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Camille Hemet
22 octobre 2020, 11h00–12h30, salle Zoom
How do individuals convicted to incarceration fare in terms of later crime and labor market outcomes compared to those who receive a non-custodial sentence? We answer this question by taking advantage of a Danish reform whereby most offenders tried for a drunk-driving crime were placed on probation...
Ismael Castillo (Sorbonne Université)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 octobre 2020, 11h00–12h15, salle Zoom
This paper affords new insights about Bayesian CART in the context of structured wavelet shrinkage. We show that practically used Bayesian CART priors lead to adaptive rate-minimax posterior concentration in the supremum norm in Gaussian white noise, performing optimally up to a logarithmic factor...
Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University)
TSE, 20 octobre 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Zoom
The rise of information technology and big data analytics has given rise to \the new economy." But are its economics new? This article constructs a classic growth model where firms accumulate data. Data has three key features: 1) Data is a by-product of economic activity; 2) data is information...
Benjamin Leyden (Cornell University)
20 octobre 2020, 14h00–15h00, Zoom meeting
A lack of system-level competition among digital platforms can result in socially inefficientplatform designs and meaningful welfare losses, even independent of active anti-competitivebehavior. To illustrate the social costs that can be incurred in such scenarios, I investigate how...
Harim Kim (University of Mannheim)
TSE, 19 octobre 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Zoom
The U.S. wholesale electricity industry is undergoing a major transformation due to increasing retirements of coal-fired power plants which will be replaced mainly by cheaper and cleaner natural gas generation. This paper shows that such an environmentally desirable transition towards cleaner...
Junyuan Zou (INSEAD)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 octobre 2020, 12h30–13h45, salle Zoom
Contrary to the prediction of the classic adverse selection theory, a more informed trader receives better pricing relative to a less informed trader in over-the-counter nan- cial markets. Dealers aggressively chase informed orders to better position their future quotes and avoid winner's curse in...
Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 octobre 2020, 15h30–17h30, TSE, salle Auditorium 5
Hansel Teo (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, 16 octobre 2020, 11h00–12h30, salle Zoom
This paper adopts the sufficient-statistics approach to obtain a measure of the marginal willingness to pay for long-term care insurance. Theoretically, we extend the standard consumption-based framework to account for the presence of committed consumption goods, that is, goods which face...
Online, 16 octobre 2020
Claire Abbo, Jean Massiani, Matthieu Lapeyre et Magali Antraygues Crossouard
Toulouse : TSE, 15 octobre 2020, 17h00–18h00, salle Zoom meeting & Facebook Live
