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Emily Oster (University of Chicago and NBER)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 septembre 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF323
We estimate the role of benefits and peer effects in technology Adoption using data from randomized distribution of menstrual cups in Nepal. Using individual randomization, we estimate causal effects of peer exposure on adoption; using differences in potential returns we estimate effects of...
Toulouse, France, 10–11 septembre 2009
Alejandra Cabaña (Universidad de Valladolid)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 septembre 2009, 15h30–16h30, salle MF 323
We present a test of fit for the hypothesis that a time series comes form an AR(p) process, specially sensitive to alternative models AR(p+1), or ARMA(p,1). The testing procedure can be viewed as a particular example of a more general inferential procedure based on the study of certain random...
Jesse Shapiro (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 septembre 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF323
We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate effects on political participation, party vote shares, and electoral competitiveness. Our identification strategy exploits the precise timing of these events and allows for the possibility of confounding...
Paris, France, 8 juillet 2009
Rosemarie Nagel (UPF-ICREA)
Toulouse : TSE, 2 juillet 2009, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
Neuroscientists and economists have recently begun to study jointly how strategic thinking regulates human individual and social behavior. The question we are addressing is whether the neural systems mediating decisions in individual and social context are distinct. More precisely, we are trying to...
Elena Panova (CIRANO, CIRPÉE and Department of Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal)
Toulouse : TSE, 29 juin 2009, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
This paper investigates the consequences of campaign talk for elections and public policy. We build a model with successive elections in which candidates for office give campaign promises without a commitment fulfill them. We find that a candidate's promises signal her policy intentions, but they...
Jean Tirole (TSE and IDEI)
Toulouse : TSE, 29 juin 2009, 15h00–16h30, salle MC 204
Samuele Centorrino (GREMAQ - TSE - Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi')
Toulouse : TSE, 25 juin 2009, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
This paper tries to fill a gap in the existing literature on parametric estimation of production functions by extending GMM methods to unbalanced panel data. Using a panel data set of Chilean manufacturing firms over a 15 years period, this paper compares the performance of the Difference and...
Alessandro Tarozzi (Duke University)
Toulouse : TSE, 25 juin 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
This paper studies the identification and estimation of a basic model of technology adoption using specifically collected information on subjective beliefs and expectations to identify key model parameters. We discuss identification with both non-parametrically and parametrically specified utility...
