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Adrien Matray (Princeton University)
Toulouse : TSE, 30 janvier 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 3salle Auditorium 3
We exploit a large increase in the dividend tax rate in France that affected three-quarter of firms to estimate the effect of dividend taxation on corporate policies. Using administrative data covering the universe of firms and employees, we find in a differences-in-differences setting that...
Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, 28 janvier 2020
Anastasia Shchepetova (MAPP economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 24 janvier 2020, 15h30–17h00, salle Auditorium 6
Auditorium 5 à TSE, du 23 janvier, 08h00 au 24 janvier 2020, 18h00, salle Auditorium 5
Gabriel Carroll (Stanford University)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 janvier 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 3
Agents about to engage in economic transactions may take costly actions to influence their own or others' information: costly signaling, information acquisition, hard evidence disclosure, and so forth. We study the problem of optimally designing a mechanism to be robust to all such activities,...
Cristina Caffarra (Charles River Associates)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 janvier 2020, 15h30–17h30, salle Auditorium 5
Ludovic Orlando (AMIS)
Toulouse : IAST, 17 janvier 2020, 11h30–12h30, salle Amphi A3
After more than three decades of research, ancient DNA has now come of age. The complete genome sequence of hundreds of ancient individuals has been characterized and genome-scale datasets are under development using thousands of archaeological remains from both humans and non-human organisms. This...
Koen Jochmans (Cambridge University)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 janvier 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 3
We consider inference in linear regression models that is robust to heteroskedasticity and the presence of many control variables. When the number of control variables increases at the same rate as the sample size the usual heteroskedasticity-robust estimators of the covariance matrix are...
Anne-Laure Delatte
16 janvier 2020, BDF, Paris
Eva Vivalt (Australian National University)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 janvier 2020, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 3
Evidence-based policymaking requires not only evidence, but also for policymakers to update their beliefs based on that evidence. We examine how policymakers, researchers, and development practitioners update in response to results from academic studies, using a unique opportunity to run an...
