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Rebecca B. Morton (Department of Politics at NYU)
Toulouse : TSE, 24 octobre 2014, 10h00–11h15, salle MS001
Leo Xiong (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 octobre 2014, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
This paper attempts to re-estimate relative risk aversion using the observed shares of risky assets and characteristics of households from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey of European Central Bank. Acknowledging participation costs to risky asset markets, I include all types of...
Dominik Sznajder (KU Leuven)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 octobre 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
In this talk we describe a B-spline estimator of a generator (Pickands dependence function) of a bivariate extreme-value copula. The estimator is built upon an A-plot -- a recently introduced graphical tool for assessing whether the underlying dependence structure displays extreme tail behavior. An...
Stef Proost (KULeuven and KTH-Stocholm)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 octobre 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
This paper analyzes how countries with international and local truck traffic decide to switch from a fuel tax system only to a dual system of fuel taxes and kilometer charging. We show what drives one country to switch and how this affects the level of fuel taxes and the incentives for the other...
Anthony Reveillac (université Toulouse 3)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 octobre 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Dans cet exposé, nous nous intéresserons à un problème de maximisation d'utilité où l'horizon de temps est aléatoire. Ce type de problème est motivé par les questions d'évaluation d'actifs et de couverture dans le contexte du risque de crédit. Nous commenterons tout d'abord la littérature sur le...
Markus Herrmann (Université Laval)
Toulouse : IAST, 17 octobre 2014, 11h30–12h30
Problems of optimal natural resource extraction that were first addressed by economists in the contexts of fisheries and forests have reemerged in the context of a newly recognized resource: antibiotic effectiveness. This review introduces economists to the growing literature on optimal use,...
Katrin Millock (Paris School of Economics)
TSE, 17 octobre 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
In many cases consumers cannot observe firms' collective investment in quality, but have only perceptions of it. The outcome of the collective investment game of the firms is stochastic since firms cannot control perfectly all factors that may affect production. In such situations, we characterize...
Ruben Durante (SciencesPo, Department of Economics)
Toulouse : IAST, 16 octobre 2014, 15h30–16h30, salle MF323
Margaret Leighton (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 octobre 2014, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
Abstract: Is American college education too general? This paper explores the role broad college curriculums play in helping students discover their com- parative advantage. We model higher education as an exploration-exploitation tradeoff: broad, multi-subject education helps students discover...
Lars Nesheim (University College London - IFS - CeMMAP)
TSE, 14 octobre 2014, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
Nonparametric identification results for scalar nonseparable hedonic models were worked out in Heckman et al. (2010). This paper extends this work to multidimensional hedonic models. A fully nonseparable multidimensional hedonic model is point identified. Identification requires policy invariant...
