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Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, 12–13 juin 2015
Abdelaati Daouia (Toulouse School of Economics - Gremaq)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 juin 2015, 14h00–00h00, salle MF 323
Quantiles and expectiles of a distribution are found to be useful descriptors of its tail in the same way as the median and mean are related to its central behavior. This paper considers a valuable alternative class to expectiles, called extremiles, which parallels the class of quantiles and...
9–10 juin 2015
Xavier Gabaix (NYU, CEPR and NBER)
TSE, 8 juin 2015, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
This paper develops a theory of optimal taxation with behavioral agents. We use a general behavioral framework that encompasses a wide range of behavioral biases such as misperceptions, internalities and mental accounting. We revisit the three pillars of optimal taxation: Ramsey (linear commodity...
Julie Subervie (INRA)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 juin 2015, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) are a central component of the environmental policy of the European Union. Despite widespread interest and investment in AESs, few of these programs have been carefully evaluated and doubts are often expressed about the effectiveness of voluntary programs. The...
Andrea Macrina (University College London)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 juin 2015, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
We consider the filtering problem of estimating a hidden random variable X by noisy observations. The noisy observation process is given by a randomised Markov bridge (RMB) of which terminal value is set to X. That is, at the terminal time T, the noise of the bridge process vanishes and the hidden...
Pierre-Yves Geoffard (Paris School of Economics)
TSE, 5 juin 2015, 11h00–12h15, salle MF 323
My talk will address the link between the health of children and the socio-economic conditions of their parents. A better analysis of the health gradient among children, and of its potential causes, is important for our understanding of the complex relationships between health, income, and...
Manufacture des Tabacs, S Building, Toulouse, France, 4–5 juin 2015
Paris, 4 juin 2015
Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton University)
TSE, 1 juin 2015, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
How strong are strategic complementarities in price setting across firms? Are these strategic complementarities important in shaping the response of domestic prices to international shocks? In this paper, we provide a direct empirical estimate of firms’ price responses to changes in prices of their...
