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César Hidalgo (Center for Collective Learning, Artificial and Natural Intelligence Institute (ANITI), University of Toulouse)
TSE & IAST, 31 mars 2021, 12h30–13h30, Zoom Meeting
How would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fails? Would you react differently to acts of discrimination performed by a machine or a human? How about public surveillance? How Humans Judge Machines compares people’s reactions to actions performed by...
Gabriel Carroll (Stanford University)
Toulouse : TSE, 30 mars 2021, 17h00–18h30, Zoom
Consider a repeated interaction where it is unknown which of various stage games will be played each period. This framework captures the logic of intertemporal incentives even though numeric payos to any strategy prole are indeterminate. A natural solution concept is ex post perfect equilibrium (...
Marine Carrasco (University of Montreal)
TSE, 30 mars 2021, 15h30–16h50, Online
This paper proposes a new overidentifying restrictions test in a linear model when the number of instruments (possibly weak) may be smaller or larger than the sample size n or even innite in a heteroskedastic framework. The proposed J test combines two techniques: the Jackknife method and the...
Online, 29 mars 2021, 17h00–18h00
José Luis Moraga-Gonzalez (University of Amsterdam)
TSE, 29 mars 2021, 14h00–15h30, Zoom
This paper studies mergers in markets where firms invest in a portfolio of research projects of different profitability and social value. The investment of a firm in one project imposes both a negative business-stealing and a positive business-giving externality on the rival firms. We show that...
François Libois (INRAE;Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques)
Toulouse : TSE, 29 mars 2021, 11h00–12h15, Zoom
Environmental drivers of migration attract more and more attention. This article focuses on the effect of fish stock depletion on migration in Africa and uses a novel dataset on fishing intensity (Kroodsma et al., 2018). Based on a panel of the 37 African countries with access to the sea over the...
Ana Sofia Rodrigues (Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC) – Portuguese Competition Authority)
Toulouse : TSE, 26 mars 2021, 15h30–17h30, salle Online
Johanna Ziegel (University of Bern)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 mars 2021, 11h00–12h15, Zoom
A Distributional (Single) Index Model (DIM) is a semi-parametric model for dis-tributional regression, that is, estimation of conditional distributions given covariates.The method is a combination of classical single index models for the estimation of theconditional mean of a response given...
Clément Imbert (University of Warwick)
25 mars 2021, 11h00–12h30, Zoom
Anti-poverty programs affect not only beneficiaries, but also the entire economy, through spillover effects which are often difficult to identify and quantify. This paper evaluates an urban public works program, Ethiopia's UPNSP, which provides employment on local infrastructure projects to poor...
Marina Halac
23 mars 2021, 17h00, BDF, Paris, salle Online
We study rules based on instruments vs. targets. Our application is a New Keynesian economy where the central bank has non-contractible information about aggregate demand shocks and cannot commit to policy. Incentives are provided to the central bank via punishment which is socially costly....
