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Ellen Muir (Harvard University)
Toulouse : TSE, 26 septembre 2022, 14h15–15h00, salle Auditorium 4
We derive the optimal selling mechanism for a seller who offers differentiated products located at opposite ends of the Hotelling line, subject to the agents' incentive compatibility and individual rationality constraints. The agents have linear transportation costs and private information about...
Julius Andersson (Stockholm School of Economics - Stockholm)
Toulouse : TSE, 26 septembre 2022, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 4
We estimate the potential to abate emissions of carbon dioxide through a large scale build out of nuclear energy. On the 6th of March 1974, Pierre Messmer, then Prime Minister of France, announced an ambitious nuclear energy program that became known as the ”Messmer Plan”. The plan aimed to...
Laurent Bach
Toulouse, 23 septembre 2022, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
Using data from Swedish administrative registries, we identify business angels, i.e. individuals repeatedly financing start-ups, and characterize who among the general population eventually becomes a business angel. Angels are overwhelmingly drawn from the top 1% of the wealth distribution and are...
Vincent Anesi (University of Luxembourg)
TSE, 23 septembre 2022, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 5
A group of principals collectively and dynamically screens an agent. The principals hold heterogeneous and evolving values from the relationship. At each date, they use a collective decision rule to determine a joint offer to the agent; the principals may also amend the procedures governing how...
Sixin Zhang (IRIT, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier,)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 septembre 2022, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 5
This talk is about the existence of meaningful Nash equilibrium in an idealized mathematical setting of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The first part introduces GANs from the perspective of likelihood-free density estimation in statistics, and gives an overview of the associated 2-player...
Benjamin Deaner (University College, London)
TSE, 20 septembre 2022, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 4
A recent literature considers causal inference using two vectors of noisy proxies for unobserved confounding factors. In this paper we consider linear models in which the vectors of proxies are potentially high-dimensional and there may be many unobserved confounders. A key insight is that if each...
Gilat Levy (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 septembre 2022, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 3
In this paper we explore the effect of short-term memory on political outcomes in a model in which politics is viewed as a collective learning process. We analyse a dynamic model in which voters use past observations to make inferences about the true data generating process, and political parties...
Kristoffer Nimark (Cornell University)
20 septembre 2022
Supply chain disturbances can lead to substantial increases in production costs. To mitigate these risks, firms may take steps to reduce their reliance on volatile suppliers. We construct a model of endogenous network formation to investigate how these decisions affect the structure of the...
Erin T. Mansur (Tuck School of Business)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 septembre 2022, 14h15–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
Decarbonization will require a completely transformed electricity grid. We analyze a long-run model that captures crucial aspects of the electricity industry such as time-varying demand for electricity, intermittency of renewables, optimal use of storage technologies, and entry and exit of...
Basil Williams
Toulouse, 16 septembre 2022, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
We present a model of dynamic trading with exogenous and strategic cancellation of orders. We define spoofing as the strategic placing and canceling of orders in order to move prices and trade later in the opposite direction. We show that spoofing can occur in equilibrium. Consistent with regulator...
