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Laura Schechter (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Toulouse : TSE, 27 mai 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
While vote-buying is common, most models of elections suggest it should not exist given that politicians and voters cannot credibly commit. We argue that vote-buying is sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation, while not receiving money...
Toulouse, France, 27–29 mai 2010
Makoto Watanabe (Universidad Carlos III)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 mai 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Toulouse, France, 21–22 mai 2010
Roel Mehlkopf (Tilburg University)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 mai 2010, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
This paper evaluates intergenerational risk-sharing in the context of a pre-funded social security scheme. The central feature of the model is that the welfare costs from labor-market distortions from risk-sharing transfers are explicitly taken into account. Equity risk manifests itself in the form...
Randall Wright (Wisconsin - School of Business)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 mai 2010, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
We study banking using mechanism design, without prior assumptions about what banks are, who they are, or what they do. Given preferences, technologies, and frictions — including imperfect commitment, monitoring and collateral — we characterize incentive feasible and efficient allocations, and...
Matthew Adler (University of Pennsylvania Law School)
Toulouse : TSE, 19 mai 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Alberto Abadie (Harvard University)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 mai 2010, 15h30–17h00, salle MD 004
Matching methods provide simple and intuitive tools for adjusting the distribution of covariates among samples from different populations. Probably because of their transparency and intuitive appeal, matching methods are widely used in evaluation research to estimate treatment effects when all...
Christophe Croux (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 mai 2010, 14h00–15h30, salle MD 004
Nonparametric correlation measures as the Kendall and Spearman correlation are widely used in the behavioral sciences. These measures are often said to be robust, in the sense of being resistant to outlying observations. In this note we formally study their robustness by means of their influence...
Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam)
TSE, 17 mai 2010, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may share...
