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Dirk Sliwka (Université de Cologne)
Toulouse : TSE, 24 septembre 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MD 104
We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. While the absolute amount of the bonus payment has no noticeable effect on job satisfaction, falling behind a reference point for bonus comparisons reduces satisfaction and...
Palo Alto, California, 23 septembre 2009
Sébastien Roux (Crest-Insee)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 septembre 2009, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs.Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the probability...
Ernesto San Martin (Universidad Catolica de Chile)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 septembre 2009, 15h30–16h30, salle MF 323
IRT models are widely used to analyze educational data. It is assumed that the response of an examinee p to an item i is a Bernoulli distribution conditionally on both the difficulty parameter and the ability of person p; the parameter of the Bernoulli distribution is a cumulative density function...
Michele Boldrin (Washington University in Saint Louis)
Toulouse : TSE, 21 septembre 2009, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
We examine a theory of competitive innovation in which new ideas are introduced only when diminishing returns to the use of existing ideas sets in. After an idea is introduced, the knowledge capital associated with that idea expands, and its value falls. Once the value falls far enough, it becomes...
Sébastien Pouget (University of Toulouse (IAE and Toulouse School of Economics))
IDEI, 21 septembre 2009, 12h30–14h00, salle MC 201
This paper proposes a theory of rational bubbles in an economy with finite trading opportunities. Bubbles arise because agents are never sure to be last in the market sequence. This theory is used to design an experimental setting in which bubbles can be made rational or irrational by varying one...
Patrik Guggenberger (University of California San Diego)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 septembre 2009, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
The size properties of a two-stage test in a panel data model are investigated where in the first stage a Hausman (1978) specification test is used as a pretest of the random effects specification and in the second stage, a simple hypothesis about a component of the parameter vector is tested,...
Olivier Faugeras (Toulouse School of Economics-GREMAQ)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 septembre 2009, 15h30–16h30, salle MF 323
We present a new non-parametric estimator of the conditional density of the kernel type. It is based on an efficient transformation of the data by quantile transform. By use of the copula representation, it turns out to have a remarkable product form.We study its asymptotic properties and compare...
Luis Cabral (New York University and CEPR)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 septembre 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
I consider a dynamic model of competition between two proprietary networks. Consumers die and are replaced with a constant hazard rate; and firms compete for new consumers to join their network by offering network entry prices. I derive a series of results pertaining to: (a) existence and...
Sumudu Kankanamge (Toulouse School of Economics-GREMAQ)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 septembre 2009, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
This paper assesses the long-run optimal level of public debt in a non Ricardian framework with aggregate fluctuations. Households are subject to aggregate and idiosyncratic risk, face borrowing constraints and the incompleteness of markets prevents them from perfectly insuring against risk. We...
