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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...
Anastasia Parakhonyak
TSE & IAST, 26 avril 2017, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia)
TSE, 25 avril 2017, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
Raffaella Giacomini (University College London)
TSE, 25 avril 2017, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
Uncertainty about the choice of identifying assumptions is common in causal studies, but is often ignored in empirical practice. This paper considers uncertainty over models that impose different identifying assumptions, which, in general, leads to a mix of point- and set-identified models. We...
Mikhail Drugov (New Economic School, Moscow - Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 avril 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
We derive robust comparative statics for general rank-order tournaments with additive and multiplicative noise. For unimodal distributions of noise, we show that individual equilibrium effort is unimodal in the number of players when it is deterministic. For a stochastic number of players, the...
Bradley Shapiro (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)
TSE, 24 avril 2017, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
The effects of television advertising in the market for health insurance are of distinct interest to both firms and regulators. Regulators are concerned about firms potentially using ads to "cream skim," or attract an advantageous risk pool, as well as the potential for firms to use misinformation...
Adam Zawadowski (Central European University)
TSE, 24 avril 2017, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
We study how competition among investors affects the efficiency of capital allocation and welfare. We develop a novel game of entry with rational inattention in which investors learn about their relative advantage compared to others in a fully flexible way. Competition leads to better, e.g. more...
