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Tatsuro Senga (Queen Mary University of London.)
TSE, 5 novembre 2018, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
Using a unique data set of Japanese multinational firms' sales forecasts, we provide new evidence on imperfect information and learning at the firm level in the international market. We document three new facts concerning forecasts and forecast errors (FEs). First, firms make more precise forecasts...
Tobias Salz (Columbia University)
TSE, 5 novembre 2018, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
This paper evaluates the intermediation of auto loans through auto dealers, using new and comprehensive administrative data. The arrangement between dealers and banks might lower the cost of loans for consumers, because dealers typically obtain rate quotes from many more lenders than consumers...
Fahad Saleh (McGill University - Desautels)
TSE, 5 novembre 2018, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchains possess at least two undesirable character- istics: exceptional price volatility and welfare impairment. Exceptional price volatility arises because PoW implements a passive monetary policy that fails to modulate cryptocurrency demand shocks. Welfare impairment...
Sébastien Houde (University of Maryland)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 novembre 2018, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
How consumers perceive different aspects of product cost, such as sales tax, shipping and handling charges, and energy operating expenses among others, have important welfare implications for policy. In this paper, we estimate heterogeneous perceptions of energy costs in the U.S. appliance market...
Benoîte De Saporta (Université de Montpellier)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 octobre 2018, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Le but de cet exposé est de présenter une méthode numérique pour approcher la fonction valeur d'un problème général de contrôle impulsionnel pour les processus de Markov déterministes par morceaux. L'approche est basée sur la discrétisation par quantification optimale d'une chaîne de Markov à temps...
Caterina Calsamiglia (Institute of Political Economy and Governance)
TSE, 23 octobre 2018, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
We model household choice of schools under the Boston mechanism (BM) and develop a new method, applicable to a broad class of mechanisms, to fully solve the choice problem even if it is infeasible via the traditional method. We estimate the joint distribution of household preferences and...
Stefan Baumgärtner (University of Freiburg)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 octobre 2018, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Ecosystem resilience, i.e. an ecosystem's ability to maintain its basic functions and controls under disturbances, is often interpreted as insurance: by decreasing the probability of future drops in the provision of ecosystem services, resilience insures risk-averse ecosystem users against...
19 octobre 2018, salle MS 003
Stephanie Von Hinke Kessler Scholder (University of Bristol)
TSE, 18 octobre 2018, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
This paper exploits the 1972 British compulsory schooling law that raised the minimum school leaving age from 15 to 16 to examine the causal effect of education on the nutritional composition of the diet around middle age. Using a regression discontinuity design, the findings suggest that the...
Luis Aguiar
TSE & IAST, 17 octobre 2018, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
