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Toulouse, France, 18–19 mai 2009
L’atelier "Spring of Incentives", financé par l’ANR et organisé par le groupe de recherche TSE "Incentives in Public Decision-Making", se tiendra les 18 et 19 mai 2009. Il présentera un panorama des thèmes récents liés à la théorie des incitations : théorie des contrats dynamiques, collusion,...
Anna Okatenko
Toulouse : TSE, 15 mai 2009, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
This paper estimates the impact of the reason for layoff (economic or personal) on the length of the subsequent unemployment spell, exploiting the French Labour Force Survey. In order to control for an eventual endogeneity of the reason for layoff, a joint model of the type of layoff and...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, 15–16 mai 2009
Luigi Guiso (European University Institute and EIEF)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mai 2009, 14h30–16h00, salle MF 323
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump shaped in a continuous measure of trust beliefs. We show that...
Raquel Sampaio (TSE)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mai 2009, 12h45–14h00, salle MF 323
This study uses an empirical entry model to investigate the degree of competition between low-cost carriers and traditional airlines. The model accounts for a number o market characteristics and a flexible profit specification to analyze the joint entry decisions of low-cost and full-service...
Catherine Guirkinger (FUNDP)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mai 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
In this paper, we argue that the same force that drives the individualisation of land tenure in rural areas also drives the individualisation of the family unit possessing and managing the land. This force is the growing scarcity of land that results from population growth and/or market...
Marie Aude Laguna
Toulouse : TSE, 13 mai 2009, 15h30–17h00, salle MF 323
Using the event-study methodology and multivariate regressions, this paper examines the intensity of media coverage, its determinants and its marginal effect on stock returns following chemical disasters. To do this, we use an original dataset of chemical explosions that occurred worldwide from...
Luca Paolo Merlino (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (IDEA))
Toulouse : TSE, 13 mai 2009, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to document the presence of two phenomena. First, a positive correlation between unemployment rate and the proportion of job seekers who use social networks to find jobs{network use. Second, a non-monotone relation between unemployment rate and the...
François Maniquet (CORE - Universite Catholique de Louvain)
Toulouse : TSE, 12 mai 2009, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Nolsen Hernández González (Advanced Technologies Application Centre (CENATAV))
Toulouse : TSE, 11 mai 2009, 14h15–15h30, salle MF323
Quantitative analyses involving instrumental signals, such as chromatograms, NIR, and MIR spectra have been successfully applied nowadays for the solution of important chemical tasks. Multivariate calibration is very useful for such purposes, but as the number of descriptors increases, regression...
