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Pierre Maréchal (ISAE)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 mai 2014, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
Mollification is a standard way to approximate functions in various senses. In the past two or three decades, the notion of mollification has also been used to solve ill-posed linear equations. A corner stone in the development of this idea is probably the well-known approximate inverses,...
Melissa Dell (University of Harvard)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 mai 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
This study exploits within-state variation in drought severity to identify how insurgency during the Mexican Revolution, a major early 20th century armed conflict, impacted subsequent government policies and long-run economic development. Using a novel municipal-level dataset on revolutionary...
Manufacture des Tabacs, S Building, Toulouse, France, 22–23 mai 2014
Bryan Graham (University of California - Berkeley)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 mai 2014, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
Timothy Armstrong (Yale University)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 mai 2014, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
Jennifer La'O (University of Columbia)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 mai 2014, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
I construct a dynamic economy in which agents are interconnected: the output produced by one agent is the consumption good of another. I show that this economy can generate recessions which resemble traffic jams. At the micro level, each individual agent waits for his own income to increase before...
Johannes Van Biesebroeck (University of Leuven)
TSE, 19 mai 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
We analyze strategic trade policy within a WTO compliant framework. Countries are assumed to select an FTA partner by comparing the domestic welfare implications of each potential agreement. First, we evaluate theoretically the features of import demand and domestic supply that can produce...
Stefan Nagel (Stanford University)
IDEI, 19 mai 2014, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Near-money assets are money substitutes for storing liquidity. As a consequence, the liquidity premium of near-money assets is tied to the opportunity cost of holding money. When money does not bear interest, this opportunity cost is given by the level of short-term interest rates. The time-series...
Werner Antweiler (University of British Columbia)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 mai 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
This paper develops an economic theory of cross-border two-way trade in electricity in which regulated electric utilities engage in profitable trading opportunities when they have sufficient reserve capacity. Electricity demand is stochastic. Twoway trade emerges in similarity to models of ‘...
Benjamin Klaus (European Central Bank)
19 mai 2014, BDF, Paris
