The Substainable Economic and Financial Development Seminar:  Time: 12:00 pm - 1:15pm Date: 19th October 2018 Place: Room 3001. Katheline SCHUBERT (PSE) - "Energy transition with variable and intermittent renewable electricity generation" Abstract: We propose one of the first dynamic models of the optimal transition from fossil fuels to renewables in electricity generation taking into account […]

CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 7th November 2018 Place: Room 3001. Patrick REY  (TSE) - "Organizing Competition for the Market" Abstract: The paper studies the competition for the market in a setting where incumbents (and, to a lesser extent, neighboring incumbents) benefit from a cost advantage. The paper first compares the outcome […]

CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 7th November 2018 Place: Room 3001. Patrick REY  (TSE) - "Organizing Competition for the Market" Abstract: The paper studies the competition for the market in a setting where incumbents (and, to a lesser extent, neighboring incumbents) benefit from a cost advantage. The paper first compares the outcome […]

CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 14th November 2018 Place: Room 3001. Benoit Schmutz  (CREST) - "Search and Zipf " Abstract: We develop a theory of a system of cities based on a general equilibrium search and matching model of individual careers with an explicit spatial component. Heterogeneous firms and workers […]

CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date: 14th November 2018 Place: Room 3001. Benoit Schmutz  (CREST) - "Search and Zipf " Abstract: We develop a theory of a system of cities based on a general equilibrium search and matching model of individual careers with an explicit spatial component. Heterogeneous firms and workers […]

CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date:  21st November 2018 Place: Room 3001.   Camille Landais (LSE) - "Subsidizing Labor Hoarding in Recessions: The Employment & Welfare Effects of Short Time Work" Abstract: The Great Recession has seen a revival of interest in policies encouraging labor hoarding by firms. Short time work […]

CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date:  21st November 2018 Place: Room 3001.   Camille Landais (LSE) - "Subsidizing Labor Hoarding in Recessions: The Employment & Welfare Effects of Short Time Work" Abstract: The Great Recession has seen a revival of interest in policies encouraging labor hoarding by firms. Short time work […]

CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date:  28st November 2018 Place: Room 3001.   Emanuele Tarantino (Mannheim) - "The Effect of Horizontal Mergers, When Firms Compete in Prices and Investments" Abstract: We study the effects of mergers when firms over differentiated products and compete in prices and investments. Since it is in […]

CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30pm Date:  28st November 2018 Place: Room 3001.   Emanuele Tarantino (Mannheim) - "The Effect of Horizontal Mergers, When Firms Compete in Prices and Investments" Abstract: We study the effects of mergers when firms over differentiated products and compete in prices and investments. Since it is in […]

CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Date:  29th November 2018 Place: Room 3001.   Matias Nunez (CNRS, Paris-Dauphine) - "Approval Mechanisms: Theory and Experiments" Abstract: A committee of experts must decide on the value of a numerical variable (the interest rate for instance). Experts have different views on the value that […]

CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Date:  29th November 2018 Place: Room 3001.   Matias Nunez (CNRS, Paris-Dauphine) - "Approval Mechanisms: Theory and Experiments" Abstract: A committee of experts must decide on the value of a numerical variable (the interest rate for instance). Experts have different views on the value that […]

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 households’stockholding decisions. Respondents report perceptions about their circle […]