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Toulouse, France, 17–18 mars 2016
Rodrigo Montes
TSE & IAST, 16 mars 2016, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 mars 2016, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
This paper uses a unique data set from the first regional schools in colonial Benin to document and measure intergenerational mobility and its effect on risk aversion, work ethics, mental health and life outlook. The study covers the first generation of students and their unschooled counterparts...
Manufacture des tabacs, Toulouse, France, 16–17 mars 2016
Ufuk Akcigit (University of Chicago)
TSE, 15 mars 2016, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
Firm dynamics in poor countries show striking differences to those of rich countries. While few firms indeed experience growth as they age, most firms are simply stagnant in that they neither exit nor expand. We interpret this fact as a lack of selection, whereby producers with little growth...
Brendan Beare (University of California - San Diego)
TSE, 15 mars 2016, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
Françoise Forges
Toulouse : TSE, 15 mars 2016, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
We investigate to which extent the players of a one-shot Bayesian non-cooperative game can agree on a committed joint decision (namely, sign a “contract”) after having exchanged information through cheap talk. The main differences with previous approaches to contracts in Bayesian games (e.g.,...
Eric Mengus (HEC Paris)
15 mars 2016
Myrto Kalouptsidi (Princeton University)
TSE, 14 mars 2016, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Jean Noel Barrot (MIT Sloan School of Management)
TSE, 14 mars 2016, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
We study a fall in financing constraints for small businesses following the US Federal Quickpay reform of 2011 and estimate its effect on firm-level employment. The reform accelerated payments for a subset of small business contractors to the US government, leading to a large positive cash flow...
