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Oren Reshef (Washington University in Saint Louis)
12 janvier 2021, 14h00–15h00, Zoom Meeting
The entry of firms into a platform has an ambiguous effect on the profitabil- ity of incumbent firms’ operating on the platform: While entry increases competitive pressure on incumbents, supply-side expansion may attract new consumers—effectively increasing total platform size and presumably...
Online, 7–8 janvier 2021
Chiara Canta (Toulouse Business School)
TSE, 18 décembre 2020, 11h00–12h30, salle Zoom
We study optimal income taxation in a framework where the cost misreporting income is positively correlated with productivity. We show that allowing low-wage types to cheat leads to Pareto-superior outcomes as compared to deterring them, even if audits can be performed costlessly. When there is no...
Jean-Michel Zakoïan (CREST)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 décembre 2020, 11h00–12h15, salle Zoom
Jonathan De Quidt (Stockholm University)
17 décembre 2020, 11h00–12h30, salle Zoom
Market design has increased efficiency in complex reallocation problems in the developed world. Because reallocation may be necessary for development, there is potential for market design to contribute to reducing poverty. A key constraint is that low levels of literacy and numeracy may preclude...
Jean Tirole, Claude Crampes et Christian Gollier
Online, 16 décembre 2020, 17h00
Ozlem Bedre Defolie (ESMT-Berlin)
15 décembre 2020, 14h00–15h00, Zoom Meeting
We provide a canonical and tractable model of a trade platform which enables buyers and sellers to transact and charges commission for hosting third party products. We extend it for “hybrid" platforms (like Amazon), which also resell their own products. The hybrid platform controls both the number...
Michael Weber (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)
15 décembre 2020, 11h30–12h30, BDF Paris, salle Visio
Huan Tang
Toulouse, 14 décembre 2020, 12h30–13h30, salle Zoom
This paper studies the value of privacy, for individuals, using data from large-scale field experiments that vary disclosure requirements for loan applicants and loan terms on an online peer-to-peer lending platform in China. I find that loan applicants attach positive value to personal data: Lower...
Sylvain Chabé-Ferret (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 décembre 2020, 11h00–12h30, salle Zoom
The nitrogen cycle is one of the most perturbed geo-chemical cycles on earth. Human activity, mainly through intensive farming, releases nitrogen by-products such as nitrates and ammonium in the environment where they have wide ranging impacts on human health, biodiversity and climate change. In...
