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Sabrine Bair
16 avril 2021, 03h30–16h30, Online
Does market information enable African farmers to value their products better? To answer this question, we run an RCT in Burkina Faso, focusing on sesame producers: an important cash-crop production. We consider two types of treatment. The first provides information on prices estimated at the...
Online, 15 avril 2021, 13h30–17h00
Yohann De Castro (Ecole Central de Lyon)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 avril 2021, 11h00–12h15, Zoom
This paper investigates the statistical estimation of a discrete mixing measure µº involved in a kernel mixture model. Using some recent advances in l1-regularization over the space of measures, we introduce a “data fitting and regularization” convex program for estimating µº in a grid-less manner...
Armin Falk (Bonn University)
15 avril 2021, 11h00–12h30, salle Zoom
We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of selfreports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the model...
Hakan Ozyilmaz (UCSB)
14 avril 2021, 17h00–18h00, Online
This paper studies the sources of suboptimal allocations observed in credit card repayments using a diagnostic laboratory experiment. We find that optimization ability and limited attention are jointly insufficient to explain the puzzle. Moving beyond existing results, we find that the inherent...
Greg Taylor (University of Oxford)
TSE & IAST, 14 avril 2021, 12h30–13h30, Zoom Meeting
Cyber-attacks are a pervasive threat in the digital economy, with the potential to harm rms and their customers. Larger rms constitute more valuable targets to hackers, thereby creating negative network effects. These can be mitigated by investments in security, which play both a deterrent and a...
Sinem Hidir (University of Warwick)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 avril 2021, 17h00–18h30, Zoom
In many economic settings it is optimal to endow individuals with high abilities, ratherthan those with low abilities, with decision-making power. Yet there is rich empirical evidence showing that many of those in charge of decisions are not necessarily the most talented. We offer a novel rationale...
Alexander Torgovitsky (Chicago University)
TSE, 13 avril 2021, 15h30–16h50, Zoom
Paper 1 :Empirical researchers often combine multiple instrumental variables (IVs) for a single treatment using two-stage least squares (2SLS). When treatment effects are heterogeneous, a common justification for including multiple IVs is that the 2SLS estimand can be given a causal interpretation...
Ansgar Walther (Imperial College London)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 avril 2021, 12h30–13h30, salle Zoom
This paper studies financial and monetary policy in environments in which equity investors and creditors may have distorted beliefs. We characterize conditions under which it is optimal to tighten or relax leverage caps in response to arbitrary changes in beliefs. The optimal policy response to...
Charles Pébereau (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 avril 2021, 11h00–12h15, Online
We study the introduction of real-time electricity pricing in New Zealand and find evidence that its complexity is a barrier to its widespread adoption. Under this tariff, consumers face half-hourly varying spot prices, which are uncertain and volatile. Contemporaneous spot prices significantly...
