Calendrier du 15 janvier 2018
Roy Seminar (ADRES)
Du 15/01/2018 de 17:00 à 18:30
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ZAPECHELNYUK Andriy (University of St Andrews)
A delegation approach to persuasion
We study a monotone persuasion problem. This is a problem of
Bayesian persuasion between a principal and an agent, in which the
principal's choice of information disclosure is restricted to monotone
partitions. We show that this problem is equivalent to a constrained
delegation problem, with the implication that solving one problem also
means solving the other. We use this equivalence to apply known
techniques in the delegation literature to address the monotone
persuasion problem.
GSIELM (Graduate Students International Economics and Labor Market) Lunch Seminar
Du 15/01/2018 de 13:00 à 14:00
Room R1-15, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
HERGHELEGIU Cristina (Paris 1, PSE)
Firm adjustment to customs-driven administrative barriers
This paper analyzes how firms adjust to administrative barriers. Relying on a highly detailed dataset including the universe of Russian transactions over the period 2012-2015, we seek to identify the impact of customs-specific time delays on exports flows. We focus on firm-to-firm trade and show that the time delays induced by customs clearance negatively affect firm-to-firm exports, even after controlling for other potentially confounding factors. We further explore the role of Incoterms used as a tool to delimit the risks between the exporting and importing firms throughout the shipping process. Our results show that export flows are significantly higher when exporters take full control over export clearance.
Régulation et Environnement
Du 15/01/2018 de 12:00 à 14:00
DOUENNE THOMAS ( UNIVERSITé PARIS 1 PANTHéON SORBONNE) ET Nunez Thais (Univ. d'Orléans) (PSE)
The vertical and horizontal distributive effects of energy taxes: A micro-simulation study of a French policy