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Toulouse, France, 21–22 juin 2012
Gaëlle Balineau
Toulouse : TSE, 19 juin 2012, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 003
Coren Apicella (Harvard University)
Toulouse : IAST, 19 juin 2012, 11h00–12h30, salle MF323
This talk reports the results of three empirical studies on the evolutionary origins of human behavior. Human preferences are usually studied in people in industrialized contexts (often undergraduate students). However, these well-studied people may not be representative of the wider breadth of...
Marco Bassetto (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 juin 2012, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
We study the effects of credit shocks in a model with heterogeneous entrepreneurs, financing constraints, and a realistic firm size distribution. As entrepreneurial firms can grow only slowly in this set-up, we show that, by reducing entrepreneurial firm size, negative shocks have a very persistent...
Stéphane Caprice (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 juin 2012, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
We show that collective bargaining can enhance retailers’ buying power vis-àvis their suppliers. We consider a model of vertically related markets, in which an upstream leader faces a competitive fringe of less efficient suppliers and negotiates secretly with several firms that compete in a...
Madhu Khanna (University of Illinois)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 juin 2012, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
A carbon tax on fuel would penalize carbon intensive fuels like gasoline and shift fuel consumption to less carbon intensive alternatives like biofuels. Since biofuel production competes for land with agricultural production, a carbon tax could increase land rents and raise food prices. This paper...
Rafael Repullo (CEMFI - Madrid)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 juin 2012, 14h00–15h00, salle AMPHI S
We present a simple model of an economy with heterogeneous banks that may be funded with uninsured deposits and equity capital. Capital serves to ameliorate a moral hazard problem in the choice of risk. There is a fixed aggregate supply of bank capital, so the cost of capital is endogenous. A...
Suzanne Scotchmer (University of California - Berkeley)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 juin 2012, 11h00–12h00, salle AMPHI S
The Bayh-Dole Act allows universities to commercialize their research. University laboratories therefore have two sources of funds: direct grants from the government and funds from commercialization. In addition to giving direct subsidies to university laboratories, the government also subsidizes...
Matthieu Chemin (McGill University)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 juin 2012, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
We followed fieldworkers administering a household survey over a 12-week period and examined how their reciprocal behavior towards the employer responded to a sequence of exogenous wage increases and wage cuts. To disentangle the effects of reciprocal behavior from other explicit incentives that...
Agnès Tomini (LAMETA, Université de Montpellier)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 juin 2012, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
This paper extends the previous literature on differential games of groundwater pumping in two directions. First, we take up the often claimed necessity to model the physical interactions between groundwater and rainwater, instead of analyzing these water sources as non-connected systems, and...
