Jump to navigation
Josep Antoni Martín-Fernández
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mars 2019, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Compositional Data (CoDa) have been defined historically as random vectors with strictly positive components whose sum is constant (e.g., 100, one, a million). The term CoDa has been expanded to include other units such as mol per liter, microgram per m3, euros, minutes, pieces, animals or tones....
Michael Carter (University of California - Davis)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mars 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
The Green Revolution bolstered agricultural yields and rural well-being in Asia and Latin America, but bypassed sub-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A temporary subsidy for Mozambican maize farmers...
Koen Jochmans (University of Cambridge)
TSE, 19 mars 2019, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
We consider a situation where the distribution of a random variable is being estimated by the empirical distribution of noisy measurements of the random variable. This is common practice in many settings, including the evaluation of teacher value-added and the assessment of firm efficiency through...
Alp Atakan (Queen Mary University)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 mars 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
We study a common-value auction in which a large number of identical, indivisible object are sold to a large number of ex-ante identical bidders with unit demand. There is costly information acquisition or costly entry. We derive the limit price distribution. This allows us to quantify the...
Luigi Paciello (Einaudi)
TSE, 18 mars 2019, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
Around one half of the cyclical changes in US non-durable consumption expenditures comes from changes in the products entering households' consumption basket (the extensive margin). Changes in the basket are mostly due to fluctuations in the rate at which households add new products to their basket...
Jeanine Miklos-Thal (University of Rochester)
TSE, 18 mars 2019, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
This paper analyzes supply tariffs that discriminate between resale in different markets. In a setting with competing retailers that operate in multiple (independent or interdependent) markets, we show that, all else equal, the supplier wants to discriminate against resale in the market with the...
Gur Huberman
Toulouse, 18 mars 2019, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Although radically different from a traditional payment system, Bitcoin is functional and transmits value over the internet. Having fixed transaction processing capacity, it experiences service delays which motivate users to pay for service priority. These fees fund the computer servers (\miners")...
Matthieu Lapeyre (Deloitte)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mars 2019, 17h00–18h00, salle MB4
Banque de France - Paris, 14 mars 2019, 15h30
Mark Koyama (George Mason University)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mars 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
A prominent explanation for Europe’s long history of political fragmentation and China’s tendency towards political unification is the fractured land hypothesis made famous by Diamond (1997a). We build a model to explore the effects of geography on political fragmentation. We find that topography,...
