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Erik Eyster (LSE Londres)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 avril 2010, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
In social-learning environments, we investigate implications of the assumption that people naively believe that each previous person’s action reflects solely that person’s private information, leading them to systematically imitate all predecessors even in the many circumstances where rational...
Alexandre Cornière (de) (Paris School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 avril 2010, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
This article investigates the role of a search engine as an intermediary between firms and consumers. Search engines enable firms to target consumers who have revealed some specific needs through their query. In a framework with horizontal product differentiation, imperfect product information and...
Rebecca Thornton (University of Michigan)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 avril 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
I present results from two randomized controlled studies to evaluate the effectiveness of HIV testing and conditional cash transfers. In the first experiment, individuals in rural Malawi were randomly assigned monetary incentives to learn their HIV results after being tested. Distance to the HIV...
Nezih Guner (Universidad Carlos III)
Toulouse : TSE, 6 avril 2010, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
We evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a life-cycle setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labor supply. We restrict our model with observations on gender and skill premia, labor force participation of married females across skill...
Christian Yann Robert (CREST)
Toulouse : TSE, 6 avril 2010, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Les processus ponctuels de dépassement sont utilisés pour décrire le comportement extrêmal des séries temporelles stationnaires. On peut en déduire en particulier la loi limite du maximum de la série. En présence de dépendance, les extrêmes ont tendance à se regrouper et former des grappes. On...
Zvi Safra (The School of Management Academic Studies - Israël)
Toulouse : TSE, 6 avril 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Harsanyi's impartial observer must consider two types of lotteries: imaginary identity lotteries (\accidents of birth") which she faces as herself, and the real outcome lotteries (\life chances") to be faced by the individuals she imagines becoming. If we maintain a distinction between identity and...
Benjamin S. Skrainkai (University College London)
Toulouse : TSE, 1 avril 2010, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
Numerically approximating multi-dimensional integrals has become an increasingly important part of an economist’s toolbox because heterogeneity, uncertainty, and incomplete information – often key factors in modern models – require integrating accurately over a some probability density function....
Richard Davis (Columbia University)
Toulouse : TSE, 30 mars 2010, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
The program Auto-PARM (Automatic Piecewise AutoRegresive Modeling), developed by Davis, Lee, and Rodriguez-Yam (2006), uses the minimum description length (MDL) principle to estimate the number and locations of change-points in a time series by fitting autoregressive models to each segment. When...
Sjaak Hurkens (Institute of economic analysis, Barcelona)
Toulouse : TSE, 30 mars 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
We re-examine the literature on mobile termination in the presence of network externalities. Externalities arise when firms discriminate between on- and off-net calls or when subscription demand is elastic. This literature predicts that profit decreases and consumer surplus increases in termination...
Russel Cooper (University of Texas)
Toulouse : TSE, 29 mars 2010, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
This paper studies the dynamic optimization problem of a household when portfolio adjustment is costly. The analysis is motivated by the observation that on a monthly basis, less than 10% of stockholders typically adjust their portfolio of common stocks. We use this, and related observations, to...
