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David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, 12 juin 2017, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Individuals often tend to conform to the choices of others in group decisions, compared to choices made in isolation, giving rise to phenomena such as group polarization and the bandwagon effect. We show that this behavior -- which we term the consensus effect -- is equivalent to a well-known...
Lucas Davis (University of California - Berkeley - Haas School of Business)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 juin 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Electricity cannot be cost-effectively stored even for short periods of time. Consequently, wholesale electricity prices vary widely across hours of the day with peak prices frequently exceeding off-peak prices by a factor of ten or more. Most analyses of energy efficiency policies ignore this...
Timothy Beatty (University of California - Davis)
TSE, 9 juin 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
This paper explores bottled water sales before, during, and after tropical cyclones. We focus on bottled water because local, state, and federal guidelines assert that bottled water is an essential emergency preparedness good. We match a panel of supermarket scanner data with tropical storm and...
Takuro Yamashita (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 juin 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 001
We consider a planner's problem of splitting a continuum of agents (e.g., students) with one-dimensional heterogeneous characteristic (e.g., ability) to finitely many groups (e.g., schools) to maximize the planner's objective (e.g., total attainment). Certain constraints may be imposed on the...
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 (University of 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...
