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Jim A. C. Everett
Toulouse : IAST, 6 octobre 2023, 12h45–13h45, salle AUDITORIUM 4 (FIRST FLOOR - TSE BUILDING)
Morality plays a critical role both in our own sense of identity and how we form impressions and trust others. Traditionally, work in psychology has focused how trust is influenced by whether someone is moral. In this talk I will present some of my work over the last years showing how trust is not...
Maggie Shi (The University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy)
TSE, 6 octobre 2023, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 4
Public programs often delegate spending decisions to agents with private incentives to overspend. One way to mitigate this is to institute a quantity limit prohibiting or restricting spending above a cap. This paper considers the efficacy of using quantity limits for health care in the context of a...
Isis Durrmeyer
Evanston, 6–7 octobre 2023
Valérie Meunier (Compass Lexecon)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 octobre 2023, 17h00–18h00, salle Auditorium 3
This talk will propose a quick overview of Compass Lexecon and of the types of cases in which consultants and experts are involved. The presentation will then focus on a specific merger case recently reviewed by the European Commission to illustrate the investigation’s process and examples of...
Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
5 octobre 2023, 11h00–12h30, salle Auditorium 4
with Giorgio Chiovelli, Stelios Michalopoulos, and Etienne Le Rossignol
Bertrand Jouve (Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse)
Toulouse : TSE, 5 octobre 2023, 11h00–12h15, salle Auditorium A4
Networks where high-degree nodes preferentially connect to other high-degree nodes are called (degree) assortative. Real-world networks often show high assortativity or high disassortativity. Therefore, there is an interest to produce models of networks with predefined assortativity or...
Mette Ejrnaes (University of Copenhagen)
TSE, 3 octobre 2023, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 4
We study selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects from selection, we exploit variation in the sign-up induced by an early retirement scheme embedded in the UI system. Using Danish register data, we quantify the selection with an event study...
Andrey Fradkin (Boston University)
3 octobre 2023, 14h00–15h00, Zoom meeting
We study whether Amazon engages in self-preferencing on its marketplace by favoring its own brands (e.g., Amazon Basics) in search. To address this question, we collect new microlevel consumer search data using a custom browser extension installed by a panel of study participants. Using this...
Rosemarie Nagel (University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
TSE, 3 octobre 2023, 14h00–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
The first experiments on the Beauty Contest game with its best-reply function, "your choice has to be closest to 2/3 of the average," established a bounded rational theory on limited cognition (called level-k). It is about the reasoning of the reasoning of others, originally and famously...
Lionel Page (University of Queensland, Australia)
Toulouse : IAST, 3 octobre 2023, 11h30–12h30, salle Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
We consider utility as a hedonic reward system shaped by evolution to motivate us to make the best decisions possible. This system gives higher subjective rewards to higher levels of success. We investigate how an optimal reward system would adapt when individuals receive new information about...
