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Philippe Aghion (Harvard University - Collège de France - London School of Economics)
TSE, 11 septembre 2017, 14h00–15h30, salle MS003
Matthieu Bouvard (Invité TSE 2017-2018 - McGill University)
TSE, 11 septembre 2017, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
We study how a decision maker uses his reputation to simultaneously influence the actions of multiple receivers with heterogenous biases. The reputational payoff is single-peaked around a bliss reputation at which the incentives of the average receiver are perfectly aligned. We evidence two...
Dan Phaneuf's (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 septembre 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
We develop a residential sorting model based on a panel of county-to-county migration flows to estimate the marginal valuation of air pollution. Our approach exploits annual crosssectional variation in migration flows to estimate mean location utilities at the county level, while flexibly...
Jakob Hennig et Milena J Petrova (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE & IAST, 6 septembre 2017, 12h30–13h30, salle MS 003
Reputation systems are a cornerstone of internet commerce: they discipline seller behavior in a setting of one-time, anonymous interactions. When moral hazard is present, reputation systems incentivize sellers to exert effort by creating a link between reviews by past clients and demand by new...
Olivier Deschenes (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Toulouse : TSE, 4 septembre 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
This paper reveals a stark inequality in the effect of ambient temperatures on death in human populations. Using district-level daily weather and annual mortality data from 1957 to 2000, we find that hot days lead to substantial increases in mortality in rural but not urban India. Despite being far...
Frédéric Boissay (Bank of International Settlements)
6 juillet 2017
Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, 5–7 juillet 2017
Haresh Sapra (Imperial College London)
TSE, 3 juillet 2017, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
We develop a model to study the trade-offs between principles-based vs. rules-based standards. By relying on quantifiable evidence, a rules-based standard induces evidence management whereas by relying on management’s professional judgement, a principles-based standard induces abuse of discretion....
Zhijun Chen (Monash University)
TSE & IAST, 28 juin 2017, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Paris, France : Fédération Bancaire Française, 27 juin 2017
