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Clémentine Galles (Head of MacroSectoral and Macrofinancial Analysis)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 janvier 2017, 17h00–18h30, salle MB II
Toulouse, France, 12–13 janvier 2017
Bert Willems
Toulouse : TSE, 9 janvier 2017, 11h00–12h15, salle MS001
We model the optimal regulation of continuous, irreversible, capacity expansion, where a regulated firm has private information about capacity costs, investments are financed from the firm's cash flows, and demand is stochastic. The optimal mechanism consists can be implemented as revenue tax that...
Sarah Hill (Texas Christian University)
Toulouse : IAST, 16 décembre 2016, 11h30–12h30, salle MF 323
Lorenzo Rotunno (Aix-Marseille School of Economics - GREQAM - Aix-Marseille University)
TSE, 16 décembre 2016, 10h00–11h15, salle MQ 212
This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalization, consumption of unhealthy foods, and the related health outcomes in the case of Mexico. It empirically assesses the role of food imports from the U.S. in explaining the spectacular rise in obesity and changes in other diet-related...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Building S, Toulouse, France : Toulouse School of Economics, 16–17 décembre 2016, salle Auditorium MS001
Reka Juhasz (Princeton University - Columbia University)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 décembre 2016, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
This paper uses a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of temporary trade protection on long-term economic development. I find that regions in the French Empire which became better protected from trade with the British for exogenous reasons during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-15) increased...
Jérémie Bigot (Université de Bordeaux)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 décembre 2016, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 001
The concept of barycenter in the Wasserstein space allows to define a notion of Frechet mean of a set of probability measures. The purpose of this talk is to discuss potential applications of Wasserstein barycenters for characterizing the mean of random histograms or random planar objects, and to...
Marc Bourreau
TSE & IAST, 14 décembre 2016, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Bill Dupor (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 décembre 2016, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 003
In this paper, we estimate the effect of defense spending on the U.S. macroeconomy since World War II. First, we construct a new panel dataset of state-level federal defense contracts. Second, we sum observations across states and, using the resulting time series, estimate the aggregate effect of...
