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Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, 11–13 décembre 2019, salle MS001
Romuald Méango (Max Planck Institute)
TSE, 10 décembre 2019, 15h30–16h50, salle A1 (Level-1)
We derive sharp bounds on the non consumption utility component in an extended Roy model of sector selection. We interpret this non consumption utility component as a compensating wage differential. The bounds are derived under the assumption that potential wages in each sector are (jointly)...
George-Marios Angeletos
TSE, 10 décembre 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle A2
Should a policymaker manage expectations by offering forward guidance in terms of the likelyvalue of a future policy instrument or a target for an equilibrium outcome such as aggregate output?We study how the optimal approach depends on plausible bounds on agents’ depth of knowledgeand...
Paul Heidhues (Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 décembre 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 2
Injecting a single non-classical assumption, that the agent is overconfident about himself, into a bare-bones model of observations about society, we explain key observed patterns in social beliefs, and make a number of additional predictions. First, the agent has self-centered views about...
Ludwig Straub (Harvard University)
10 décembre 2019, BDF Paris
TSE, 9 décembre 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
Scarcity of inputs creates an entry barrier. An efficient allocation of scarce inputs may hinder competition by inadvertently rewarding downstream market power. In the airline industry, at congested airports the number of landing slots is fixed. This creates a trade-off between more competition in...
Vladimir Vladimirov (University of Amsterdam)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 décembre 2019, 12h30–14h00, salle MS001
This paper studies how competition for skilled workers affects workers compensation structure. Compensation structure below executive level matters, because it affects firms financing needs and the risk of worker runs (workers leaving because others are leaving). Yet individual workers only...
Dietrich Earnhart (Departement of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 décembre 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 1
Peer comparisons combine descriptive and injunctive social norm messages to signal appropriate behavior and induce behavioral change. Studies show that peer comparisons encourage pro-environmental consumer behavior in contexts such as energy use, water use, and recycling. However, mechanisms...
Alexandra Alvergne (University of Oxford)
Toulouse : IAST, 6 décembre 2019, 11h30–12h30, salle A1
Contraceptive discontinuation is a major barrier to reducing global unmet needs for family planning, but the reasons why women discontinue contraception are poorly understood. Here we use data from Ethiopia to investigate (i) the magnitude of contraceptive discontinuation in 2005–2011, (ii) how the...
Jing Cai (University of Maryland;Maryland Agricultural Economics)
5 décembre 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle A2
We measure the direct and indirect effects of access to finance using a randomized experiment with 3,100 firms in 78 local markets in China, which created variation in firms’ access to a new loan product both within and across markets. Our estimates imply that: (1) Financial access has large...
