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Lasse Heje Pedersen (New York University Stern)
IDEI, 3 juin 2013, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Many financial instruments are designed with embedded leverage such as options and leveraged exchange traded funds (ETFs). Embedded leverage alleviates investors’ leverage constraints and, therefore, we hypothesize that embedded leverage lowers required returns. Consistent with this hypothesis, we...
Fanny Camara (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, 3 juin 2013, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
I investigate how competition shapes the incentives for pharmaceutical firms to acquire and disclose information on the quality of their drugs. I have constructed a unique dataset describing the clinical trials and the medical publications for all drugs that have been developed or marketed in the...
Bhavani Shankar (University of London)
Toulouse : TSE, 3 juin 2013, 11h00–12h15, salle MF 323
Excessive salt intake is linked to cardiovascular disease and several other health problems around the world. The UK Food Standards Agency initiated a campaign at the end of 2004 to reduce salt intake in the population. There is disagreement over whether the campaign was effective in curbing salt...
Gilles Stoltz (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris - HEC)
Toulouse : TSE, 31 mai 2013, 13h45–15h00, salle MF 323
In this talk I will describe a setting of sequential learning in which many expert forecasts are available at each round to predict quantitative outcome. The question is how to combine these expert forecasts. We will do so in a robust manner, not assuming any stochasticity of the sequence of...
Gábor Uhrin (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE, 31 mai 2013, 12h30–13h00, salle MF 429
Donald Cox (Boston College) et Philipp Heeb (EDB)
Toulouse : IAST, 31 mai 2013, 11h00–12h30, salle MF323
Ray Fisman (Columbia Business School)
Toulouse : TSE, 30 mai 2013, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
We study the wealth accumulation of Indian state politicians using public disclosures required of all candidates. The annual asset growth of winners is 3-5 percentage points higher than runners-up. By performing a within-constituency comparison for very close elections, we rule out a range of...
Paolo Zaffaroni (Imperial College London)
Toulouse : TSE, 28 mai 2013, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
Factor model methods recently have become extremely popular in the theory and practice of large panels of time series data. Those methods rely on various factor models which all are particular cases of the Generalized Dynamic Factor Model (GDFM) introduced in Forni, Hallin, Lippi and Reichlin (2000...
Susan Dynarski (University of Michigan)
This study would not have been possible without extraordinary cooperation and assistance from the charter schools in the study, from Dr. Kamalkant Chavda and the staff of the Boston Public Schools (BPS), and from Carrie Conaway and the staff of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and...
Sébastien Pouget (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 28 mai 2013, 14h45–15h30, salle MC 203
