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Toulouse, France, 8–9 janvier 2015
Pascal Boyer (Washington University in St. Louis)
Toulouse : IAST, 18 décembre 2014, 15h30–16h30, salle MF323
Institutions in many domains display common features in very different human groups. Explaining these commonalities requires more than economic rationality and historical path-dependence. Specific capacities and preferences in human minds, as a result of evolution by natural selection, make certain...
Luc Bridet (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 décembre 2014, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
Entrepreneurs seeking credit are prone to understating the risks they face and adopt too optimistic a view of their future prospects in order to reduce the anxiety involved with high-stakes, long-term ventures. This tendency exposes them to predatory lending practices that are detrimental in...
Matthieu Bouvard (Mc Gill University)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 décembre 2014, 10h30–12h00, salle MS003
We present a theory in which deficiencies in risk management arise from a coordination failure. Firms choose privately optimal risk management regimes to be competitive in a market with shortlived trading opportunities, but the aggregate outcome can be a constrained inefficient “race to the bottom...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, 17 décembre 2014, 08h00–18h00, salle MS001
Tarek Hassan (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
TSE, 15 décembre 2014, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
During Egypt’s Arab Spring, unprecedented popular mobilization and protests broke down Hosni Mubarak’s government, and ushered in an era of competition between three groups: elites associated with Mubarak’s National Democratic Party (NDP), the military, and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Street...
Nicolas Schutz (University of Mannheim)
TSE, 15 décembre 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
In a globalizing world, the decisions of national merger authorities impose externalities on foreign jurisdictions. In a two-country international trade model with oligopolistic competition, we study the potential conflicts between national merger authorities and provide conditions under which they...
Scott Farrow (University of Maryland, Baltimore)
Toulouse, France, 15–16 décembre 2014
Karine Nyborg (University of Oslo)
Emmanuelle Lavaine (University of Savoie)
