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Doruk Cetemen (City University, London, UK)
Toulouse: TSE, October 17, 2023, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
Joint with Alessandro Bonatti and Juuso Toikka.
Sebastian Fleitas (University of Leuven)
TSE, October 16, 2023, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
In this paper, we construct a hospital-level panel dataset covering the entire US hospital industry over the period 1996-2018. Using detailed hospital-level expenditure and revenue data, we measure hospital-level markups and document industry-wide increasing markups of about 18 percent. In addition...
Isis Durrmeyer (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, October 16, 2023, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
We develop a structural model to represent individual transportation decisions, the equilibrium road traffic levels, and speeds inside a city. The model is micro-founded and incorporates a high level of heterogeneity: individuals differ in access to transportation modes, values of travel time, and...
Kathryn Fenton (Johnes Day)
Toulouse: TSE, October 13, 2023, 15:30–17:30, room Auditorium 4
Lu Liu (Wharton)
Toulouse: TSE, October 13, 2023, 14:00–15:15, room Auditorium 4
We study the impact of rising mortgage rates on mobility and labor reallocation. Using individual-level credit record data and variation in the timing of mortgage origination, we show that a 1 p.p. decline in mortgage rate deltas (Δr), measured as the difference between the mortgage rate locked in...
Antonella Bancarali (IFS London;University College, London)
October 12, 2023, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Can public expenditures spur local economic activity in low-income regions? We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in municipality budgets in Peru between 2006 and 2018 —driven by the redistribution of natural resource tax revenues among more than 1,600 non-extractive municipalities— to explore...
Kwon Soonwoo (Brown University)
TSE, October 10, 2023, 15:30–16:50, room Auditorium 4
Economists are often interested in the mechanisms by which a particular treatment affects an outcome. This paper develops tests for the "sharp null of full mediation" that the treatment $D$ operates on the outcome $Y$ only through a particular conjectured mechanism (or sets of mechanisms) $M$. A...
Ryan Chahrour (University of Cornell)
TSE, October 10, 2023, 14:00–15:30, room Auditorium 4
In macroeconomic models with dispersed information, agents have an incentive to learn from endogenous variables, requiring them to forecast the forecasts of others. This paper revisits the model of Townsend (1983) to characterize how this mechanism affects the equilibrium dynamics. The first part...
Alex Bloedel (University of California - Los Angeles)
Toulouse: TSE, October 10, 2023, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Incentivizing the acquisition and aggregation of information is a key task of the modern economy (e.g., financial markets). We study the design of optimal mechanisms for this task. A population of rationally inattentive (RI) agents can flexibly learn about a common state of nature, subject to...
Stefan Ambec
October 10–11, 2023, room Auditorium A3
