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Toulouse, 9–10 janvier 2020
Hal Varian
Toulouse : TSE, 8 janvier 2020, 17h00–18h00, salle MB 3
Bastien Chabé-Ferret (LISER - Luxembourg Institute for Socio Economic Research)
TSE, 20 décembre 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle T335
Tiziano De Angelis (University of Leeds)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 décembre 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 2
In this talk I will consider two types of Dynkin game with non-standard information structures. The first one is a zero-sum game between two players who observe a geometric Brownian motion but in which the minimiser knows the drift of the process whereas the maximiser doesn't know it. We construct...
Didier Bosque
TSE & IAST, 18 décembre 2019, 12h30–13h30
Chryssi Giannitsarou (Cambridge University)
TSE, 17 décembre 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle A2 (Level-1)
We develop a theoretical framework in order to investigate the link between two recent trends: (i) the rise in cross-country stock market correlations over the past three decades, and (ii) the increase in global foreign direct investment (FDI) positions over the same period. Our objective is...
Philippe Jehiel (University College London;Paris School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 décembre 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle A2 (Level -1)
(with Konrad Mierendorff)
Alp Simsek (MIT)
17 décembre 2019, BDF Paris
Pierre Boyer
TSE, 16 décembre 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle room A2 (level -1)
We study reforms of income tax systems from a political economy perspective. We present a median voter theorem for monotonic tax reforms, i.e. reforms so that the change in the tax burden is a monotonic function of income. We also provide an empirical analysis of tax reforms, with a focus on the US...
Boris Vallee ( Harvard University)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 décembre 2019, 12h30–14h00, salle MS 001
Using novel data on 1,240 credit agreements, we investigate sources of contractual complexity in the leveraged loan market. While negative covenants are widespread, clauses that weaken them are as frequent. We propose simple measures of contractual weakness, which explain the market-wide price...