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André Veiga (Imperial College London)
TSE & IAST, 9 juin 2021, 12h30–13h30, Zoom Meeting
We conduct an experiment where subjects read online news articles and are shown ads for brands next to those articles. Using eye-tracking technology, we measure the attention that each individual devotes to each article and ad. Then, respondents choose between cash or vouchers for the brands...
Olivier Wang (NYU)
TSE, 8 juin 2021, 14h00–15h30, salle Zoom
We study time-consistent bank resolution mechanisms. When interventionsare ex post efficient, a government cannot commit not to inject capital into thebanking system. Contrary to common wisdom, however, we show that the gov-ernment may still be able to implement the first best allocation because it...
Linda Schilling (Ecole Polytechnique)
8 juin 2021, 11h30–12h30, BDF, Paris
Song Ma
Toulouse, 7 juin 2021, 15h00–16h00, salle Zoom
Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics)
3 juin 2021, 11h00–12h30, Online
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western Euro?pean economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Renato Gomes
Online, 3–4 juin 2021
Philipp Kircher (European University Institute)
Toulouse : TSE, 1 juin 2021, 14h00–15h30, Online
This paper investigates the importance of the age composition in the Covid-19 pandemic. We augment a standard SIR epidemiological model with individual choices on work and non-work social distancing. Infected individuals are initially uncertain unless they are tested. We find that older individuals...
Arun Sundararajan (New York University)
1 juin 2021, 14h00–15h00, Zoom Meeting
We report experimental and quasi-experimental evidence from a “sharing economy” marketplace that transitioned from decentralized to centralized pricing. Centralized pricing increased the utilization of providers’ assets, resulting in higher revenues but also higher transaction costs. Barred from...
Mishel Ghassibe
1 juin 2021, BDF, Paris
I develop a tractable sticky-price model, where input-output linkages are formed endogenously through firms' optimizing decisions. My model delivers cyclical properties of networks that are consistent with those I estimate using aggregate, sectoral and rm-level data, both unconditionally and...
Juan Pablo Atal (University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, 31 mai 2021, 14h00–15h30, Online
Quality regulation attempts to ensure quality and to foster price competition by reducing vertical differentiation, but may also have unintended consequences through its effects on market structure. We study this trade-off in the context of pharmaceutical bioequivalence, which is the primary...
