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Benjamin Brooks (University of Chicago)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 mars 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
A Seller can sell a single unit of a good to a group of bidders. The good is costly to produce, and the bidders have a pure common value that may be higher or lower than the production cost. The value is drawn from a prior distribution that is commonly known. The Seller does not know the bidders'...
Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
TSE, 12 mars 2018, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
Jillian Grennan (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business)
TSE, 12 mars 2018, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Market intelligence FinTechs synthesize many data sources, including non-traditional ones, relevant for equity investment recommendations. Using novel data on such FinTechs and investors' internet history, we evaluate their relationship with investors' behavior, traditional information producers,...
Rama Cont (Imperial College London)
9 mars 2018
Claire De Mazancourt (Station d'écologie théorique et expérimentale du CNRS)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 mars 2018, 17h00–18h30, salle MB II
Human activities are currently causing a mass extinction and the resulting biodiversity loss is expected to affect ecosystem services, including agricultural production. Natural habitat destruction and fragmentation results in biodiversity loss occurring with a time delay. Such lagged ecological...
Luigi Siciliani (University of York, UK)
TSE, 8 mars 2018, 14h00–15h15, salle MS 003
Health outcome indicators, such as mortality and readmission rates, are commonly used as indicators of hospital quality and as a basis to design pay-for-performance (P4P) incentive schemes. We propose a model of hospital behaviour under P4P where patients differ in severity and can choose hospital...
Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 mars 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Francisco José Silva - Àlvarez (Université de Limoges)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 mars 2018, 11h00–12h15, salle MS001
In this talk, based on an ongoing work with S. Hadikhanloo (U. Paris-Dauphine), we consider a class of finite state and discrete time Mean Field Games (MFGs) introduced by Gomes, Mohr and Rigao Souza in 2009. In this framework we first study an adaptation of the fictitious play procedure for...
Steve Hamilton (California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo,)
TSE, 8 mars 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
A considerable literature has emerged on the effect of consumer boycotts as an instrument to change the behavior of private economic agents. In this paper, we examine retailer responses to a recent consumer boycott of "microbeads", small, polyethylene particles used in toothpaste, facewash, and...
Gabrielle Demange (Paris School of Economics)
TSE & IAST, 7 mars 2018, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
In a variety of situations, an agent exerts two types of activities that are 'dual'. On an Internet forum for example, an individual can engage in two types of communication, by providing contributions on one hand and by watching the others' contributions and posting a rating, on the other. Most...
