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Stefan Lamp (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 3 octobre 2016, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Durable purchases require households to forecast future utility flows, which might be subject to behavioral biases such as projection bias, salience and present bias. I test for such biases in a market where exogenous variations in weather can be directly linked to decision utility: the market for...
Gani Aldashev (Free University of Brussel)
Toulouse : IAST, 30 septembre 2016, 11h30–12h30, salle MS001
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Marie Laclau (Paris School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 29 septembre 2016, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 001
We study games between n information designers, each of whom can perform an experiment about a piece of information, the pieces being independent. They aim at persuading a decision maker to take their most preferred action. For such games with discontinuous payoffs, we show that there exists a...
Emmanuel Guerre (Queen Mary, University of London)
TSE, 27 septembre 2016, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
This paper considers a quantile signal framework for first-price auction. Under the independent private value paradigm, a key stability property is that a linear specification for the private value conditional quantile function generates a linear specification for the bids one, from which it can be...
Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi University)
Toulouse : TSE, 27 septembre 2016, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
An evaluator tests an empirical hypothesis based on evidence provided by a researcher who is biased toward acceptance. The researcher constructs the sample by first collecting a pre-sample and then strategically selecting data for the sample. Selected data are not Blackwell comparable to random...
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard University)
IDEI, 26 septembre 2016, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data revisions to decompose the variation in the duration of benefits...
Alain Leroux (Monash University)
Toulouse : TSE, 26 septembre 2016, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
Non-discretionary water consumption is an important component of the ag- gregate demand for water and in the determination of optimal water supply portfolios. To capture these features an intertemporal optimization model is de- veloped to generate an optimal water portfolio, which weights...
Robert Shiller (Yale University)
Toulouse : IAST, 23 septembre 2016, 11h30–12h30, salle MS001
Toulouse : IAST, 22 septembre 2016, 18h00–20h00, salle amphi Cujas
