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Bård Harstad (University of Oslo)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 mars 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Both the market and the regulator have incomplete information regarding products' characteristics, but non-governmental organizations and activists often have expertise or motivation to investigate and acquire new information. Negative signals about a product's environmental externalities, for...
Enrique Andreu (Compass Lexecon)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 mars 2019, 15h30–17h30, Manufacture des Tabacs, salle MF 323
Claudio Morana (University of Milan)
7 mars 2019, BDF Paris
Since their introduction in the mid-1990s, the return per unit of risk or multiple on catastrophe (cat) bonds has steadily declined. This paper investigates whether this pattern is consistent with the historical evolution of natural disaster risk. Assessing the accuracy of cat bond pricing is...
Qiwei Yao (London School of Economics)
TSE, 5 mars 2019, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
We first consider a class of vector autoregressive models with banded coefficient matrices. The setting represents a type of sparse structure for high-dimensional time series, though the implied autocovariance matrices are not banded. The structure is also practically meaningful when the order of...
Ryan Chahrour (Boston College)
26 février 2019, BDF Paris
We propose a model of endogenous, persistent coordination on the international medium of exchange. An asset becomes the dominant medium because it is widely held, and remains widely held because it is dominant. The country issuing the dominant asset is a net debtor, but earns an \exorbitant...
Rajesh Sundaresan (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 février 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
We discuss the implementation and outcome of a 14-month long experiment (Randomized Control Trial, RCT) conducted among 20,000 households (with another 20,000 controls) in a suburb of a large metropolis in Kerala, India to modify electricity consumption of household using consumption feedbacks and...
Catherine Aira (Réalisatrice du film)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 février 2019, 17h00–18h00, salle Amphi F Dauvilier
Le film relate la quête que mènent les universitaires pour déterminer ce qu'il a fait dans notre région, les inspirations qu'il a pu y trouver et ouvre le débat: Adam Smith est-il réellement le père tutélaire du libéralisme économique, tel qu'on le dépeint couramment? Avec entre autres: Alain...
Principat d´Andorra, Andorre, 21–22 février 2019
Jeffrey Campbell (Chicago Fed)
19 février 2019, BDF Paris
We examine forward guidance from the standard New Keynesian economy's Ramsey problem. It makes two instruments available: the path of current and future interest rates, and an \open mouth operation" which selects from the many equilibria consistent with the chosen interest rates. Removing the open...
Francisco Gonzalez-Diaz (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 février 2019, 15h30–17h30, salle MF 323
