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Maria Kleshnina ( IAST)
Toulouse : TSE, 7 avril 2022, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 5
Public goods games are frequently used to model strategic aspects of social dilemmas and to understand the evolution of cooperative behaviour among members of a group. While providing a baseline case, a (local) public goods model implies an equal sharing of returns. This appears an unsatisfying...
TSE, 7–8 avril 2022, salle Auditorium 3
Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 avril 2022, 16h00–17h30, Online
We study the optimal design of a queueing system when agents' arrival and servicing are governed by a general Markov process. The designer chooses entry and exit rules for agents, their service priority|or queueing discipline|as well as their information, while ensuring they have incentives to...
Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon University)
TSE, 5 avril 2022, 15h30–17h00, salle Auditorium 4
This is an empirical investigation of data from a large firm that provided information on all job applications, interview selection, offers, acceptances and job spell durations and wages within the firm over a 5 year period. Our analysis of the data shows that African Americans and women engage in...
Yao Cui (Cornell University)
5 avril 2022, 14h00–15h00, Zoom Meeting
Online labor platforms provide freelancers the opportunity to work for clients on a project basis. However, disputes can occur as a result of the platform users' attempts to game the system, disagreement on the work quality or uncertainty of the quality outcomes. Traditionally, the dispute would...
Cars Hommes (University of Amsterdam)
TSE, 5 avril 2022, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
The impact of finite forecasting horizons on price dynamics is examined in a standard infinite-horizon asset-pricing model. Our theoretical results link forecasting horizon inversely to expectational feedback, and predict a positive relationship between expectational feedback and various measures...
Jiekai Zhang (Hanken School of Economics)
TSE, 4 avril 2022, 14h15–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
This paper estimates the welfare effects of advertising regulation on TV. I develop a structural model of demand and supply, in which both the broadcasting content and the amount of advertising are endogenously determined. My results suggest that while the legislation imposes stricter advertising...
Ivan Rudik (Cornell University)
Toulouse : TSE, 4 avril 2022, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 4
Species extinctions and ecological degradation are accelerating to a degree unprecedented in human history. We present causal evidence on the economic drivers of biodiversity loss using a novel panel dataset on the types and quantities of wildlife at thousands of locations across the U.S. from 1960...
Oren Sussman
Toulouse, 1 avril 2022, 10h00–11h30, salle Auditorium 4
The paper decomposes the raw fire sale discount into a quality component, a misallocation component, and a residual liquidity component. We find that distressed airlines under-maintain their fleets and, this quality impairment explains half of the discount. We find no evidence of misallocation to...
Felix Bierbrauer (University of Cologne)
TSE, 1 avril 2022, 10h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 3
We present an analysis of the tax treatment of couples. We first investigate how marriage bonuses and penalties evolved in the US federal income tax since the 1960s. We then develop sufficient statistics for an analysis of Pareto-improving, welfare-improving and political feasible reforms of tax...
