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Philippe Mueller (LSE)
24 mars 2015
Luigi Paciello (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance and CEPR)
TSE, 23 mars 2015, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
We provide new evidence of the relationship between firm pricing and customer dynamics. We build and quantify a model where firms choose prices taking into account their effect on the evolution of their customer base, and customers face frictions to reallocate to other firms. The model accounts for...
Katja Seim (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
TSE, 23 mars 2015, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
This paper empirically investigates the add-on or \drip" pricing behavior of firms in the Portuguese market for driving instruction. We present a model in which consumers purchase a base and, with some probability, an add-on product from the same firm, but are not always aware of the possible need...
Clemens Otto (HEC Paris)
TSE, 23 mars 2015, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
How do conflicts between different creditors affect debt contract terms? We study this question by examining the effect of dispersion in firms' existing debt structures on the use of covenants in new corporate loans. We find that more covenants are included when firms' existing debt is more...
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues (University of Toronto)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 mars 2015, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
The deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon slowed down recently. Part of the recent slowdown may be explained by increased monitoring efforts that took place in the past 10 years. A particularly important change occurred in 2008. In that year, the Brazilian federal government issued a list of...
Sebastien Gerchinovitz (Université Paul Sabatier - IMT)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 mars 2015, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
We consider the problem of online nonparametric regression with arbitrary deterministic sequences. Using ideas from the chaining technique, we design an algorithm that achieves a Dudley-type regret bound similar to the one obtained in a non-constructive fashion by Rakhlin and Sridharan (2014). Our...
Vincent Réquillart (Toulouse School of Economics - Gremaq)
TSE, 20 mars 2015, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
Up to now, most nutritional policies have been set up to inform consumers about the health benefits induced by more balanced diets. Reviews of the impacts of these policies show that the effects are often modest. This has led governments to implement, in more recent times, policies focused on the...
Alisha Holland (Harvard University)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 mars 2015, 10h00–11h15, salle MS 001
Conventional wisdom is that poor voters in Latin America have amorphous electoral interests that lead them to sell their votes, support anti-establishment politicians, or swing between parties. This paper argues that the urban informal sector poor have a coherent material interest in...
Toulouse, France, 20 mars 2015, 09h00–18h30, salle MS 001
Bartosz Redlicki (Cambridge University)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 mars 2015, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
We study strategic transmission of information about an issue which is not easily verifiable, such as climate change, in a population consisting of two types of agents. A single agent is targeted and learns the true state of the world. Information about the state of the world is then diffused in a...
