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Online, 17 mai 2021, 16h00
Luis Cabral (New York University - Stern)
TSE, 17 mai 2021, 14h00–15h30, Online
The growth of Amazon and other online retailers questions the survival of brick-and-mortar retail. We show that, in response to the online trend, offline retailers optimally follow a specialization strategy, in particular specialization in narrow niches. This may lead to an offline long tail that...
Ulf Von Lilienfeld-Toal (University of Luxembourg)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 mai 2021, 12h30–13h30, salle Zoom
House prices have increased faster than average income in many countries over the last decade, raising concerns on the affordability of housing. We study the impact of transaction taxes on the real estate market and the effectiveness of tax subsidies to make housing more affordable. We show how the...
Andreas Gerster (Mannheim University)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 mai 2021, 11h00–12h15, Online
Access to morally relevant information could lead to behavioral change, but only if individuals attend to such information. We investigate this issue in the context of food choices, where the consumption of meat from intensive farming negatively affects animal welfare. Based on a pre-registered...
Huan Tang (London School of Economics)
TSE & IAST, 12 mai 2021, 12h30–13h30, Zoom Meeting
This paper studies the value of privacy, for individuals, using data from large-scale field experiments that vary disclosure requirements for loan applicants and loan terms on an online peer-to-peer lending platform in China. I find that loan applicants attach positive value to personal data: Lower...
Benny Moldovanu (Bonn University)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 mai 2021, 17h00–18h30, Online
We study how parliaments and committees select one out of several alternatives when options cannot be ordered along a \left-right" axis. Which voting agendas are used in practice, and how should they be designed? We assume preferences are single-peaked on a tree and study convex agendas where, at...
Uta Schönberg (University College London)
TSE, 11 mai 2021, 15h30–16h50, Online
Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she has had a child? To what extent might the culture of her present social environment shape maternal labor supply? To address these questions, we exploit the setting of German reunification. A state socialist...
Florin Bilbiie (University of Lausanne)
TSE, 11 mai 2021, 14h00–15h30, Online
THANK is a tractable heterogeneous-agent New-Keynesian model that captures analytically key micro-heterogeneity channels of quantitative-HANK: cyclical inequality; idiosyncratic risk and selfinsurance, precautionary saving; and realistic propensities-to-consume. I use it for a full-fledged New-...
11–12 mai 2021
Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard University)
TSE, 10 mai 2021, 14h00–15h30, Zoom
We explore efficiency and optimal policy in decentralized transport markets, such as taxis, trucks and bulk shipping. We show that in these markets, search frictions distort the transportation network and the dynamic allocation of carriers over space. We identify the sources of externalities,...
