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Stéphane Villeneuve (TSE)
TSE, 23 novembre 2017, 16h15–17h00, salle MS001
Tim Lee (TSE)
TSE, 23 novembre 2017, 15h30–16h15, salle MS001
We analyze the effect of technological change in a novel framework that integrates an economy's skill distribution with its occupational and industrial structure. Individuals become managers or workers based on their managerial vs. worker skills, and workers further sort into a continuum of tasks (...
Milo Bianchi (TSE)
TSE, 23 novembre 2017, 14h15–15h00, salle MS001
We match administrative panel data on portfolio choices with survey data on preferences over ambiguity. We show that ambiguity averse investors bear more risk, due to a lack of diversiÖcation. In particular, they exhibit a form of home bias that leads to higher exposure to the domestic relative to...
Vera Zaporozhets (TSE)
TSE, 23 novembre 2017, 13h30–14h15, salle MS001
We study a simple influence game, in which a single lobby may manipulate the decision of a legislature via monetary offers to one or more legislators. The legislators care both about the social welfare and political contributions. We study how the legislators' preferences and the lobby's...
Andrea Attar (TSE)
TSE, 23 novembre 2017, 11h15–12h00, salle MS001
We show that a necessary and sufficient condition for entry to be unprofitable under adverse selection is that no buyer type be willing to trade at a price above the expected unit cost of serving the types who are as least as eager to trade than her. We provide two applications of this result....
Stéphane Straub (TSE)
TSE, 23 novembre 2017, 10h30–11h15, salle MS001
23 novembre 2017, salle MS001
Mathieu Couttenier (University of Geneva)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 novembre 2017, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
We study empirically how past exposure to conflict in origin countries makes migrants more violent prone in their host country, focusing on asylum seekers in Switzerland. We exploit a novel and unique dataset on all crimes reported in Switzerland by nationalities of perpetrators and victims over...
Nicola Lacey (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : IAST, 17 novembre 2017, 11h30–12h30, salle MF323
Patterns of crime and punishment in the USA greatly magnify corresponding developments in other liberal market economies – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK – faced with similar broad macro-technological transformations, namely the collapse of Fordism in the 1970s and 1980s and the...
Toulouse : IAST, 16 novembre 2017, 18h00–20h00, salle Amphiteater Cujas
