CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 13th March 2019 Place: Room 3001. Hector CALVO-PARDO (U. Southampton) - "Informative Social Interactions" Abstract: We design, eld and exploit survey data from a representative sample of the French population to examine whether informative social interactions enter householdsstockholding decisions. Respondents report perceptions about their circle […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 19th March 2019 Place: Room 3001. Linda Schilling & Harald Uhlig (Chicago) - "Some Simple Bitcoin Economics" Abstract: In an endowment economy, we analyze coexistence and competition between traditional fiat money (Dollar) and cryptocurrency (Bitcoin). Agents can trade consumption goods in either currency or hold […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 19th March 2019 Place: Room 3001. Linda Schilling & Harald Uhlig (Chicago) - "Some Simple Bitcoin Economics" Abstract: In an endowment economy, we analyze coexistence and competition between traditional fiat money (Dollar) and cryptocurrency (Bitcoin). Agents can trade consumption goods in either currency or hold […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 27th March 2019 Place: Room 3001. Tobias KLEIN (Tilburg) - " Does the framing of patient cost-sharing incentives matter? The effects of deductibles vs. no-claim refunds " Abstract: Understanding how health care utilization responds to cost-sharing incentives is of central importance for providing high quality […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 27th March 2019 Place: Room 3001. Tobias KLEIN (Tilburg) - " Does the framing of patient cost-sharing incentives matter? The effects of deductibles vs. no-claim refunds " Abstract: Understanding how health care utilization responds to cost-sharing incentives is of central importance for providing high quality […]
CREST Sustainable Economic and Financial Development Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 29th March 2019 Place: Room 3001. Antoine Dechezleprêtre (OCDE, LSE) - "The economic cost of air pollution: Evidence from Europe" Abstract: We provide the first evidence that air pollution causes economy-wide reductions in market economic activity. We combine satellite-based measures of […]
CREST Sustainable Economic and Financial Development Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 29th March 2019 Place: Room 3001. Antoine Dechezleprêtre (OCDE, LSE) - "The economic cost of air pollution: Evidence from Europe" Abstract: We provide the first evidence that air pollution causes economy-wide reductions in market economic activity. We combine satellite-based measures of […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 3rd April 2019 Place: Room 3001. Lukasz Grzybowski (Telecom ParisTech) - "Benefits of regulation vs. competition where inequality is high: The case of mobile telephony in South Africa " Abstract: South Africa is the most unequal society in the world. An important means of reducing inequality […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 3rd April 2019 Place: Room 3001. Lukasz Grzybowski (Telecom ParisTech) - "Benefits of regulation vs. competition where inequality is high: The case of mobile telephony in South Africa " Abstract: South Africa is the most unequal society in the world. An important means of reducing inequality […]
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 10th April 2019 Place: Room 3001. Xavier Gabaix (Harvard) - "Granular Instrumental Variables" The paper is available by clicking here ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3368612 ) Organizers: Roxana Fernandez Machado (CREST), Marie Laure Allain (CREST), and Linda Schilling (CREST) Sponsors: CREST Lunch registration: food provided, no registration needed
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 10th April 2019 Place: Room 3001. Xavier Gabaix (Harvard) - "Granular Instrumental Variables" The paper is available by clicking here ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3368612 ) Organizers: Roxana Fernandez Machado (CREST), Marie Laure Allain (CREST), and Linda Schilling (CREST) Sponsors: CREST Lunch registration: food provided, no registration needed
CREST Microeconomics Seminar : Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 17rd April 2019 Place: Room 3001. Phil Reny (Chicago) - "Conditional ε-Equilibria of Multi-Stage Games with Infinite Sets of Signals and Actions" with Roger Myerson Abstract: We extend Kreps and Wilson's concept of sequential equilibrium to games where the sets of actions that players can […]