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Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse : TSE, 4–5 mai 2018, salle MS001
Michelle Sovinsky (University of Mannheim)
TSE, 3 mai 2018, 14h00–15h15, salle MS 001
Finding strategies to bridge the digital divide has been a major goal of public policy over the last decades. Accordingly, multiple demand-side interventions have been implemented to decrease Internet adoption barriers. In this paper, we assess the impact on internet adoption from a pricing subsidy...
Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 3 mai 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
While a large literature has analysed labour supply responses to social insurance program, the corresponding insurance value of these programs is not well known. The challenge has been to assess the insurance value of mandated programs when no choice is allowed for. This paper analyses the value of...
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 (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, 10 avril 2018, 16h15–17h00, salle MS001
Alexandre Cornière (de) (Toulouse School of Economics)
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...
