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Toulouse, France, 16–17 novembre 2009
Aude Le Lannier (ADIS-GRJM, U. Paris 11 / GREGOR, IAE-U.Paris 1 / Crigen, GDF-SUEZ)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 novembre 2009, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
Yardstick competition models assume a perfect regulatory commitment that relies on complete and rigid yardstick contracts, which are never renegotiated. Therefore, yardstick competition makes it possible to provide strong incentives to firms, while decreasing the informational asymmetries between...
Toru Kitagawa (UCL)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 novembre 2009, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
We develop a specification test for the independent instrument assumption in the sample selection model. We test the emptiness of the identification region of Manski (2003): the set of outcome distributions that are compatible with data and the restriction of statistical independence between the...
Tommaso Majer (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 novembre 2009, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
It is broadly accepted that mobile network operators are monopolists when they set the termination rate for the calls made to their own network. This is the main rationale under the regulatory activity in most European countries. Indeed, if left unregulated, fixed-to-mobile termination rates would...
David Myatt (Oxford University)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 novembre 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
In the context of macroeconomic coordination, studies of the social value of information distinguish sharply between private and public information. However, no information is truly public (that is, common knowledge) or truly private in the established sense. Building upon a Lucas-Phelps island-...
Anton Korinek (University of Maryland)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 novembre 2009, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
This paper develops a simple model of systemic risk in the form of financial accelerator effects whereby adverse developments in financial markets and in the real economy mutually reinforce each other and lead to a feedback cycle of falling asset prices, deteriorating balance sheets and tightening...
Maik Schwarz (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 novembre 2009, 15h30–16h30, salle MF 323
Marita Laukkanen (Agrifood Research Finland, MTT)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 novembre 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Many prominent environmental problems are plagued by uncertainty in the underlying biological and physical processes. Noise in the environmental process makes the link between current actions and future environmental conditions indi- rect. Where international policy coordination is called for,...
Lorenz Goette (University of Lausanne)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 novembre 2009, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
Accurate assessments of one's abilities are important in many domains. These assessments form the basis for the choice of education, of career, of whether or not to start a business, or of the wage asked in negotiations. Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals...
Alexander White (Toulouse School of Economics (GREMAQ) and Télécom ParisTech)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 novembre 2009, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
Two types of online advertising, search and display, use strikingly different techniques to target and attract consumers. Despite these differences, both compete for a single scarce resource: user attention. We analyze the competition between search engines (SEs) and content-based websites (CBWs...
