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TSE, Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, 24–25 septembre 2015, salle MF 323
Venky Venkateswaran (NYU Stern)
TSE, 22 septembre 2015, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
We develop a tractable framework for analyzing adverse selection economies with imperfect competition. In our environment, uninformed buyers offer a general menu of screening contracts to privately informed sellers. Some sellers receive offers from multiple buyers while others receive offers from...
Konrad Menzel (New York University)
TSE, 22 septembre 2015, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
We consider a random utility model of strategic network formation, where we derive a tractable approximation to the distribution of network links using many-player asymptotics. Our framework assumes that agents have heterogeneous tastes over links, and allows for anonymous and non-anonymous...
Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics)
22 septembre 2015
Jimmy Roberts (Duke)
TSE, 21 septembre 2015, 14h00–15h30, salle MF323
The one-shot nature of most theoretical models of strategic investment, especially those based on asymmetric information, limits our ability to test whether they can fit the data. We develop a dynamic version of the classic Milgrom and Roberts (1982) model of limit pricing, where a monopolist...
Francesco Franzoni (Lugano)
TSE, 21 septembre 2015, 12h30–14h00, salle MF323
Due to their exceptional liquidity, ETFs are likely to be a catalyst for noise traders. This noise can propagate to the underlying securities through the arbitrage channel. Therefore, we explore whether ETFs increase the non-fundamental volatility of the securities in their baskets. We exploit...
Claire Galez-Davis
TSE, 21 septembre 2015, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Mare Sarr (University of Cape Town)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 septembre 2015, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003.
History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behavior significantly over time (like Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe) as well as dictators who displayed remarkable improvements (like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana). We show that such mutations can result from rational behavior when the dictator’s...
Rebecca Sear (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Toulouse : IAST, 18 septembre 2015, 11h30–12h30, salle MS001
Davide Dragone (University of Bologna)
TSE, 18 septembre 2015, 11h00–12h15, salle MS003
Non-separable intertemporal preferences and “novelty consumption” can explain the persistentcorrelation between economic development and obesity. Employing the German reunification as afast motion natural experiment of economic development, we study how the sudden availability ofnovel food products...
