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Carlos Canon (TSE-GREMAQ)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 novembre 2010, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
A platform offers an environment where heterogenous buyers and sellers have one opportunity to meet a partner and form a match; no match is feasible outside the environment. We evaluate and compare the profit maximizing and the surplus maximizing platforms. There are two important features:...
Fabien Gensbittel (Universités Paris 1 et Paris 6)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 novembre 2010, 12h30–14h00, salle MB 405
We study the asymptotic behavior of a general class of zero-sum repeated games with incomplete information on one side. A typical example is a financial exchange game where an informed agent is facing a sequence of uninformed risk-neutral agents. The principal assumption we need is that the...
Pascal Lavergne (TSE-GREMAQ)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 novembre 2010, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
Empirical researchers commonly want to assess the validity of restrictions on parameters, appearing as an economic hypothesis, a consequence of economic theory, or an econometric modeling assumption. I propose a new theoretical framework to assess the approximate validity of multivariate...
Balazs Szentes (LSE Londres)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 novembre 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
This paper considers a dynamic economy where agents repeatedly matched with one another and can decide whether to form a profitable partnership. Each agent has a physical and a social color. The social color of an agent is a signal about the physical color of agents in his partenrship history....
Elias Albagli (University of Southern California)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 novembre 2010, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
This paper argues that the capacity of financial markets to aggregate information is diminished in times of distress, resulting in countercyclical economic uncertainty. I build upon a rational expectations equilibrium model that delivers this result from the combination of (i) countercyclical...
Cees Withagen (Tilburg University- CentER)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 novembre 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
The Green Paradox states that, in the absence of an appropriate tax on CO2 emissions, subsidizing a renewable backstop such as solar or wind energy brings forward the date at which fossil fuels become exhausted and consequently global warming is aggravated. We shed light on this issue by solving a...
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...
