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Jack Willis (Columbia University)
30 novembre 2023, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 4
Land market incompleteness is argued to have pervasive effects in Sub-Saharan Africa, including on agricultural efficiency, equity, and structural transformation. Yet experimental evidence on land market participation is virtually non-existent. We randomly allocate subsidies for agricultural...
Joseph Salmon (Université de Montpellier)
Toulouse : TSE, 30 novembre 2023, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont
In supervised learning - for instance in image classification - modern massive datasets are commonly labeled by a crowd of workers. The obtained labels in this crowdsourcing setting are then aggregated for training. The aggregation step generally leverages a per-worker trust score. Yet, such worker...
Joakim Westerlund (University of Lund)
TSE, 28 novembre 2023, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 4
Estimators of common parameters are often argued to be robust to random heterogeneity. One example of a situation in which such arguments have been made is when estimating structural breaks in panel data. In a seminal paper, Bai (Common Breaks in Means and Variances for Panel Data. Journal of...
Andrea Bamberg Migliano (Zurich University)
Toulouse : IAST, 28 novembre 2023, 11h30–12h30, salle Auditorium 4 (first floor - tse building)
Various studies have investigated cognitive mechanisms underlying culture in humans and other great apes. However, the adaptive reasons for the evolution of uniquely sophisticated cumulative culture in our species remain unclear. We propose that the cultural capabilities of humans are the...
Chi Yang Tsou
28 novembre 2023, 11h30–12h30, BDF, Paris, salle 4GH & Online
This paper studies how the durability of assets affects the cross-section of stock returns. More durable assets incur lower frictionless user costs. Still, they are more \expensive" in the sense that they need more down payments making them hard to finance. In recessions, firms become more...
Jean-Charles Rochet ( Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France;Université de Genève)
Toulouse : TSE, 28 novembre 2023, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 3
Francisco Poggi (Mannheim University)
TSE, 27 novembre 2023, 14h15–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
We investigate a firm's incentives to conceal an intermediate research discovery in order to influence its rival's choice of strategy in an innovation race. To study this, we introduce an innovation game where two firms dynamically allocate their resources between two distinct research and...
Ludovica Gazze (Warwick University)
Toulouse : TSE, 27 novembre 2023, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium 4
We estimate the impacts of temperature on alleged and substantiated child maltreatment among young children using administrative data from state child protective service agencies. Leveraging short-term weather variation, we find increases in maltreatment of young children during hot periods. We...
Wenhao Li (TSM)
Toulouse : TSE, 24 novembre 2023, 14h00–15h15, salle J323 , TSM-R (TSM building)
Local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) are specific government-controlled entities which aims to provide financing for local government. After the “four-trillion stimulus plan”, LGFVs play an important role in the expansion of local government debt in China, which attracts lots of attention...
Jetson Leder-Luis (Boston University Questrom School of Business)
TSE, 24 novembre 2023, 11h00–12h30, salle Atelier
We study the relative effectiveness of administrative regulations, criminal enforcement, and civil lawsuits for combatting health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled, non-emergency ambulance rides for patients traveling to and from...
