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Florian Englmaier (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 novembre 2010, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
Incentive schemes affect performance and priorities of agents but, in reality, they can be complicated even for simple tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a multi-tasking team production setting. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the...
Michele Pistollato (University of Barcelona)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 novembre 2010, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
In this paper we study how the access price affects the choice of the tariff regime taken by the network operators. We show that for high values of the access price, that is taken as a parameter by the firms, networks decide to charge only the callers. Otherwise, for low values of the access charge...
Lena Edlund (Columbia University)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 novembre 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
It is well known that sex selection in favor of boys is taking place on a large scale in China. Less well studied is abandonment and adoptions of girls in China. The 1980s saw a surge in internal adoptions, reaching four percent of girls in the late 1980s, a development that was hailed as evidence...
Stéphane Bonhomme (CEMFI)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 novembre 2010, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
In nonlinear panel data models, the incidental parameter problem remains a challenge to econometricians. Available solutions are often based on ingenious, modelspecific methods. In this paper, we propose a systematic approach to construct moment restrictions on common parameters that are free from...
Valentin Patilea (ENSAI)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 novembre 2010, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Linear Vector AutoRegressive (VAR) models where the innovations could be unconditionally heteroscedastic and serially dependent are considered. The volatility structure is deterministic and quite general, including breaks or trending variances as special cases. In this framework we propose...
Francesco Squintani (University of Essex)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 novembre 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
This paper brings mechanism design to conflict resolution. We determine when and how unmediated communication and mediation reduce the ex ante probability of conflict in a game of conflict with asymmetric information. Mediation improves upon unmediated communication when the intensity of conflict...
Gino Gancia (CREI)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 novembre 2010, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
This paper formalizes in a fully-rational model the popular idea that politicians perceive an electoral cost in adopting costly reforms with future benefits and reconciles it with the evidence that reformist governments are not punished by voters. To do so, it proposes a model of elections where...
Nizar Touzi (Ecole Polytechnique)
TSE, 15 novembre 2010, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
We develop a stochastic control approach for the derivation of model independent bounds for derivatives under various calibration constraints. Unlike the previous literature, our formulation seeks the optimal no arbitrage bounds given the knowledge of the distribution at some (or various) point in...
Emmanuel Guerre (School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary, University of London)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 novembre 2010, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Donald and Newey (2001) has proposed a data-driven procedure to choose the instruments used in a two stage procedure or in LIML, which heavily assumes that a preference order is available for the instruments. Although such a condition is reasonable in series expansion methods for the higher order...
Robert B. Wilson (Stanford University)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 novembre 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
We impose three axioms on refinements of the Nash equilibria of games with perfect recall that select connected closed nonempty subsets, called solutions. Undominated Strategies: Each equilibrium in a solution uses undominated strategies. Backward Induction: Each solution contains a quasi-perfect...
