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Eric Swanson (University of California, Irvine)
November 18, 2025, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room Online and room 4GH
We extend the high-frequency monetary policy shock measures of Kuttner (2001) and Gürkaynak, Sack, and Swanson (2005a) to other major types of Fed communication beyond FOMC announcements, including post-FOMC-meeting press conferences, speeches and Congressional testimony by the Fed Chair and Vice...
Jessica Perkins (Vanderbilt University)
Toulouse: IAST, November 18, 2025, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 - (First floor - TSE Building)
How do social connections and the shared norms that arise from them shape health and behavior—and how can we leverage these forces to improve wellbeing? In this talk, I will discuss a series of field-based studies exploring social networks and norms as root drivers of human behavior and wellbeing....
David Levine (University of London)
Toulouse: TSE, November 18, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 3
Rafaelle Fiocco (Università degli studi di Bergamo)
TSE, November 17, 2025, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
We characterize the optimal design of data analytics for algorithmic pricing in a market where firms aim to collude under secret price cuts. Firms obtain information either through predictive analytics before price setting --- i.e., ex ante information provision --- or through diagnostic analytics...
Marcin Kacperczyk
Toulouse: TSE, November 17, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 3
Real-time bottlenecks in non-storable infrastructure—most visibly electricity—can throttle modern production. We embed proportional rationing of grid supply into multi-sector economy, showing that unexpected scarcity cuts output, employment, and consumption, while the prospect of future capacity...
Olof Johansson-Stenman (University of Göteborg)
Toulouse: TSE, November 17, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
Chiara Zanardello
Toulouse: IAST, November 14, 2025, 12:45–13:45, room Auditorium 6 (Third Floor - TSE Building)
While good ideas can emerge anywhere, it takes a community to develop and disseminate them. In premodern Europe (1084-1793), there were approximately 200 universities and 150 academies of sciences, which were home to thousands of scholars and created an extensive network of intellectual exchange....
Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics)
November 13, 2025, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris
The thesis of this essay is that, in heterogeneous agent macroeconomics, the assumption of rational expectations about equilibrium prices is unrealistic and should be replaced. Rational expectations imply that decision makers forecast equilibrium prices like interest rates by forecasting cross-...
Amma Panin (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
November 13, 2025, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
Ethnonationalist governments frequently adopt policies that challenge the status of ethnic minorities as equal members of the nation. We propose that such policies – even when purely symbolic – have tangible consequences for the groups they target through a previously understudied channel. Exposure...
Martin Mugnier (Paris School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, November 13, 2025, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 6
We consider the problem of performing inference on the mathematical expectation of unknown quantile-cdf transforms of a random variable. A prominent instance where this problem arises is the Changes-in-Changes model for causal inference developed by Athey and Imbens (2006), in which the average...
