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Andrea Matranga (University of Pompeu Fabra)
Toulouse : TSE, 4 février 2010, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
Modern archeological findings strongly suggest that populations transitioning from hunting and gathering to agriculture almost invariably incurred a decrease in living standards. This has led many researchers to believe that the first farmers may have been lured by the prospect of more food, only to...
Marc F. Bellemare (Duke University)
Toulouse : TSE, 4 février 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
There is an important literature on the causal relationship between the quality of institutions and macroeconomic performance. This paper studies this link at the micro level by looking at the productivity impacts of land rights in Madagascar. Whereas previous studies used proxies for soil quality...
Stéphane Turrolla (INRA UMR SMART Rennes)
Toulouse : TSE, 31 janvier 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Toulouse, France, 28–29 janvier 2010
Manfred Milinski (Max Planck Institute)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 janvier 2010, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
Sexual reproduction is still an evolutionary puzzle. A female throws away half of her genes (during meiosis), and fills up what she lost with genes from a male. Sexual reproduction is only successful if the offspring with the new mixture of genes should be more than twice as fit as if she had made...
Toulouse, France, 14–15 janvier 2010
Eduardo Engel (Yale University and NBER)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 janvier 2010, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
The sensitivity of U.S. aggregate investment to shocks is procyclical: the initial response increases by approximately 50% from the trough to the peak of the business cycle. This feature of the data follows naturally from a DSGE model with lumpy microeconomic capital adjustment. Beyond explaining...
Jean Marie Baland (FUNDP)
Toulouse : TSE, 7 janvier 2010, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 décembre 2009, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
We study a two-period economy in which agents’ preferences take into account relative economic position. The study builds on a decision theoretic analysis of the social emotions that underly these concerns, i.e., envy and pride, which respond to social losses and gains, respectively. The analysis...
Caroline Thomas (University College London)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 décembre 2009, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
This paper describes a geometrical method for constructing equilibrium distribution in the Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric battlefield values. It generalises to the n-dimensional case a construction method first described by Gross and Wagner. The proposed method does particularly well in...
