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Toulouse, France, 15–16 décembre 2014
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in applied benefit-cost analysis (BCA). On 15-16 December 2014 the benefit-cost group at the Toulouse School of Economics will organize a two-day workshop to discuss progress and challenges in applied BCA of government policies toward the environment,...
Nicholas Z. Muller (Middlebury College)
Umberto Grandi (Université Toulouse 1, IRIT)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 décembre 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
In this talk I will provide two examples of the research that is being conducted in artificial intelligence, and particularly in the research agenda of computational social choice, on the implementation and analysis of classical problems from social choice theory. In particular, I will focus on the...
Dan-Olof Rooth (Linnaeus University .)
TSE, 12 décembre 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
A large literature in economics has examined the causes and consequences of macroeconomic fluctuations. Given the importance of health human capital for labor market outcomes, an important facet of the literature on consequences of economic fluctuations has examined whether and how events like...
Andy Eggers (University of Oxford)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 décembre 2014, 10h00–11h15, salle MS 001
We develop a theoretical framework and conduct a survey experiment to assess electoral accountability in multiparty plurality contests. Compared to two-party elections, multiparty elections offer voters additional channels with which to respond to incumbent performance, with subtle but potentially...
Petra Moser (University of Stanford)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 décembre 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
This paper exploits variation in the adoption of copyright laws within Italy – as a result of Napoleon’s military campaign – to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure variation in the quantity and quality of creative output, we have collected detailed data on 2,598 operas that...
Manasa Patnam (ENSAE - CREST Paris)
TSE, 9 décembre 2014, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
In this paper we examine conditions under which optimal risk sharing may not fully insure individuals against idiosyncratic shocks to their endowments or income, even when markets are complete. We analyze the benchmark risk-sharing model, but allow for the possibility that idiosyncratic shocks can...
Benjamin Guedj (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 décembre 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Cet exposé compile un certain nombre de résultats issus de mes travaux de doctorat, qui ont essentiellement porté sur deux stratégies d'agrégation d'estimateurs, tant d'un point de vue théorique qu'algorithmique. Dans un premier temps, je présenterai une extension des méthodes issues de la théorie...
Lars Stole (University of Chicago - Booth School of Business)
TSE, 8 décembre 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
We study influence games in which n principals attempt to influence the choice of a privately-informed agent by offering payment menus (i.e., nonlinear transfer schedules) which promise monetary rewards in exchange for actions by the agent.We provide a simple necessary condition which characterizes...
Bruno Ziliotto (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 décembre 2014, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
(joint work with Xavier Venel) In Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP), at each stage, the decision-maker chooses an action, and receives a reward depending on the current state of the world. Then a new state is randomly drawn from a distribution depending on the action and on the...
