+1), or ARMA(p,1). The testing procedure can be viewed as a particular example of a more general inferential procedure based on the study of certain random...
Jesse Shapiro (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Toulouse: TSE, September 8, 2009, 11:00–12:30, room MF323
We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate effects on political participation, party vote shares, and electoral competitiveness. Our identification strategy exploits the precise timing of these events and allows for the possibility of confounding...
Paris, France, July 8, 2009
Rosemarie Nagel (UPF-ICREA)
Toulouse: TSE, July 2, 2009, 15:30–17:00, room MF 323
Neuroscientists and economists have recently begun to study jointly how strategic thinking regulates human individual and social behavior. The question we are addressing is whether the neural systems mediating decisions in individual and social context are distinct. More precisely, we are trying to...
Elena Panova (CIRANO, CIRPÉE and Department of Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal)
Toulouse: TSE, June 29, 2009, 17:00–18:30, room MF 323
This paper investigates the consequences of campaign talk for elections and public policy. We build a model with successive elections in which candidates for office give campaign promises without a commitment fulfill them. We find that a candidate's promises signal her policy intentions, but they...
Jean Tirole
Toulouse: TSE, June 29, 2009, 15:00–16:30, room MC 204
Emmanuel Farhi
June 26, 2009
