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Mengxi Zhang (Bonn University)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 novembre 2020, 17h00–18h30, salle Zoom
We derive the revenue maximizing mechanism for a risk-neutral seller who faces Yaari's [1987] dual risk-averse bidders. The optimal mechanism oers \full- insurance" in the sense that each agent's utility is independent of other agents' reports. The seller excludes less types than under risk...
Andrews Donald (University of Yale)
TSE, 10 novembre 2020, 15h30–17h00, salle Zoom
Standard tests and confidence sets in the moment inequality literature are not robust to model misspecification in the sense that they exhibit spurious precision when the identified set is empty.This paper introduces tests and confidence sets that provide correct asymptotic inference for a pseudo-...
Nir Jaimovich (University of Zurich)
TSE, 10 novembre 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Zoom
Unemployed individuals face pecuniary search costs when looking for a job. A the same time, it is well documented that unemployed face binding liquidity constraints. We develop a quantitative incomplete markets search-and-matching model featuring such search costs and employ it as a policy...
Michael McMahon (Oxford)
10 novembre 2020, BDF Paris
Simona Abis (Columbia University)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 novembre 2020, 15h00–16h15, salle Zoom
Hsin-Tieng Tiffany Tsai (National University of Singapore)
TSE, 9 novembre 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Zoom
We study the effect of Amazon's dual role, as a marketplace and retailer, on product recommendations. We find that products sold by Amazon receive substantially more ``Frequently Bought Together” recommendations across product categories and popularity deciles. To establish causality, we exploit...
Karine Nyborg (University of Oslo)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 novembre 2020, 11h00–12h30, salle Zoom
Actively choosing to learn tends to involve market failure: if the new knowledge is not shared with everyone else, learning produces asymmetric information; if the new knowledge is welfare relevant and shared with everyone, learning essentially amounts to private provision of a public good,...
Alipio Ferreira (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, 6 novembre 2020, 11h00–12h30, salle Zoom
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen sharply since the early 2000s. Better enforcement of environmental law is believed to play a major role in this success story, and the literature provides support to this theory. Deforestation is one of the greatest culprits of carbon emissions in...
Kurt Mitman (IIES, Stockholm University)
6 novembre 2020, BDF Paris, salle 14h30 - 15h30
Floriane Fesquet (EDF)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 novembre 2020, 17h00–18h00, salle Auditorium 3
