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Katja Seim (The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, 20 mai 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
We explore the implications of ownership concentration for the recently-concluded incentive auction that re-purposed spectrum from broadcast TV to mobile broadband usage in the U.S. We document significant multi-license ownership of TV stations. We show that in the reverse auction, in which TV...
Artem Neklyudov (University of Lausanne and SFI)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 mai 2019, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
In this paper, we study how the regulator expands production possibilities of the economy by assigning a standard-essential status to patents. Firstly, we show that productivity-enhancing standards tend to adversely affect the endogenous economic growth. This is due to the pace of discovery of new...
Ben Groom (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 mai 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Measures of inequality aversion and pure time preference are elicited in environmental domains using hypothetical decision tasks. Estimates are elicited using comparisons of inequalities across space and time, with gain/loss and past/present contextual framing. Inequality aversion is shown to...
Anne Kandler (Max Planck Institute)
Toulouse : IAST, 17 mai 2019, 11h30–12h30
Understanding how social information is used in human populations is one of the challenges in cultural evolution. Fine-grained individual-level data, detailing who learns from whom, would be most suited to answer this question empirically but this kind of data is difficult to obtain, especially in...
Hôtel Marriot Opéra, Paris, 17 mai 2019, 08h30–12h30
Manufacture des Tabacs - Bat F, Toulouse, France : TSE, 17–18 mai 2019, salle MS001, MS002
Bologna, Italy, 17–18 mai 2019
Jonathan Weigel (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 mai 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
I examine a field experiment randomizing door-to-door tax collection across 431 neighborhoods of a Congolese city. I test the hypothesis that citizens will demand more inclusive governance when they are taxed. As predicted, the campaign increased political participation by 5 percentage points (28...
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
