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Timothy Destefano
TSE & IAST, 15 mars 2017, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Kevin Donovan (University of Notre Dame)
TSE, 15 mars 2017, 09h45–11h00, salle MF 323
We estimate the impact of new infrastructure in rural Nicaraguan villages facing seasonal floods that unpredictably eliminate access to outside markets. We build footbridges designed to eliminate this risk. Identification exploits small engineering requirements that preclude construction in some...
Toulouse : TSE, 15 mars 2017, salle MF323-MF322
Kenza Benhima (University of Lausanne)
TSE, 14 mars 2017, 17h00–18h30, salle MS001
In this paper, we assess theoretically and empirically the consequences of demand misperceptions. To this end, we develop a New Keynesian model with dispersed information where agents receive noisy signals on both supply and demand. Firms and consumers have an asymetric access to information, so...
Stijn Baert (Ghent University)
TSE, 14 mars 2017, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to (start to) climb the job ladder. Based on the literature, it is unclear whether sticky floors result from (i) gender differences in human capital, (ii) preferences at the employee side or (iii) preferences...
Margaret Meyer (University of Oxford)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mars 2017, 11h00–12h30, salle MS001
Given two sets of random variables, how can one determine whether the former variables are more interdependent than the latter? This question is of major importance to economists, for example, in comparing how various policies affect systemic risk or income inequality. Moreover, correlation is ill-...
Jan De Loecker (KU Leuven)
TSE, 13 mars 2017, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Production functions are a central component in a variety of economic analyzes. However, these production functions often first need to be estimated using data on individual production units. There is reason to believe that, more than any other input in the production process, there are severe...
Simon Gervais (Duke University)
TSE, 13 mars 2017, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
We propose a model in which employees differ in both skills and ethics. Employees receive a private, non-verifiable signal about the quality of their projects, and decide whether or not to undertake the project. Ethical employees internalize the overall costs and benefits of a project, whereas...
Régis Breton (Banque de France)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 mars 2017, 12h30–14h00, salle MS003
We develop a model in which financial intermediaries hold near-cash assets to protect themselves from shocks. Depending on parameter values, banks may choose to hold too much or too little cash on aggregate compared to the socially optimal amount. The model, therefore, provides a unified framework...
Nicholas Rawlins (University College Oxford)
Toulouse : IAST, 10 mars 2017, 11h30–12h30, salle MF323
