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Pascal Cardonnel (Court of Justice of the European Union)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 octobre 2017, 15h30–17h30, salle MF 323
Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing”. And yet, their decisions contribute to shaping the law. To illustrate how the litigation process works and affects the development of competition law, this presentation will preview the Court of Justice of the European Union docket...
Ian Armit (Bradford University)
Toulouse : IAST, 20 octobre 2017, 11h30–12h30, salle MF323
In Iron Age Europe, the severed human head carried symbolic associations with power, fertility, status and gender. Evidence ranges from classical literary references to iconography and skeletal remains. Traditionally, this was associated with a Celtic “head-cult,”. This lecture explores instead how...
Paris, 20 octobre 2017, salle Auditorium
Tomaso Duso (Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung - Berlin)
TSE, 19 octobre 2017, 14h00–15h15, salle MS 003
We use an original dataset on Dutch supermarkets to assess the effect of a merger that was conditionally approved by the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) on prices and on the depth of assortment. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger's effects. We...
Laurent Miclo (Université Paul Sabatier - IMT - TSE)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 octobre 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS001
Consider a deck of N cards that is shuffled in the following way: take the card at the top and put it at a uniformly random position in the deck. For how long this procedure must be repeated in order to mix the deck? Aldous et Diaconis (1986) gave a simple answer to this question by resorting to a...
Melanie Morten (Stanford University)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 octobre 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Paper is joint with Costas Meghir, Mushfiq Mubarak, and Corina Mommaerts We investigate the relationship between seasonal migration and informal risk sharing in rural Bangladesh. We use data from a randomized controlled trial which provided incentives for households to migrate (Bryan et al., 2014...
Modibo Sidibé (Duke University)
TSE, 17 octobre 2017, 15h30–16h50, salle MS 001
We build a dynamic model of migration where, in addition to classical mobility costs, workers face informational frictions that decrease their ability to compete for distant job opportunities. We structurally estimate the model on a matched employer-employee panel dataset describing labor market...
John Cochrane (Stanford University)
TSE, 16 octobre 2017, 17h00–18h30, salle MS001
The long period of quiet inflation at near-zero interest rates, with large quantitative easing, suggests that core monetary doctrines are wrong. It suggests that inflation can be stable and determinate at the zero bound, and by extension under passive policy including a nominal interest rate peg,...
Martin O'Connell (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
TSE, 16 octobre 2017, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. Their effectiveness depends on whether they successfully target those whose overconsumption is the highest. We assess the impact of soda taxes using novel longitudinal data on purchases on-the-go allowing for multidimensional heterogeneity and...
Solomon Hsiang (Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 octobre 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
We develop an empirical approach to value changes to a climate in terms of total market output given optimal factor allocations in general equilibrium. Our approach accounts for unobservable heterogeneity across locations as well as the costs and benefits of adaptation in climates of arbitrary...
