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Accident-Induced absence from work and wage growth
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques, 2024-01-14)How do short absences from work affect workers’ labor trajectory? We use linked employer-employee administrative data from Hungary, with rich administrative health records, and use unexpected and mild accidents with no permanent labor productivity ... -
Nonparametric estimation of the density of a change-point
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques, 2024-01)The paper considers a panel model where the regression coe¢ cients undergo changes at an unknown time point, di§erentfor each series. The timings of changes are assumed to be independent, identically distributed, and drawn from some com-mon distribution, ... -
Respecting improvement in markets with indivisible goods
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques, 2023-09-17)We study markets with indivisible goods where monetary compensations are fixed (or are not possible). Each individual is endowed with an object and a preference relation over all objects. Respect for improvement means that when the ranking of an agent’s ... -
On the constrained efficiency of strategy-proof random assignment
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2023-04-25)We study random assignment of indivisible objects among a set of agents with strict preferences. Random Serial Dictatorship is known to be only ex-post efficient and there exist mechanisms which Pareto-dominate it ex-ante. However, we show that there ... -
How are wages determined? : a quasi-experimental test of wage determination theories
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques, 2023-01-02)We use novel quasi-experimental variation to (i) test whether firm-specific demand shocks impact wages, and (ii) to disentangle predictions coming from wage bargaining and firm upward sloping labor supply curve (wage posting). We use a unique ... -
Fiscal rules with discretion for an economic union
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques, 2022-03-11)The design of a fiscal rule involves a trade-off between committing governments to a fiscally responsible budget and giving governments the discretion to respond to shocks. What is the optimal degree of discretion for deficit-biased governments ... -
Student-optimal interdistrict school choice : district-based versus school-based admissions
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques, 2022)Hafalir, Kojima and Yenmez (2022) introduce a model of interdistrict school choice: each district consists of a set of schools and the district’s admission rule places applicants to the schools in the district. We show that any district’s admission ... -
Normative properties for object allocation problems : characterizations and trade-offs
(Université de Lausanne. École des hautes études commerciales. Département d'économie, 2021-03)We consider the allocation of indivisible objects among agents when monetary transfers are not allowed. Agents have strict preferences over the objects (possibly about not getting any object) and are assigned at most one object. How should one allocate ... -
Three public goods and lexicographic preferences : replacement principle
(Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, 2021-03)We study the problem of locating multiple public goods for a group of agents with single-peaked preferences over an interval. An alternative specifies for each public good a location. In Miyagawa (1998) each agent consumes only his most preferred ... -
Strategy-proof and envyfree random assignment
(Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, 2020-12-22)We study the random assignment of indivisible objects among a set of agents with strict preferences. We show that there exists no mechanism which is strategy-proof, envyfree and unanimous. Then we weaken the latter requirement to q-unanimity: when ... -
Two-stage majoritarian choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2020-05)We propose a class of decisive collective choice rules that rely on an exogenous linear ordering to partition the majority relation into two acyclic relations. The first relation is used to obtain a shortlist of the feasible alternatives while the ... -
Strategy-proof choice under monotonic additive preferences
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2020-05)We describe the class of strategy-proof mechanisms for choosing sets of objects when preferences are additive and monotonic. -
Estimating COVID-19 prevalence in the United States: A sample selection model approach
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Spouses, children and entrepreneurship
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2020-04)We develop a model of endogenous entrepreneurship and marriage. Spouses influence entrepreneurship via three channels: they reduce benefits by working less the more profitable the business is, they reduce costs by working more in case of business ... -
Blocking pairs versus blocking students: Stability comparisons in school choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2020-04)It is known that there are school choice problems without an efficient and stable assignment. We consider comparing assignments in terms of their stability by comparing their sets of blocking (student-school) pairs or comparing their sets of blocking ... -
Robust minimal instability of the top trading cycles mechanism
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2020-03)In the context of priority-based resource allocation, we formulate methods to compare assignments in terms of their stability as binary relations (on the set of possible assignments) that depend on the preference and the priority profile. We introduce ... -
The growth impact of language standardization : Metcalfe’s Law and the industrial revolution
(2020-01-13)During the Industrial Revolution, did population growth stimulate innovation, or did causality run primarily from innovation to growth? Previous research fails to explain why between 1700 and 1850: (i) most innovation originated in three clusters of ... -
Non-manipulable house exchangeunder (minimum) equilibrium prices
(Lund University. Department of economics, 2020)We consider a market with indivisible objects, called houses, and money. On this market, each house is initially owned (or rented) by some agent and each agent demands precisely one house. The problem is to identify the complete set of direct allocation ... -
Imposing equilibrium restrictions in the estimation of dynamic discrete games
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2019-09)Imposing equilibrium restrictions provides substantial gains in the estimation of dynamic discrete games. Estimation algorithms imposing these restrictions – MPEC, NFXP, NPL, and variations – have different merits and limitations. MPEC guarantees local ... -
Measuring uncertainty at the regional level using newspaper text
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2019-08)In this paper I present a methodology to provide uncertainty measures at the regional level in real time using the full bandwidth of news. In order to do so I download vast amounts of newspaper articles, summarize these into topics using unsupervised ...
