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Christian Hellwig ( TSE)
TSE, 17 novembre 2022, 16h00–16h45, Auditorium 3
We study optimal tax design based on the idea that policy-makers face trade-offs between multiple margins of redistribution. Within a Mirrleesian economy with earnings, consumption and retirement savings, we derive a novel formula for optimal income and savings distortions based on redistributional...
Victor Gay (TSE, IAST)
TSE, 17 novembre 2022, 14h45–15h30, Auditorium 3
France’s demographic transition occurred a century ahead of any other country. We test Le Play’s (1884) hypothesis that this early demographic transition was triggered by the French Revolution and its harmonization of inheritance across France. After a series of laws implemented in 1793, the Loi de...
Alexandre de Cornière ( TSE)
TSE, 17 novembre 2022, 14h00–14h45, Auditorium 3
Karine Van Der Straeten ( TSE)
TSE, 17 novembre 2022, 11h15–12h00, Auditorium 3
Voters' voting decisions crucially depend on their information. Thus, it is an important question how much / what kind of information they should know, as a normative guidance of the optimal extent of transparency. We consider a simple two-alternative majority voting environment, and study the...
Matteo Bobba ( TSE)
TSE, 17 novembre 2022, 10h00–10h45, Auditorium 3
This paper studies how increasing teacher compensation at hard-to-staff schools can reduce inequality in access to qualified teachers. Leveraging an unconditional change in the structure of teacher compensation in Per ́u, we first show causal evidence that increasing salaries at less desirable...
Liliana Varela (London School of Economics)
15 novembre 2022, 11h30–12h30, Banque de France, Paris, salle 1 Espace Conférence & Online
This paper uncovers five novel facts about firms' currency exposure and use of foreign currency (FX) derivatives employing a unique dataset covering the universe of FX derivatives transactions in Chile from 2005-2018, together with firm-level census data on balance sheet, international trade, trade...
Pierre Alquier (Riken Aip)
Toulouse : TSE, 10 novembre 2022, 11h00–12h15, salle A3
Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) enjoys strong optimality property for statistical estimation, under strong assumptions. However, when these assumptions are not satisfied, MLE is no longer optimal, and sometimes it is totally catastrophic. In this talk, after a pedagogical introduction to the...
Lars Nesheim (Imperial College London-University of Rome)
TSE, 8 novembre 2022, 15h30–16h50, salle Auditorium 4
Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University)
Toulouse : TSE, 7 novembre 2022, 14h15–15h30, salle Auditorium 4
A college applicant faces the following risky choice: she applies to a portfolio of colleges whilebeing uncertain about which school would admit her. Admissions decisions are correlated insofaras being rejected by a lower ranked school may imply that she is rejected by a higher...
Yixin Huang (TSM)
Toulouse : TSE, 7 novembre 2022, 12h45–14h00, salle 1 (level - 1)
Using the random selection policy of inspection in firms’ financial misconducts by Chinese securities regulators, I show that market reactions at the selection results announcement date have significant predictability to the upcoming punishments. The firm’s stock price fell by 1% in response to...
