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Ananya Sen (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE & IAST, 4 novembre 2015, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Alexandre Kohlhas (Institute for International Economic Studies - Stockholm)
TSE, 3 novembre 2015, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
I study how to optimally set instrument and disclosure policy in a dispersed information model in which people learn about an unobserved state from economy-wide outcomes. A policy maker can use its information about the state either directly by disclosing it or indirectly through its choice of the...
Victor Lavy (University of Warwick)
TSE, 3 novembre 2015, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
In this paper, we estimate the influence of social networks on students’ educational attainment in school. Specifically, we investigate the impacts and mechanisms of separating from pre-existing social relationships during the transition from elementary to middle school on students' academic...
Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
TSE, 2 novembre 2015, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
We customize the aggregative game approach to oligopoly to study asymmetric media markets. Advertiser, platform, and consumer surplus are tied together by a simple summary statistic. When media are ad-financed and ads are a nuisance to consumers we establish see-saws between consumers and...
Meredith Fowlie (University of California, Berkeley)
Toulouse : TSE, 2 novembre 2015, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
We study default effects in the context of residential electricity pricing program choices. We implement a large-scale randomized control trial in which one treatment group is given the option to opt-in to time-based pricing while another is defauted onto a time-based pricing program but allowed to...
Siège Banque de France, Paris, Toulouse, France, 23 octobre 2015
Juan Carlos Munoz-Mora (Université Libre de Bruxelles - ECARES)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 octobre 2015, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
This paper analyzes the impact of an increase in the armed conflict on agricultural production using the case of the Colombian coffee sector. I exploit a natural experiment in the levels of violence due to the unexpected rupture of the peace dialogues between Colombian Government and FARC in 2002....
Mathieu Rosenbaum (Ecole Polytechnique - Palaiseau)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 octobre 2015, 11h00–12h00, salle MS 003
It has been recently shown that rough volatility models reproduce very well the statistical properties of low frequency financial data. In such models, the volatility process is driven by a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter of order 0.1. The goal of this talk is to explain how such...
James Vickery (New York Fed)
22 octobre 2015, BDF, Paris
Sushant Acharya (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
20 octobre 2015