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Gilles Stoltz (GREGHEC-HEC Paris)
Toulouse : TSE, 6 janvier 2014, 14h00–15h00, salle MF 323
This paper is an extended written version of the talk I delivered at the “XLe Journées de Statistique” in Ottawa, 2004, when being awarded the Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel prize. It is devoted to surveying some fundamental as well as some more recent results in the field of sequential prediction of...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, 22 décembre 2013, salle MS 001
Valentin Patilea (ENSAI)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 décembre 2013, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
Motivated by numerous applications, the statistical modeling of functional data received a lot of attention during the last years. However, procedures for functional regression model checks are only little developed. Consider a response variable taking values in a Hilbert space that admits a finite...
Siège de la Banque de France, Paris, 20 décembre 2013
Walter Scheidel (Stanford University)
Toulouse : IAST, 19 décembre 2013, 18h00–20h00, salle Amphi Cujas UT1
Concerns about rising inequality are making headlines all over the world, from America and Europe to China. Yet current debates and policy proposals focus on the recent past, neglecting the very long sweep of history and the lessons it may hold. This lecture traces the evolution of resource...
Timothy Yeung (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 décembre 2013, 12h45–14h00, salle MS 003
This paper explains the adoption of different electoral rules by legal systems. I argue that common law system is intended to protect an individualistic constitution, while civil law system aims at facilitating a more active government. I model the choice of electoral system as a choice of the...
Manufacture des Tabacs, S Building, Toulouse, 18 décembre 2013, salle MS003
Michal Kolesar (University of Princeton)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 décembre 2013, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
I analyze a Gaussian linear instrumental variables model with a single endogenous regressor in which the number of instruments is large. I use an invariance property of the model and a Bernstein-von Mises type argument to construct an integrated likelihood which by design yields inference...
Francesca Molinari (Cornell University)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 décembre 2013, 14h00–15h30, salle MS001
by Hiroaki Kaido, Francesca Molinari and Joerg Stoye.
Levon Barseghyan (University of Cornell)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 décembre 2013, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
We present a political economy theory of growth in which the government affects the growth rate both directly through public investments in infrastructure, and indirectly through the effect of taxation on learning by doing. Policy choices are made by a legislature consisting of representatives...
