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Vishal Kamat
vol. 34, n° 3, mai 2018, p. 694–703
This paper studies the validity of nonparametric tests used in the regression discontinuity design. The null hypothesis of interest is that the average treatment effect at the threshold in the so-called sharp design equals a pre-specified value. We first show that, under assumptions used in the...
Meredith Fowlie (UC Berkeley)
17–18 mai 2018, salle MS 001
Antoine Dechezlepretre (London School of Economics, OECD)
Reed Walker (UC Berkeley)
Mar Reguant (Northwestern University)
Kenneth Gillingham (Yale University)
Christian Gollier et Miles S. Kimball
n° 18-909, avril 2018
The Diffidence Theorem, together with complementary tools, can aid in illuminating a broad set of questions about how to mathematically characterize the set of utility functions with specified economic properties. This paper establishes the technique and illustrates its application to many...
Michel Simioni, Christine Thomas-Agnan et Thi-Huong Trinh
n° 18-910, avril 2018
Vietnam is undergoing a nutritional transition like many middle-income countries. This paper proposes to highlight the socio-demographic drivers of this transition over the period 2004-2014. We implement a method of decomposition of between-year differences in economic outcomes recently proposed in...
Catherine Bobtcheff, Claude Crampes et Yassine Lefouili
n° 18-911, avril 2018
This note examines how an exogenous industry-wide demand shock, such as the one resulting from the use of governmental subsidies, affects the exclusionary potential of learning-by-doing. We develop a two-period duopoly model in which an increase in a firm's first-period output leads to a decrease...
Doh-Shin Jeon
n° 18-912, avril 2018
The success of news aggregators has generated a heated debate about whether news aggregators steal traffic from newspapers or increase traffic to newspapers. This survey article provides an overview of recent articles on news aggregators. After providing a simple theoretical framework, I first...
