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Eric Gautier (Crest-Insee)
Toulouse : TSE, 29 septembre 2009, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
This paper considers random coefficients binary choice models. The main goal is to estimate the density of the random coefficients nonparametrically. This is an ill-posed inverse problem characterized by an integral transform. A new density estimator for the random coefficients is developed,...
Vanessa Kuentz (Institut de Mathématiques à l'Université de Bordeaux)
Toulouse : TSE, 29 septembre 2009, 15h30–16h30, salle MF 323
Clustering of variables is studied as a way to arrange variables into homogeneous clusters, thereby organizing data into meaningful structures. Once the variables are clustered into groups such that variables are similar to the other variables belonging to their cluster, the selection of a subset...
Olivier Bochet (University of Bern and Maastricht University)
Toulouse : TSE, 29 septembre 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
George-Marios Angeletos (MIT)
Toulouse : TSE, 28 septembre 2009, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
This paper investigates an RBC economy that features dispersed information about the underlying aggregate productivity shocks and, potentially, shocks to tastes or monopoly power. We show how the heterogeneity of information can (i) contribute to significant inertia in the response of macroeconomic...
Georg Kirchsteiger (ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and CEPR)
Toulouse : TSE, 24 septembre 2009, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
We study competition among market designers who create new trading platforms, when boundedly rational traders learn to select among them. We ask whether “Walrasian” platforms, leading to market-clearing trading outcomes, will dominate the market in the long run. If several market designers compete...
Sarah Baird (George Washington University)
Toulouse : TSE, 24 septembre 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
As of 2007, 29 developing countries had some type of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in place, while many others were planning or piloting one. However, the evidence base needed by a government to decide how to design a new CCT program is either limited or nonexistent in several critical...
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...
