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Manufacture des Tabacs, S Building, Toulouse, France, 24–25 mai 2018
Daniel Ershov
TSE & IAST, 23 mai 2018, 12h30–13h30, salle MF323
Firms considering to enter into online markets face significant demand uncertainty. It is not clear what type of product is going to be successful as there are many potential niches. They also face consumer search costs, with consumers most likely finding previously successful products in the...
Matthieu Bouvard (McGill University)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 mai 2018, 14h00–15h30, salle MS001
Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 mai 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
We study robust/adversarial information design in global games of regime change. We show that the optimal policy coordinates all market participants on the same course of action. Importantly, while it removes any \strategic uncertainty," it preserves heterogeneity in \structural uncertainty". When...
Mark Kayser (Hertie School of Governance)
Toulouse : IAST, 18 mai 2018, 11h30–12h30, salle MF 323
The economy influences election outcomes across a broad swath of countries, periods, institutions and contexts. How this comes about is less clear. Employing over 2 million machine-coded articles related to the economy from 32 mainstream newspapers---one left-wing and one right-wing in 16 developed...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, 18–19 mai 2018, salle MS001
Garance Genicot (Georgetown University)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 mai 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
This paper revisits the economic effects of constitutions. We propose a model of governmental resource allocation under political competition and contrast majoritarian and proportional representation systems. We derive predictions regarding the relationship between resource allocation and local...
Léopold Simar (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 mai 2018, 11h00–12h15, salle MC 203
Deterministic nonparametric frontier estimation has been popularized by the use of envelopment estimators in the family of FDH/DEA estimators. Once the efficient frontier has been estimated, the efficiency of each firm is evaluated by gauging its distance to the estimated efficient frontier. The...
17–18 mai 2018, salle MS 001
Elie Tamer (Harvard University)
TSE, 15 mai 2018, 15h30–16h50, salle MS 001
Given a sample of bids from independent auctions, this paper examines the question of inference on auction fundamentals (e.g. valuation distributions, welfare measures) under weak assumptions on information structure. The question is important as it allows us to learn about the valuation...
