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Shota Ichihashi (Bank of Canada)
6 avril 2021, 14h00–15h00, Zoom Meeting
We study competition for consumer attention in which platforms choose the addictiveness of their services. A more addictive platform yields consumers a lower utility of participation but a higher marginal utility of allocating attention. The impact of competition depends on the scarcity of...
Cédric Lemaire (Orange)
2 avril 2021, 17h00–18h30, Online
Harish Natarajan (World Bank)
Raúl Morales Resendiz (CEMLA )
Marek Kapicka (CERGE-EI)
TSE, 2 avril 2021, 11h00–12h15, salle Zoom
This paper studies how labor income taxation interacts with the organization of knowledge and production, and ultimately the distribution of wages in the economy. A more progressive tax system reduces the time that managers allocate to work. This makes the organization of production less efficient...
Franck Ball (University of Nottingham)
Toulouse : TSE, 1 avril 2021, 11h00–12h15, Online
Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics)
1 avril 2021, 11h00–12h15, Zoom
Does identity—one's concept of self—influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on the effect of caste identity on labor supply. In a field experiment, casual laborers belonging to different castes choose whether to take up various real job...
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...
