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Melanie Xue (Northwestern University)
Toulouse : IAST, 30 mars 2018, 11h30–12h30, salle MD103
Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. This vast expressive body, studied by the corresponding discipline of folklore, has evaded the attention of economists. In this study we do four things that...
Davy Paindaveine (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Toulouse : TSE, 29 mars 2018, 11h00–12h15, salle MF 323
We propose halfspace depth concepts for scatter, concentration and shape matrices. For scatter matrices, our concept is similar to those from Chen, Gao and Ren (2017) and Zhang (2002). Rather than focusing, as in these earlier works, on deepest scatter matrices, we thoroughly investigate the...
Maria Polyakova (Stanford University)
29 mars 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
TSE, Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, 29–30 mars 2018, salle MS001-MS002-MS003
Daniel Coublucq (Economist, European Commission)
Toulouse : TSE, 28 mars 2018, 17h00–18h30, salle MB II
The European Commission's Directorate General for Competition often relies on quantitative economic techniques in its review of complex mergers (UPP analysis, merger simulation, direct estimation of past entry events or mergers, analysis of tender data, analysis of patent data). This analysis is...
Martin Watzinger (University of Munich)
TSE & IAST, 28 mars 2018, 12h30–13h30, salle MS 003
Is compulsory licensing an effective antitrust remedy to increase innovation? To answer this question, we analyze the 1956 consent decree which settled an antitrust lawsuit against Bell, a vertically integrated monopolist charged with foreclosing the telecommunications equipment market. Bell was...
Zsofia Barany (SciencesPo - Paris)
TSE, 27 mars 2018, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
To study the drivers of the employment reallocation across sectors and occupations between 1960 and 2010 in the US we propose a model where technology evolves at the sector-occupation cell level. This framework allows us to quantify the bias of technology across sectors and across occupations. We...
Daniel Hauser (Aalto University)
Toulouse : TSE, 27 mars 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
We explore model misspecification in an observational learning framework. Individuals learn from private and public signals and the actions of others. An agent’s type specifies her model of the world. Misspecified types have incorrect beliefs about the signal distribution, how other agents draw...
Yair Antler (University of Essex)
TSE, 26 mars 2018, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
A scheme organizer designs a pyramid scam in order to exploit agents who rely on a simplified model of the world. We find necessary and sufficient conditions on the agents' tendency to spread information by word-of-mouth under which he is able to do so. Further, we show that in order to sustain a...
Irina Zviadadze (Stockholm School of Economics)
TSE, 26 mars 2018, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Return predictability reveals economic variables that drive expected returns. Alternative economictheories relate fluctuations in predictive variables to different sources of risk. I develop an empiricalapproach that exploits these observations and measures how economically interpretable...
