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Toulouse, France, 18–19 juin 2009
Estelle Cantillon (ULB Bruxelles)
Toulouse : TSE, 16 juin 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
This paper uses unusual data -- consisting of agents' strategically reported preferences as well as their underlying true preferences -- to study strategic behavior in the course-allocation mechanism used at Harvard Business School. We show that the mechanism is manipulable in theory, manipulated...
François Gourio (Boston University)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 juin 2009, 17h00–18h30, salle MF 323
In order to develop a model that fits both business cycles and asset pricing facts, this paper introduces a small, time-varying risk of economic disaster in an otherwise standard real business cycle model. This simple feature can generate large and volatile risk premia. The paper establishes two...
Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 juin 2009, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
Planners of surveys and experiments that partially identify parameters of interest face trade offs between using limited resources to reduce sampling error or to reduce the extent of partial identification. Researchers who previously attempted evaluating these trade offs used the length of...
Tatiana Komarova (London School of Economics)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 juin 2009, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
In semiparametric binary response models, support conditions on the regressors are required to guarantee point identification of the parameter of interest. For example, one regressor is usually assumed to have continuous support conditional on the other regressors. In some instances, such...
Ivar Ekeland (University of British Columbia)
TSE, 15 juin 2009, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Céline Nauges (LERNA-INRA -TSE)
Toulouse : TSE, 15 juin 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
In this article, we present one of the first real-world empirical applications of state-contingent production theory. Our state-contingent behavioural model allows us to analyze production under both inefficiency and uncertainty without regard to the nature of producer risk preferences. Using farm...
Carlos Canon (GREMAQ TSE)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 juin 2009, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
This paper studies, using a two-sided market framework, the impact of regulation on platform’s pricing scheme, on investment decisions, on network users’ decision to join the network, and on welfare. We take a monopoly platform that serves a continuum of vertically differentiated buyers and sellers...
Michala Ehlers Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)
Toulouse : TSE, 11 juin 2009, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
Co-operatives play an important role in the European economies. Lately, several large co-operatives have merged. From a competition policy perspective it is important to understand the consequences of such mergers. The paper addresses the following question. 'What happens to prices and welfare if...
Li Jin (Northwestern University)
Toulouse : TSE, 9 juin 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
We investigate the use of information in repeated principal-agent game and report three results. First, consistent with Kandori (1992), garbling signals within each period hurts the efficiency of the game. Second, contrary to Abreu, Milgrom, and Pearce (1991), bundling signals across periods and...
