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Sarah Smith (University of Bristol)
Toulouse : IAST, 5 décembre 2014, 11h30–12h30, salle MS001
Elisabeth Wood (Yale University)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 décembre 2014, 10h00–11h15, salle MS001
Patterns of wartime sexual violence differ sharply across insurgencies, militias and state militaries. Whether rape by a particular group is more frequent than that by civilians varies radically across settings. Although rape occurs with high frequency by some groups, it often does so as a practice...
Toulouse : IAST, 4 décembre 2014, 18h00–20h00, salle Amphi Cujas UT1
Why do people participate in political violence as members of insurgencies, paramilitary organizations, and state armies, particularly violence that targets civilians? And why do these organizations differ sharply in the violence they inflict on civilians? Individuals join an armed group for a wide...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
Toulouse : TSE, 4 décembre 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
In order to induce farmers to adopt agricultural technologies in Malawi, we apply diffusion models of simple and complex contagion on rich social network data from 200 villages in Malawi to identify optimal seed farmers to target and train on the new technologies. A randomized controlled trial...
Christian Hansen (University of Chicago)
TSE, 2 décembre 2014, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
We consider estimation and inference in panel data models with additive unobserved individual specific heterogeneity in a high dimensional setting. The setting allows the number of time varying regressors to be larger than the sample size. To make informative estimation and inference feasible, we...
Ingrid Van Keilegom (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Toulouse : TSE, 2 décembre 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
We consider a new approach in quantile regression modeling based on the copula function that defines the dependence structure between the variables of interest. The key idea of this approach is to rewrite the characterization of a regression quantile in terms of a copula and marginal distributions...
Balazs Szentes (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 2 décembre 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
This paper considers a general, dynamic contracting problem with adverse selection and moral hazard, in which the agent’s type stochastically evolves over time. The agent’s final payoff depends on the entire history of private and public information, contractible decisions and the agent’s hidden...
Luis Oliviera de Araujo (Michigan State University)
2 décembre 2014
Francesco Bianchi (Duke University)
TSE, 1 décembre 2014, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
While high uncertainty is an inherent implication of the economy entering the zero lower bound, deflation is not, because agents are likely to be uncertain about the way policymakers will deal with the large stock of debt arising from a severe recession. We draw this conclusion based on a new-...
Orazio Attanasio (University College London)
TSE, 1 décembre 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
We consider a nonlinear pricing model in which marginal willingness to pay and absolute ability to pay differ across consumers in order to explain the nonlinearity of unit prices of basic food items in developing countries. We model consumers’ subsistence constraints and allow outside options from...
