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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,...
Jean Edouard Colliard
Toulouse, 10 mai 2021, 12h30–13h30, salle Zoom
How do resolution frameworks affect the private restructuring of distressed banks? We model a distressed bank’s shareholders and creditors negotiating a restructuring given asymmetric information about asset quality and externalities onto the government. This yields negotiation delays used to...
Fanny Henriet ( CNRS;Paris School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 mai 2021, 11h00–12h15, Online
Not all barrels of oil are created equal: their extraction varies in both private cost and carbon intensity. Using a rich micro-dataset on World oil fields and estimates of their carbon intensities and private extraction costs, this paper quantifies the additional emissions and costs from having...
Shalini Unnikrishnan (Boston Consulting Group)
7 mai 2021, 17h00–18h30
