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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,...
Charles Bertucci (Université Paris Dauphine-CEREMADE)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mars 2019, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
In this talk, we consider the problem of the modeling of a mean field game (MFG) of optimal stopping. After a basic presentation of the MFG theory, we first investigate a 1 dimensional case to understand the structure of such games. We then present a general framework for such MFG. In particular,...
Toulouse, 14–15 mars 2019
Maiting Zhuang (CNRS, Paris School of Economics, France)
TSE & IAST, 13 mars 2019, 12h30–13h30, Manufacture des Tabacs, salle MS003
