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Ivana Logar (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 mars 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Existing empirical evidence shows that both contingent valuation and discrete choice experiment (DCE) methods are susceptible to various ordering effects. Despite this, very few studies have analysed attribute ordering effect in DCEs and none of them investigated its potential influence on...
Nolan McCarty (Princeton University)
Toulouse : IAST, 22 mars 2019, 11h30–12h30
Concerns about the systemic consequences of polarization in the US arise from the belief that the Congress is not designed to perform well in highly polarized environments. First, bicameralism and other supermajoritarian institutions make the formation of winning coalitions very difficult even in...
Pierre Yves Crémieux (Analysis Group Inc.)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mars 2019, 17h00–18h00, salle MS 001
Economic consulting is a rather obscure industry that is rarely discuss and whose workings and focus are not generally well understood. In the first part of this session, we will present some thoughts on the industry, what we do as economists and how it differs from other types of employment (e.g...
Michael Carter (University of California - Davis)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mars 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
The Green Revolution bolstered agricultural yields and rural well-being in Asia and Latin America, but bypassed sub-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A temporary subsidy for Mozambican maize farmers...
Jose Antonio Martin Fernandez (Universitat de Girona)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mars 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Compositional Data (CoDa) have been defined historically as random vectors with strictly positive components whose sum is constant (e.g., 100, one, a million). The term CoDa has been expanded to include other units such as mol per liter, microgram per m3, euros, minutes, pieces, animals or tones....
Koen Jochmans (University of Cambridge)
TSE, 19 mars 2019, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
We consider a situation where the distribution of a random variable is being estimated by the empirical distribution of noisy measurements of the random variable. This is common practice in many settings, including the evaluation of teacher value-added and the assessment of firm efficiency through...
Alp Atakan (Queen Mary University)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 mars 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
We study a common-value auction in which a large number of identical, indivisible object are sold to a large number of ex-ante identical bidders with unit demand. There is costly information acquisition or costly entry. We derive the limit price distribution. This allows us to quantify the...
Luigi Paciello (Einaudi)
TSE, 18 mars 2019, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
Around one half of the cyclical changes in US non-durable consumption expenditures comes from changes in the products entering households' consumption basket (the extensive margin). Changes in the basket are mostly due to fluctuations in the rate at which households add new products to their basket...
Jeanine Miklos-Thal (University of Rochester)
TSE, 18 mars 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
This paper analyzes supply tariffs that discriminate between resale in different markets. In a setting with competing retailers that operate in multiple (independent or interdependent) markets, we show that, all else equal, the supplier wants to discriminate against resale in the market with the...
Gur Huberman (Columbia Business School - Columbia University)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 mars 2019, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Although radically different from a traditional payment system, Bitcoin is functional and transmits value over the internet. Having fixed transaction processing capacity, it experiences service delays which motivate users to pay for service priority. These fees fund the computer servers (\miners")...
