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Toulouse, 6–7 juin 2019
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, 6–7 juin 2019, salle MS 001
Dimitri Vayanos
4 juin 2019, BDF Paris
Rui Silva (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 3 juin 2019, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
We study the effect of initial public offerings (IPOs) on the human capital of firms. We document that going public has a significant impact on the employee composition of firms. Access to public equity markets increases the level of skill and professionalism of the workforce. Post-IPO, firms...
Magalie Delmas (University of California - Los Angeles)
Toulouse : TSE, 3 juin 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
We evaluate 2010-2015 multiple residential energy efficiency subsidy programs using more than 11 million households’ electricity billing records in Southern California. We find that these programs reduce overall electricity usage by 4 percent. However, there are significant differences in their...
Alejandrina Cristia (EHESS, CNRS)
Toulouse : IAST, 31 mai 2019, 11h30–12h30
Language is such an ubiquitous feature in human societies that one may think it is trivially easy to learn. However, this is clearly not true for anyone who has actually tried to learn a language in adulthood, or to design artificial agents who can process language. There is something in the...
Northwestern University, du 31 mai au 1 juin 2019
Andrew Ellis (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 28 mai 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
The alternatives' payoffs in a choice problem are determined by the interaction of several distinct variables. I propose and axiomatize a model of a decision maker (DM) who recognizes that she may not accurately perceive the correlation between these variables, and who takes this into account when...
Harold Cole (Penn State University;Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
28 mai 2019, BDF Paris
Giacomo Calzolari (European University Institute)
TSE, 27 mai 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001salle MS 001
Pricing algorithms are increasingly replacing human decision making in real marketplaces. To inform the competition policy debate on possible consequences, we run experiments with pricing algorithms powered by Artificial Intelligence in controlled environments (computer simulations). In particular...
