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Francisco Gonzales (University of Calgary)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 mars 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
Elodie Alet (Toulouse School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 24 mars 2011, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
How to motivate academically struggling students? For those tracked in the vocational stream in France, two alternatives paths are competing: full-time vocational training and apprenticeship. Little research has been done on comparing the effectiveness of these two competing templates as ways to...
Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
Toulouse : TSE, 24 mars 2011, 12h30–14h00, salle MS 003
There is an extensive applied mathematics literature developed for problems in the biological and physical sciences. Our understanding of social science problems from a mathematical standpoint is less developed, but also presents some very interesting problems, especially for young researchers....
John Maluccio (Middlebury College)
Toulouse : TSE, 24 mars 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Previous studies report that schooling and adult height have significant associations with wages. But schooling and height are imperfect measures of adult cognitive skills (“brains”) and strength (“brawn”); further they are not exogenous. Analysis of rich Guatemalan longitudinal data over 35 years...
Michael Jansson (University of California - Berkeley)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 mars 2011, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
Asymptotic linearity of kernel-based weighted average derivative estimators is established under weak conditions. The bandwidth conditions employed are shown to be necessary in some cases. A bias-corrected version of the estimator is proposed and shown to be asymptotically linear under yet weaker...
Olivier Lopez (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 mars 2011, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Sylvain Chassang (University of Princeton)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 mars 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle Amphi S
This paper studies a financial agency problem which includes limited liability, moral hazard and adverse selection. The paper develops a robust approach to dynamic contracting based on calibrating the payoffs that would have been delivered by simple benchmark contracts that are attractive but...
Demian Pouzo (University of California - Berkeley)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mars 2011, 17h00–18h30, salle Amphi S
This paper develops a general equilibrium model of sovereign debt with endogenous default. Foreign lenders fear that the probability model which dictates the evolution of the endowment of the borrower is misspecified. To compensate for the risk and uncertainty adjusted probability of default, they...
Laurent Fresard (HEC)
IDEI, 21 mars 2011, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Using a large sample of U.S. cross-listings, we show that cross-listed firms have a higher sensitivity of corporate investment to stock price than non cross-listed firms. This difference materializes after foreign firms access the U.S. markets (as it does not exist before) and is persistent. These...
Daniel Müeller (University of Bonn)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 mars 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
We consider a monopolistic supplier’s optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. The existing literature typically ignores the possibility of downstream firms having private information. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms...
