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Jonathan Vogel (University of Columbia)
TSE, 18 mai 2015, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
We provide an assignment model to decompose changes in between-group wage inequality into changes in the composition of the workforce, the productivity/demand for tasks, computerization, and labor productivity. The model incorporates comparative advantage between many groups of workers, many types...
Justin Pappas Johnson (Johnson Graduate School of Management - Cornell University)
TSE, 18 mai 2015, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Anna Pavlova (London Business School)
IDEI, 18 mai 2015, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
A sharp increase in the popularity of commodity investing in the past decade has triggered an unprecedented inflow of institutional funds into commodity futures markets, referred to as the financialization of commodities. In this paper, we explore the effects of financialization in a model that...
Carolyn Fisher (RFF)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 mai 2015, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
WTO agreements discipline the use of subsidies, particularly for upstream manufacturing or exports. Unlike tariff rules, the Subsidies Code lacks exceptions for transboundary externalities like human health or resource conservation, including those related to combatting global climate change. Yet...
Delger Enkhbayar (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 mai 2015, 12h45–14h00, salle MS 003
Many individuals often lack knowledge about prominent features in insurance products. We expect well-informed individuals to 1) increase adverse selection by choosing insurance products more suitable to their risk profile and 2) increase ex-post moral hazard by reacting more to higher coverage,...
Christine Thomas-Agnan (Toulouse School of Economics - Gremaq)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 mai 2015, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
The analysis of socio-economic data often implies the combination of data bases originating from different administrative sources so that data have been collected on several different partitions of the zone of interest into administrative units. It is therefore necessary to allocate the data from...
John Quah (University of Oxford)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 mai 2015, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
Consider a finite data set where each observation consists of a bundle of contingent consumption chosen by an agent from a constraint set of such bundles. We develop a general procedure for testing the consistency of this data set with a broad class of models of choice under risk and under...
Anh Le (UNC Chapel Hill)
12 mai 2015
Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, 11 mai 2015, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Mannheim)
TSE, 11 mai 2015, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
We investigate the role of competition on the outcome of Austrian Treasury auctions. EU accession by Austria provides a ``natural experiment'' causing an exogenous increase in the number of bidders in Treasury Auctions. We use structural estimates of bidders' private values to examine the effect of...
