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Tanja Saxell (Government Institute for Economic Research)
TSE, Toulouse, France, 23 juin 2016, salle MF 323-322
David Bradford (University of Georgia)
Guillaume Cheikbossian
n° 16-644, mai 2016
This paper provides a political economy analysis of (de)centralization when local public goods -- with spillovers effects -- can be substitutes or complements. Depending on the degree of complementarity between local public goods, median voters strategically delegate policy to either `conservative...
Ivän Werning
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, mai 2016, salle MS 001
Emmanuelle Auriol et Alice Mesnard
n° 16-645, mai 2016
Is there a way of eliminating human smuggling? We set up a model to simultaneously determine the provision of human smuggling services and the demand from would-be migrants. A visa-selling policy may be successful at eliminating smugglers by eroding their profits but it also increases immigration....
Christian Gollier
n° 16-646, mai 2016, révision septembre 2016
We assume that the ex-post utility of an agent facing a menu of lotteries depends upon the actual payoff together with its forgone best alternative, thereby allowing for the expost emotion of regret. An increase in the risk of regret is obtained when the actual payoff and its forgone best...
Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith et Martin O'Connell
n° 16-647, mai 2016, révision décembre 2016
There are growing calls to restrict advertising of junk foods. Whether such a move will improve diet quality will depend on how advertising shifts consumer demands and how firms respond. We study an important and typical junk food market { the potato chips market. We exploit consumer level exposure...
Nicolas Nalpas, Léopold Simar et Anne Vanhems
n° 16-648, mai 2016
This paper proposes a nonparametric efficiency measurement approach for the static portfo- lio selection problem in a general inputs-outputs space, where inputs can include variance and kurtosis and outputs can include mean and skewness. Our work is in the vein of Briec, Kerstens and Jokung (2007)...
Margaret Leighton, Priscila Souza et Stéphane Straub
n° 16-649, mai 2016
Does social promotion perpetuate shortfalls in student achievement, or can low-achieving students catch up with their peers when they are pushed ahead? Using data from Brazilian primary schools, this paper presents evidence of substantial catch up among socially promoted students. After documenting...
Nina Hestermann et Nicolas Pistolesi
n° 16-650, mai 2016
This study assesses the impact of a French educational policy reform aimed at improving the match between students and their chosen field of study at university. As part of this reform, upon applying for entry to an undergraduate degree course, students are informed about their likelhood of...
