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Valerio Capraro (Middlesex University London)
15 octobre 2020, 11h00–12h30, salle Zoom
We report three pre-registered studies (total N=1,799) exploring the effect of nudging personal and injunctive norms in decisions that involve a trade-off between objective equality and efficiency. The first two studies provide evidence that: (i) nudging the personal norm has a similar effect as...
Dylan Possamaï (ETH, Zurich)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 octobre 2020, 11h00–12h15, salle Zoom
This paper provides a complete review of the continuous–time optimal contracting problem introduced by Sannikov [2008], in the extended context allowing for possibly different discount rates of both parties. A Golden Parachute is a situation where the agent ceases any effort at some positive...
15–16 octobre 2020
Online, 15 octobre 2020
Leonardo Madio (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE & IAST, 14 octobre 2020, 12h30–13h30, Zoom Meeting
Sales of counterfeits in online marketplaces have received large attention from both press and policy makers in recent years. We study an online marketplace platform’s choice between restricting entry to brand owners only and allowing entry of imitators (including counterfeits), how that choice...
Alex Wolitzky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 octobre 2020, 17h00–18h30, salle Zoom
Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University)
TSE, 13 octobre 2020, 15h31–17h00, salle Zoom
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvardcase, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated....
Ethan Ilzetzki (London School of Economics)
TSE, 13 octobre 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Zoom
Elise Gourier (ESSEC)
13 octobre 2020, BDF, Paris
Philippe Choné (ENSAE - CREST Paris)
TSE, 12 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...
