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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...
Andres Erosa (Universiy of Carlos III de Madrid)
TSE, 6 mars 2018, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
We document a robust negative relationship between the log of mean annual hours in an occupation and the standard deviation of log annual hours within that occupation. We develop a unified model of occupational choice and labor supply that features heterogeneity across occupations in the return to...
Frank Windmeijer (University of Bristol)
TSE, 6 mars 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Jérôme Renault (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 6 mars 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
Matthew Grennan (The Wharton School -The University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, 5 mars 2018, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
Many transactions occur via expert advisors, especially in the healthcare sector, and as such, firms frequently implement strategies to influence these advisors. The efficiency of these interactions is an empirical question. Using data on physician-industry interactions and prescribing behavior...
Bart Lambrecht (Cambridge Judge Business School - University of Cambridge)
TSE, 5 mars 2018, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
We present a continuous-time model in which risk averse managers set a bank's investment, payout, and debt policy, and the exposure of bank assets to economic downturns that follow Poisson arrivals. After a downturn, solvent banks sell assets and repay debt to restore the bank's optimal debt ratio...
Stéphane De Cara (Economie Publique, INRA)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 mars 2018, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 001
Environmental policies often include exemptions for some firms, e.g. the small emitters. This paper explores the implications of such exemptions in the case of an emission tax, and in the presence of monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) costs. We develop an analytical framework capturing...
Yannis Katsoulacos (Athens University of Economics and Business)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 février 2018, 15h30–17h30, salle MF 323
The issue of which legal standard Courts and Competition Authorities(CAs) should adopt, when assessing business conduct that can violate Competition Law, with the exception of hard-core collusion and horizontal mergers, has been hotly debated for many years. While economic theory, using a welfare-...
Jianqing Fan (University of Princeton)
TSE, 20 février 2018, 15h30–16h50, salle MS 001
