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Pierre Yared (Columbia Business School)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 octobre 2011, 17h00–18h30, salle Amphi S
This paper characterizes optimal policy when a government uses indirect control to exert its authority. We develop a dynamic principal-agent model in which a principal (a government) delegates the prevention of a disturbance-such as riots, protests, terrorism, crime, or tax evasion-to an agent who...
Martin Weber (University of Manheim)
TSE, 17 octobre 2011, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Following the classical portfolio theory all an investor has to do for an optimal investment is to determine his risk attitude. This allows him to find his point on the capital market line by combining a risk-free asset with the market portfolio. We investigate the following research questions in...
Vic Adamowicz (University of Alberta)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 octobre 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle Amphi S
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that affects deer, elk and other cervid wildlife species. CWD is essentially the cervid form of “mad cow disease” or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). However, unlike BSE there is no known link between the consumption of CWD affected meat and...
Stefano Della Vigna (University of California - Berkeley)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 octobre 2011, 15h30–17h00, salle MS003
Xavier Venel (Toulouse School of Economics - GREMAQ)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 octobre 2011, 13h45–15h00, salle MS 003
We consider some example of two-player zero-sum stochastic games with signals. First we are interested in stochastic games where both players monitor past actions but have no information on the state. Under a commutation assumption on the transition, we prove that the uniform value exists. The...
Olivier Body (Université Libre de Bruxelles-ECARES)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 octobre 2011, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
Dewatripont and Tirole built an economic model about costly interpersonal communication (2005). In this model, a sender tries to persuade a receiver to accept a project. I extend it in 4 separate ways: 1) agents have social preferences; 2) the sender is uncertain about the receiver's social...
Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
Toulouse : TSE, 13 octobre 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
The rural north-western districts of Bangladesh, home to 10 million people, experience a pre-harvest seasonal famine, locally known as Monga, with disturbing regularity. Inspired by the observations that wages are higher, jobs are more plentiful in nearby urban areas than in the monga-prone region...
Philippe Février (LEI-ENSAE)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 octobre 2011, 15h30–17h00, salle Amphi S
This paper unifies and extends several recent nonparametric identification results on auctions, adverse selection or IV regression models by showing that all these models satisfy what we call an induction property. This property states that if the structural function is identified at a given...
Roberto Patuelli (University of Bologna)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 octobre 2011, 11h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Cultural tourism is gaining increasing importance in the modern tourism industry, and represents a significant force of attraction for tourists (both domestic and international). It allows destinations and regions to both expand their customer base – by gaining new clients otherwise interested in...
Emre Ozdenoren (London Business School)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 octobre 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle Amphi S
