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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...
Mikhail Klimenko (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Toulouse : TSE, 23 juin 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Why are some trade agreements concluded for a limited period of time while others have the form of evergreen contracts supplemented with an advance termination notice clause? We use a dynamic incomplete contracting model to demonstrate that the time structure of the trade agreement is related to...
Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
Toulouse : TSE, 22 juin 2009, 17h00–18h00, salle MF 323
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France : PRES/TSE, 19–20 juin 2009
Konrad Raff (GREMAQ TSE)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 juin 2009, 12h45–14h00, salle MC 205
The paper studies the interaction between corporate governance standards in different firms and uncovers an information externality. Investors engage in costly monitoring to evaluate CEO performance and take informed firing decisions. When firms are exposed to a common shock an externality arises:...
