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Willy Lefez ( Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, 28 septembre 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Zoom
Using an information design framework, I study how platforms can affect the pricing decisions of their sellers by using price recommendations. Sellers are too small to take into account their influence on the total mass of buyers visiting the platform in their pricing decisions. By contrast, the...
Jacopo Bregolin (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 28 septembre 2020, 12h30–13h45, salle Zoom
Many online platforms rely on user-generated content and need to incentivize free effort. In this paper, I investigate if users provide more and better quality contributions when endowed with more autonomy over actions. Using a dynamic discrete choice model, I show that control rights have positive...
Cloe Garnache (University of Oslo)
Toulouse : TSE, 28 septembre 2020, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 5 -
Using detailed electricity consumption data for about 15,000 households in Norway, we conduct an RCT to evaluate the impact of interventions aimed at reducing residential electricity consumption during peak load days. The main intervention increases the price of consuming electricity in the...
Edouard Pauwels (IRIT, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier,)
Toulouse : TSE, 24 septembre 2020, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 5 (2°floor)
We are interested in nonsmooth analysis of algorithmic differentiation, a central building block of the learning phase implemented in modern deep learning software librairies, such as Tensorflow or Pytorch. First I will illustrate how blind application of differential calculus to nonsmooth objects...
Daniel Gottlieb (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 septembre 2020, 17h00–18h30, salle Zoom
We study contracts between naive present-biased consumers and risk-neutral firms. Our main result is that the welfare loss from present bias vanishes as the contracting horizon grows. This is true both when the bargaining power is on the consumers’ and on the firms’ side, when consumers cannot...
Bo Honoré (Princeton University)
TSE, 22 septembre 2020, 15h30–17h00, salle Zoom
This paper builds on Bonhomme (2012) to develop a method to systematically construct moment conditions for dynamic panel data logit models with fixed effects. After introducing the moment conditions obtained in this way, we explore their implications for identification and estimation of the model...
Mariacristina De Nardi Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota)
TSE, 22 septembre 2020, 15h00–16h30, salle Zoom
In the United States, both taxes and old age Social Security benefits depend on one's marital statusand tend to discourage the labor supply of the secondary earner. To what extent are these provisionsholding back female labor supply? We estimate a rich life cycle model of labor...
Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse School of Economics)
22 septembre 2020, 14h00–15h00, salle Zoom meeting
Using both economic theory and Artificial Intelligence (AI) pricing algorithms, we investigate the ability of a platform to design its marketplace to promote competition, improve consumer surplus, and even raise its own profits. We allow sellers to use Q-learning algorithms (a common reinforcement-...
Jacopo Bregolin ( Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, 21 septembre 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Zoom
Marie Lambert (University of Liege - HEC Management School)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 septembre 2020, 12h30–13h45, Toulouse, salle Zoom
The amount of non-invested capital in the private equity industry or “dry powder” has raised numerous concerns from public opinion. To obtain insight about the drivers of the dry powder development, we model the investment behavior of a fund sponsor as a function of their expected fees, the latter...
