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Cyril Favre-Martinoz (ENSAI - Bruz)
Toulouse : TSE, 4 mai 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 001
L'information géographique (plus précisément les coordonnées géographiques (x,y)) est une information de plus en plus présente dans les bases de données à notre disposition. Celle-ci peut être mobilisée à l'étape de construction du plan de sondage afin d'en améliorer son efficacité. L'idée sous-...
Pol Antràs (Harvard University)
Toulouse : TSE, 4 mai 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
This paper develops a multi-stage general-equilibrium model of global value chains (GVCs). With costly trade, the optimal location of production of a given stage is not only a function of the marginal cost at which that stage can be produced in a given country, but is also shaped by the proximity...
Urs Bergmann
TSE & IAST, 3 mai 2017, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Thibaut Lamadon (University of Chicago)
TSE, 2 mai 2017, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
We propose a framework to estimate earnings distributions and worker and firm unobserved heterogeneity on matched panel data. We introduce two models: a static model that allows for interaction effects between workers and firms, and a dynamic model that allows in addition for Markovian earnings...
William Kovacic (George Washington University and King's College London)
Toulouse : TSE, 28 avril 2017, 15h30–17h30, salle MF323
Russell David Gray (MPI-SHH)
Toulouse : IAST, 28 avril 2017, 11h30–12h30, salle MS 001
Mario Mazzocchi (University of Bologna)
TSE, 28 avril 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
(with Sara Capacci, Olivier Allais, and Celine Bonnet) We evaluate the ex-post effects of the tax on sweetened non-alcoholic drinks introduced in France in January 2012. The evaluation is based on a natural experiment, using household purchase data drawn from home scan consumer data from two French...
Alexey Filatov (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Barcelona GSE)
Toulouse : TSE, 27 avril 2017, 12h45–14h00, salle MS 003
Since the mid-eighties, both labor force participation and hours per worker of seniors in US have been growing steadily after a long period of of decline. This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to estimate a life-cycle model in order to explore the relative importance of factors...
Svetlana Boyarchenko (University of Texas, Austin)
Toulouse : TSE, 27 avril 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 001
Risks related to events that arrive randomly play important role in many real life decisions, and models of learning and experimentation based on twoarmed Poisson bandits addressed several important aspects related to strategic and motivational learning in cases when events arrive at jump times of...
Frank Schillbach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Toulouse : TSE, 27 avril 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
High levels of alcohol consumption are more common among the poor. This fact could have economic consequences beyond mere income effects because alcohol impairs mental processes and decision-making. Since alcohol is thought to induce myopia, this paper tests for impacts on savings behavior and on...
