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Toulouse, France, 8 juin 2017, 09h00–10h15, salle MS 001
L’analyse des décisions de justice oppose classiquement le formalisme légal – qui, dans sa forme extrême, considère que les juges ne sont que « la bouche de la loi » – au réalisme légale – caricaturalement résumé par l’assertion selon laquelle la justice est « ce que le juge a mangé au petit...
Paris, France, 8 juin 2017
Emir Kamenica (Chicago Booth School of Business)
Toulouse : TSE, 6 juin 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
When the state space is binary or when only posterior means matter, it is possible to represent any experiment (joint distribution of truth and data) as a convex function. I present three applications of this representation: (i) manipulating posterior means, (ii) determining joint informational...
Atria Mercure Compans Caffarelli, Toulouse, France, 6–7 juin 2017
James M. Sallee (University of California, Berkeley)
Toulouse : TSE, 2 juin 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MF 323
We study the effectiveness and efficiency of air pollution standards for new vehicles, which are among the most important environmental regulation for transportation in the U.S. and most other wealthy countries. These standards regulate air pollutants like hydrocarbons, which we show have very...
James Feigenbaum (Princeton University)
Toulouse : TSE, 1 juin 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MC 202
Do severe economic downturns increase intergenerational economic mobility by breaking links between generations, or do they instead reduce mobility by limiting opportunity for the young? To answer this question, I estimate rates of intergenerational mobility during the Great Depression for...
Manufacture des Tabacs, S Building, Toulouse, France, 1–2 juin 2017
London : French Institute, 1 juin 2017
Antonio Russo
TSE & IAST, 31 mai 2017, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 30 mai 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MS001
Following d’Aspremont and Gérard-Varet (1979) the study of Bayesian incentive compatibility mechanisms has stressed the difficulties caused by the budget balance requirement, but relatively neglected the role of individual rationality constraints Using the techniques introduced by d’Aspremont,...
