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Amiri Aboubacar (Université Lyon 1)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 avril 2011, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Nous nous intéressons aux méthodes d'estimation non paramétriques par noyaux récursifs ainsi qu'à leurs applications à la prévision. Nous introduisons une famille d'estimateurs récursifs de la densité indexée par un paramètre appartenant à [0 , 1]. Leur comportement asymptotique en fonction...
Soenje Reiche (TSE)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 avril 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle Amphi S
Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 avril 2011, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
We argue that US welfare would rise if unemployment insurance were to be increased for young workers and decreased for old. This is because young workers have little means to smooth consumption during unemployment, and want jobs to accumulate high-return human capital. So unemployment insurance is...
Vicente Cunat (London School of Economics)
TSE, 11 avril 2011, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
This paper estimates the effect of corporate governance provisions on shareholder value and long-term outcomes in S&P1500 firms. We apply a regression discontinuity design to shareholder votes on governance proposals in annual meetings. A close-call vote around the majority threshold is akin to...
Reyer Gerlagh (Tilburg University- CentER)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 avril 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle MS003 (salle conférences)
Should public assets such as infrastructure, education, and the environment earn the same return as private investments? The long-term nature of public investments provides commitment to current preferences, which justifies lower than private returns for time-inconsistent decision markers. An...
Jesper Rudiger (University of Carlos III)
Toulouse : TSE, 7 avril 2011, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
We propose an experiment to test how subjects use information, in the form of a probability estimate, when this comes from another subject who has a well-known bias. Subjects are asked to estimate the probability of drawing a red ball from an urn which has two components: a fixed component which...
Uri Gneezy (University of California -San Diego)
Romuald Elie (Ceremade-Université Paris Dauphine)
Toulouse : TSE, 7 avril 2011, 12h30–14h00, salle MS003
Ghazala Mansuri (World Bank)
Toulouse : TSE, 7 avril 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Social constraints are an unexplored dimension of schooling decisions in developing countries. We focus on two such constraints in the context of rural South Asia: seclusion practices limiting female mobility and stigma based on caste affiliation. Using a novel data-set from Pakistan that...
Toulouse, France, 6–7 avril 2011
