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Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 mai 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
We investigate models of cheap talk, information disclosure, and Bayesian persuasion, in a unified experimental framework. Our umbrella design permits the analysis of models that share the same structure regarding preferences and information, but differ in two dimensions: the rules governing...
Vili Lehdonvirta (Oxford Internet Institute)
TSE & IAST, 15 mai 2019, 12h30–13h30, MS003, salle MS003
Rosa Matzkin (University of California - Los Angeles)
TSE, 14 mai 2019, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 003
Emil Temnyalov (University of Technology Sydney)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mai 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
I study differential treatment policies, such as affirmative action in school assignment, university admissions, labor market hiring, and promotions within organizations. I consider an assignment model where a policy-maker assigns agents to different positions or treatments, to maximize surplus....
Rudiger Bachmann (University of Notre Dame)
14 mai 2019, BDF Paris
What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as measured by loan-to-value (LTV) ratios? Using a structural VAR, we nd that GDP and business investment increase following an expansionary LTV shock. Residential investment, by...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France : TSE, 14 mai 2019
Kyungmin Kim (University of Miami)
TSE, 13 mai 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
We consider an oligopoly model in which each firm chooses not only its price but also its advertising strategy regarding how much product information to provide. Unlike most previous studies, we impose no structural restriction on feasible advertising content, that is, each firm is endowed with...
Claudia Custodio (Imperial College London)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 mai 2019, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
A randomized controlled trial (RCT) with medium and large companies in Mozambique identifies a positive treatment effect of an executive education programme in finance for top managers on financial policies and firm profitability. Using survey data as well as financial accounting data, we find that...
Jacquelyn Pless (University of Oxford)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 mai 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
We formalize pass-through over-shifting as a simple yet under-utilized test for market power. We apply this test in the market for solar energy. Specifically, we estimate the pass-through of solar subsidies to solar system prices using rich micro-level transaction and subsidy data from California....
Clément Imbert (University of Warwick)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 mai 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
This paper provides causal empirical evidence that rural-urban migration lowers urban rm productivity in developing countries. We use longitudinal data on Chinese manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2006, and exploit exogenous variation in rural-urban migration due to agricultural price shocks...
