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Toulouse, France, 21 mars 2011
Abdelaati Daouia (UT1-GREMAQ-TSE)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 mars 2011, 12h30–14h00, salle MS 003
We consider a sample of independent businesses in a sector of production activity where a vector of inputs X is used to produce multiple outputs Y. An important question is: what are the most efficient businesses that might be useful to emulate? Using ideas from extreme value theory in conjunction...
Dominique Van De Walle (World Bank)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 mars 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Toulouse, France, 16 mars 2011
Michelle Goeree (University of Southern California)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 mars 2011, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
Every year thousands of firms are engaged in research joint ventures (RJV), where all knowledge gained through R&D is shared among members. Most of the empirical literature assumes members are non-cooperative in the product market. But many RJV members are rivals leaving open the possibility...
Eustasio Del Barrio (Universidad de Valladolid)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 mars 2011, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
This talk introduces an analysis of similarity of distributions based on measuring some distance between trimmed distributions. It relies on the use of the impartial trimming methodology, already considered in robust statistics, which we adapt to the setup of model checking. By considering trimmed...
Jacob K. Goeree (University of Zurich)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 mars 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle Amphi S
Nicola Borri (LUISS)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mars 2011, 17h00–18h30, salle Amphi S
Emerging countries tend to default when their economic conditions worsen. If bad times in an emerging country correspond to bad times for the US investor, then foreign sovereign bonds are particularly risky. We explore how this mechanism plays out in the data and in a general equilibrium model of...
Suresh Sundaresan (University of Columbia)
TSE, 14 mars 2011, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
The proposal for banks to issue contingent capital (CC) that is forced to convert into common equity when stock price falls below a certain specified low threshold (“trigger”) does not in general lead to unique equilibrium in equity and CC prices. Multiple or no equilibrium arise because both...
Gary Libecap (University of Arizona)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mars 2011, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 003
