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Sam Asher (The World Bank - Washington)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 novembre 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
More than one billion people worldwide live in rural areas without access to the paved road network. We measure the impacts of India's national rural road construction program using regression discontinuity and data covering every individual and firm in rural India. The main effect of new feeder...
Mathias Staudigl (School of Business and Economics - Maastricht Universtiy.)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 novembre 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MC 203
In view of solving convex optimization problems with noisy gradient input, we analyze the asymptotic behavior of gradient-like flows under stochastic disturbances. Specifically, we focus on the widely studied class of Mirror Descent schemes for convex programs with compact feasible regions, and we...
Manufacture des tabacs, Toulouse, 16–17 novembre 2017, salle MS 003
Tong Wang (University of Edinburgh)
TSE & IAST, 15 novembre 2017, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Knowledge spillovers is regarded as one of the main advantages of the open source community. However, the factors that affects the effectiveness and efficiency remain unexplored. By studying a large dataset covering 13,000,000 open source projects from Github, I document evidence supporting both...
Tang Srisuma (University of Surrey)
TSE, 14 novembre 2017, 15h30–16h50, salle MS 001
We propose a non-sequential search model with a continuum of consumers and a finite number of firms. Both consumers and firms are heterogeneous. Consumers differ in search costs. Firms have private marginal costs of production. We show that an equilibrium price dispersion can arise in this model as...
Dezsö Szalay (University of Bonn)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 novembre 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MF323
A decision-maker needs to reach a decision and is forced to rely on an expert whose interests are imperfectly correlated with her own. The decision-maker may delegate authority of decision-making to the expert or may retain authority and have the expert report back to her. The expert chooses how...
Paris, France, 14 novembre 2017
André Trindade (FGV/EPGE - Escola Brasileira de Economia e Finanças)
TSE, 13 novembre 2017, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
We empirically investigate the welfare implications of intermediaries in oligopolistic markets, where intermediaries offer additional services to differentiate their products from the ones of the manufacturers. Our identification strategy exploits the unique circumstance that, in the outdoors...
Jessica Jeffers (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
TSE, 13 novembre 2017, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
I investigate the impact of restricting labor mobility on two components of growth: en-trepreneurship and capital investment. To identify the mechanism, I combine LinkedIn’sdatabase of employment histories with staggered changes in the enforceability of non-competeagreements that come mostly from...
Mads Greaker (Statistics Norway)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 novembre 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
An innovator may not be able to capture the full social benefit of her innovation. Governments therefore support private R&D through various measures. We compare a market good innovation with an abatement technology innovation with the same potential to increase social surplus. The first-best...
