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Ralph Winter (UBC, Sauder)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 novembre 2017, 15h30–17h00, salle MF323
Noam Lupu (Vanderbilt University)
Toulouse : IAST, 10 novembre 2017, 11h30–12h30, salle MS001
Do elected representatives reflect the preferences of the citizens they represent? Recent studies from the U.S. have found that elected representatives tend to be more responsive to the preferences of affluent citizens. But we still know little about why this bias exists. We examine whether a...
Roxana Fernandez (Tilburg University)
TSE, 9 novembre 2017, 14h00–15h15, salle MS 003
Over the last decades, the success of cities has hinged on their ability to become centers of consumption. Encouraging firms to settle and to provide a rich variety of services is therefore central for increasing the liveliness of cities. However, firms consider potential spillover effects...
Prashant Bharadwaj (University of California - San Diego)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 novembre 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
The partition of British India in 1947 resulted in one of the largest and most rapid migrations in human history. This paper examines how areas affected by the partition fare in the long run. Using migrant presence as a proxy for the intensity of the impact of the partition, and district level data...
Karim Lounici (School of Mathematics - Georgia Institute of Technology)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 novembre 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS001
Cosmina Dorobantu (European Commission)
TSE & IAST, 8 novembre 2017, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
We study a natural experiment in the release of a new ad targeting feature onto an online advertising platform. The experiment affects the precision with which advertisers can target the platform's users in certain geographic ad markets. We find evidence that the additional ad targeting precision...
Moritz Lenel (Stanford University)
TSE, 7 novembre 2017, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
I study how quantities of safe bonds affect asset prices and lending volumes in financial markets. In a quantitative model, heterogeneous agents trade securities of different maturity and risk exposure. Risk-tolerant investors issue collateralized bonds to obtain leverage and to insure the risk-...
Isaiah Andrews (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
TSE, 7 novembre 2017, 15h30–16h50, salle MS 001
Some empirical results are more likely to be published than others. Such selective publication leads to biased estimators and distorted inference. This paper proposes two approaches for identifying the conditional probability of publication as a function of a study’s results, the first based on...
Konrad Mierendorff (University College London)
Toulouse : TSE, 7 novembre 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
We consider a dynamic model of information acquisition. Before taking an action, a decision maker may direct her limited attention to collecting different types of evidence that support alternative actions. The optimal policy combines three strategies: (i) immediate action, (ii) a contradictory...
Phillip Haile (Yale University)
TSE, 6 novembre 2017, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
