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Abdelaati Daouia (Toulouse School of Economics - Research - UT Capitole)
Toulouse : TSE, 3 mai 2018, 11h00–12h15, salle MC 204
Quantiles and expectiles of a distribution are found to be useful descriptors of its tail in the same way as the median and mean are related to its central behavior. This paper considers a valuable alternative class to expectiles, called extremiles, which parallels the class of quantiles and...
Mikhaël Chernov
2 mai 2018
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France : TSE, 26–27 avril 2018, salle MS002-MS003
Aart Gerritsen (Erasmus School of Economics, Netherlands)
TSE, 19 avril 2018, 10h30–12h00, salle MS 003
We analyze the redistributional (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets without imposing assumptions on the (in)efficiency of labor rationing. Compared to a distributionally equivalent tax change, a minimum-wage increase raises involuntary unemployment,...
12–13 avril 2018, salle MS 002 - MS 001
Jean Tirole (TSE)
TSE, 10 avril 2018, 16h15–17h00, salle MS001
Alexandre Cornière (de) (TSE)
TSE, 10 avril 2018, 15h30–16h15, salle MS001
The growing influence of internet platforms acting as content aggregators is one of the most important challenges facing the media industry. We develop a simple model to understand the impact of content bundling by a social platform. In our model consumers can access news either directly through a...
Guillaume Cheikbossian (TSE)
TSE, 10 avril 2018, 14h15–15h00, salle MS001
We revisit the group size paradox in a simple model where two groups of different sizes compete for a prize exhibiting a varying degree of rivalry and where group effort is given by a CES function of individual efforts. We show that the larger group can be more successful than the smaller group if...
Jihyun Kim (TSE)
TSE, 10 avril 2018, 13h30–14h15, salle MS001
Nowadays, a common practice to forecast integrated variance is to do simple OLS auto-regressions of the observed realized variance data. However, non-parametric estimates of the tail index of this realized variance process reveal that its second moment is possibly unbounded. In this case, the...
Daniel L. Chen (TSE & IAST)
TSE, 10 avril 2018, 11h15–12h00, salle MS001
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the law and economics movement on the U.S. judiciary using the available universe of opinions in U.S. Circuit Courts and 1 million District Court criminal sentencing decisions linked to judge identity. We estimate the effect of...
