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Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago)
Toulouse : TSE, 3 décembre 2019, 16h00–17h30, salle MB 1
Toulouse, 3 décembre 2019
Joao Montez (HEC Lausanne)
TSE, 2 décembre 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle A1
We study the incentives for a monopoly incumbent to reach an early entry agreement that allows a generic to enter just before its patent expires, and its consumer and social welfare effects. In our model entry by more than one entrant is unprofitable. In the absence of an agreement, the entry game...
Nathan Yang (McGill University)
TSE & IAST, 29 novembre 2019, 12h30–13h30, salle MH 002
Under the context of digital health, I explore the potential opportunity costs associated with giving customers a sense of success. Using large-scale data from a popular mobile fitness application, I show that many users who enjoy certain past successes (e.g., daily goal achievement) need not...
Maria Racionero (Australian National University)
TSE, 29 novembre 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle TJ.305
We explore the effects of parental leave entitlements for mothers and fathers on wages and unemployment. To do so we include two types of workers, males and females, who compete for the same jobs, in a labour search and matching model with parental leave. We show that increases in leave duration...
Manufacture des Tabacs, 29 novembre 2019, salle Amphi MB4
Ernesto Mordecki (Universidad de la República, Montevideo,)
Toulouse : TSE, 28 novembre 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle T2.403
Considering a real-valued diffusion, a real-valued reward function and a positive discount rate, we provide an algorithm to solve the optimal stopping problem consisting in finding the optimal expected discounted reward and the optimal stopping time at which it is attained. Our ap- proach is based...
Joan Llull (MOVE-Universty Autonoma de Barcelona- Barcelona GSE)
TSE, 26 novembre 2019, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 2
While immigration of unskilled workers often generates controversy in the political arena, there is often more consensus in favor of selective immigration policies. This paper studies the effects of selective immigration policies on the labor market. High skilled immigration introduces two...
Luca Gambetti (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
TSE, 26 novembre 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle MC 203
We put forward the idea that news and uncertainty are closely connected. More specifically, news about future events, whose effects are not perfectly predictable, generate uncertainty. The combination of news and uncertainty makes the effects of news shocks nonlinear. We propose a simple procedure...
