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Zoom Meeting, du 20 mai, 07h00 au 21 mai 2021, 19h00
Alfredo Di Tillio (Bocconi University)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 mai 2021, 17h00–18h30, Zoom
The main purpose of this paper is to provide a simple criterion enabling to conclude that two agents do not share a common prior. The criterion is simple, as it does not require information about the agents' knowledge and beliefs, but rather only the record of a dialogue between the agents. In each...
Manuel Arellano (CEMFI, Madrid)
TSE, 18 mai 2021, 15h30–16h50, Zoom
In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history, income, and demographics. We document that...
Andreas Fuster (Swiss National Bank)
TSE, 18 mai 2021, 14h00–15h30, Online
Increasing the diversity of policy committees has taken centre stage worldwide. Whereas the equitable and ethical motivations are clear, the economic channels through which more diverse policy committees might be more or less effective are still elusive. In this paper, we design a randomized...
Kai Hao Yang (Yale University)
18 mai 2021, 14h00–15h00, Zoom Meeting
An intermediary has the technology to provide information about a product to consumers and serves as a platform through which transactions between a monopoly and consumers take place. This paper explores the intermediary’s revenue maximization problem across all possible business models. By...
Mariassunta Giannetti ( Stockholm School of Economics)
18 mai 2021, 11h30–12h30, BDF, Paris
Online Event, 18–19 mai 2021
Online, 17 mai 2021, 16h00–18h00
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
Toulouse, 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...
