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Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
Toulouse, 11 janvier 2018, salle MS 001
Carlo Reggiani
Toulouse, 11 janvier 2018, salle MS 003
Oren Rigbi
Imke Reimers
Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith et Martin O'Connell
n° 17-868, décembre 2017, révision mars 2020
Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. Policymakers highlight the young, particularly from poor backgrounds, and high sugar consumers as groups whose behavior they would most like to influence. There are also concerns about the policy being regressive. We assess who are most impacted...
Marcel Boyer, Thomas W. Ross et Ralph Winter
n° 17-869, décembre 2017
La politique de concurrence s’est remarquablement transformée au cours des derniers 50 ans au Canada, en grande partie à cause des avancées en science économique. Dans ce texte, nous retraçons l’impact des développements en organisation industrielle sur les trois zones centrales de la politique de...
Yinghua He et Thierry Magnac
n° 17-870, décembre 2017, révision février 2019
A matching market often requires recruiting agents, or ``programs,'' to costly screen ``applicants,'' and congestion increases with the number of applicants to be screened. We investigate the role of application costs: Higher costs reduce congestion by discouraging applicants from applying to...
Jeanne Bovet, Eva Raiber, Weiwei Ren, Charlotte Wang et Paul Seabright
2017
Nicolas Berman, Vincent Rebeyrol et Vincent Vicard
n° 17-871, décembre 2017
This paper provides direct evidence that learning about demand is an important driver of firms' dynamics. We present a model of Bayesian learning in which firms are uncertain about their idiosyncratic demand in each of the markets they serve, and update their beliefs as noisy information arrives....
Patrick Fève, Pablo Garcia et Jean-Guillaume Sahuc
n° 17-872, décembre 2017
Is risk taking an important channel by which monetary policy shocks affect economic activity? On the basis of a nonlinear structural VAR including a new measure of risk sensitivity by economic agents, we show that the role of the risk-taking channel depends on the state of the economy. While it is...
