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Catarina Roseta Palma (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
Toulouse : TSE, 27 mai 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Increasing efficiency in resource use is a commonly accepted aim. It creates the possibility of solving the economic problem of scarce resource allocation in a way that generates more income and, potentially, increases welfare. However, it has long been clear that higher levels of efficiency in the...
Christos Genakos (University of Cambridge)
24 mai 2019, 15h30–17h30, TSE, salle MF 323
We measure how pass-through varies with competition in isolated oligopolistic markets. Using daily pricing data from gas stations, we study how unexpected and exogenous changes in excise duties (different across different petroleum products) is passed-through to retail prices on islands with...
Magalie Fromont (Université Rennes 2)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 mai 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle MC 201
Nous nous intéressons ici à la question de l’évaluation théorique des procédures de tests multiples. Si de nombreux critères d’évaluation liés à l’erreur de première espèce ont été définis dans la littérature des tests multiples, essentiellement à partir du critère historique qu’est le Family-Wise...
Christopher Woodruff (University of Oxford)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 mai 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Well-functioning courts are essential for upholding the rule of law and underpinning markets. Using data from Mexico’s largest labor court, we document delays, overconfidence, and low settlement rates. In this context we conduct an experiment, providing personalized outcome predictions and...
Volker Nocke (Mannheim University)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 mai 2019, 09h30–11h00, salle MF 323
We study the extent to which a collective reputation negates the benefits from pooling reputations across different markets. Modelling reputation in an infinitely repeated hidden action game with imperfect monitoring, we show that pooling reputations is beneficial when reputation is not collective...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, 23–24 mai 2019
Sridhar MOORTHY (Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto)
TSE & IAST, 22 mai 2019, 12h30–13h30, MS003, salle MS003
James Powell (University of California, Berkeley)
TSE, 21 mai 2019, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
In this forthcoming working paper we consider nonparametric estimation of density and conditional expectation functions for dyadic random variables, i.e., random variables defined for all pairs of individuals/nodes in a network of size N. These random variables are assumed to satisfy a “local...
Juan Ortner (Boston University)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mai 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
We document a novel bidding pattern observed in procurement auctions from Japan: winning bids tend to be isolated. This bidding pattern is suspicious in the following sense: it is inconsistent with competitive behavior under arbitrary infor- mation structures. Building on this observation, we...
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...
